An extremely "Iffy" program, title wise

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 15th December 2003

                                                                      

 

Beware of LONG Titles !

1. Ken Collier, If I Ever Cease to Love (1955)

2. Nat King Cole, If you can't smile and say Yes, Don't cry and say no 

3. Teazer.. If you were the Only Girl in the World, and I were the only Boy (1977)

4. James P Johnson, If Dreams Come True 

5. Brian Lemon, If I Could Be with You one hour Tonight

6. Duke Ellington, Don't Mean a Thing IF it aint got that Swing

7. Cassandra Wilson, If Loving You is Wrong (2003)

8. Louis Armstrong, If We Never Meet Again 

9. Richie Kamuca, If You Could see Me Now (1977)

10.Miles Davis, If I Were a Bell (1962)

This is very Iffy

Up-coming stuff and problems

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 21st February 2005

Finally got there...

A triple header

"Obituary time (Again)"

"Featuring Jimmy Smith"

"Mega Teazer time"

Jimmy Smith, Sugar Hill

Jimmy Smith-BB King Thee O'clock Blues(From the album Dot Com blues 2000)

Jimmy Smith-Wes Montgomery, Happy-Go-lucky local (1966)

Teazer (1) Clarinet player "Wait for the Sunshine Nelly" (2004)

John Horler-Jeff Cline-Trevor Thompkins, The Touch of your Lips (Noble)

Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven (1964)

Teazer (2) Who is the Guitarist on, Profoundly Blue (1941)

Teazer (3) Clarinet player on Garbo Green (Waller) 

Yank Lawson, You know what it means to miss New Orleans (1972)

Lynne Arriale Trio, Sunbelt    

Spot the joins if you can HERE

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 19th September 2005

  

"Nicknames a disaster or what?"

Jolly Jume Jumey, Wycliffe Gordon              "Pinecone"
St Louis Blues, Humph's Eight piece band  "Humph"
Part time Woman, Jimmy Witherspoon      "Spoon"
Jitters, Liam Noble
He loves She loves, John Critchinson        "Critch"
Potato head blues, Armstrong                      "Satchmo"
Bye bye Blackbird, Miles Davis       "Prince of Darkness"
Keepin outta Mischief now, Vic Dickenson Qt
The Thrill is Gone, Carol Westwood
Miles Sign, Orchestra USA

Nick a name Here

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 12th December 2005                                          

"Down to Earth

No Nonsense"

"Puppy Fat" Incredible Blues Puppies
"Gee Baby"  Nat King Cole Trio
"Lazy River"  Count Basie with Mills Brothers
"Waltz for Edith"  Ocean Roberts Quintette
Teazer no 1 Nationalities of band members?  Stable Roof Jazz Band
"How long has this been going on"  Ruby Braff
"Untitled" Thelonius Monk / John Coltrane
"Body & Soul" Lucky Thompson & Oscar Pettiford
"Four" Miles Davis, Sonny Stitt, Jimmy Cobb

Get Down

Notes: I've been juggling the track information between Artist First, track title First, I welcome comment on which style is preferred.

Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz Instruments 3 of 6

Part 3 of 6: The Trumpet

These recordings are taken from the BBC Radio 2 long running series

"the Best of Jazz" compiled & produced by Humph himself.

In this series, Humph breaks the Jazz band/Orchestra's instruments

down one by one, with style examples of each in recordings from

1928 up to the 2000's.

Harry James - Blues and Cantabile

Louis Armstrong - West End Blues

Dizzy Gillespie - A Night in Tunisia

Buck Clayton - I Can't get stated

Rex Stewart - Boy Meets Horn

Ken Collier - Swannee River

Cootie Williams - Concerto for Cootie

Maynard Ferguson - Maynard

Miles Davis - Funny Valentine

Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers - Trumpet Battle

Hear the Trumpet Battle