Another recording discovered

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" October 1998 

After a years gap in posting I found this episode

Thanks to Andy Warmsley "Radio Lives" for permission to post it here.

Recorded in October 1998 this recording celebrates the 30th year of

Humphrey's Best of Jazz radio show on the BBC Radio 2 channel.

Track listing:

1. Humph's Band - Unbooted Character (1969) (Ellington) 

2. Pee Wee Russell - The Bends Blues (1968)

3. Louis Armstrong - Lucky Guy (1938)

4. George Lewis - Burgundy Street Blues 

5. Oliver Jones - I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)

6. Archie Shepp - Naima (Coltrane)

7. Leo Watson - Inspired lunacy (title suggested by Humph)

8. Stan Tracey - HJC (1995)

9. Eddie Condon - How Come you do me like you do

Quality notes:

The source of this material is not clear, my guess is analogue cassette as

it's frequency response bears all the hallmarks of this media.

I received this by a streaming mode, that too defines the overall quality of

the final result. The missed and repeated frames leaving gaps and thumps where

the recovered audio parts are joined on, many of these imperfections have been

ironed out in the digital editing mode, some "lipsmack" in the narrated parts

also being removed in the editor, a general smoothing of the audio frequency

response had removed a lot of the "scratchyness" a little boosting of the bass

too has made for a more pleasant sound.

I hope you like this re-work, and don't forget to give Andy's blog a look for much

more "Radio Lives" news and postings.

"Straight in, No intro, Made in Britain"

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" December 4th 2000

1. Ken Collier, Bluebells Goodbye (1958)

2. Alan Barnes-David Newton, Black and and Tan Fantasy

3. Harry Hayes band, High as a Kite (1946)

4. Maxine Daniels, Am I Blue

5. Dill Jones, Something for Lucky 

6. Teazer: Who is the Trumpet player? I Surrender Dear

7. Courtney Pine, Yeah Yeah

8. Humph's-Paseo Jazz band, Mike's Bandana

9. Teazer: Who is the trombonist? What Can I Say

10.Elkie Brooks, Baby What do you Want me to Do

11.Stan Tracey Orchestra, The Sixth Day.

British stuff Here 

A Right Mixed Bag

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 7th June 2004

 

"A Right Mixed Bag"

Delta Jazz Band, Dusty Rag (2003)

Coleman Hawkins, One Hour  (1952)

Cheryl Bentyne, You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (2004)

Teazer Duo, Who is the Trumpeter, Why Play this?

Vic Dickenson group, The Lamp is Low

Steve Kaldestad, My Little Brown Book (The Strayhorn Project) (2004)

James Evans Octuple Odyessey, All Caved in (pre-release) (2005)

Stan Tracey, Exactly Like you

Julie Edwards, My One and Only Love  (2004)

The Bad Plus, Lay in a strip (2004)

Bag a listen Here

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 2nd January 2006

"Bulging with No coherent Shape"

Karen Sharp, Mr Gasman

Duke Ellington, What am I here for? (1942)

Jimmy Witherspoon, There will be Good Rocking Tonight  (1959)

Roy Eldridge, This Year's Kisses

Teazer No 1 Kid Ory, Maryland my Maryland  (Clarinetist)

Don Rendell, Star Eyes

Herb Geller,  Guess I Will Have to Change my Plan

Jo Fooks, Turbulent

Niki King, The Very Thought of You

Stan Tracey, The Sixth Day (From the Genesis suite)

Check the Bulge