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Friday, 28 February 2020

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.

Friday, 11 October 2019

Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz instruments 2 of 6




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.

Part 2 of 6: The Piano

Intro: Jaki Byard - ATFW
Art Tatum - Talk of the Town
Earl Hines - untitled
Count Basie - Cherry Point
Stan Greig - Honkytonk train Blues
Jessica Williams - Easter Parade
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious
Oscar Peterson - Tenderly
Milt Buckner - Time after Time
Jelly Roll Morton - King Porter Stomp
Errol Garner - Sunny side of the Street
Dick Hyman, Dick Wellstood - Who

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