Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz Instruments 5 of 6

Part 5 of 6: The Guitar

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.

Examples:

1. Wes Montgomery, Cottontail (1961)

2. Buddy Guy, Worry worry

3. Lonnie Johnson-Eddie Lang, Two Tone Stomp

4. Django Reinhardt, Bouncing around

5. Freddie Green, Corner Pocket (Basie)

6. Teddy Bunn, (no title)

7. Charlie Christian, Solo Flight

8. Colin Oxley, I Guess I'll have to change My Mind (Stacey Kent Vcl)

9. John Schofield, What it is
10. Martin Taylor, Chilling with Oscar

11. Les Paul, The Blues (Jazz at the Phil)

Get all Unstrung

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 22nd May 2006

The "Marching Sandwich"

The "Sole" of Jazz
Marching through Georgia, Roger Marks Armada Jazz
A slice well "Bred" above and below Chet & Paul
"Toots" with Lizz Wright, Come Rain, come Shine
Christian Scott, Rewind That
John Hicks @ Maybeck, Blue in green
Teazer No 1, Clarinet & Trumpet
Old Pals together (Humph 1960's band), Undecided now
Tony Kofi, The Journey
Niki King, Tenderly
The "Upper"
Marching out, Suburban Street Parade

Tramp along With

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 29th May 2006

"The Swinging Sandwich"

Slice one- Illinois Jacquet, Lullaby of the Leaves

"The Butter"

Jack Teagarden, With Red McKenzie, Never had a reason (1929)

Teazer No 1, Name the instruments? Might as well be Spring

Stuff Smith, Only Time will tell

Jessica Williams, Things Aint'....

Acker Bilk & Danny Moss, Together "But not for pidgeons"

Jazz Crusaders, Freedom Sound (1966)

Ian Shaw, Both Sides Now (of the sandwich?)

"The Butter"

Slice two- Swingout with the Count (Basie) (1957)

Link to "unwrap"  the  Filling

Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz Instruments 4 of 6

                                                                              Part 4 of 6 

                                                                              "The  Clarinet"

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.

Buddy DeFranco Left Field

Sidney Bechet  Freight Train Blues

Kenny Davern   Wild Man Blues

Sandy Brown    Imperial

Tony Coe & Alan Barnes  Days of Wine & Roses

Benny Goodman  Mission to Moscow

Artie Shaw (The Essence of) My Funny Valentine

Edmund Hall + Peanuts Hucko How Come You Do Me (like you do)

Tim Garland  Flying Machine

"REED" all about it Here

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 5th June 2006

  

Theme..

"Guess Who and How"

Teazer No 1 The Clarinetist on "Bouncing with Bud"
That's My Home "Australia"  Bob Barnard
What a little Moonlight can do "I HATE that song"
Teazer No 2 "Royal" Band leader in debt to MLW
Great Times with Stan Tracey (See above)
"Baltimore Oriole" Sheila Jordan (Teazed out of Blue Note)
Ed Bickert "Lucky So and So"
Carl Fontana's "Beautiful friendship"
Teazer No 3 Trombonist band, Director/leader
"Aligatory madness" from Ray Anderson

Solve the Questions

Humphrey Lyttelton "Best of Jazz" 12th June 2006

Theme  

"Inverted Order"

Starting with a BLAST - Pete Cato band

"Rootie Toots" from Alan Barnes Qt

Teddy Wilson "Laughing on holiday"

A Trio "walking with Chestnut"

Ben Webster "Old Folks"

Tom Scott's "Children of the night"

Benny Goodman - "Airmail special"

Rachel Weston " Isn't it a Pity" (picture below)

"Run for your Life" it's Bob Mintzer Big band 

Hear show and Rachel

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