Big Band Jazz (Toppyjazz 308)

This week all Big Band work from Clark Terry with The Metropole Orchestra, Frank Sinatra jr. with The Pat Longo Big Band and The Peter Hand Big Band.

 At last Rosemary Clooney with Rosey Swings Softly and with Nelson Riddle. 

Have fun!

Playlist :

 01 - I'm An Old Cowhand - Clark Terry (album with The Metropole Orchestra) 

 02 - Samba de Orfey - Clark Terry (same album) 

 03 - Midnight Sun - Frank Sinatra jr/PatLongo Big Band (album Here's That Swing Thing) 

 04 - Missy - Frank Sinatra jr./Pat Longo Big Band (same album) 

 05 - Lullaby of Big Foot - Pat Longo Big Band (same album)

 06 - The Man That Got Away - Peter Hand Big Band (album The Wizard of Jaz : A Tribute to Harold Arlen) 

 07 - Stormy Weather - Peter Hand Big Band (same album) 

 08 - Always Be in Love - Rosemary Clooney (album Swings Softly) with Nelson Riddle.

 09 - With THe nIght - Rosemary Clooney (album Swings Softly) 

 10 - out of This World - Rosemary Clooney (album sings The Music of Harold Arlen) 

 11 - Invitation - Rosemary Clooney (album Love 1961)

 12 - You Started Something - Rosemary Clooney (album Love 1961) 

(first issued 2013)

Jim Hall & Anne Ducros (Toppyjazz 307)

One of the finest guitar players : Mr. Jim Hall (born 1930 Buffalo NY) is truly a jazz legend.

 Perhaps at the same fame level as Django Reinhardt. Jim dies december 2013.

 This week 30 minutes Jim Hall and 30 minutes french female singer Anne Ducros (1959 Longfossé France). 

Anne sings in the Ella and Sarah style.

 All further information in our airplay. Playlist:

 01 - Tamgerine - Jim Hall (album Jazz Guitar) 

 02 - Jazz Samba - Bill Evans & Jim Hall (album Complete Bill Evans on Verve)

 03 - St. Thomas - Jimm Hall & Bob Brookmeyer (album Lie at The Northsea Jaz Festival) 

 04 - Send In The Clowns - Anne Ducros (album Purple Songs) 

 05 - L'Eau a la bouche - Anne Ducros (album Close Your Eyes)

 06 - Les Feuilles Mortes - Anne Ducros (album Piano, Piano)

 07 - Who Can I Turn to? - Anne Ducros (album Urban Tribe)

 08 - Ella My Dear - Anne Ducros (album Ella My Dear)

 09 - Duologo 1 - Jim Hall & Enrico Pieranunzi (album Duologes) 

 10 - The Way You Look Tonight - Jim Hall Trio (album Live!) 

 11 - The Bridge - Sonny Rollins (album The Bridge) 

 12 - El Condor Pasa - Jim Hall (album Concierto de Aranjuez) 

(first issued 2013)

Toppyjazz Standards Top 200 (part 18) (Toppyjazz 306)

This week the numbers 171 - 180 from our Top 200 with many news and gossip about musicians and songwriter. 

According to Mr. George Pops the songwriter of Squeeze Me : Clarence Williams is a "horsethief".

 Playlist :

 171 - Squeeze Me - Dinah Washington ( Clarence Williams )(1941) - (album Complete on Mercury vol 5-disc 2)  

 172 - Somebody Loves Me - Greetje Kauffeld (G. Gershwin, E.Renaud, de Sylva, MacDonals)(1924) (album Devil May Care) 

 173 - Woody'n You (take 2) - Stan Getz (Dizzy Gillespie)(1943) (album East of the Sun-West of the Moon)

 174 - Limehouse Blues -Viktor Veldman (Philip Braham-Douglas Furber) (1922)(album The Artful Dodger)

 175 - One O'Clock Jump - Jimmy Smith (Count Basie) (1936)(album Midnight Special) 

 176 - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - Mark Bransfield (George Bassman-Ned Washington)(1933)

 (album Night Time) 

 177 - Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Benny Goodman/Buddy Greco vocal (Rube Bloom-Ted Koehler)(1939) (album Modern Benny) 

 178 - Imagination - Woody Shaw (Jimmy van Heusen-Johnny Burke) (1939)(album Imagination) 

 179 - If I Should Lose You - Wes Montgomery (Ralph Rainer- Leo Robin) (album The Complete Riverside Recordings disc 6) 

 180 - That Old Black Magic - Bobby Darin (Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer)(1935) (album a Portrait of Bobby Darin) 

 180 - That Old Black Magic - Mark Murphy (album Some Time Ago) 

Chico & Cecile (Toppyjazz 305)

Thank you Mr. Jeffrey Caddick for the box with Chico Hamilton records we got from you. 

So this week Chico's latest cd Revelation, the album Euphoric and the vinyl LP Revelation EP.

 Again this week 30 minutes Mr. Forestorm Hamilton! 

Web-Site : Chico Hamilton Web

 The second part we have Cecile Verny the female singer from Ivorycoast.

She residents at the moment at Freiburg (Germany).

Playlist : 

 01 - Without Paul - Chico Hamilton (album LP Revelation) 

 02 - That Feeling - Chico Hamilton (album Euphoric)

 03 - Every Time I'm Smile /Toppyjazz Tune - Chico Hamilton (album CD Revelation)

 04 - Footprints In The Sand - Chico Hamilton (album Revelation) 

 05 - Evanly - Chico Hamilton (album Revelation) 

 06 - Stompin' At The Savoy - Chico Hamilton (album Revelation)

 07 - It Don't Mean A Thing - Chico Hamilton /Euphoria (album Revelation)

 08 - Ten Minutes To Twelve - Chico Hamilton (album LP Revelation)

 09 - The Bitter and The Sweet - Cecile Verny (album The Bitter and The Sweet)

 10 - I Will Give My Love An Apple - Cecile Verny (album The bitter and The Sweet)

 11 - J'Aime L'Idee - Cecile Verny (album Amoureuse) 

 12 - Il Pleure dans Mon Coeur - Cecile Verny (album Amoureuse) 

 13 - One Smooth Ride - Cecile Verny (album Keep Some Secrets Within) 

 14 - To Thomas Butts - Cecile Verny (album Keep Some Secrets Within) 

(first issued 2013)