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Jamie Cullum’s Fifties Jazz

Jamie Cullum picks his favourite tracks from one of the most important decades in jazz.

Jamie Cullum picks his favourite tracks from one of the most important decades in jazz. The fifties saw the evolution of the music through bebop, cool jazz and hard bop; the emergence of stars and innovators like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins and Dave Brubeck; and it also saw the heyday of the great jazz vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. In this show, Jamie picks some of his favourite tracks from the fifties and tells the stories of the men and women who made them.

1 hour

Last on

Thu 14 Apr 2016 14:00

Music Played

  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

    A Fine Romance

    • Verve Records.
  • Charlie Parker

    Dancing In The Dark

    • Verve Records.
  • Chet Baker

    Do It The Hard Way

    • RIVERSIDE RECORDS.
  • Professor Longhair

    Longhair's Blues Rhumba

    • Atlantic.
  • Miles Davis

    Julien Dans L'Ascenseur

    • Universal.
  • Duke Ellington

    Anatomy Of A Murder

    • Universal.
  • Billy Higgins, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden & Ornette Coleman

    Lonely Woman

    • Atlantic Records.
  • Stan Tracey

    Little Klunk

    • AVID JAZZ.
  • Sun Ra

    India

    • El Saturn Records.
  • Ray Charles

    What'd I Say

    • Atlantic Records.
  • Charles Mingus

    Boogie Stop Shuffle

    • Columbia.
  • John Coltrane

    Blue Train

    • Blue Note Records.
  • Dave Brubeck

    Take Five

    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Thu 14 Apr 2016 14:00

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