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.
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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
A Fine Romance
- Verve Records.
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Charlie Parker
Dancing In The Dark
- Verve Records.
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Chet Baker
Do It The Hard Way
- RIVERSIDE RECORDS.
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Professor Longhair
Longhair's Blues Rhumba
- Atlantic.
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Miles Davis
Julien Dans L'Ascenseur
- Universal.
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Duke Ellington
Anatomy Of A Murder
- Universal.
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Billy Higgins, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden & Ornette Coleman
Lonely Woman
- Atlantic Records.
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Stan Tracey
Little Klunk
- AVID JAZZ.
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Sun Ra
India
- El Saturn Records.
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Ray Charles
What'd I Say
- Atlantic Records.
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Charles Mingus
Boogie Stop Shuffle
- Columbia.
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John Coltrane
Blue Train
- Blue Note Records.
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Dave Brubeck
Take Five
- Columbia.
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- Thu 14 Apr 2016 14:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2 50s
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