In The....
Groove
A series featuring the greatest swinging jazz recordings of all time. If you love swing music or if you like the idea of liking Jazz and aren’t sure where to start, then this series is also for you. The radio shows feature music and stories concerning the likes of Oscar Peterson, Lester Young, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Earl Bostic, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Errol Garner, Ramsey Lewis, Sonny Stitt and more
In The....
Groove
Episode 1
The first episode of this exciting new radio series celebrating the greatest Swing recordings of all-time, with an absolute classic from Charlie Parker. Throughout the series, Leo will be digging into his incredible collection to share the greatest swinging jazz recordings of all time. We’ll hear how a 1958 recording from Miles Davis came to be; what happened when the great Zoot Sims paid tribute to the Gershwins, there’s Oscar Peterson in full glorious swing and we’ll find out which American Jazz legend could have actually been English….
Episode 2
In this episode of the best jazz show on the radio, we’ll hear from a jazz legend, who managed to compose one of the most popular jazz compositions of all time, despite not being able to read or write music. There’s a glorious ballad from Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson and Count Basie duet together on a song that’s over 100-year-old and we’ll also hear an amazing recording from a UK jazz trailblazer.
Episode 3
In this episode we hear a re-enactment of a Kansa City jam session that features the jazz stars of today, Joshua Redmond, James Carter and Don Bryan on Clarinet. The Alto sax star Cannonball Adderley teams up with Ray Brown on Bass, Leo takes us back to a New York club back in the early 1980s, to hear Bob Wilbur play his respects to his Sax teacher, Sidney Bechet. There’s a recording from one of Joshua Redman’s brilliant solo albums, before we sign off with the Trumpet genius Harry Sweets Edison and we’ll hear about what happened when he turned up at one of Leo’s gigs in New York – what a show!
Episode 4
This episode of In The Groove begins with an amazing recording from the French guitarist Bireli Lagrene, with a swinging reworking of Billy Joel classic. We’ll pop into Birdland West in 1991 to hear the saxophonist Gerald Allbright in action and there’s also a recording from Billie Holiday’s favourite piano player, before Tenor Sax man Harry Allen brings this episode to a fabulous swinging close.
Episode 5
In The Groove is where you can enjoy classic jazz recordings and the first recording features a band that contained the very best of the best, including Buddy Rich, Flip Phillips, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis and Ray Brown. A track from Oscar Peterson’s album “We Get Requests” is featured, before we hear from the only piano player he was scared of, before a live recording of Lady Be Good from Benny Goodman, brings this edition of In The Groove To A Close.
Episode 6
This Episode of In The Groove features some of the best jazz sax around – Zoot Sims, Illionois Jacquet and Stan Getz all feature in the recordings and stories for this edition of the show that gets going with a riotous Oscar Peterson recording from December of 1962.
Episode 7
The radio series that features the greatest swing music kicks off with Texas tenor legend Arnett Cobb, before we hear stories and recordings that feature Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Stitt, Oscar Peterson and Russel Malone who has reworked a Whitney Houston hit, plus we’ll also enjoy the joyous sound of Charlie Parker captured in full flight one evening in a New York recording studio in spring of 1954.
Episode 8
We start this episode off with an alto sax player who achieved world stardom with his jukebox hit Flamingo, followed by a recording from the piano player that Frank Sinatra would always request to be playing at his favourite restaurant whenever he went there for dinner. There’s a reconstruction of a classic Kansas City jam session featuring David Murray & Joshua Redman and we’ll also hear from the Sax player that Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and all the other jazz greats regarded as the Boss of the Alto and there are two movie related recordings that feature some incredible swinging jazz.
Episode 9
In this celebration of Swing music, we hear a TV theme composed by the great Count Basie; we’ll hear from the tenor Sax star Scott Hamilton, who had graced so many incredible recordings with the great Rosemary Clooney, with one of his solo recordings. Plus, there’s something magical from Oscar Peterson, a recording from the Saxophone legend whom Ronnie Scott said was responsible for causing his slipped disc – having spent so much time bending over backwards trying to keep him happy. We’ll hear the New Orleans trumpeter, Leroy Jones play one of the great ballads of the 1950s, before finishing with the clarinettist, who was one of the biggest stars in America in the 1940s, but who had retired from the music business, aged just 43, because he said he had become miserable – a packed show of incredible swing music !
Episode 10
In this episode of the radio series that celebrates great swinging jazz, we’ll hear Ben Webster teams up with Coleman Hawkins, a recording from the London born pianist who spent much of his career accompanying the great Tony Bennett, a classic 1946 recording from one of Benny Goodman’s small groups, as well as one of today’s clarinet jazz greats, Ken Peplouski, with his tribute to Benny Goodman – a show packed full of incredible jazz!
Episode 11
One the great Texas tenors – Arnett Cobb and his thunderingly swing tenor sax get us going in this episode; there’s a 1957 recording from Dizzy Gillespie’s big band, that features Lee Morgan, Phil Woods, Benny Golson, Quincy Jones and Wynton Kelly. We’ll find out why Bob Wilbur turned down a Louis Armstrong tour; Wynton Kelly gives us his rendition of a Burt Bacharach melody; and Joshua Redman closes the show with a superb version of Alicia Keys’s “Why Don’t You Call”
Episode 12
In The Groove, features the very best swinging jazz around and this episode is no exception! We’ll hear from the son of a classical violinist who would become perhaps, greatest saxophone players the UK has ever produced, plus there’s recordings from Monty Alexander, Ben Webster, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis and many others.
Episode 13
This episode the best jazz radio show around, begins with a classic track that features the saxophone playing son of an East End tailor, Stan Getz, with the son of a mandolin player from Virginia, Charlie Bird! We’ll hear Oscar Peterson play the melody that had been written for a 1962 Jack Lemmon movie, that had made Jack cry the very first time he heard it. There’s a track from Charlie Parker’s historical 1949 album, where he decided to combine his regular musicians like Ray Brown and Buddy Rich, along with members of the local Symphony Orchestra, to produce one of the most gorgeous ‘Jazz With Strings’ albums in history. Sonny Stitt plays the very best Swing tenor you’ll hear on your radio and we’ll hear Warren Vache pay tribute to Cole Porter, concluding this episode of the best Jazz show on your radio.
