Al Cohn & Zoot Sims in 1968 with Stan Tracey on piano, Dave Green on bass & Phil Seamen on drums.
To clarify, 'Cool of the Evening' is the name of the programme that this came from. The numbers played are What the World Needs Now & Doodle-Oodle.
A magic moment in television history. The year is 1982, the show is Parkinson, the guests are Roy Castle, Kenny Everett and Buddy Rich. Plus a special surprise guest who makes his big entrance 2m 25s in. Explaining further would spoil the fun. Just watch it and enjoy it. Apologies for the rotten quality.
Really rather glorious, this. Rodlington Stewart with Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones tearing the arse out of Macca's 'Maybe I'm Amazed' in 1972. Marvellous as the original is, this really has something to it.
A rip-roaring piece of British modern jazz from the 1960s, from the very wonderful 'Jazz 625'. Here, the Tubby Hayes Big Band plays 'Suddenly Last Tuesday'.
Carmen McRae belting out Rodgers & Hart's 'I Wish I Were In Love Again', aided by the superb Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band and an all-too-brief Francy Boland arrangement.
Here's a clip of Hank and Bruce's post-Shads venture, Marvin, Welch and Farrar, miming to 'Lady of the Morning'. I want Hank's jumper, and that greenburst Burns if it's going spare.
The Victor Feldman Trio - featuring Rick Laird on bass and the criminally underrated Ronnie Stephenson on drums - go 'Swinging On A Star' in 1965. Infectious, happy jazz.
Sammy Davis Jr leads Max Harris' 'Dee Time' orchestra in an utterly-unrehearsed version of the then-new Bacharach/David number 'This Guy's In Love With You'. The band is sight-reading, Sammy's winging it, and the result is magic.
Accompanied by the sound of the Dave Brubeck Quartet playing 'Far More Drums', here's a snapshot of the BBC at work in June 1962, featuring the very new Television Centre
Johnny Pearson's TOTP orchestra playing 'El Bimbo' by Bimbo Jet in 1975. Not a great piece of music, but a superb clip for a game of spot the session legend. So far I've got: Clem Cattini on drums, Derek Warne on electric piano, Bobby Lamb and Rick Kennedy on trombones, Kenny Wheeler, Ian Hamer and Leon Calvert on trumpets. Not sure who the southpaw bassist is. Any thoughts?
From the 2003 revival of Dee Time, here's Siiiiiiiiiiiiiimon Dee introducing a stellar big band, led by Barry Forgie, with a version the Buddy Rich Band's 'Bugle Call Rag' chart. Martin Williams on tenor, not sure who's on trombone, but I think it's Andy Wood, and the peerless Harold Fisher on drums.
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