VM Enthusiasts: Jazz and Blues with Tony Bishop

2024-05-05

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Curious about jazz and blues but don't know where to begin? Join aficionado Tony Bishop, legendary jazz and blues singer and harmonica player on the London circuit, who will give you a whirlwind expert briefing to hold down your end of the coffee machine conversation with the annoying boffin from accounts.Tony glides effortlessly through a short history of the genres as they emerged from their sleazy New Orleans origins early in the last century; the creation of Bluenote and Chess records; the great rupture in jazz around about...

Curious about jazz and blues but don't know where to begin? Join aficionado Tony Bishop, legendary jazz and blues singer and harmonica player on the London circuit, who will give you a whirlwind expert briefing to hold down your end of the coffee machine conversation with the annoying boffin from accounts.

Tony glides effortlessly through a short history of the genres as they emerged from their sleazy New Orleans origins early in the last century; the creation of Bluenote and Chess records; the great rupture in jazz around about 1959; some more modern developments; and then finally his picks of porky prime cuts to start us on our journeys.

Tony's choices were:

Blues

Death letter, Son Hous
Drop down mama, Sleepy John Estes
29 ways, Willie Dixon
Juke, Little Walter
Hellhound on my trail, Robert Johnson

Jazz

Kind of blue, Miles Davis
Time out, Dave Brubeck
My favourite things, John Coltrane
Watermelon man, Herbie Hancock
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook
View with a room, Julian Lage

Here's a Spotify playlist of Tony's "First XI".

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pVruox3Yo0xr7HCbWW6PR?si=50bdcfffa6d043d4

To get the download on why these bubbled to the top, tune into the episode. Thanks, Tony!

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