If you’ve never heard Stan Tracey before this is worth a listen, big band jazz in an Ellington vein, with a touch of Bill Evans and Monk. It’s only up on the BBC website for 7 days so hurry over.
Further listening: Under Milk Wood and Alice in Jazzland are the two Tracey albums I’m familiar with. Under Milk Wood is a thing of beauty and definitely worth the price of admission. There’s a programme of reissuing his stuff underway I think, there’s been a bit of a mini-revival recently.
I’ve been broadcasting away twixt 5 and 6 taking your hand and wandering across the musical landscape of 2008 on DIT Fm. So here’s the story so far:
Monday
1. Department of Eagles – No One Does It (3:56)
2. Fleet Foxes – He Doesn’t Know Why (3:20)
3. Calexico – Two Silver Trees (3:49)
4. Benoît Pioulard – Ahn (2:36)
5. Jape – I Was A Man (3:31)
6. Cathy Davey – Reuben (4:10)
7. Joan As Police Woman – To Be Loved (3:03)
8. A.C. Newman – There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve (2:41)
9. Petra Haden – God Only Knows (2:36)
10. Antony & The Johnsons – Another World (4:01)
11. Bowerbirds – Bur Oak (5:00)
12. Glasvegas – Please Come Back Home (3:29)
Tuesday
1. M83 – Kim & Jessie (5:23)
2. Neon Neon – I Told Her on Alderaan (3:43)
3. Cut Copy – Out There On the Ice (4:58)
4. Santogold – I’m A Lady (feat. Trouble Andrew) (3:43)
5. Lykke Li – Little Bit (4:33)
6. Deerhunter – Never Stops (3:04)
7. Rosebuds – Bow to the Middle (2:30)
8. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Gardenia (2:53)
9. of Montreal – Id Engager (3:25)
10. N.A.S.A. – Spacious Thoughts ft. Kool Keith & Tom Waits (4:29)
11. Dan Black – HYPNOtise myspcmx 2 (4:12)
Wednesday
1. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (2:58)
2. Pivot – In The Blood (4:34)
3. Dennis Wilson – River Song (3:46)
4. Blitzen Trapper – God & Suicide (2:21)
5. David Byrne and Brian Eno – Life Is Long (3:45)
6. Vampire Weekend – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (3:34)
7. Minotaur Shock – Vigo Bay (4:22)
8. Franz Ferdinand – Eleanor Put Your Boots On (2:50)
9. Parts & Labor – Nowheres Nigh (4:24)
10. School of Seven Bells – Face to Face on High Planes (4:40)
11. MGMT – Of Moons Birds and Monsters (Holy Ghost! Remix) (6:16)
Thursday
1. Death Cab for Cutie – Long Division (3:49)
2. TV on the Radio – Golden Age (4:11)
3. Shearwater – Rooks (3:21)
4. Beach House – Wedding Bell (3:54)
5. Menahan Street Band – Karina (3:27)
6. Raphael Saadiq – Love That Girl (3:04)
7. Bon Iver – Skinny Love (3:58)
8. Cat Power – Silver Stallion (2:41)
9. She & Him – Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? (2:30)
10. Oxford Collapse – Young Love Delivers (3:49)
11. R.S.A.G – Stick to Your Line (5:04)
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