Performance on 3 - London Jazz Festival 2009: Jazz Voice

From the Barbican Hall, London. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Actor Denis Lawson hosts the opening celebration of the 2009 London Jazz Festival, which focuses on a century of song. The programme draws on significant anniversaries of jazz songs, films, singers and songwriters down the decades. The specially assembled London Jazz Festival Orchestra under Guy Barker showcases new arrangements, highlighting the enduring popularity of these numbers as well as the vocal skills of an array of leading vocalists, including Cibelle, Kirsty Almeida, Krystle Warren, Kurt Elling, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Williams, Roachford, Sarah Jane Morris and Sheila Jordan. Spinning Wheel Roachford (vocals) Dur: 6m50s I let a song go out of my heart by Duke Ellington Krystle Warren (vocals) Dur: 3m37s Temptation by Tom Waits Kirsty Almeida (vocals) Dur: 4m49s She Devil by Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant (vocals) Dur: 6m36s Caravan by Juan Tizol Ernie Watts (solo sax) Dur: 5m50s Goodnight God Bless by Sarah Jane Morris (arranged by Ayanna Witter Johnson) Sarah Jane Morris (vocals) Dur: 3m37s Daydream by Billy Strayhorn Kurt Elling (vocals) Dur: 5m55s Good Morning Heartache by Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake and Dan Fisher Sheila Jordan (vocals) Dur: 5m30s Son of a Preacher Man by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins Natalie Williams (vocals) Dur: 5m23s Interval 1959 Medley Instrumental, arr Guy Barker: So What (on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue) Giant Steps (album recorded by John Coltrane in 1959 although not released until 1960) Lonely Woman (on Ornette Coleman's Shape of Jazz to Come) Blue Rondo a la Turk (on Dave Brubeck's Time Out album) Better Get It In Your Soul (on Charlie Mingus' Mingus Ah Um) Dur: 11m48s Cry Me a River by Arthur Hamilton Natalie Williams (vocals) Dur: 5m57s Baltimore Oriole by Hoagy Carmichael Sheila Jordan (vocals) Dur: 5m35s Circles by Krystle Warren (arranged by Jason Yarde) Krystle Warren (vocals) Dur: 4m52s Betrayal Sarah by Sarah Jane Morris Sarah Jane Morris (vocals) Dur: 5m45s Come Rain or Come Shine by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer Roachford (vocals) Dur: 4m24s Boys in the Backroom by Frank Loesser and Frederick Hollander Natalie Merchant (vocals) Dur: 3m42s Mamae Coragem by Caetano Veloso Cibelle (vocals) Dur: 5m30s I Like the Sunrise by Duke Ellington Kurt Elling (vocals) Dur: 7m10s Uptight by Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby & Stevie Wonder Roachford (vocals) Dur: 3m01s All music arranged by Guy Barker unless otherwise credited.