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Featuring Gunhild Carling, Maynard Ferguson, Cindy Bradley, Night Auras, plus covers of Taylor Swift and George Michael

James Morrison introduces music from Gunhild Carling, Maynard Ferguson, Cindy Bradley, Kai Winding, Oli Parker, and Night Auras, plus covers of Taylor Swift and George Michael.

In the last show of the current series, brass legend James Morrison introduces a wide variety of brass music, including jazz, pop covers, dance music and big band. There are covers of Taylor Swift and George Michael from the Tenampa Brass Band, and Austrian trio Wieder, Gansch and Paul, plus an epic Beatles cover from the one and only Maynard Ferguson. Cornettist Warren Vaché and trombonist John Allred duet on a Gershwin classic, and there’s more jazz from Swedish multi-instrumentalist Gunhild Carling, Kai Winding’s trombones, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Trumpeter Cindy Bradley performs her latest single, and there’s reflective cinematic brass epic from Night Auras. James introduces original brass music from London band Hootini, tuba legend Dave Bargeron, trumpeter Oli Parker, plus a big band cover of an Andy Williams classic, from Steven Alesso and Alex Taylor.

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57 minutes

Last on

Sun 8 Mar 202601:00
BBC Radio 2

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01/03/2026

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Music Played

  • Tenampa Brass Band

    Shake It Off

    • Shake It Off.
    • Self-released.
    • Self-released.

  • The Warren Vaché-John Allred Quintet

    Strike Up The Band

    • Jubilation - In Bern Switzerland At Marian's Jazzroom.
    • Arbors Records.
    • ARCD 19369.

  • Steven Alesso

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You

    • Can't Take My Eyes Off You.
    • Self-released.
    • Self-released.

  • Hootini

    Banana and Crisps

    • Banana and Crisps.
    • Self-released.
    • Self-released.

  • Wieder, Gansch and Paul

    Faith

    • Ménage À Trois.
    • Verve Austria.
    • 00602577359354.

  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band

    That's It!

    • That's It!.
    • Sony Legacy.
    • 88883715212.

  • Cindy Bradley

    A Little Moxie

    • Promise.
    • Trippin' 'N' Rhythm Records.
    • TNR130.

  • Night Auras

    Fog of Reminiscence

    • Stuck in the Overthink.
    • Self-released.
    • Self-released.

  • Kai Winding's Trombones

    Rotten Blues

    • That's Where It Is.
    • Sesac Recordings.
    • N-5501/2.

  • Dave Bargeron & Michael Goddard

    Owww

    • TubaTubaTu.
    • Enja Records.
    • CD 9148-2.

  • Gunhild Carling

    You Are the Music

    • Jazz is My Lifestyle.
    • Self-released.
    • Self-released.

  • Oli Parker

    Phantasmagorical Philth

    • Coalescence, Vol. 2.
    • Self-released.
    • Self-released.

  • Maynard Ferguson

    Hey Jude

    • M.F. Horn Two.
    • Wounded Bird Records.
    • WOU 3170.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Mar 202601:00
    BBC Radio 2