Tony Davenport's Jazz Session

The Jazz Session No.474 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in July 2026, featuring the incredibly laid-back and sophisticated 1963 album “Idle Moments”, from guitarist and bandleader Grant Green. TRACK LISTING: Perdido - Cleo Laine; What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday, w. Ben Webster & Teddy Wilson; Impressions - John Coltrane; Sextet - Gerry Mulligan; Idle Moments - Grant Green; J...

The Jazz Session No.473 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in June 2026, featuring a tribute to the amazing, and recently passed, jazz pianist and bandleader, Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly Dollar Brand). TRACK LISTING:  People Saved - Ezra Collective; Galaxy - Alfa Mist; Dollar's Dance - Dollar Brand; The Stride - Dollar Brand; Entering - Jan Garbarek; Sih-Sah - Coleman Hawkins & His Rhythm; Bra...

The Jazz Session No.472 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in June 2026, featuring another great new album from this year “The Summit”, from Tom Kennedy, and with Dave Weckl on drums. TRACK LISTING: Whatever I Am (You Made Me) - Nina Simone; A Kiss Goodnight  - Ella Fitzgerald   ; Dreams Come and Go Away - Lenny White; Shingebis and the North Wind - John Surman ; Squares - Tom Kennedy, w. Dave Wec...

The Jazz Session No.471 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in June 2026, featuring a seminal 1961 album “It’s Time for Dave Pike”, from New York vibraphonist Dave Pike. TRACK LISTING: Did'n You - Count Basie & His Orchestra; Too Close for Comfort - Stan Getz; If - Herbie Mann; When The Fire Burns Low - Oregon; Cheryl - Dave Pike; On Green Dolphin Stret - Dave Pike; Photo Box - Neil Cowley Trio...

The Crossing No.88 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in June 2026, featuring Kris Drever, and his brilliant new album “Doing This For Love”. TRACK LISTING : Gil Brenton - The Magpie Arc; Sahara Rock - Augustus Pablo; The Tide Is High - The Paragons; Bring Back Hanging Around - Kris Drever; Magic Friend - Kris Drever; Book Song - Fairport Convention; Just Now - John Martyn; Playing of Ball - Kate...

The Jazz Session No.470 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in June 2026, featuring a tremendous new album from this year “Vital Spark (music of Kenny Wheeler)”, from the London Vocal Project, with Nikki Iles and Norma Winstone – stunning! TRACK LISTING: 1919 March - Kenny Ball; Bad Penny Blues - Humphrey Lyttelton; The Red Door - Gerry Mulligan; Body and Soul - Duke Ellington's Spacemen; Not Wavin...

The Jazz Session No.469 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in May 2026, featuring a tribute to the legendary, and recently passed, jazz saxophonist and band-leader, Sonny Rollins. TRACK LISTING: Don the Dreamer - Ken Wheeler, w. John Dankworth; Long Tall Dexter - Dexter Gordon w. his Quintet; More Than You Know - Sonny Rollins; Newk's Fadeaway - Sonny Rollins; Donkey - Jaco Pastorius, w. Metheny,...

The Jazz Session No.468 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in May 2026, featuring numerous brilliant and inspiring women in jazz, from legendary vocalists, to innovative band-leaders, from the 1940s to the present day. TRACK LISTING: What's New? - Billie Holiday; Don't Worry About Me - Sarah Vaughan; Give Me the Simple Life - Annie Ross, w. Gerry Mulligan; Just Another Rhumba - Ella Fitzgerald &am...

The Jazz Session No.467 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in May 2026, featuring the classic hard-bop album “Meet the Jazztet”, from 1960, by Art Farmer & Benny Golson. TRACK LISTING: Sweetie Cakes - Count Basie & His Orchestra; Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel; Royal Garden Blues - Cy Laurie Jazz Band; Sweet Georgia Brown - Bobby Hackett; Mox Nix - Art Farmer & Benny Go...

The Jazz Session No.466 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in May 2026, featuring a ‘progress’ through 30+ years of the music of Herbie Hancock. TRACK LISTING: The Kicker - The Horace Silver Quintet; Jackie-Ing - Thelonius Monk; The Maze - Herbie Hancock; Oliloqui Valley - Herbie Hancock; Milenberg Joys - Kenny Ball; I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Chris Barber; The Eye of the Hurrican...

The Jazz Session No.465 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in May 2026, featuring another mystically funky 1971 album, “Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru”, from the Gary Bartz NTU Troop TRACK LISTING: Rose Rouge - Jorja Smith; Fly Me to the Moon - Diana Krall ; Late Date - Ben Webster; Too Close For Comfort - Stan Getz; Uhuru Sasa - Gary Bartz NTU Troop; Vietcong - Gary Bartz NTU Troop; Jooms Jones - Bill...

The Crossing No.87 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in May 2026, featuring Megson , and their atmospheric 2010 album “The Longshot”. TRACK LISTING : Cunla - Planxty; The Burrian - LAU; Back to Culture - Yothu Yindi; No Rain - Blind Melon; The Cabman - Megson; The Longshot - Megson; The Snow Hare - Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart; Sally Go Round the Roses - Pentangle; Train to Skaville - The Et...

The Jazz Session No.464 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in April 2026, featuring a tribute to the superb bandleader and innovator, Mike Westbrook, who passed away recently. TRACK LISTING: The Stopper - Sonny Rollins; Serenata - Quincy Jones & His Orchestra; 9:20 Special - Jim Hall; Will You Still Be Mine? - Tal Farlow; Part VII Collective Improvisation - Mike Westbrook; View from the Drawbr...

The Jazz Session No.463 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in April 2026, featuring the mystically funky 1970 album “Harlem Bush Music - Taifa”, from the Gary Bartz NTU Troop TRACK LISTING: Now You Has Jazz - Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong; House of the Rising Sun - Nina Simone; Monterey Apple Tree - Woody Herman's Big New Herd; Dance of the Gremlins - Count Basie; Rise - Gary Bartz NTU Troop;...

The Jazz Session No.462 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in April 2026, featuring the wonderful voice of Michael McDonald, with the Doobie Brothers, and solo. TRACK LISTING: Limehouse Blues - Oscar Peterson; Bemsha Swing - Thelonius Monk; Wabash Blues - Monty Sunshine's Jazzband; Potato Head Blues - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen; It Keeps You Runnin' [w. Doobie Brothers] - Michael McDonald; I Kee...

The Jazz Session No.461 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in April 2026, featuring the superb 1987 album “Sextet”, from Carla Bley. TRACK LISTING:  Misty - Erroll Garner; I Hadn't Anyone Till You - Judy Garland; Nails - Jimmy Heath Orchestra; Las Vegas Tango - Michael Gibbs; More Brahms - Carla Bley; Brooklyn Bridge - Carla Bley; Lazy River - Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra ; Tangerine - Cole...

The Crossing No.86 from RaidersBroadcast.com , as aired in April 2026, featuring the classic 1975 album “Pour Down Like Silver”, from Richard & Linda Thompson. TRACK LISTING : Couldn't Love You More - John Martyn; Things Behind the Sun - Nick Drake; Te Apartas De Mi - Compay Segundo; De Una Manera Espantosa - Chucho Valdes & Irakere; Streets of Paradise - Richard & Linda Thompson; Hard...

The Jazz Session No.460 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in March 2026, featuring the intriguing 1992 live album “Catania”, from the Mike Westbrook Orchestra. TRACK LISTING: Singin' the Blues - Bix Beiderbecke; Someday Sweetheart - The Charleston Chasers; I Never Talk to Strangers, w. Bette Midler - Tom Waits; A Case of You - Diana Krall ; View from the Drawbridge - Mike Westbrook Orchestra; Ten...

The Jazz Session No.459 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in March 2026, featuring a superb 2015 modern jazz album “Westerly”, from The Printmakers. TRACK LISTING: Through Space Our Minds Can Still Touch - Playtime ; Stranger than Fiction - Moses Boyd; Play a Simple Melody - Bing & Gary Crosby; Blues for Mama - Nina Simone; A Breath Away - The Printmakers; Two Grey Rooms [Joni Mitchell, voc....

The Jazz Session No.458 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in March 2026, featuring the Julia Hülsmann Quartet, and her 2019 atmospheric modern jazz album “Not Far From Here”. TRACK LISTING: Wiggle-Waggle - Herbie Hancock; Directions - Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave H, Jack DeJ; Soul Station (Hank Mobley) - Roger Beaujolais Quintet; No Room for Squares - Hank Mobley; Le Mistral - Ju...

The Jazz Session No.457 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in March 2026, featuring the new 2025 album from Brad Mehldau, “Ride Into the Sun”, featuring the songs of Elliott Smith. TRACK LISTING: They're Red Hot - Robert Johnson; Checkin' Up on My Baby - Taj Mahal; Desafinado - Sachal Studios Orchestra; Ebhofolo (This Madness) - Zim Ngqawana; Between the Bars - Brad Mehldau; Colorbars - Brad Mehld...

The Crossing No.85 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in March 2026, featuring The Magpie Arc, and their excellent 2025 folk-rock album “Gil Brenton”. TRACK LISTING : Where Do the Children Play? - Cat Stevens; Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan; Selkie-Boy - Julie Fowlis; Magpie - The Unthanks; The Ballad of Rebecca Young - The Magpie Arc; Queen of the Fairies - The Magpie Arc; Steal Away - Ben Ottewe...

The Jazz Session No.456 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in February 2026, featuring the 1999 classic modern jazz album “From Gagarin’s Point of View”, by the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. TRACK LISTING: New York State of Mind - Billy Joel; Man's Hope - Herbie Mann; Stygian Night - Crossfire; Noble Nobles - Esperanza Spalding; Definition of a Dog - Esbjorn Svensson Trio; Dating - Esbjorn Svensson Trio;...

The Jazz Session No.455 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in February 2026, featuring the amazing Bembeya Jazz album. TRACK LISTING: The Continental [jazz on the Titanic] - Pasadena Roof Orchestra; Someday Sweetheart [jazz on the Titanic] - The Charleston Chasers; Samba De Uma Nota So - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd; Blues in Orbit [bebop] - George Russell Septet; Sanfaran - Bembeya Jazz; Lefa - B...

The Jazz Session No.454 from RaidersBroadcast.com as aired in February 2026, featuring the 1991 album “Breathless” from Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia. TRACK LISTING: Legend of the One-Eyed Sailor [live] - Chuck Mangione; Third Plane [live] - V.S.O.P.; Caravan - Oscar Peterson; Long As You Know You're Living Yours - Keith Jarrett, w. Garbarek. Danielsson, Christensen; Squiffy - Barbara Thompson'...