12 Jul 2025

Cityscapes and Street Scenes

From Inside Out, 7:01 pm on 12 July 2025

Photo: Trey Ratcliff

 

Nick Tipping checks out jazz tunes which describe evoke cities and streets, including Jonathan Crayford's 'Skyscraper Scaffold', Duke Ellington's 'Sidewalks of New York', and Myele Manzanza's 'Brixton Blues'.

 

 

MUSIC DETAILS:

# Artist: Song: Composer: Album Label: Duration:
1 John Key Corner Adorner Key John Key's Strange Fruit Disctronics 04:19
2 Jonathan Crayford Skyscraper Scaffold Crayford Dark Light Rattle 04:07
3 Nathan Haines East River Drive Haines Shift Left: 25th Anniversary Universal 05:13
4 Grover Washington Jr East River Drive Washington Come Morning Elektra 04:43
5 Duke Ellington  Harlem Air-Shaft Ellington Never No Lament BMG 02:57
6 Duke Ellington  The Sidewalks of New York Blake / Lawlor Never No Lament BMG 03:14
7 Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones On Green Dolphin Street Kaper On Green Dolphin Street Riverside 08:08
8 Myele Manzanza Brixton Blues Manzanza Crisis & Opportunity Vol 1: London Deepmatter 07:08
9 Nathan Haines Navarino Street Haines Vermilion Skies Haven 03:59
10 John Rae, Ben Wilcock, Patrick Bleakley Apple Road Rae Splendid Isolation private 03:10
11 Richter City Rebels Pride of the Neighborhood   We Do It Like That private 04:00

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