For six days in the spring, Cheltenham's bars, music venues
and the big top here at Montpellier Gardens
are taken over by the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
A festival with an international reputation for bringing together
the very best artists and for producing some truly unique shows.
And that's what we have for you tonight -
a soul and jazz spectacular
that promises to be something very special indeed.
On stage, we have brought together the BBC Concert Orchestra
along with Guy Barker's big band
and a sensational line-up of guest singers,
many of whom you will know.
And they include Grammy-winning American crooner Kurt Elling...
# Every song I sing for you
# And everything that I do... #
# Forever and ever... #
Spanning generations of soul - Madeline Bell and Vanessa Haynes.
# Forever and ever, we never will part
# Oh, how I love you... #
# I don't have to go to bed
# Small day tomorrow... #
Award-winning Welsh jazz singer Ian Shaw.
# I don't have to use my head
# Small day tomorrow... #
# Hey, everybody
# Let's have some fun!
Lead singer on Strictly Come Dancing Tommy Blaize.
# So let the good times roll, baby
# I said let the good times roll... #
# There's no love song... #
And English soul queen Mica Paris.
# But how strange the change from major to minor
# Every time we say goodbye... #
And it's all topped off with a barnstorming tribute
to the legendary James Brown.
# So nice, so nice
# I got you... #
Saxophone!
BAND PLAYS RIFF
All of the music you will hear tonight has been arranged
by a gentleman sitting right now in the trumpet section
up there, Mr Guy Barker, and our conductor is Mike Dixon.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Cheltenham Jazz Festival, how we feeling?!
CHEERING
It's so good to be back!
I said, how are we feeling?!
CHEERING
Oh, yeah! We're going to have a good time tonight. Whoo!
I'm going to sing you a little something right now.
# I don't know why I love you like I do
# After all the things that you put me through
# You stole my money and my cigarettes
# And I haven't seen hide nor hair of you yet
# I want to know
# Won't you tell me
# Am I in love to stay?
# Take me to the river
# And wash me down
# Won't you cleanse my soul
# Put my feet on the ground... #
Yeah!
# I don't know why she treated me so bad
# After all the things that you could have had
# Love is a notion that I can't forget
# My sweet 16 I will never regret
# I wanna know
# Won't you tell me
# Am I in love to stay?
# Take me to the river
# And wash me down
# Got to cleanse my soul
# Put my feet on the ground, yeah
# Hold me, love me
# Please me, baby
# Tease me
# Till I can't, till I can't
# Can't get no more
# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
# Take me to the river
# Oh, yeah
# I don't know why she treated me so bad
# After all the things that she could have had
# These 16 candles burning on my wall
# Turning me into the biggest fool of them all
# I want to know
# Won't you tell me
# Am I in love to stay?
# Yeah
# Take me to the river
# And wash me down
# Got to cleanse my soul
# Put my feet on the ground
# Oh, take me to the river
# Oh, take me to the river, all right
# Take me to the river
# I said, take me to the, take me to the, take me to the river
# Wash me in the water
# Yeah, wash me in the water
# All right
# Take me to the...
# Oh, I said take me to the...
# All right, I said take me to the...
# I said take me to the river, river, river, river! #
CLIMACTIC FINAL CHORD
# Oo-oo-ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# All that I am
# For falling in love with you
# And for that I am
# For hoping you'd love me, too
# You took my heart
# And played the part, oh
# Of little coquette
# All of my dreams just disappeared
# Like the smoke from a cigarette
# Fool that I am
# For hoping you'd understand
# And thinking you
# Would listen to all
# All of the things I had planned
# And we couldn't see eye to eye
# So, darling, darling
# This is goodbye
# But I still care
# Oh, I still care
# Fool that I am
# Ohhh...
# I'm thinking you could listen to
# All of the things that I had planned
# We couldn't see eye to eye
# So darling, darling, this is goodbye
# I still care
# Oh, I still care
# Fool that I am
# Fool that I am. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Thank you, Mica Millar and Ashton Jones.
It was Pops himself, Louis Armstrong,
who said jazz is the voice of the coolest, most relaxed people
on Earth,
and Mica and Ashton just proved his point, I think.
From two rising stars to two of the UK's absolute favourites.
Ian Shaw is a singer, pianist, presenter, actor and comedian
with 15 albums to his name
and two Best Jazz Vocalist awards on his mantelpiece.
Mica Paris is a singer, presenter, actress
and Mobo award-winner. She's also appeared on Strictly Come Dancing
and EastEnders, where she played the charming but villainous Ellie Nixon.
She left the series when she was carried off to prison.
The character, er...
LAUGHTER
Ladies and gentlemen, here's Mica,
with Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye and, first Ian, with Small Day Tomorrow.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
HE SCATS
# I don't have to go to bed
# Small day tomorrow
# I don't have to use my head
# Small day tomorrow
# I can sleep the day away
# There's a car I can borrow tomorrow
# So tonight this mouse will play
# Small day tomorrow
# Now all the big wheels All their big deals
# They're gonna need some sleep
# I'd rather drop out or flop out
# Run with all the sheep
# Honey child, tonight's the night
# There's a car I can borrow tomorrow
# We can run till broad daylight
# Small day tomorrow
# I don't have to go to bed
# I've got a small day tomorrow
# I don't have to use my head
# Small day tomorrow
# I can sleep the day away
# Ain't gonna cause sorrow tomorrow
# So tonight this mouse will play
# Tomorrow
# Now all the big wheels All their big deals
# They're gonna need their sleep
# I'd rather cop out, flop out
# Run with all the sheep
# Honey child, tonight's the night There's a car I can borrow
# Tomorrow
# We can swing till, phew!
# Broad daylight... #
HE SCATS
# I don't have to go to bed
# Small day tomorrow
# I don't have to use my head
# I got a small day tomorrow
# I can sleep the night away
# And there's a car I can borrow tomorrow
# This mouse is gonna play tomorrow
# Now all the big wheels All their big deals
# They're gonna need some sleep
# I'd rather cop out I'm a flop out
# Run wild with sheep
# Honey child, tonight's the night
# There's a car I can borrow tomorrow
# We can swing till broad daylight
# Small day tomorrow... #
HE VOCALISES
# Small day tomorro-o-o-ow! #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Ev'ry time we say goodbye
# I die a little
# Ev'ry time we say goodbye
# I wonder why a little
# Why the Gods above me
# Who must be in the know
# Think so little of me
# They allow you to go
# When you're near
# There's such an air of spring about it
# I can hear a lark somewhere
# Begin to sing about it
# There's no love song finer
# But how strange the change
# From major to minor
# Ev'ry time we say goodbye
# When you're near
# There's such an air of spring about it
# I can hear a lark somewhere
# Begin to sing about it
# There's no love song finer
# But how strange the change
# From major to minor
# Ev'ry time we say goodbye
# Goodbye
# Goodbye. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Mica Paris and Ian Shaw.
Now, no evening called The Soul Jazz Summit would be complete
without mentioning the man who shaped the sound
of New Orleans rhythm and blues and soul, Allen Toussaint.
He was a pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer who
worked with countless musicians over his 58-year career.
Everyone from Fats Domino and Lee Dorsey
to Elvis Costello and Paul Simon.
He also of course set up his own label, Sansu, bringing together
a rhythm section who later became the celebrated funk band The Meters.
Among his own inspirations was Nat King Cole.
Toussaint credited Cole's smooth tones and sophisticated arrangements
as a major influence.
Two songs, then, to celebrate the great Allen Toussaint.
First a Nat King Cole classic, I Wish You Love,
and then Mean Man, a song he wrote for Betty Harris and The Meters.
Performing them tonight,
two outstanding singers on the UK soul and jazz scene -
Vanessa Haynes and Tommy Blaize.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Goodbye
# No use leading with our chins
# This is where our story ends
# Never lovers, ever friends
# Goodbye
# Let our hearts call it a day
# But before you walk away
# I sincerely want to say
# I wish you bluebirds in the spring
# To give your heart a song to sing
# And then a kiss
# But more than this
# I wish you love
# And in July, a lemonade
# To cool you in some leafy shade
# I wish you health
# Oh, but more than wealth
# I wish you love
# My aching heart and I'd agree
# That you and I could never be
# But with my best, my very best
# I set you free, yeah, yeah
# I, I wish you shelter from the storm
# A cosy fire to keep you warm
# But most of all
# When snowflakes fall I wish you love
# My breaking heart and I agree
# That you and I could never be
# But with my best, my very best
# I set you free
# I wish you shelter from the storm
# A cosy fire to keep you warm
# But most of all when snowflakes fall
# I wish you
# Love! #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Oooh
# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
# These salty tears fallin' from eyes
# He's a mean man, he's that kind of guy
# Well, I've been lovin' him since school days
# At least for me I should say fool days
# And after waiting all this time
# Thinking he would just be mine
# He acts as if he doesn't know
# Just how much I love him so
# Mean man
# Ah, no other man
# He's a mean man Won't be my lover man
# Took me so long you know it's a sin
# And I forgive him time and time again
# Someday I may break these ties that bind
# I see no hope for this soul of mine
# When I try to face the truth
# Tell myself I'll cut him loose
# He puts his arms around me tightly
# Ooh, he's so divine
# He's a mean man
# Oh, yeah, he's a mean man
# He's a mean man
# Mean man
# He's a mean man
# My sweet man, yeah, yeah
# All right, oh, yeah
# Ooh, yeah
# Ooh, ooh, ooh-ooh
# Jimmy loves me And Henry, too
# But I still wait around for you-know-who
# Just when I need him he's a goner
# But still my love keeps getting stronger
# Oh, and when I feel tired
# He decides to come around
# He acts as if he doesn't know
# That I'm alive, he hurts me so
# He's a mean man
# Ain't no other man He's a mean man
# No other man, he's a mean man
# Yeah, he's a mean man He's a mean man
# Yeah
# Oh, I love him
# But he won't just break my heart
# I need him
# Oh, he's a mean man
# A mean man
# He'll be my lover He'll be my lover
# He's a mean Whoa, he's a mean man
# Oh, baby, baby
# Oh, yeah
# Ooh, ooh, oooh-ooh
# He's a mean man
# Yeah, yeah. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Vanessa Haynes and Tommy Blaize!
It was the great lyricist Sammy Cahn who said of Frank Sinatra,
he's the only singer who sings the words -
the other guys just sing songs.
Well, I think Sammy would have appreciated our next guest,
and the respect he pays to the lyrics
of the Great American Songbook.
He's been nominated at the Grammys for Best Jazz Vocal award
14 times, winning it twice, and the great Tony Bennett
has judged him the standout male vocalist of our time.
He's literally just got off a plane from America
and driven all the way from the airport to be with us tonight.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to welcome to this stage...
..Kurt Elling!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# When somebody loves you
# It's no good unless he loves you
# All the way
# Happy to be near you
# When you need someone to cheer you
# All the way
# Taller than the tallest tree is
# That's how it's got to be
# Deeper
# Than the deep blue sea is
# That's how deep it goes, if it's real
# When somebody needs you
# It's no good unless he needs you all the way
# Through the good or lean years
# And through all the in-between years, come what may
# Who knows where the road is leading?
# Only a fool would say
# So if I'm gonna love you
# It's for sure I'm gonna love you
# All the way
# When somebody needs you
# It's no good unless he needs you all the way
# Through the long and lean years
# And through all the in-between years, come what may
# Who knows what the future is bringing?
# Only a fool would say
# So if I'm gonna love you
# It's for sure I'm gonna love you
# All the way
# All the way! #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Sensational. Kurt Elling. And Kurt will be back.
Next, a tribute to the great Burt Bacharach, who tragically died
in February of this year. As a teenager,
Bacharach acknowledged the influence of jazz on his music,
and famously dodged his piano lessons to sneak off
and listen to the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie,
later deciding to study jazz harmony at university.
His big break came when he was introduced to Marlene Dietrich,
becoming her arranger and conductor.
Just a year after that, he arrived
at the famous mecca for songwriters - the Brill Building in New York.
Here, he began a prolific songwriting partnership
with lyricist Hal David. We'll remember him with two songs tonight,
the first of which is sung by a jazz legend in her own right -
celebrating an extraordinary eight decades on the planet -
ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Madeline Bell!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
I love you all!
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# It's the only thing that there's just too little of
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# No, not just for some but for everyone
# Lord, we don't need another mountain
# There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
# And there are oceans and rivers enough to cross
# Enough to last till the end of time
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# It's the only thing that there's just too little of
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# No, not just for some but for everyone
# Lord, we don't need another meadow
# There are cornfields and wheatfields enough to grow
# There are sunbeams and moonbeams enough to shine
# Oh, listen, Lord If you want to know
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# That's the only thing that there's just too little of
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# No, not just for some Oh, but just for everyone
# No, not just for some Oh, but just for every, everyone
# Lord, we don't need another mountain
# There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
# There are oceans and rivers enough to cross
# If you want to know
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# It's the only thing that there's just too little of
# What the world needs now is love, sweet love
# No, not just for some but for everyone
# No, not just for some Oh, but just for every, everyone
# What the world needs now
# The world needs now
# More than love
# Aaaah. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
How about the orchestra?
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
And joining Madeline onstage,
would you please welcome back Vanessa Haynes!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# The moment I wake up
# Before I put on my make-up
# I say a little prayer for you
# And while combing my hair, now
# And wondering what dress to wear now
# I say a little prayer for you
# Forever, forever
# You'll stay in my heart and I will love you
# Forever and ever
# We never will part Oh, how I love you
# Together, together
# That's how it must be to live without you
# Would only mean heartbreak for me
# I run for the bus, dear
# While riding I think of us, dear
# And say a little prayer for you
# And at work I just take time
# And all through my coffee break-time
# I say a little prayer for you... #
BOTH: # Forever and ever
# You'll stay in my heart and I will love you
# Forever and ever
# We never will part Oh, how I love you
# Together, together
# That's how it must be To live without you
# Would only mean heartbreak for me
# My darling, believe me Believe me
# For me there is no-one but you
# Please love me, too
# I'm in love with you
# Answer my prayer, baby
# Say you love me, too
# Answer my prayer
# Forever and ever
# You'll stay in my heart and I will love you
# Forever and ever
# We never will part Oh, how I love you
# Together, together
# That's how it must be To live without you
# Would only mean heartbreak for me
# My darling, believe me Believe me
# For me there is no-one, no-one, no-one but you
# Please love me, too
# Cos I'm in love with you
# Answer my prayer
# This my prayer Say you love me, too
# Say you love me, too
# Cos I'm in love with you. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Vanessa Haynes and Madeline Bell, with that special arrangement
by Guy Barker of I Say A Little Prayer.
Wasn't that just sensational?
So, next, a two-time Grammy award-winning song
written by Stevie Wonder and performed tonight by Ashton Jones.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
# Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty
# His parents give him love and affection
# To keep him strong, moving in the right direction
# Living just enough, just enough for the city
# His father works some days for 14 hours
# And you can bet, he barely makes a dollar
# His mamma goes to scrub the floors for many
# And you'd best believe, she hardly gets a penny
# Living just enough, just enough for the city... #
HE VOCALISES
# His sister's black And she is sho'nuff pretty
# Her skirt is short, but, Lord, her legs are sturdy
# To walk to school, she's got to get up early
# Her clothes are old, but never are they dirty
# Living just enough, just enough for the city
# Her brother's smart, he's got more sense than many
# His patience's long, but soon he won't have any
# To find a job is like a haystack needle
# Cos where he lives they don't use coloured people
# Living just enough, just enough for the city, yeah... #
HE VOCALISES
I want to see you all clap your hands! Come on!
Come on!
# All right
# I said we're living for the city
# Oh!
# Living for the ci-i-ity
# I said we're living for the city
# Oh, yeah
# Yeah-eah
# Said we're living for the city, yeah
# Living for the city, yeah
# Ooh-ooh
# I said we're living for the city... #
HE VOCALISES
# His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
# He spends his life walking the streets of New York City
# He's almost dead from breathing air pollution
# He tried and fought, but to him there's no solution
# Living just enough, just enough for the city, yeah
# I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow
# And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow
# This world is cold It could not be much cooler
# If we don't change The world will soon be over
# Living just enough, stop giving just enough for the city. #
HE VOCALISES
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Ashton Jones, ladies and gentlemen!
Now, you know what it's like -
you wait ages for two jazz singers to come along
with their names spelt just the same - M-I-C-A - and then discover
that they are pronounced completely differently.
It's the presenter's nightmare.
So I'm going to tread very carefully here.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to the stage,
"Meesha" Paris and "Meeka" Millar.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Just a little lovin'
# Early in the mornin'
# Just a little lovin'
# For starting off the day
# Just a little lovin'
# When the world is yawnin'
# Makes you wake up feeling
# Good things are coming your way
# This old world
# Wouldn't be half as bad
# It wouldn't be half as sad
# If each and everybody in it had
# Just a little lovin'
# Early in the mornin'
# That little extra somethin'
# To kinda see them through
# Nothing turns the day on
# Really gets it dawnin'
# Like a little bit of lovin'
# From some lovin' someone like you
# Oh, this old world
# Wouldn't be half as bad
# It wouldn't be half as sad
# If each and everybody in it had
# Just a little lovin'
# Early in the mornin'
# Just a little lovin'
# When the world is yawnin'
# Oh-h, mm
# Just a little, just a little lovin', oh
# Just a little lovin' Early in the morning, oh
# Oh, no, mm
# Just a little lovin'. #
Thank you very much.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Everybody! Come on.
# Let me tell you 'bout this boy I know
# He is my baby and he lives next door
# Every mornin' when the sun comes up
# He brings me coffee in my favourite cup
# I know, oh, oh-oh
# Hallelujah, I love him so
# When I'm in trouble and I have no friends... #
I know he's gonna be with me until the very end.
Everybody seems to ask me how I know.
# I smile and I tell them so!
# That's why I know, hey, hey
# Hallelujah, I love him so
# Now, if I call him on the telephone
# Tell him that I'm all alone
# By the time I count from one to four
# Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock on my door
# And in the evening when the sun goes down
# And there's no-one around
# He holds me and he kisses me and he holds me tight
# Tells me Everything is gonna be all right
# I know, hey, hey
# Hallelujah, I love him so... #
Are you with me?
# Hey... #
SHE VOCALISES
# Hey
# Yeah, yeah
# Now, if I call him on the telephone
# And tell him that I'm all alone
# By the time I count from one to four
# Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock, knock on my door
# And in the evening when the sun goes down
# There is no-one around
# He kisses me and he holds me tight
# Tells me everything is gonna be all right
# Hey! I! Know!
# Yes!
# Hallelujah, I love him so... #
SHE SCATS
# Oh, hallelujah
# I, I love him so! #
I love you.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Mica Paris, with the Ray Charles classic, Hallelujah I Love Him So.
And Mica Millar with Just A Little Lovin',
written by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.
Jazz musicians have continually been drawn to popular songs
from Broadway, Hollywood and the charts because their
strong melodies and harmonies lend themselves to improvisation
and to new arrangements.
Indeed, Quincy Jones says arranging is a delicate
balance between honouring the original
and making it your own, and I think you'll agree tonight,
ladies and gentlemen, Guy Barker does that pretty well.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
So, here are two fine examples.
Vanessa Haynes with Simon and Garfunkel's classic
Bridge Over Troubled Water.
And, before that, Ian Shaw tips his hat to Rodgers and Hammerstein -
and indeed Julie Andrews - with My Favorite Things.
APPLAUSE
Julie Andrews, everybody.
And a little bit of Coltrane -
John Coltrane, not Malcolm.
# Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
# Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
# Brown
# Mmm-mmm
# Tied up with strings
# These are a few
# Of my favourite things
# Ooh, these are a few of my favourite things... #
The Captain and seven children...
# Yeah-eah
# Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
# Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
# Brown paper packages tied up with strings
# These are a few of my favourite things
# Cream-coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels
# Doorbells and sleigh bells Schnitzel with noodles
# Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
# These are a few of my favourite things
# When the dog bites
# When the bee stings
# When I'm feeling so sad
# I simply remember my favourite things
# And then I don't fee-eel
# So sad, so sad, oh, so sad
# Girls in white dresses with smooth satin sashes
# Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
# Silver-white winters melt into springs
# These are a few of my favourite things
# Pianists and pizzas Cold pinot in Pisa
# Joni, Peroni A light chicken Caesar
# Roaring in Ronnie's while Guy Barker swings
# These are a few of my favourite things
# When the dog bites
# When the bee stings
# That is when I'm feeling so sad
# I simply remember my favourite things
# And then I don't feel so sad
# So sad... #
HE SCATS
# When the dog bites... # Let's see you!
# When the bee stings
# That is when I am feeling so sad
# I simply remember my favourite things
# And then I don't feel
# So sad! #
What's this that you call...
That was you!
# The most beautiful sound in the whole darn world
# These are my favourite things
# Things, things
# Things
# These are my favourite things. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Oh
# My darling
# Yeah, yeah
# Oh, yeah
# When you're down and out
# When you're on the street
# When evening falls so hard
# I will comfort you
# I'll take your part
# Oh, when darkness comes
# And pain is all around
# Just like a bridge over troubled waters
# I will lay me down
# Just like a bridge over troubled waters, yeah
# I will lay me down
# Sail on, silver girl
# Sail on by
# Your time has come to shine
# All your dreams are on their way
# See how they shine
# Oh, yes, they do
# If you ever need a friend
# I'm just sailing on behind You'll be mine
# And just like a bridge over Over troubled waters
# I will lay me down
# Just like a bridge over troubled waters, yeah
# I will lay me down, yeah
# No troubled waters No, no, no
# Just leave it, just leave it Just leave it alone
# Just leave it, just leave it Don't you trouble the water
# Just leave it alone
# Leave it
# Why don't you let it be?
# Still, still water
# Yes, they do
# Oh, yeah, yeah
# Don't trouble the water
# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
# Yeah, yeah, yeah.
# Oh, oh, yeah. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Vanessa Haynes and Ian Shaw.
Duke Ellington's jazz summits began 71 years ago this year
at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City - a venue
that of course mirrors the grandeur and luxury
we are experiencing tonight...
LAUGHTER
..in this tent.
Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and Louis Armstrong attended
Ellington's first summit at the Metropolitan, and over 100 artists
appeared with him across the series -
ending with the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil in 1965.
However, one artist who did not appear -
though they both admired each other very much - was Louis Jordan.
Ellington said of Jordan, "He's a great musician
"who's contributed much to the jazz idiom." While Jordan said
of Ellington, "I've listened to all of Duke's music
"since I was knee-high to a duck."
So let's bring them together now, with a Duke and Jordan mashup -
Let The Good Times Roll from Louis Jordan,
then Imagine My Frustration and Tutti For Cootie by the Duke.
To sing them, please welcome back to the stage
Madeline Bell, Kurt Elling and - first - Tommy Blaize.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Hey, everybody
# Let's have some fun
# You only live but once
# But when you're dead you're done
# So let the good times roll, yeah
# I said let the good times roll
# It don't matter if you're young or old
# You oughtta get together and let the good times roll, yeah
# Don't sit there mumbling
# Talkin' trash
# If you want to have a ball
# You got to go out and spend some cash
# And let the good times roll now Yeah, yeah
# I said, come on and let the good times roll
# It don't matter if you're young or old
# Ah, we got to get together And let the good times roll
# Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
# Hey, y'all, tell everybody
# Tom B's in town
# I got a dollar and a quarter and I'm just ringing the clock
# Don't let nobody sell me cheap
# I got 50 cents more than I'm gonna keep
# So let the good times roll, yeah
# I said, come on and let the good times roll
# It don't matter if you're young or old
# Aw, we got to get together and let the good times roll
# No matter whether, stormy weather
# If you wanna have a ball you got to get yourself together
# Oh, come on and let the good times roll. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# Went down to the dance
# Sat down by the wall
# Invited to dance
# By no-one at all, no
# The couples danced fine
# So charming and gay
# But nobody once
# Looked over my way, no
# So awfully sad
# Dissatisfied
# I hurt so bad
# I almost cried
# Imagine my frustration
# Got no invitation to dance
# I smiled to the crowd
# Tiptoe and alert
# Yes, the band blew it loud
# But then, when I flirted
# A voice said to me
# Wallflower, my dear
# You're as sweet as can be, ah!
# But how come you're here?
# They couldn't care less
# About your dress
# And you're in excess
# You're a mess
# Imagine my frustration, had no
# Invitation to dance... #
Ooh!
# Oh, oh!
# Head high, standing tall
# Who else could I be?
# But there by the wall
# Stood the guys who liked what they see
# Then a voice said to me
# Wallflower, my dear
# You're sweet as can be
# But how come you're here?
# They couldn't care less
# About that dress
# You're in a mess
# And in excess
# Imagine my frustration, had no
# Invitation to dance. #
Whoo!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Here's one from Duke Ellington, holy moley!
He wrote this for his champion trumpet soloist, Cootie Williams.
# Every song I sing for you
# And everything that I do
# Everything, it just means that my love is true... #
Here we go.
Get that left hand going.
# Every day breaks away when I face it without you
# Every day's grey and I run away from sunshine's rays without you
# Every song's minor and tragic
# That's every day that goes by without your magic
# I'm drowning under the weight and the clock's ticking
# It's tragic
# Oh, my little dreams and hopes of loving
# It's beating a beat that repeats and repeats
# And then keeps me from knowing some peace in the night would be
# Quite all right with me now
# It's too much, it's too long
# It's too strong breathing without seeing you
# Eating nothing, smoking all my little cigarettes
# My mama then told me just to come on home
# Yes
# Hey! No!
# So how to go on living knowing my light is where you are
# And just then you walked through my door... #
Come on, band! Play it now.
# When you're home the sky turns blue
# Everything's a happy hue
# There's a rainbow in your eyes
# And happiness is just a kiss away, a smile from you
# I'm just a happy pappy
# Don't need no map, just come closer now
# Let's make a trip, hop on the ship
# There's islands of love awaiting
# Lonely lovers who venture out onto the sea
# Well
# We could be famous for loving
# Just two sweethearts doing their thing
# Clark can't have his Lois Lane
# For Cyrano did the same
# Tarzan and his Jane
# They held on till they could swing it
# Boris had the tall Natasha
# Captain Smith and Pocahontas magnetic, yes
# Whoo! Can't you send me now
# Apprehend me, baby
# See, my world's empty without you
# So can't you come with me to St Tropez
# And love me, baby
# Yeah, yeah... #
HE SCATS
# Everything you bring makes me sing
# I'm bouncing off the walls
# Take your time
# Just make every day about lovers
# Just so it's clear to see as long as you can stay
# I'll be happy with you
# You'll be happy, too
# It's make or break, for heaven's sake
# Cos there is no faking love
# It's a date every day to let love make a way
# So just promise you can stay
# Yeah! #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
And that, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to say,
is just about your lot.
All that remains is to thank our fabulous artists this evening -
Madeline Bell, Tommy Blaise,
Kurt Elling, Vanessa Haynes,
Ashton Jones, Mica Millar, Mica Paris and Ian Shaw.
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
The BBC Concert Orchestra and the Guy Barker Big Band,
conducted by Mike Dixon,
our extraordinary arranger and trumpeter, Guy Barker.
Thanks, too, from me - Marcus Brigstocke.
To all of you watching and listening to this incredible concert,
ladies and gentlemen, I just have one more question for you.
Would you like to hear one more?
ALL: Yes! I said, would like to hear one more?
ALL: Yes!
All right, then, here's our entire company with a fabulous finale,
dedicated to the Godfather of Soul, Soul Brother No. 1,
Mr Please, Please, Please, James Brown!
CHEERING
You can get up and dance if you feel like it,
ain't no reason to sit down for all of this. Yeah, come on.
Who is going to be the first to get up? Come on, don't be shy!
Here we go!
There we go. Come on!
There you go, that's what it feels like.
Oh, yeah!
MUSIC: Watermelon Man
Whoo!
# Come here, sister Papa's in the swing
# He ain't too hip about that new breed, babe
# Ain't no drag
# Papa got a brand-new bag
# Come here, mama, and dig this crazy scene, yeah
# It's not too fancy, but his line is pretty clean
# He ain't no drag, no
# Papa's got a brand-new bag Woohoo!
# He's doing the Jerk He's doing the Fly
# Don't play him cheap cos you know he ain't shy
# He's doing the Monkey, the Mashed Potato
# Jump back, Jack See you later, alligator
# Come here, sister Papa's in the swing
# He ain't too hip now
# But I can dig that new breed, babe
# He ain't no drag
# Papa's got a brand-new bag
# Papa got a brand-new bag
# Oh, papa, he's doing the Jerk
# He's doing the twist, just like this
# He's doing the Fly every day and every night
# The thing's, like the Boomerang
# Hey, come on
# Hey, hey, yeah, yeah... #
MUSIC QUIETENS
# Oh, we're fading! #
MUSIC SLOWS
Uh-oh!
# This is a man's world... #
CHEERING
# This is a man's world
# But it don't mean nothing
# Nothing without a woman or a girl
# You see, man made the cars to take us over the road
# And man made the train to carry the heavy load
# Man made electric light to take us out of the dark
# Man made the boat Just like Noah made the ark
# This is a man's world
# Aah, ahh!
# But it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl
# Man thinks about a little baby girl
# And little baby boys
# Man makes them happy, cos man makes them toys
# And after everything that a man makes
# Everything he can
# You know, man makes a whole lot of money
# To buy from another man
# This is a man's world
# But it wouldn't be nothing
# Nothing, no, nothing
# He's lost in the wilderness
# Mmm, mmm, mmm
# I feel good, yeah I knew that I would, yeah
# I feel good, yeah
# I knew that I would, yeah
# So good, so good, I got you
# I feel real nice, sugar and spice
# I feel nice, nice, nice
# So nice, so nice, I got you! #
Saxophone!
# When I hold you in my arms
# I know that I can't do no wrong
# And when I hold you in my arms
# My love won't do you no harm
# I feel nice, like sugar and spice
# I feel nice, like sugar and spice, yeah
# So nice, so nice, I got you
# When I hold you in my arms
# I know that I can do you no wrong
# And when I hold you in my arms
# My love can't do me no harm
# And I feel so nice, just like sugar and spice
# Ooh, I feel nice, Just like sugar a-a-and spice
# So nice, so nice, I got you
# I feel good, I knew that I would
# I feel good, yeah I knew that I would, oh, yeah
# So good, so good, I got you
# Oh, yeah, yeah! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen.
What an incredible night, what a wonderful audience.
Thank you so much for coming.
Give it up one more time for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
The Guy Barker Big Band.
Mike Dixon and every one of these incredible singers you saw tonight.
Thank you very much. Goodnight!
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
# No matter whether you're young or old
# You oughtta get together and let the good times roll
# No matter whether, stormy weather
# If you wanna have a ball you got to get yourself together
# Ooh, come on and let the good times roll. #