Tonight we had cool jazz for a hot summer evening from Jonny, Elle, Seb and Pete from Brentwood School, the Blue Moon Jazz Quintet. The keyboards player was unable to be with us tonight. It was fantastic to have them playing live in the studio with guitar, bass guitar, drums and saxophone. They brought us a selection of their favourite tracks and Jonny explained why they had chosen them. They also selected some tracks for us as well. Listeners commented on how it was obvious how much they were enjoying the experience and they were enjoying listening. This included David, Alison, Ben and Anna listening in Orlando, Florida. Jonny said that they are available to play at weddings and other functions. The contact info is
bluemoonjazzquintet@gmail.com.

In the second hour we had a feature about Garry Marshall who passed away this week. In a career spanning over half a century Garry made people laugh and cry with a string of hit sitcoms and romantic comedies. He once estimated he was responsible for 1,000 sitcom episodes, including Happy Days, Mork & Mindy and Laverne and Shirley. Film credits include Pretty Woman, The Flamingo Kid and the Princess Diaries. We heard that videocassette recorders were finally ending production in Japan. We were amazed they were still being made. Everyone is talking about Pokémon Go. Apparently people have been wandering into the A&E Unit of the Royal Stoke University Hospital. Of course players have been asked to stay away from this “incredibly busy” A&E department.

Tonight’s playlist
Miles Davis – Summertime
Elvis Presley & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – In the ghetto
Blue Moon Jazz – Take the A train – live
Blue Moon Jazz – Night in Tunisia – live
Nathan East – Sir Duke – a favourite track of the quintet, especial bass player Pete. Nathan has made over 2,000 recordings.
Stevie Wonder – I wish
Blue Moon Jazz – Nearness of you – live
Blue Moon Jazz – Summertime – live, with a souful twist.
Blue Moon Jazz – Tune 88 – live
George Benson – Route 66 – Jonny said that George Benson was his guitar idol.
Earth, Wind & Fire – September
Deodato – Also Sprake Zarathustra – for Chris in Harlow and all teachers who have broken up from school.
Peter Andre – Fly me to the moon – requested by Phyl in Enfield.
Beach Boys – California Girls – for David, Alison, Ben and Anna, holidaying in Orlando Florida and sitting by the pool listening to the show.
James Taylor & Carole King – You’ve got a friend – requested for Michael by Patrick, who loved this version of the song we selected.
Barb Jungr – Waterloo sunset – her version of this song, the favourite on the show.
Happy Days theme.
Mork & Mindy theme.
Myra – Miracles happen – from the Princess diaries.
The Settlers – The Lightening tree – for Gregg to bring him back memories of watching Follyfoot (this was the theme tune) in his youth.
Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher man
Darius Rucker – Radio
Band Perry – All my life – for Sue, Leonard and all those listening in Kentucky and Nashville for their Friday afternoon British entertainment.
Gregory Porter – The in crowd.
Free – My brother Jake
Jamie Lawson – Ahead of myself
Focus – Sylvia
Join me next week for another serving of Friday Night Extra, from Brentwood to the world.

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