Private Passions: Jools Holland (5.4.20)

[Nick Armstrong]

One of the most engaging PP episodes I’ve heard, both in terms of discussion and choice of music:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h01t

[ardcarp]

Jules Holland on Private Passions

This was a really great edition of the programme, and probably not what you'd expect:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h01t

[LezLee]

One of the most engaging PP episodes I’ve heard, both in terms of discussion and choice of music:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h01t

Agree, it was excellent. There’s a lot more to Jools than meets the ear.

[underthecountertenor]

Agree with all the above. I’ve always liked Jools (even before the Channel 4 swearing incident), but I was unprepared for his range and insight.

[LMcD]

I never miss 'Private Passions'. This was indeed a very fine episode. I particularly warmed to his repeated delight at learning things during the programme.
(By the way, Jools was not the first person to appear on Channel 4, as any 'Countdown' fan will tell you).

[teamsaint]

I’d say that I admire rather than like him. I tired of his stage persona a long time ago.
However, he is very talented, puts on a great show, and has made some terrific records.

My own recommendations, outside of Squeeze would be

https://www.discogs.com/Jools-Holland-His-Rhythm-Blues-Orchestra-Jools-Hollands-Big-Band-Rhythm-Blues/release/2005359

Classy stuff from beginning to end.

And also the Tom Jones album which is most excellent.

In what I heard of the show, he did come over very well.

[Nick Armstrong]

I’d say that I admire rather than like him. I tired of his stage persona a long time ago.

In what I heard of the show, he did come over very well.

I know what you mean, and one of the things I appreciated about PP was the fact that he’d left his stage persona somewhere other than the PP ‘studio’

[Old Grumpy]

His stage persona in a live gig (I think I have been to 2 including an outdoor summer event) is different to that on TV in a Later/Hootenanny mode. He is a very engaging entertainer. His biography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts provides and interesting read.

The first gig I went to was at Newcastle City Hall. Mark Almond was billed as the special guest - he was unable to attend and was replaced (thankfully) by Ruby Turner - the rest (as they say) is history.

I have yet to listen to Private Passions, but it is bookmarked on BBC Sounds.

OG

[cloughie]

I’ll have a ‘Sounds’ listen in to him. I saw him and his R&B Orchestra a couple of times back in the 90s in Birmingham Town Hall - great sound, on one occasion his support act was Kiki Dee with a guitarist accompanying - sounded good, looked good - she has been totally underrated for nigh on 60 years! Along side Elkie Brooks and Julie Driscoll there were fewer better singers in the 60s - but I digress - Jools, love him or dislike him, over the years has run a big band and has through ‘The Tube’ and ‘Later’ and his band has brought musicians together - OK, maybe not in the way it happened in the 60s but he has encouraged new bands and brought other artistes out of obscurity, brought legends back. Yes he can be annoying but overall is good!

[antongould]

His stage persona in a live gig (I think I have been to 2 including an outdoor summer event) is different to that on TV in a Later/Hootenanny mode. He is a very engaging entertainer. His biography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts provides and interesting read.

The first gig I went to was at Newcastle City Hall. Mark Almond was billed as the special guest - he was unable to attend and was replaced (thankfully) by Ruby Turner - the rest (as they say) is history.

I have yet to listen to Private Passions, but it is bookmarked on BBC Sounds.

OG

Hope you enjoyed it OG .... I certainly did .... and I had almost forgotten I had broken bread with him after one of those City Hall performances .... my son’s father in law worked with Jools on the Tube and other projects. Jools was very quiet and seemed a true gentleman. Loved his PP selections ....

[Old Grumpy]

Hope you enjoyed it OG .... I certainly did .... and I had almost forgotten I had broken bread with him after one of those City Hall performances .... my son’s father in law worked with Jools on the Tube and other projects. Jools was very quiet and seemed a true gentleman. Loved his PP selections ....

Just listened and, yes, really enjoyed it.


OG

[ucanseetheend]

Wish the BBC would repeat the Manfred Sturmer (John Sessions) from 1998. its not available online and only repeated once and I missed that. Did anyone record this?https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ef6131d7...35a96a7844b95a

[Serial_Apologist]

Jools Holland's own music is so dependent on jazz (boogie-woogie), one wonders why he so rarely presents it.

[Nick Armstrong]

Repeat of this delightful edition about to start...

[Nick Armstrong]

Agree, it was excellent. There’s a lot more to Jools than meets the ear.

Still can’t get over the fact that Hugo von Hofmannsthal is Jools Holland’s great-grandfather-in-law!