HCMF, will we ever get full set recordings?

[Frithling]

Over the years, we've had many excellent highlights programs, but rarely (if ever) the complete performances. Sometimes main feature concerts were not broadcast a all.

Is it possible to retrospectively broadcast the Lindsay Cooper - Henry Cow memorial set for instance. From memory, we've also had only short segments of Peter Brotzmann, Roscoe Mitchell and The Necks recently

In anticipation, Frithling

[Serial_Apologist]

Over the years, we've had many excellent highlights programs, but rarely (if ever) the complete performances. Sometimes main feature concerts were not broadcast a all.

Is it possible to retrospectively broadcast the Lindsay Cooper - Henry Cow memorial set for instance. From memory, we've also had only short segments of Peter Brotzmann, Roscoe Mitchell and The Necks recently

In anticipation, Frithling

It would be wonderful if the BBC has kept more stuff than we get to hear from way back. On the few occasions I have listened to Jamie Cullum's "jazz" programme on R2, he has sometimes included episodes recorded from BBC broadcasts from as long ago as the 1970s - not the usual thing of only relaying commercially available recordings.

[Frithling]

It would be wonderful if the BBC has kept more stuff than we get to hear from way back. On the few occasions I have listened to Jamie Cullum's "jazz" programme on R2, he has sometimes included episodes recorded from BBC broadcasts from as long ago as the 1970s - not the usual thing of only relaying commercially available recordings.

This is also common with German radio stations, where they regularly re-broadcast material they recorded in the 1960's. The difference here is that they re-broadcast complete performances, direct from their master tapes and this time in wonderful 320k sample rates without the old FM compression, transmitter saturation and noise.

Oh that Radio 3 would do the same in an organised basis as they have many broadcast programs they can use.