..... which ear ungifted ne'er heard

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Alyn includes Mr F Waller playing in London

JLU goes Sinatra/Lounge with Mr C Stigers and the Danish Radio Big Band after checking out some new releases nice


Geoffrey salutes Roland Kirk bless

Jon3 gives us:

"avant-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood, in a standout performance from last year's London Jazz Festival."

cool

[Alyn_Shipton]

Actually Alyn doesn't incude Fats in London. Eagle eyed boardees with good memories will remember that this was the billing for a programme that went out four weeks ago. Some glitch posted the wrong one on the Radio 3 site. So here, as usual is the running order for today's JRR

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DISC
Artist James Morrison and the Hot Horn Happening
Title Tokyo Express
Composer ?
Album Live in Paris
Label East / West
Number 4509-99260-2 Track 1
Duration 4.59
Performers: James Morrison, t; Mark Nightingale, tb; Jeff Clayton, alto sax, Rickey Woodard, tenor sax; Brian Kellock, p; Martin Wind, b; John Morrison drums.


DISC
Artist Dave Brubeck
Title The Way You Look Tonight
Composer Kern, Fields
Album Time Was
Label Proper
Number Properbox 90 CD 4 Track 1
Duration 7.48
Performers: Paul Desmond, as; Dave Brubeck, p; Ron Crotty, b, Lloyd Davis, d. 2 March 1953.

DISC
Artist Roy Budd
Title Quiet Nights
Composer Jobim
Album Roy Budd at Newport
Label Pye
Number NPL 18212 S1 T3
Duration 7.19
Performers: Roy Budd, p,arr; Dave Holland, b; Chris Karan, d. Bettws Social Club, Newport, Monmouthshire: January 9, 1968


DISC
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim
Title The Wedding
Composer Ibrahim
Album The Mountain
Label Camden
Number 1002 Track 8
Duration 2.42
Performers: Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Charles Davis, reeds; Dick Griffin, tb; Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Cecil McBee, b; Ben Riley, d. 1985.


DISC
Artist Gwilym Simcock and Yuri Goloubev
Title Antics
Composer Simcock
Album Duo Art
Label Act
Number 9624-2 Track 4
Duration 4.09
Performers: Gwilym Simcock, p Yuri Goloubev, b. 13 March 2013.


DISC
Artist Duke Ellington
Title Artistry in Rhythm
Composer Kenton
Album The Reprise Studio Recordings
Label Warner
Number 8122 73658-2 CD 1 Track 21
Duration 3.17
Performers: Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Roy Burroes, Eddie Preston, t; Ray Nance vn; Lawrence Brown, Chuck Connors, Buster Cooper, tb; Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney reeds; Billy Strayhorn, p; Ernie Shepard, b; Sam Woodyard, d. 4 Jan 1963.


DISC
Artist Bill Evans
Title Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Composer Burke / Van Heusen
Album Moonbeams
Label Riverside
Number OJCCD 434-2 Track 2
Duration 5.02
Performers: Bill Evans, p; Chuck Israels, b; Paul Motian, d. 2 June 1962.


DISC
Artist Jimmy Yancey
Title Yancey Special
Composer Yancey
Album Complete Recorded Works Vol 3
Label Document
Number 5043 Track 4
Duration 4.26
Performers: Jimmy Yancey, p; Dec 1943.


DISC
Artist Graeme Bell
Title Big Chief Battle Axe
Composer Allan
Album Big Walkabout in London
Label Lake
Number 166 Track 8
Duration 3.39
Performers: Roger Bell, c; Pixie Riberts, cl; Ade Monsbrough; tb; Graeme Bell, p, Jack Varney, bj; Lou Silbereisen, b; Dave Carey, d. 26 May 1948.


DISC
Artist Benny Goodman
Title Perfidia
Composer Dominguez, Cugat, Heagney
Album n/a
Label Columbia
Number 35962 S 2
Duration 3.19
Performers: Benny Goodman, cl; Alex Fila, Jimmy Maxwell, Cootie Williams, Irv Goodman, t; Lou McGarity, Cutty Cutshall, tb; Les Robinson, Gus Bivona, Georgie Auld, Jack Henderson, Skippy Martin, reeds; Teddy Wilson p; Mike Bryan, g; Arti Bernstein, b; Dave Tough, d. Helen Forrest, v. Arr Eddie Sauter. 28 Jan 1941.


DISC
Artist Barb Jungr
Title It’s Alright Ma
Composer Bob Dylan
Album Hard Rain
Label Absolute / Krystalin
Number KLCD1 Track 7
Duration 6.22
Performers: Barb Jngr, v; Simon Wallace, kb; Neville Malcolm, b; Gary Hammond, Richard Olutande Baker, Clive Bell, perc. 2014.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Спасибо вам большое за ваш товарищеской товарищ помощи. Генеральный секретарь товарищ будет благоволение.

Vielen Dank für Ihre kameradschaftliche Hilfe Genosse. Der Genosse Generalsekretär wird auch zufrieden sein.

Cảm ơn bạn rất nhiều vì đã giúp đỡ đồng chí đồng chí của bạn. Các đồng chí Tổng Bí thư sẽ rất hài lòng.


or as they said in Gerrard St in the 60s Thanks Alyn ....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

That "Roy Budd trio at Newport" always cracks me up knowing what the armpits of the world that Bettws social club was back then...."you want chips or rice with your Junior Mance Hotpot?"

BN.

Nevertheless, in my yoof I used to walk around town clutching "Ray Charles at Newport"...if only Ray and the band had got the wrong flight in 1958...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

God, what a relief to hear Bill Evans in the middle of all that piano hammering. Jezz.

Out Brubeck, Out!

and take Roy Budd with you.

But Jimmy Yancey can stay.

BN.

Just discovered there is a five track Japanese CD of Steve Kuhn, LaRoca et Scott La Faro from 1960...tres bon.

[Serial_Apologist]

God, what a relief to hear Bill Evans in the middle of all that piano hammering. Jezz.

Out Brubeck, Out!

and take Roy Budd with you.

But Jimmy Yancey can stay.

BN.

Precisely my thoughts as well! We had Brubeck nailed when I started listening as definitely persona non grata in the school Jazz Hole.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Oh God what a fkg hilarious "jazz" version of Dylans Only Bleeding...

Cheltm Ladies College backed by the Playschool trio!

Funnier than Nick Clegg and that's going some. Where"s my gun.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

That "Roy Budd trio at Newport" always cracks me up knowing what the armpits of the world that Bettws social club was back then...."you want chips or rice with your Junior Mance Hotpot?"

BN.

Nevertheless, in my yoof I used to walk around town clutching "Ray Charles at Newport"...if only Ray and the band had got the wrong flight in 1958...

I thought of you Bluesnik when I heard that Roy Budd had recorded an LP titled "Live at Newport"...still it sounds better than "Live at the Bull's Head" or whatever.

Great to hear Jimmy Yancey. It reminds me of one of the old JAWS jazz workshops in Isleworth where Michael Garrick gave a presentation on early boogie pianists including Yancey and Pinetop Smith; he pointed out that one of Yancey's trademarks was to end his pieces in E flat. I wish more musicians would do that.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I remember hearing Yancey's At the Window for the first time when I was into Bobby Timmons etc...just stunning.

Every now and again it comes up on JRR.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

I remember hearing Yancey's At the Window for the first time when I was into Bobby Timmons etc...just stunning.

Every now and again it comes up on JRR.

BN.

I love the later recordings with his missus - Ma Yancey, just as plain and unadorned as her old man's playing. Someone described Thelonius Monk as the Jimmy Yancey of jazz piano, and I'm sure Monk drew a lot from that source.

Later: Kurt Stigers. Sunday Night at the London Palladium ca 1957. Time to switch off.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

that Dylan cover was oh so baaaad ...... loved the Strayhorn version of Artistry in Rhythm

[Tom Audustus]

That "Roy Budd trio at Newport" always cracks me up knowing what the armpits of the world that Bettws social club was back then...."you want chips or rice with your Junior Mance Hotpot?"

BN.

Nevertheless, in my yoof I used to walk around town clutching "Ray Charles at Newport"...if only Ray and the band had got the wrong flight in 1958...

Bettws Social Club would have been fairly new in 1968 !!!

I played a gig there in around 1971 but that was your usual Beatles, Stones pop blues stuff. We didn't get
a return booking.

[Serial_Apologist]

Bettws Social Club would have been fairly new in 1968 !!!

I played a gig there in around 1971 but that was your usual Beatles, Stones pop blues stuff. We didn't get
a return booking.

I met a bloke in a pub today who took everything I said literally and seemed to have been at every important gig that ever took place. Ornette Coleman Fairfield Hall; Sonny Rollins at Ronnies when he came out of the Gents playing something that wasn't "Bye Bye Blackbird". "I keep meeting people who claimed to have been at the Little Theatre Club", Evan Parker says, adding, "but it could never have been true: there wouldn't have been enough room to fit them all in".

[Ian Thumwood]

In fairness to Roy Budd, I understood that he was a composer for film and TV who also liked to ply jazz - a kind of British Andre Previn?

I would have to share SA's perception of Dave Brubeck but I think that he was still the most interesting of the soloists in his quartet. I can't stand Paul Desmond's alto sound which , for me, is amongst the most "un -jazz like" in jazz. He's almost like a 1950's Kenny G insofar as to the purity of sound. Brubeck is like a swing era pianist who had absorbed some of the vocabulary of the Classical composers from between the two world wars and at least there was a spikey quality in his solos that contrasted with the ultra-smooth alto. The early 1950's was probably amongst the most conservative periods in jazz with the music looking for direction after the death of Parker and the more creative thinkers in the music caught between more formal writing and running the changes. So many of the more interesting soloists / creative forces were "taken out" by drug addiction in this period you can appreciate the wholesome appeal of Brubeck as well as understanding just how the music seemed to reach a point of paralysis. I think by about 1957 jazz had "corrected itself" and the flood of classic albums and groups began to assert themselves. However, by this time, Brubeck had managed to cement a reputation for himself even if SA isn't the first person I have heard mention the suspicion with which Brubeck was viewed by jazz fans in the 1950's / 60's.

On the subject of dross and notwithstanding the fact that the appeal of Bob Dylan has also passed me by (absolutely no interest) , I couldn't believe the Lars Danielsson track posted by Calum. Got to say this tends to send me to sleep and I'm not sure if it is actually jazz. It sounds like something that they used to play in supermarkets in the 1970's. Absolute rank. It's incredible just how dire European jazz can be and whilst the Scandinavians in the past may have been Europe's bastions of great jazz , the latest generation seem intent on reducing their contribution to Easy Listening. I thought jazz was supposed to have some balls ? King Oliver would have thrown his horn away in disgust if he would realise that jazz would involve in to something better suited to being played on an automated telephone answering service.

[Tom Audustus]

I met a bloke in a pub today who took everything I said literally and seemed to have been at every important gig that ever took place. Ornette Coleman Fairfield Hall; Sonny Rollins at Ronnies when he came out of the Gents playing something that wasn't "Bye Bye Blackbird". "I keep meeting people who claimed to have been at the Little Theatre Club", Evan Parker says, adding, "but it could never have been true: there wouldn't have been enough room to fit them all in".

Newport had quite a good weekly jazz club in a pub function room in the early '70s. I remember seeing Don Rendell play a stonking gig there with the local rhythm section.