JRR 8 NOv 14

[Alyn_Shipton]

081114

DISC
Artist Chet Baker
Title Let’s Get Lost
Composer McHugh / Loesser
Album Best of Chet Baker Sings
Label Pacific
Number C 92932 Track 12
Duration 3.53
Performers: Chet Baker, t, v; Russ Freeman, p; Carson Smih, b; Bob Neel, d.



DISC
Artist Harry Sweets Edison
Title Simply Sweets
Composer Edison / Coker
Album Simply Sweets
Label Pablo
Number 903.2 Track 5
Duration 4,24
Performers Sweets Edison, t; Dolo Coker, p; Harvey Newmark, b. 1977.


DISC
Artist Bobby Lamb / Ray Premru Orchestra
Title Cuchulain
Composer Lamb
Album Live at Ronnie Scotts
Label BBC Records
Number 116S S2 T3
Duration 6.00
Performers: Tony Fisher (tp, flh), Derek Healey (tp, flh), Gus Galbraith (tp, flh), Ronnie Hughes (tp, flh), Kenny Wheeler (tp, flh), Cliff Hardie (tb), Chris Pyne (tb), David Horler (tb), Jack Thirlwall (tb), Ray Premru (tb), Bobby Lamb (tb), John Jenkins (tuba), Ronnie Chamberlain (as), Alan Branscombe (as), Tony Roberts (ts, fl), Jimmy Phillip (ts), Ken Dryden (bs, fl), Nick Busch (horn), Colin Horton (horn), John Jpingneguy (horn), Tony Lucas (horn), Kenny Clare (dr), Steve Gray (p), Arthur Watts (b, el-b), John Dean (perc).


DISC
Artist Art Pepper
Title When You’re Smiling
Composer Fisher / Goodwin / Shay
Album Road Game
Label Original Jazz Classics
Number OJCCD 774 Track 3
Duration 8.52
Performers Art Pepper, cl; George Cables, p; David Williams, b; Carl Burnett, d. 1981.


DISC
Artist Venuti / Lang Blue Five
Title Raggin’ the Scale
Composer Venuti / Lang
Album Venuti Lang and Rollini
Label Gralin Music
Number Track 1
Duration 3.25
Performers Eddie Lang (g); Joe Venuti (vln); Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as); Adrian Rollini (bass sax); Phil Wall (p)

DISC
Artist Luis Russell
Title Jersey Lightning
Composer Russell
Album n/a
Label Parlophone
Number R740 Side B
Duration 3.20
Performers: Bill Coleman, Henry Allen, t; J C Higginbotham, tb; Albert Nicholas, Charlie Holmes, Teddy Hill, reeds; Luis Russell, p; Will Johnson, g; Pops Foster, b; Paul Barbarin, d. 6 Sept 1929.


DISC
Artist Henry Red Allen
Title Feelin’ Drowsy
Album n/a
Label Victor
Number BVE-53929, S1
Duration 3.37
Performers: Henry Allen, t; J C Higginbotham, tb; Albert Nicholas, Charlie Holmes, Teddy Hill, reeds; Luis Russell, p; Will Johnson, g; Pops Foster, b; Paul Barbarin, d. 17 July 1929.



DISC
Artist Karin Krog / Bengt Hallberg
Title Ain’t Nobody’s Business
Album Two of a Kind
Label Meantime
Number
Duration 3,43
Performers Karin Krog, v; Bengt Hallberg, p. 1982.




DISC
Artist Acker Bilk
Title Summer Set
Composer Bilk
Album single
Label Columbia
Number DB 4382 Side A
Duration 3.38
Performers Acker Bilk, cl; Dave Collett p; Roy James, bj; Ernie Price, b; Ron McKay, d 14 Oct 1959.


DISC
Artist Get the Blessing
Title The Word For Moonlight is Moonlight
Album Bugs in Amber
Label Cake / Candid
Number Track 2
Duration 4.22
Performers Jake McMurchie, reeds; Peter Judge, t; Jim Barr, b; Clive Deamer, d. 2009


DISC
Artist Ivo Neame
Title Free at Last
Composer Neame
Album Caught in the Light of Day
Label Edition
Number Track 6
Duration 6.24
Performers Ivo Neame, p; Jim Hart, vib; Jasper Hoiby, b; James Maddren, d. 2009.

[Serial_Apologist]

Can it possibly be 5 years since Ivo Neame's excellent Free at Last came out? How time flies!

Track 3 - the Bobby Lambe/Ray Premru Orchestra - if this is the one I think it is - was recorded on March 7 1971, if My Philippe Renaud serves me correctly, for anyone interested.

Thanks again, Alyn.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Karin Krog. .she knows her Norwegians, Oslo they say...

I'll get my ski boots.


BN

[Serial_Apologist]

Karin Krog. .she knows her Norwegians, Oslo they say...

I'll get my ski boots.


BN

Stay as Swede as you were...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4YZWpMpxk

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Talking of "Swinging" Swedes, I've just been reading a long essay on Lars Gullin. I knew he had 'chemical issues' but never realised the extent. The 1950s and 1960's, what an era. Once it all maybe seemed romantic. No more.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

I really enjoyed the Bobby Lamb / Ray Premru and the Ivo Neame tracks...

As for Lars Gullin, he's a name I have heard of but not familiar with his work, even though I enjoy European, Scandinavian and cool jazz. I think Sven Klangs Kvintett was shown many years ago on BBC2 as part of a jazz season when they did that kind of thing but I missed it - it would be nice to see it again on BBC FOUR (fat chance) though I have found a version on the Tube which has French subtitles: http://youtu.be/McIGH0ghPt8. I have always wanted to get a baritone sax, perhaps one day...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I really enjoyed the Bobby Lamb / Ray Premru and the Ivo Neame tracks...

As for Lars Gullin, he's a name I have heard of but not familiar with his work, even though I enjoy European, Scandinavian and cool jazz. I think Sven Klangs Kvintett was shown many years ago on BBC2 as part of a jazz season when they did that kind of thing but I missed it - it would be nice to see it again on BBC FOUR (fat chance) though I have found a version on the Tube which has French subtitles: http://youtu.be/McIGH0ghPt8. I have always wanted to get a baritone sax, perhaps one day...

Its a great film based losely on Gullin. There are a stack of retrospective box sets of Swedish jazz available from Sweden. Some exceptional stuff from the 60s and 70s that certainly matches the Brit output in invention and awareness.

R3.......? Yeah well....

BN.

[Ian Thumwood]

Its a great film based losely on Gullin. There are a stack of retrospective box sets of Swedish jazz available from Sweden. Some exceptional stuff from the 60s and 70s that certainly matches the Brit output in invention and awareness.

R3.......? Yeah well....

BN.

It's funny how, back in the 1980's, any reference to Scandinavian jazz would have got the thumbs up from me with the likes of Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal and Jon Christenson being luminaries in the then contemporary jazz scene. On top of these masters, there were other musicians like Sidsel Endressen, Jon Balke and Arild Anderson who seemed to play Norway at the top of te jazz tree. Elsewhere, Danes like Palle Mikkelborg seemed hugely important. all this was based on the Swedish success of the 1950's / 60's which seemed to mark the country out as a serious jazz powerhouse.

These days, the Scandinavian scene seemed to produce a flood of techno / electronic / contemporary grooves stemming from the success of Nils Petter Molvaer's "Khymer" after which Scandinavian jazz seemed tobe dominated by this style of jazz. I'm not convinced that it is typical but the combination of Bugge Wesseltoft "Nu jazz" and the increasingly folkloric music churned out from ECM, Scandinavian jazz seems a very poor relation these days in comparison with jazz produced elsewhere. EST only seemed to amplify the extent of the superficial nature of jazz from Nw Europe. It is curious to learn that the music churned out by the record companies isn't100% typical of what is being played and I was hugely impressed by the current Nils Lan Doky trio earlier this year which is producing genuine, compelling jazz that is not at the whims of popular taste. I think the cool approach of the likes of Gullin and Domnerus has it's merits but the potential seems to have been dissipated in the early 2000's as the music became increasingly cosmetic.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

oh i dunno Ian mebbe they had an unfashionable preference for eating ...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

oh i dunno Ian mebbe they had an unfashionable preference for eating ...

"Herrings, Herrings, Oh bring me Herrings til I die."

Listening to Danish and Swedish public jazz radio last night and all morning. Now convinced R3 needs/deserves a scorched earth approach. Burn it down and start again. Or just forget it exists.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Now convinced R3 needs/deserves a scorched earth approach. Burn it down and start again. Or just forget it exists.

absolut!

[Quarky]

Listening to Danish and Swedish public jazz radio last night and all morning. Now convinced R3 needs/deserves a scorched earth approach. Burn it down and start again. Or just forget it exists.

BN.

Too sweeping statement BN, imv. Got a lot out of the Jazz programmes last night.

i feel Alyn et al are doing what R3 sets out to do: inform, educate ....

For me the sweet spot was Art Pepper + Venuti/ Lang.

and I see JLU is displacing Cinema Classics next week!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I sweep as I find. Seriously, the Scandinavian countries are prepared to give the music the time and respect it deserves. As does France Musique for history and analysis *. The BBC is now an empty shell living off its own self regard.

That's why I have taken a lump hammer to my Grundig Bop Broadcaster transistor radio (vintage 1963).

Free at last, Free at last!

BN.

* at this moment running a two hour program on the flute in jazz. And we ain't talking whistles ..

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

name of station el senor?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The Danish jazz (public) station is P8. The French is France Musique which has a raft of jazz programs from its history right up to current reviews and concert material. The one I was recently listening to was "On ne badine pas avec le jazz". The two guys pick a token theme each week and spin a show and tracks around it. Anything from Jazz and Art to Adolf Sax to Jazz Flute to Jazz and War. Just an excuse to play what they like and all very "French" but it works! And no banjos, Kenny Ballux, 1950s university jazz clubs or RAF fly pasts.

If you get my drift.

BN.