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50 years of JRR and not ONE request played for the great Ron Coltrane. In BBC R3 circles he is now the Gary Glitter of the Selmer. All because he and partner (Lady "M") were caught doing "the nasty" in John Birt's personal shower unit. They were in fact recreating the Summer of Love for a forthcoming Tony Palmer BBC2 drama doc. Never broadcast.
I have been told by a top BBC library worker that all Ron's records have been stamped "not for airplay' or "refer up". Even Marty Wilde's "Teenage Tango"(1958) has been hidden away as it features Ron's honking tenor solo.
When Ron gets airplay then maybe I'll tune in. Until then its my Tina Brooks box set through the Quad speakers 24/7 at 500 watts
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yeah but it's the little '70s Russian works [only] underwater amp you have 'hooked up' into them speakers that lets you relive the buzzy duck distortions of yer punk past innit El Senor
happy birthday JRR
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Be good to hear Charles Fox's voice again. He's someone who did a lot (via the airwaves) to stretch my listening. And I think lived at very top of Alex Korner's house? With Phil Seamen sleeping on the ground floor sofa.Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Postyeah but it's the little '70s Russian works [only] underwater amp you have 'hooked up' into them speakers that lets you relive the buzzy duck distortions of yer punk past innit El Senor
happy birthday JRR
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/1...celebrate.html
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Dare I congratulate JRR, BBC and Alyn for this.
I have had 2 requests played over the past 50 years, so I guess I'm due for another one in the next 25 years or so.Comment
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I've requested No More Fn. Banjos Please for years and years but will they listen? I thought it a request program? Well that's mine Mr. D.J.Originally posted by Oddball View Post
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Happy 50th Birthday!
How can they possibly follow that?
I know! They can cancel the next week's editions of both JRR and JLU and live-cast Die Meistersinger von der Met instead!
Oh, and bump Geoffrey Smith on to start at 12.30am!
Not just a suggestion ...
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Plus ca change ....
Guardian Editorial April 2009..."In praise of Jazz Record Requests":
"Teatime tonight will be lacking
something important for the thousands
for whom part of the evening ritual is
Jazz Record Requests on Radio 3 at
5pm. Unhappily, in recent months the
BBC has been messing JRR about,
running it at unsettling times such as
8pm, halving its outings, or even, as
today, dropping it to accommodate
opera. This has ruined the pattern of a
programme that has been running for
45 years. The formula could hardly be
simpler. There is a knowledgable
presenter: the first was Humphrey
Lyttelton, who so often in life seemed
indispensable but in this case was not,
since Steve Race and the late Peter
Clayton kept it going in the same spirit.
It is now in the care of the quirky
American former jazz drummer
Geoffrey Smith. He plays what the
listeners ask for, and fortunately the
listeners ask for everything from the
most obvious Armstrong and Ellington
to artists you have barely heard of. He
tells you a bit about the group and the
context, but he does not blather on. The
result is a dependable mixture of artists
and music you know and others you
might wish to explore. Last week it
offered a characteristic mixture of
Ellington, Beiderbecke, Oscar and Ella
along with names you may have needed
to note down. Today, in its place, comes
The Valkyrie live from the Met in New
York. Wagner fans, who can feel as
deprived as any jazz fan, will cheer. But
having got the mixture right for so
many years, the BBC should bend every
sinew to see that JRR stays in its rightful
place."
Well, no one cares what Alan "Bee Bumble" Rusbridger thinks anymore. Well, maybe Owen TinTin Jones...
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I got in to jazz when I was about 13/14 which would have been around 1980/1. My route in to the music was through big bands like Miller, Dorsey and Goodman but within about 18 months I wanted to check out everything obscure and unfamiliar that I read about in books. By the time I was about 14/15 I had explored the roots of the music through to the likes of Henderson, Armstrong and Morton but in avidly listening to JRR to find out a wider range f music, I found that I was very taken by Stan Tracy's version of "Little Rootie tootie" that was the show's theme tune. When I finished school in 1983, I cycled down to Southampton from the village where I lived with my best friend Conrad and came back with the Thelonious Monk trio's record with this tune on. I must have played that record all summer and it drove my Mum mad as she hated it so much! From then on, I started to explore anything post-Charlie Parker and through listening to Gil Evans, I got in to contemporary jazz.
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Happy 50th, indeed (Britspeak) Alyn.
Something from the Old Testamondo - courtesy of Prophet Prez:
Jumpin' with my boy Sid in the city
Jumpin' with my boy Sid in the city
Mr. President of that DJ committee
We're gonna be up all night gettin' ready
We want you to spin the sounds from the city
Far down in the land that's real, real pretty
Let everything go real crazy over jersy
Make everything go real crazy over jersy
Let everything cool for me and my baby
I don't wanna think we're listenin' too lazy
It's gotta be Pressburg shearing or the Basie
And now it's all set right clear on the eighty
Let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll
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From the Telegraph
Two errors in this. Show is not extended and I think Mr Taylor is from Hampshire.Last edited by Flyposter; 05-12-14, 13:03.Comment
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I always think when I hear "Dave Taylor/Purbrook" on JRR - a kind of Spartacus fugure, as in that's what I would have requested! As in Tina Brooks.Originally posted by Flyposter View PostFrom the Telegraph
Two errors in this. Show is not extended and I think Mr Taylor is from Hampshire.
But JRR "average age 55" , how do they even know? And why now so many requests from former Mech Engineering students who discovered trad jazz, flat beer (and "The Joy of Banjos") at Newcastle Uni or the RAF glider school in 1955?
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