JRR 27 Dec

[Alyn_Shipton]

The playlist can be found here: http://www.alynshipton.co.uk/2014/12...s-27-dec-2014/
Happy New Year to all boardees.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Seasons greetings Alyn and extra helpings of pud for posting at Christmas!

the New jazz Orchestra and the Webster/Tatum catch my eye ......

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Seasons greetings Alyn and extra helpings of pud for posting at Christmas!

the New jazz Orchestra and the Webster/Tatum catch my eye ......

One of my Christmas presents is a really huge box of jazz cassettes of BBC R3/R2 broadcasts from c.1979 to c.2000 from a woman who's late husband recorded a shed load of mostly Brit jazz sessions off air. Osborne, Tippett, Westbrook, Surman, Bluenotes, Dudu, Elton Dean, Skid, Evan Parker, Tony Coe, Kenny Wheeler et al. Remarkable stuff.

Amongst the later ones is Mr Shipton introducing Nicky Iles from the Purcell Rooms with what sounds like advanced near death flu!

Hope you soon recovered!

Very Best To All for 2015.... and beyond.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Cor! El Senor that sounds ace! Are there tapes and tapes at Broadcasting House that could be played of similar programmes?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Its an extraordinary find Calum. A huge core of Mike Westbrook's radio broadcasts but the real gems for me are the Mike Osborne Qrt dates and the Elton Dean/Skid band and Trevor Watts freebop sessions. Really only starting to skim briefly thro them today but some fantastic stuff. Listening to Dudu at al at the moment.

And another (best) lady friend brought me a two litre bottle of Cockspur rum back from her Barbados holiday....so this listing and listening could take some time!

Hey, someone's got to do it....

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Quack!

[Alyn_Shipton]

Well BN, I thought the Iles session was at the Crucible. But maybe my flu was so bad I don't recall the Purcell Room gig at all! I do remember her quartet at Sheffield, though, great playing from Stan Sulzmann, the first time I heard Tim Giles play, and Mark Hodgson on bass. So few people in the audience we were worried the applause would sound fake...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Well BN, I thought the Iles session was at the Crucible. But maybe my flu was so bad I don't recall the Purcell Room gig at all! I do remember her quartet at Sheffield, though, great playing from Stan Sulzmann, the first time I heard Tim Giles play, and Mark Hodgson on bass. So few people in the audience we were worried the applause would sound fake...

Its very good Alyn! Although Nicky calls Mary Lou Williams "the boogie woogie pianist" at one point. Hope you took her aside after.

Now listening to a tape of Don Cherry with Carlos Ward in 1987 chez Brighton. Really excellent ~ Cherry to me could be hit and miss but this is great. Only another c. 50 to go!

BN.

Anyone remember "Major Surgery", Don Weller's jazz funk qrt? Late 70s? I've now got their Jazz Club session!

[Serial_Apologist]

Its very good Alyn! Although Nicky calls Mary Lou Williams "the boogie woogie pianist" at one point. Hope you took her aside after.

Now listening to a tape of Don Cherry with Carlos Ward in 1987 chez Brighton. Really excellent ~ Cherry to me could be hit and miss but this is great. Only another c. 50 to go!

BN.

Anyone remember "Major Surgery", Don Weller's jazz funk qrt? Late 70s? I've now got their Jazz Club session!

I'm utterly green with envy BN. My own recorded BBC broacasting cassettes start from 1985, but a friend donated me several from earlier years, including two from a Kenny Wheeler line-up from about 1979 (same tracks as on the "Around Six" ECM album}, this one had Evan Parker, Skid, Chris Laurence, John Taylor and Tony Oxley. If you have one or both of those hang onto them is all I can say, as there's some of the best playing on anything as far as I'm concerned. I sent the original to Kenny expressing my appreciation and strongly urging him to get them out somehow; but Kenny wasn't sure about the sound qualities, and didn't think much of his own playing! Typical Kenny!!!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

A lot of Kenny SA, working thro it all slowly! Now listening to Keith Bailey? with Nick Evans, Harrison Smith, Chris Mcgregor etc. A freeish jazz outfit, Prana, from c. late 70s? The scarey thing with these tapes is that he's let them run out to the closing news.....Thatcher in full rampage! I reach for my AK47.

[Ian Thumwood]

Mary Lou Williams' playing boogie woogie. No grumbles when the results are as good as this classic. Perhaps Iles had this in mind and the more famous "Roll 'em" arrangement written for Goodman. I've got to say that there is something really special about the 1930's recordings made by Andy Kirk:-

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The Nicky Iles broadcast with Alyn was her works with the Creative Jazz Orch at the Purcell Room, London on R3 10.45pm to 1.00am. Not sure of the exact date. '96?

Now starting on the Mike Gibbs and John Williams...I may be gone some time...

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Nicky Iles broadcast with Alyn was her works with the Creative Jazz Orch at the Purcell Room, London on R3 10.45pm to 1.00am. Not sure of the exact date. '96?

Purcell Room 1995. I have no precise date though I could probably find it: The Printmakers Suite. If it wasn't announced I can PM you the track listing if you wish.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Got it SA! A note inside the tape box flap. Now onto Robert Wyatt....tomorrow and the weekend ALL the Westbrooks...didn't realise how much he had featured on R3 over the years.

BN

[Alyn_Shipton]

Ah I remember now - I think of the session as Creative Jazz Orchestra. Mike Walker and Iain Dixon among the soloists if I remember correctly. Yes, we did a lot of Westbrook in those days. I remember presenting Bar Utopia from the Bath Festival, but there were others.