Sat 26 Aug
5pm - J to Z
A special edition first broadcast last October for Black History Month, with presenter Kevin Le Gendre joined by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell to explore jazz, Afrofuturism and beyond.
Repeats - why?? There must be homegrown jazz musicians of the original Loose Tubes/Jazz Warriors/F-Ire and Loop Collective generations clamouring for a broadcast, especially in the wake of the pandemic - or were they all rendered extinct? Broadcasters continue their age-old policy of youth is best when this rarely applies when it comes to jazz. The Keith Tippett/Pete Hurt generation publicly suffered reputationally from this in the 1980s and 90s; now neglect befalls the next middle generation.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents new music, including Darius Jones joined by drummer Gerald Cleaver, violinists Jesse and Josh Zubot, cellist Peggy Lee [!] and bassist James Mege for experimentations inspired by the Fluxus art movement. Plus music by Tobi Adebajo - a work of "unbodies" - and violinists Sana Nagano and Leonor Falcón with an ebullient ode to Bartok.
Who are these people presented as in a vacuum? Come on, Corey, give us backgrounds, views, histories, experiences.
Sun 27 Aug
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a broad spectrum of requests, including recordings by Stan Getz and Romarna Campbell and Grieg as arranged by Melba Liston.
Apologies, I just had some stuff to get off my chest.
5pm - J to Z
A special edition first broadcast last October for Black History Month, with presenter Kevin Le Gendre joined by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell to explore jazz, Afrofuturism and beyond.
Repeats - why?? There must be homegrown jazz musicians of the original Loose Tubes/Jazz Warriors/F-Ire and Loop Collective generations clamouring for a broadcast, especially in the wake of the pandemic - or were they all rendered extinct? Broadcasters continue their age-old policy of youth is best when this rarely applies when it comes to jazz. The Keith Tippett/Pete Hurt generation publicly suffered reputationally from this in the 1980s and 90s; now neglect befalls the next middle generation.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents new music, including Darius Jones joined by drummer Gerald Cleaver, violinists Jesse and Josh Zubot, cellist Peggy Lee [!] and bassist James Mege for experimentations inspired by the Fluxus art movement. Plus music by Tobi Adebajo - a work of "unbodies" - and violinists Sana Nagano and Leonor Falcón with an ebullient ode to Bartok.
Who are these people presented as in a vacuum? Come on, Corey, give us backgrounds, views, histories, experiences.
Sun 27 Aug
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a broad spectrum of requests, including recordings by Stan Getz and Romarna Campbell and Grieg as arranged by Melba Liston.
Apologies, I just had some stuff to get off my chest.
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