NO Moore improvisation!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 2 Sept
5pm - J to Z
With Kevin Le Gendre, including highlights of last month's We Out Here festival concert given by Sun Ra Arkestra, founded by Alabama-born Afrofruturist pioneer Sun Ra (1914-93) in the 1950s. Plus an interview with two longtime members: saxophonist and conductor Knoel Scott and trumpeter Michael Ray. And Brooklyn-born vocalist and flautist Melanie Charles shares some of the music that inspires her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q14k

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with music to mark the fading of summer. Alto-saxophone player Seymour Wright [not sure why the hyphen] celebrates the rituals of improvisation with a live recording exploring the variety of sounds generated by the inside of the instrument and the breath passing through it. Plus a track from the forthcoming album by flautist and vocalist Elaine Mitchener and an improvisation by NO Moore from their latest album.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q150

Sun 3 Sept
10pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a broad spectrum of jazz requests, tonight featuring a night-themed playlist including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday and Dexter Gordon.

Note this week's reflected shift to the late hours.

http://www.alynshipton.co.uk/blog

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q12r

[Bryn]

"Plus improvisation on synthesiser and guitar by N. O. Moore from their latest album Solar Providence."

"Their"? When did Nathan become plural? Good to see him featured, however. A very fine improvising musician.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Plus improvisation on synthesiser and guitar by N. O. Moore from their latest album Solar Providence."

"Their"? When did Nathan become plural? Good to see him featured, however. A very fine improvising musician.

It is just possible the Radio Times writer might have been adhering to gender uncertainty guidelines, not knowing of Nathan, who, I agree, is a very fine musician, having seen him at the Oto, alongside Eddie Prévost, I think.

[Bryn]

It is just possible the Radio Times writer might have been adhering to gender uncertainty guidelines, not knowing of Nathan, who, I agree, is a very fine musician, having seen him at the Oto, alongside Eddie Prévost, I think.

Yes, Nathan has been a long-term stalwart of Eddie's Improvisation Workshop which meets most Fridays in the basement of the Borough Welsh Chapel in Southwark.