Juniversities

[Serial_Apologist]

An apology for lateness - had to go to the local DIY for a landline extension to get myself re-connected just now!

Sat 20 June

5.00 Jazz Record Requests
As part of Classical Voice Season, live from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests and introduces live music from pianist Geoff Eales.

Woops - nearly missed the "p" off presents there!
Will it be Jelly Roll Eales or just jellied eels?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zgf6y

6.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph previews the Glasgow Jazz Festival (24-28 June), and there's a duo concert performance from saxophonist Andy Sheppard and pianist Rita Marcotulli, recorded in April at Sage Gateshead. Plus Sebastian Scotney's report on the award-winning St Ives Jazz Club

We will at last find out if bebop has reached Cornwall...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zgf70

Mon 22 June
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater joins Jez Nelson to curate a programme of vocal highlights from the Jazz on 3 archives as part of the station's Classical Voice season.

And what's all this Classical Voice mystification?
Answer - well actually, a tribute programme to Ornette :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b060psvn

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

As a long term but now expat Cardiffian, I recommend Paula Gardiner's bass playing on the JRR track. I first heard her very early on upstairs at the old Four Bars and was really struck by how good she was/is. "She'll go far", I murmured into my tenth jug of flat Brains SA as Dylan Thomas fell over the piano waving a Brecon Jazz flyer like a stumbling sailor's stained salty silk handkerchief.



BN,

[Serial_Apologist]

As a long term but now expat Cardiffian, I recommend Paula Gardiner's bass playing on the JRR track. I first heard her very early on upstairs at the old Four Bars and was really struck by how good she was/is. "She'll go far", I murmured into my tenth jug of flat Brains SA as Dylan Thomas fell over the piano waving a Brevon Jazz flyer.

BN,

I think I saw Paula in Bristol in the early 80s in a band including Paul Dunmall and Tony Levin.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Could be. I heard her when she was still in college but obviously a real talent, I think she now teaches.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Change of Jazz on 3 Monday night...

Ornette tribute...


"Jez Nelson is joined in the studio by John
Fordham to chart Coleman's career through
key recordings. The show includes favourite
tracks and personal reflections from some of
the musicians who worked closely with or
were inspired by him, including singer Neneh
Cherry, pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist
Branford Marsalis and bass player
Jamaaladeen Tacuma. We also hear
exclusive archive interviews with trumpeter
Don Cherry, and from the man himself:
'There's only 12 notes that satisfy the whole
world - either you make something out of it,
or you don't.'"

BN.

oppps! apologies, didn't see you'd already flagged this up.

[Honoured Guest]

Could be. I heard her when she was still in college but obviously a real talent, I think she now teaches.

BN.

Head of Jazz Studies, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/departments/jazz.aspx

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Head of Jazz Studies, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/departments/jazz.aspx

Thanks, pleased that she's done so well. But so many of the often very good people I knew in the 70s and 80s have now gone into "jazz" teaching to teach other young people to....go into jazz teaching...that its a kind of robotics. Jazz will eat itself.

BN.