Saturday 4 July
5.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests, including recordings by pianist Harold Tapscott (from his 1996 album Thoughts of Dar es Salaam and jazz singer Lee Wiley.
6.00 Jazz Line-Up
An interview with Miles Davis's former guitarist Mike Stern, recorded in April backstage at Ronnie Scott's jazz club. Plus previously unbroadcast music by saxophonist Bobby Wellins and his group, recorded in January at the South Coast Jazz Festival, Shoreham-by-Sea as part of a special 79th birthday concert.
I met Mike Stern once, and a more affable, unbumptious person could not be imagined - quite the reverse of the prejudjed image I had had effectively in mind for all ax-wielding American jazz-rock guitar shredders - a description of his playing which by the way would also be a simplification.
Bobby's always been one of my heroes - one of our first to come up with his very own sound and approach.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A celebration of American Independence day, with recordings featuring Sonny Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Carla Bley and Jazz at the Philharmonic.
Just imagine how jazz might have developed had the States not won Independence: John Coltrane improvising on "Greensleeves" eh?
...hardly bears thinking about! 
Monday 6 July
11.00 Jazz on 3
Cult American trio the Bad Plus perform music from their album Inevitable Western in a concert recorded last November in Shoreditch at the London Jazz Festival.
Perceptive analyst and interviewer though he is, I have yet to take to Mr Iverson's music.
5.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests, including recordings by pianist Harold Tapscott (from his 1996 album Thoughts of Dar es Salaam and jazz singer Lee Wiley.
6.00 Jazz Line-Up
An interview with Miles Davis's former guitarist Mike Stern, recorded in April backstage at Ronnie Scott's jazz club. Plus previously unbroadcast music by saxophonist Bobby Wellins and his group, recorded in January at the South Coast Jazz Festival, Shoreham-by-Sea as part of a special 79th birthday concert.
I met Mike Stern once, and a more affable, unbumptious person could not be imagined - quite the reverse of the prejudjed image I had had effectively in mind for all ax-wielding American jazz-rock guitar shredders - a description of his playing which by the way would also be a simplification.
Bobby's always been one of my heroes - one of our first to come up with his very own sound and approach.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A celebration of American Independence day, with recordings featuring Sonny Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Carla Bley and Jazz at the Philharmonic.
Just imagine how jazz might have developed had the States not won Independence: John Coltrane improvising on "Greensleeves" eh?
...hardly bears thinking about! Monday 6 July
11.00 Jazz on 3
Cult American trio the Bad Plus perform music from their album Inevitable Western in a concert recorded last November in Shoreditch at the London Jazz Festival.
Perceptive analyst and interviewer though he is, I have yet to take to Mr Iverson's music.
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