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[Serial_Apologist]

Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson tributes on JRR this Sunday

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025mcm

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

Mon 9 - Fri 13 Dec

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025mz6

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I always thought Sonny Stitt wrote "Blues Walk"? (ref the Getz track)

"Sonny Stitt wrote it in 1952 and called it Loose Walk, but later the name was changed and it was attributed to Clifford Brown.

Stitt actually played in the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet for a few weeks when it first formed.

In a 1964 performance, Dexter Gordon gives the original title and attributes to Stitt". - jazz on film.

There's a fine if incomplete version on the 1958 film of Jazz on a Summer's day from Stitt and Sal Salvador.

[Ian Thumwood]

The Newborn and Stan Getz tracks were excellent. Not sure why Phineas Newborn was so maligned un his time aa whenever i have heard his music i have been hugely impressed.

The Getz track was fascinating . I loved the more open feel with the vibes in lieu of the piano and rhe way Roy Haynes made the quartet around more akin to some of the more radical post bop bands on Blue Note. I find Getz a perplexing musician and wish he had always pusued a more adventurous musical agenda as opposed to his earlier bebop by numbers or commercial Samba recordings that followed. There are moments in the 1960s were he was producing his most vital work. It would have been unteresting to hear him follow a player like Chick Corea into more adventuous territory.



The track was a massive surprise. A new name to me but clearly indicative of a very classy jazz scene in Bristol.

[Serial_Apologist]

The Newborn and Stan Getz tracks were excellent. Not sure why Phineas Newborn was so maligned un his time aa whenever i have heard his music i have been hugely impressed.

The Getz track was fascinating . I loved the more open feel with the vibes in lieu of the piano and rhe way Roy Haynes made the quartet around more akin to some of the more radical post bop bands on Blue Note. I find Getz a perplexing musician and wish he had always pusued a more adventurous musical agenda as opposed to his earlier bebop by numbers or commercial Samba recordings that followed. There are moments in the 1960s were he was producing his most vital work. It would have been unteresting to hear him follow a player like Chick Corea into more adventuous territory.

I agree. I think many of today's young straight-ahead players are attempting to follow on from players such as Getz in terms of what he might have achieved by reacting flexibly and with greater openness to the creative stimulus of the more responsive rhythms sections superseding his own generation. Might have given him a much-needed boot up the a*se!

The track was a massive surprise. A new name to me but clearly indicative of a very classy jazz scene in Bristol.

You mean Andy Hague, the last track, I take it. Andy's been around since the late 1980s, when as Bluesnik may recall he led his regular Bebop Club night from a pub in Hotwells, not far from Brunel's suspension bridge, every Sunday night. Good to hear him on excellent form (from the excerpt played) on that recording - a different bunch from the ones I'd associated him with way back then of course, and good players.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yep, I remember Hague as being a Bristol fixture. I was actually surprised (shouldn't have been) by how strong his tone etc still is, v impressive. I hated the Ella "Jude" track as much as I admire her elsewhere. Just totally wrong, breathless and embarrassing. If someone HAS to do that, then better Wilson Picket! And the Getz didn't do much for me either.

But the Roy Haynes tribute was great, so much so that I've just ordered the Avid four album box set including those tracks and much more. £7 well spent and post free for Christmas. A Santa bargain.

[Ian Thumwood]

I believe that grits and gravy is supposed be disgusting. In my mind it as something like chilli con carne but it is actually a kind of corn porridge.

[Serial_Apologist]

I believe that grits and gravy is supposed be disgusting. In my mind it as something like chilli con carne but it is actually a kind of corn porridge.

Are you by any chance being metaphorical, Ian???

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Well, that's our Christmas dinner sorted...

Pre cook, warm on the day and top with a sprig of holly.

Put Little Willie John's "Grits ain't Groceries" on the Dansette and open the party pack.

http://youtu.be/boj24ETO2vI?si=5QKnIPWieyCxbciD

[Ian Thumwood]

Are you by any chance being metaphorical, Ian???

I was really disappointed when i read about it as i had envisaged that it would be delicious. Same with lechon in Philippines which my wife had raved about although it was just a hog roast. I would rather eat something where effort had gone into the meal as opposed to food of local colour.

i did not mind jumbalaya but was over rated. I am snobby about Amerucan food.

[Serial_Apologist]

Can't say I am enjoying tonight's DJ-style of unannounced tracks, despite some great Latin stuff - what is it, is the equally burning question?

[Old Grumpy]

Can't say I am enjoying tonight's DJ-style of unannounced tracks, despite some great Latin stuff - what is it, is the equally burning question?

Tend to agree, S_A. I only was listening to the last 20 minutes.

The good news is Soweto's back next week

[Serial_Apologist]

On Sky Arts this evening:

7.30 - Ray Charles: Live at Montreux
The American musician performs a mix of rock, R&B and soul at the jazz festival in 1997, featuring Georgia on my Mind, I Can't Stop Loving You and What I'd Say*

*Radio Times speliing - should of course be What'd I Say. .

9.00 - FILM Amy ****
Osar-winning documentary. Using archive footage previously unseen material and contemporary interviews, dirctor Asif Capadia paints an intimate portrait of singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27.

11.30 - Amy Winehouse: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire
A 2007 performance at the London venue, featuring songs from the singer's albums Black to Black and Frank.

12.45am New - Average White Band Live at Montreux. 2.10 Buddy Guy Live the Real Deal 3.30 Isle of Wight Greatest Hits 3.45 Women Who Rock 5.00 The Yardbirds: Music Icons 5.30-6 am Diana Ross and the Supremes: Music Icons.

I will be dead to the world from 'round midnight, so this is information mainly for the night birds.

[Serial_Apologist]

On Sky Arts this evening:

7.30 - Ray Charles: Live at Montreux
The American musician performs a mix of rock, R&B and soul at the jazz festival in 1997, featuring Georgia on my Mind, I Can't Stop Loving You and What I'd Say*

*Radio Times speliing - should of course be What'd I Say. .

9.00 - FILM Amy ****
Osar-winning documentary. Using archive footage previously unseen material and contemporary interviews, dirctor Asif Capadia paints an intimate portrait of singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27.

11.30 - Amy Winehouse: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire
A 2007 performance at the London venue, featuring songs from the singer's albums Black to Black and Frank.

12.45am New - Average White Band Live at Montreux. 2.10 Buddy Guy Live the Real Deal 3.30 Isle of Wight Greatest Hits 3.45 Women Who Rock 5.00 The Yardbirds: Music Icons 5.30-6 am Diana Ross and the Supremes: Music Icons.

I will be dead to the world from 'round midnight, so this is information mainly for the night birds.

Although I may have seen this before, I'm nevertheless enjoying it tremendously. Ray never really lost it even though he ventured; if anything he had become an even better performer at the keys than back in the heyday. Wish I could bend notes like that on my keyboard!