Hefti offerings in every Vein for all to Garner

[Serial_Apologist]

Back to standard times again this weekend, o ye of many faiths:

Sat 12 Sept
5.00 Jazz Record requests
Alyn Shipton responds to a listener's suggestion for a laid-back mainstream jazz with music by the Vic Dickenson Septet

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

6.00 Jazz Line-Up
A performance by Swiss trio Vein, recorded in June on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the Glasgow Jazz Festival, featuring Michael Arbenz (piano), Florian Arbenz (drums) and Thomas Lahns [with umlaut] (bass)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069wyn2

12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith traces the remarkable career of pianist Errol Garner (1921-77)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069wz7t

Mon 14 Sept
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson presents highlights from the 2015 Jazzahead! event in Bremen, including music by Thomas de Pourquery and Arkady Schilkloper

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069x6kw

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Many thanks for this SA. Alyn's JRR looks pretty good, Hankenstein to Clifford to Eddie Henderson and some laid backed stuff smack dab in the middle.

With Comrade Corbynsky now leading the Labour Party, who could ask for more.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

With Comrade Corbynsky now leading the Labour Party, who could ask for more.

BN.

What about his bass?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

What about his bass?

The sound of a different drummer.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The sound of a different drummer.

BN.

NOTE: JRR is now permanently a 4pm revolution. Set your clocks, Its British Standard Corbyn Time. No slackers.

"Jazz workers, complete the five year Coltrane plan in exemplary fashion. Show your fellow engineers what applied jazz-leninism can achieve!"

[Serial_Apologist]

NOTE: JRR is now permanently a 4pm revolution. Set your clocks, Its British Standard Corbyn Time. No slackers.

"Jazz workers, complete the five year Coltrane plan in exemplary fashion. Show your fellow engineers what applied jazz-leninism can achieve!"

A balance of forces.

[Ian Thumwood]

"The Cookers" track was the best thing tonight. The band was sensational was I heard them in July and I totally concur with the comments made by the requester.

I was intrigued to hear "Coral Reef" again as this was a record that perplexed me when I was a teenager and getting in to jazz. It is quite a well known record amongst big band fans that is quite celebrated in some circles and the performance and dynamics are hugely impressive. However it is one of those records that sounds terrific the first time you hear it but gets less interesting when heard again. There are no solos on it and it seems to sit midway between kind of stuff Capital would put out in the early fifties and his late work with Basie. Neal Hefti is a bit of a curious figure for me. I love his work with Woody Herman yet I find "The atomic Mr Basie" to be too familiar and workman-like. The Basie band of the 1950's was sensational and the stuff produced for Norman Granz was sensational. I love the clean, modern approach of this band which embraced the contemporary jazz of that era. Hefti seemed to simplify the music and his arrangements are pitched absolutely perfectly. He offered something different for the band and made the music more approachable for a broader public but I think this was the point where the Basie band started to become a bit formulaic . It was therefore curious to hear a chart by Hefti from the early fifties which shows him sitting on the fence between pursuing jazz and a more danceable approach.