Theo's logics

[Serial_Apologist]

Sun 26 Jan

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002754n

Mon 27 - Fri 31 Jan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002757c

[Serial_Apologist]

I am not going to waste my time with a fresh thread for next week's jazz broadcasts: all the 'Round Midnight programmes will be repeats, only Jazz Record Requests deserving of mention, in my opinion.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027d9x

[Serial_Apologist]

Pee Wee Russell in a line-up alongside Charlie Haden and Steve Kuhn - no wonder Lol Coxhill loved him! - Am I dreaming or what?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I didn't hear the program but on seeing the track listing earlier I checked that out on YouTube. They all do a fine job and Russell seems to be happy. It's a university concert? Don't forget that Russell once recorded a version of Coltrane's "Red Planet"!

[Jazzrook]

Pee Wee Russell also recorded a version of Ornette’s ‘Turnaround’ in 1963 with Marshall Brown, Russell George & Ronnie Bedford:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=GhRaTw4Fq5A

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Jazzrook

I was fascinated by that track although Russell sticks to a standard 12 bars blues in time which was not really the point of Ornette's composition. The rest of the album features tunes by Monk and Coltrane. The disc was alleged to demonstrate his true allegiance and disassociation with Dixieland.

He had a nervous breakdown 1950s and was an alcoholic. I wish he had been sober and produced more jazz like this on thr 50s and 60s. He was a one off and just heard jazz differently from his contemporaries. Not sure if you knew that he had shot and killed a man who was attacking a woman when he was still a child.

[Jazzrook]

Jazzrook

I was fascinated by that track although Russell sticks to a standard 12 bars blues in time which was not really the point of Ornette's composition. The rest of the album features tunes by Monk and Coltrane. The disc was alleged to demonstrate his true allegiance and disassociation with Dixieland.

He had a nervous breakdown 1950s and was an alcoholic. I wish he had been sober and produced more jazz like this on thr 50s and 60s. He was a one off and just heard jazz differently from his contemporaries. Not sure if you knew that he had shot and killed a man who was attacking a woman when he was still a child.

Thanks, Ian.
Coleman Hawkins once said that Pee Wee “has always been way out but they didn’t have a name for it back then”.
Here he is with Hawkins, Bob Brookmeyer, Emmett Berry, Nat Pierce, Milt Hinton & Jo Jones playing ‘Tin Tin Deo’ recorded in 1961 from the album ‘Jazz Reunion’(Candid):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0wMzK1WAgnk

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

Jazzrook

I was not aware of that record. Really intriguing line up and wondered if it was Bob Brookmeyer who wrote that arrangement.

Hawkins and Russell knew each other in the 1920s and had recorded with Red Mackenzies Mound City Blues Blowers which also included Glenn Miller on trombone. There is a story I read where Russell deputised for Hawkins with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra at the Roseland ballroom. Russell was shocked to find that the charts were all written in keys with loads of sharps and flats in which made sight reading really difficult.

I am fascinated by the abundance of really left field jazz performances in 20s and 30s. There were always musicians who were pretty wierd like Pee Wee. The other musician I would put in the sane category was Henry Red Allen but you could throw in many of the soloists from Ellington's band too