Newsletter for Jazz On 3
The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Monday 2nd May – at 11.00 pm on BBC Radio 3
“Tonight we don’t know… we are here, and we start to play…”
Peter Brötzmann‘s typically open minded response when Jez asked him – ahead of his Chicago Tentet’s first UK gig – how the evening’s music would shape up. A titan of the European free movement since the late ‘60s, the German reedsman performed at London’s Café Oto in celebration of his 70th Birthday year. The Tentet whipping up a powerful, celebratory chaos that nonetheless finds structure as it goes through contrasting subgroups and textures. Hear the Tentet from 11.50pm on Monday.
Before the main set, we open the show with one of those subgroups, Sonore – comprising Ken Vandermark (clarinet, tenor sax), Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax) and Peter Brötzmann (clarinet, tenor sax, taragato) – who contrast moments of motivic intensity with longer-toned passages. Ken joined Jez on stage with Peter to discuss the latter’s great career at the helm of European free jazz and to defend his (thankfully) broken vow that he would give up playing on his seventieth birthday!
And, to end the first of our two-hour summer specials, we’ve saved a solo improvisation from Kent Kessler, the bassist who underpins the massive sound of the Tentet and whose rich arco tone can be heard here up close and personal.
Join Jez on Monday at a slightly earlier time of 11.00pm on BBC Radio 3, for a glorious two hours of Jazz on 3.
If you have comments about the show, or requests for music you’d like to hear, do get in touch at jazzon3@bbc.co.uk Coming up: 9 May – the first of our Cheltenham Festival programmes, featuring Django Bates’ new work specially commissioned by Jazz on 3 and Radio 3 for rising stars on the UK scene.
16 May – we present four of the brightest new UK jazz artists, performing on the BBC Introducing stage at the Cheltenham Festival.
23 May – The Tord Gustavsen Ensemble at the Cheltenham Festival, performing material from their acclaimed album Restored, Returned.
30 May - US trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire makes his UK debut at Ronnie Scott’s.
The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet
Monday 2nd May – at 11.00 pm on BBC Radio 3
“Tonight we don’t know… we are here, and we start to play…”
Peter Brötzmann‘s typically open minded response when Jez asked him – ahead of his Chicago Tentet’s first UK gig – how the evening’s music would shape up. A titan of the European free movement since the late ‘60s, the German reedsman performed at London’s Café Oto in celebration of his 70th Birthday year. The Tentet whipping up a powerful, celebratory chaos that nonetheless finds structure as it goes through contrasting subgroups and textures. Hear the Tentet from 11.50pm on Monday.
Before the main set, we open the show with one of those subgroups, Sonore – comprising Ken Vandermark (clarinet, tenor sax), Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax) and Peter Brötzmann (clarinet, tenor sax, taragato) – who contrast moments of motivic intensity with longer-toned passages. Ken joined Jez on stage with Peter to discuss the latter’s great career at the helm of European free jazz and to defend his (thankfully) broken vow that he would give up playing on his seventieth birthday!
And, to end the first of our two-hour summer specials, we’ve saved a solo improvisation from Kent Kessler, the bassist who underpins the massive sound of the Tentet and whose rich arco tone can be heard here up close and personal.
Join Jez on Monday at a slightly earlier time of 11.00pm on BBC Radio 3, for a glorious two hours of Jazz on 3.
If you have comments about the show, or requests for music you’d like to hear, do get in touch at jazzon3@bbc.co.uk Coming up: 9 May – the first of our Cheltenham Festival programmes, featuring Django Bates’ new work specially commissioned by Jazz on 3 and Radio 3 for rising stars on the UK scene.
16 May – we present four of the brightest new UK jazz artists, performing on the BBC Introducing stage at the Cheltenham Festival.
23 May – The Tord Gustavsen Ensemble at the Cheltenham Festival, performing material from their acclaimed album Restored, Returned.
30 May - US trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire makes his UK debut at Ronnie Scott’s.
i don't like this much either but it takes all sorts
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