Alyn has very kindly posted today's JRR list on another thread, so thanks again, Alyn.
Sat 17 Oct
4.00 pm Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces further jazz recordings regarded by listeners as essential to their collection, plus music by the contrasting tenor saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Branford Marsalis.
No Jazz Line-Up
Claire and Julian have been sent on a refresher to the Abergavenny Le Genre Vintage Jazz Restoration Complex, courtesy Welsh Heritage
'Round Midnight
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Bix Beiderbecke is the doomed youth of 1920s jazz, a tender talent who died in 1931, aged just 28. But Geoffrey Smith celebrates the joy in his music.
Sun 18 Oct - Radio 4
1.30 pm The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War
Julian Joseph recounts how, between 1954 and 1968, a US State Department cultural programme used jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy, sending giants such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie to perform concerts in unlikely countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the Congo, Yugoslavia and Russia. But in some instances the jazz luminaries used their position to express their own politics, coinciding with gains being made in the Civil Rights Movement back in their native and part-segregated America. (R)
Our Viv reckons Dizzy musta put LSD in Khruschev's vodka.
Mon 19 Oct
11.00 Jazz on 3
American saxophonist Joe Lovano [
] explores the link between West African music and jazz with his Village Rhythms Band in concert at Ronnie Scott's in London.
Sat 17 Oct
4.00 pm Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces further jazz recordings regarded by listeners as essential to their collection, plus music by the contrasting tenor saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Branford Marsalis.
No Jazz Line-Up
Claire and Julian have been sent on a refresher to the Abergavenny Le Genre Vintage Jazz Restoration Complex, courtesy Welsh Heritage
'Round Midnight
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Bix Beiderbecke is the doomed youth of 1920s jazz, a tender talent who died in 1931, aged just 28. But Geoffrey Smith celebrates the joy in his music.
Sun 18 Oct - Radio 4
1.30 pm The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War
Julian Joseph recounts how, between 1954 and 1968, a US State Department cultural programme used jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy, sending giants such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie to perform concerts in unlikely countries such as Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the Congo, Yugoslavia and Russia. But in some instances the jazz luminaries used their position to express their own politics, coinciding with gains being made in the Civil Rights Movement back in their native and part-segregated America. (R)
Our Viv reckons Dizzy musta put LSD in Khruschev's vodka.
Mon 19 Oct
11.00 Jazz on 3
American saxophonist Joe Lovano [
] explores the link between West African music and jazz with his Village Rhythms Band in concert at Ronnie Scott's in London.
So much for the new jazz zone being inviolate - Wagner stamps all over jazz again!
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