Feuilles Mortes - branches opening all over

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 7 Nov
4.00 Jazz Record Requests at Free Thinking
Alyn Shipton presents a special live edition from Sage Gateshead, with listeners introducing their own requests, including music by fusion saxophonist Barbara Thompson and Philadelphia-born bass-playing great Henry Grimes

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

(The above link probably won't apply for this week).

5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Claire Martin and Sebastian Scotney preview this year's London Jazz Festival (13-22 November). Plus highlights of a performance by saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, who celebrates his 50th birthday this year, recorded in March at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and featuring his quartet. Ravi, the son of jazz giants John and Alice Coltrane, is named after Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and has released a string of critically acclaimed albums on the Blue Note label.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nr54l

12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey surveys Dizzy Gillespie's post-bebop career, including work with his storming 1950s big band (R)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes//b03cn99g

Mon 9 Nov
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson surveys more new releases and looks ahead to this year's London Jazz Festival, which launches on Friday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nx23j

No damp squib, this:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKANToc0SeM

[Quarky]

No damp squib, this:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKANToc0SeM

A pity Geoffrey Smith couldn't bring himself to play that, or something like that, last Saturday night.

[Serial_Apologist]

A pity Geoffrey Smith couldn't bring himself to play that, or something like that, last Saturday night.

BTW Alyn's list (clickable to from my OP) is available (for anyone wishing to know )

[Serial_Apologist]

I note that there's one of the many versions of "Tea for two" on the agenda Art Tatum recorded, and am always reminded of the story told by one of our critics - maybe it was Alun Morgan - about the time his window cleaner was at work when he had it on, and started whistling in accompaniment, but became lost at the concluding recap where Tatum takes the tune apart by running it through a series of key changes; at which point he turns to Alun with the dry remark, "Clever bastard!".

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Good stuff and thanks again for the listings.

Although the Dave Pike record that kicked off JRR, "Doors of Perception"? Someone really had bad acid, probably Herbie Mann who produced it. The ghastly plodding electric fuzzed bass by the usually excellent Chuck Israels of all people, that's the day the music did die, almost wrecked my Soviet era speaker system. Never trust a jazz hippie.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

Good stuff and thanks again for the listings.

Although the Dave Pike record that kicked off JRR, "Doors of Perception"? Someone really had bad acid, probably Herbie Mann who produced it. The ghastly plodding electric fuzzed bass by the usually excellent Chuck Israels of all people, that's the day the music did die, almost wrecked my Soviet era speaker system. Never trust a jazz hippie.

BN.

An especially dire early fusion attempted example indeed - mercifully followed by a much better one with Barbara Thompson's 1980 piece for her daughter. In my opinion, of course.