Just trying to keep the level of punning down to my usual standards... 
Sat 9 Jan
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests for a new box set by Duke Ellington, which includes his meeting with Dizzy Gillespie on the 1959 album Jazz Party.
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Another chance to hear a programme broadcast in August last year...
Darius Brubeck at Edinburgh Fringe, Alison Affleck performing Billie-associated material, etc etc.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A feast of great jazz singing introducing surreal, rhapsodic, madly swinging selections by vocal virtuoso Kurt Elling and his mentor Mark Murphy, who died in October.
I once made the mistake of putting "Bitches Brew" on at a dinner party Mark Murphy was at. "Aargh!! - take that off!!! - music to do your hooverin' to".
Mon 11 Jan
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson's second programme of highlights from the annual festival and industry expo Jazahead! 2015, which took place in April in Bremen, Germany. With music from saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery and his group Supersonic, quirky piano and drums duo Donkey Monkey and young quintet Papanosh
I once worked with a bloke called Don Keys. From Yorkshire he was. Just thought I'd mention that cos I hate terms like industry expo being applied to this music... Anyway:
Might also be worth mentioning The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War - next Tuesday at 4 pm on Radio 4. Something rings a bell about that programme title, but RT doesn't mention anything about it being a repeat:
Julian Joseph tells the story of how some of the biggest jazz musicians toured the world in the name of democracy, only to turn the tables on the US government that had sent them [
my emphasis] Contributors include Dizzy Gilespie's drummer Charlie Persip, jazz impresario George Wein, Penny Von Eschen, Professsor of History at the University of Michigan, and Louis Armstrong's biographer Ricky Riccardi
Sat 9 Jan
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces listeners' requests for a new box set by Duke Ellington, which includes his meeting with Dizzy Gillespie on the 1959 album Jazz Party.
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Another chance to hear a programme broadcast in August last year...
Darius Brubeck at Edinburgh Fringe, Alison Affleck performing Billie-associated material, etc etc.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A feast of great jazz singing introducing surreal, rhapsodic, madly swinging selections by vocal virtuoso Kurt Elling and his mentor Mark Murphy, who died in October.
I once made the mistake of putting "Bitches Brew" on at a dinner party Mark Murphy was at. "Aargh!! - take that off!!! - music to do your hooverin' to".
Mon 11 Jan
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson's second programme of highlights from the annual festival and industry expo Jazahead! 2015, which took place in April in Bremen, Germany. With music from saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery and his group Supersonic, quirky piano and drums duo Donkey Monkey and young quintet Papanosh
I once worked with a bloke called Don Keys. From Yorkshire he was. Just thought I'd mention that cos I hate terms like industry expo being applied to this music... Anyway:
Might also be worth mentioning The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War - next Tuesday at 4 pm on Radio 4. Something rings a bell about that programme title, but RT doesn't mention anything about it being a repeat:
Julian Joseph tells the story of how some of the biggest jazz musicians toured the world in the name of democracy, only to turn the tables on the US government that had sent them [
my emphasis] Contributors include Dizzy Gilespie's drummer Charlie Persip, jazz impresario George Wein, Penny Von Eschen, Professsor of History at the University of Michigan, and Louis Armstrong's biographer Ricky Riccardi
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