March hares and grace slickers

[Serial_Apologist]

Welcome back Calum!

Sat 5 March - 4 pm: Jazz Record Requests
In this week's selection of listeners' requests, Alyn Shipton introduces recordings by two late-20th-century greats: innovative vibraphone player Bobby Hutcherson and pianist McCoy Tyner

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

5 pm: Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents an exclusive performance from pianist Gareth Williams and his European Trio, recorded last November on the jazz Line-Up stage at last year's London Jazz Festival. The line-up features two of Sweden's finest jazz musicians: Daniel Fredriksson on drums and Martin Sjostedt on bass. And Jazz Line-Up reporter David Allison meets up with veteran pianist and fusion master Chick Corea in Seville

NB This is a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pv3h7

Bang on Midnight: Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Boogie-woogie was a party time sensation in the 1930s, a driving eight-to-the-bar piano style that took the world by storm. Geoffrey Smith selects some potent examples by pianists and big bands alike.

So that's where rock'n'roll originated from...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hqm0

Mon 7 March - 11 pm: Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson delves into the Jazz on 3 archives and selects outstanding performances by British artists from across the programme's 18-year history

On hour and a half of nostalgia: get the index cards and the c90s out to check what's missing.

(It would have been nice to know what in advance, ahem!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hwj8

Radio 2 - Thurs 10 March - 10 pm: Jazz Junctions - 9/10
Guy Barker discusses the European sound, assessing its relation and reaction to American jazz, its debt to Europe's classical and folk music traditions and the possibility of it eclipsing US jazz as the genre's future voice

This NB repeat programme (which I missed first time around) puts forward the Stuart Nicolson arguments about Europe allegedly having displaced America as the main source of today's jazz. I know Ian Thumwood strongly agrees with that!

[Old Grumpy]

5 pm: Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents an exclusive performance from pianist Gareth Williams and his European Trio, recorded last November on the jazz Line-Up stage at last year's London Jazz Festival. The line-up features two of Sweden's finest jazz musicians: Daniel Fredriksson on drums and Martin Sjostedt on bass. And Jazz Line-Up reporter David Allison meets up with veteran pianist and fusion master Chick Corea in Seville

NB This is a repeat.

Why so many repeats? Also, this programme runs for one hour (death by opera). The Music Played information on the Radio 3 website would suggest the programme runs to 1 hour 30 minutes (presumably the original broadcast did) - how lazy is that?

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Radio 2 - Thurs 10 March - 10 pm: Jazz Junctions - 9/10
Guy Barker discusses the European sound, assessing its relation and reaction to American jazz, its debt to Europe's classical and folk music traditions and the possibility of it eclipsing US jazz as the genre's future voice

This NB repeat programme (which I missed first time around) puts forward the Stuart Nicolson arguments about Europe allegedly having displaced America as the main source of today's jazz. I know Ian Thumwood strongly agrees with that!

Just thought I'd bump this up, as the programme is on in 40 minutes. Looks interesting and raises a few points that have been discussed here from time to time.

Next week's final programme in the series looks to the future. As do we all...

[Old Grumpy]

Just thought I'd bump this up, as the programme is on in 40 minutes. Looks interesting and raises a few points that have been discussed here from time to time.

Next week's final programme in the series looks to the future. As do we all...

Thanks, S_A. This series would be great as podcasts - can't find it on the BBC website though.

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks, S_A. This series would be great as podcasts - can't find it on the BBC website though.

OG

What I always do when I can't find a particular programme is just Google the title, OG - which is what I did in this particular case. Always works!

[Old Grumpy]

What I always do when I can't find a particular programme is just Google the title, OG - which is what I did in this particular case. Always works!

Sorry, S_A, I meant can't find any podcasts of this programme. I have emailed R2 with the suggestion though - fingers crossed!

OG

Edit: Listening to it now, live. Good programme.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry, S_A, I meant can't find any podcasts of this programme. I have emailed R2 with the suggestion though - fingers crossed!

OG

Edit: Listening to it now, live. Good programme.

The iPlayer usually offers the repeat within a day of broadcast; podcasts take longer, if they are done at all. I got the impression that this was a repeat - Kenny Wheeler being mentioned as if he were still alive.

[Old Grumpy]

Repeat from 2010, I believe.

OG

[Ian Thumwood]

Wonder if anyone listened to this documentary on Tuesday?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07378ct

I found this documentary to be fascinating. The first part covers a lot of early jazz and blues but the most interesting element was the volume of record sales prior to World War One. The figures given for record sales and ownership of Gramophones are staggering and well beyond what I would have anticipated.

I find the whole aspect of the recording industry in the first 25 years on the last century to be endlessly fascinating even in respect of non-jazz / blues records. The Caruso records are incredible even though I am no fan of opera. As the documentary stated, the power of his voice still manages to resonate in 2016. The programme was only 30 minutes long and made me want to hear more of this vintage music from the archives.