With a heave-ho, the wind and the rain...

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 23 Apr
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton is at the Other Place theatre, live.

Never heard of it.

Not sure if Alyn's blog applies this week, but just in case:

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

There's no JLU this week - Willie Shakespeare hath usurped the schedule right through to the midnight hour, when we have:

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
With Shakespeare [you don't say]-inspired jazz, including music by Cleo Laine and John Dankworth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07864f7

Monday 25 April
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents the first performance of pianist Hans Koller's Twelve Re-Inventions for George Russell, from the CBSO Centre in Birmingham

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075fy1w

Click on Show more and there's a lot more there on Mr Koller's piece, making it a must-listen item, for me at any rate (he hasn't been broadcast before, has he?) but he's quite a regular at The Vortex; also mention of an interview with Ran Blake, including of his new Chabrol-inspired Impulse! CD.

Can't wait!

[Ian Thumwood]

I am not necessary so negative about Shakespeare inspired music and whilst I hated learning his plays at school, I would have to admit to being really fond of the Bard. Fair enough, no one who is in to jazz is going to be too fussed by the "hey -nonny nnny" kind of rubbish usually associated with Shakespeare but he has inspired composers such as Duke Ellington as well. There is also a terrific John Taylor ballad performance of a piece that Walton wrote for Henry V that is on a terrific Peter Erskine disc from the early 1990's.

As a rule, I don't agree with nationalism (unless it comes to football, of course!) but I think that Shakespeare is something to be really proud about and do not have any issues with jazz programmes jumping on the bandwagon.

Oddly enough, ex-Loose Tuber Dia Pritchard was in the pit band at The Globe last year when I went to see "Anthony & Cleopatra." Seeing as I am off to see Macbeth this July, I wonder if this will mean the likes of Tom Bancroft in the band ? What happened to the vibrant, 1990's Scottish Jazz scene? It doesn't seem to get the coverage down here these days.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Blog is up on my site. Do join us for live music on JRR tomorrow. And Ran Blake on splendid (if gloomy) form on Jazz now. Ian, we will have Tommy Smith on a future Jazz now, in about 8 weeks. Do look out for us, BTW, anyone who is going to Cheltenham. Recording concerts for future Jazz Now shows.

[Serial_Apologist]

Blog is up on my site. Do join us for live music on JRR tomorrow. And Ran Blake on splendid (if gloomy) form on Jazz now. Ian, we will have Tommy Smith on a future Jazz now, in about 8 weeks. Do look out for us, BTW, anyone who is going to Cheltenham. Recording concerts for future Jazz Now shows.

Excellent news, Alyn. We haven't heard from Tommy Smith for quite a while now.

[Quarky]

Monday 25 April
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents the first performance of pianist Hans Koller's Twelve Re-Inventions for George Russell, from the CBSO Centre in Birmingham

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075fy1w

Click on Show more and there's a lot more there on Mr Koller's piece, making it a must-listen item, for me at any rate (he hasn't been broadcast before, has he?) but he's quite a regular at The Vortex; also mention of an interview with Ran Blake, including of his new Chabrol-inspired Impulse! CD.

Can't wait!

A remarkable program. Give me another 30 days to make some remarks on Hans Koller, perceptive or otherwise.

[Quarky]

errmmm -

Hans Koller recently released a new album Retrospection, http://www.stoneylane.net/team-member/hans-koller/, but this appears fairly mainstream big band jazz.

John O' Gallagher on the other hand is well known for Twelve-Tone improvisation, The Webern project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKsAm47gVz8

I assume there has been a meetings of mind, and that this is a new direction for Hans Koller. I'm not sure that I can get very far in mixing Lydian Chromaticism with Tone Rows, other than guessing that O'Gallagher has thrown in a few trichords to a Lydian Scale?