Sat 14 May
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests, including a classic track by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers featuring Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter.
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph introduces a performance by vocalist Christine Tobin [
], recorded in January at the South Coast Jazz Festival in Shoreham-by-Sea. And journalist Sebastian Scotney visits places around the UK where jazz and folk music meet and intersect, highlighting his point with music by singer and jazz interpreter Barb Jungr and the collaborative project Quercus.
"Folk music? I ain't heard no horse singing it!"
Christine's one of my all-time favourite vocalists.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The celebrated saxophone voice of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet. Paul Desmond (1924-77) was a star in his own right. Geoffrey Smith selects some of his finest moment both with Brubeck and his own bands.
Time for a reassessment of someone whose playing I've always found insipid?
Please note the following programme in addition:
Sun 15 May
Radio 2 - 9.00 pm Clare Teal
Watford-born trumpeter Gerard Presencer discusses his new album
Gerard's rather been off my radar since Stan Tracey's passing, and I remember him as a precocious teenager fronting local rhythm sections and reproducing Dizzy Gillespieisms to the dozen as if to the manor born; he soon found his own voice however, becoming one of the best of the new breed post 1990, and it's good to hear he's still working.
Mon 16 May
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a performance by the US saxophonist Tim Berne's band Snakeoil at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests, including a classic track by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers featuring Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter.
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph introduces a performance by vocalist Christine Tobin [
], recorded in January at the South Coast Jazz Festival in Shoreham-by-Sea. And journalist Sebastian Scotney visits places around the UK where jazz and folk music meet and intersect, highlighting his point with music by singer and jazz interpreter Barb Jungr and the collaborative project Quercus."Folk music? I ain't heard no horse singing it!"
Christine's one of my all-time favourite vocalists.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The celebrated saxophone voice of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet. Paul Desmond (1924-77) was a star in his own right. Geoffrey Smith selects some of his finest moment both with Brubeck and his own bands.
Time for a reassessment of someone whose playing I've always found insipid?
Please note the following programme in addition:
Sun 15 May
Radio 2 - 9.00 pm Clare Teal
Watford-born trumpeter Gerard Presencer discusses his new album
Gerard's rather been off my radar since Stan Tracey's passing, and I remember him as a precocious teenager fronting local rhythm sections and reproducing Dizzy Gillespieisms to the dozen as if to the manor born; he soon found his own voice however, becoming one of the best of the new breed post 1990, and it's good to hear he's still working.
Mon 16 May
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a performance by the US saxophonist Tim Berne's band Snakeoil at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
Comment