Sat 4 June
4.00 Jazz record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, including music by singer Gregory Porter
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
With Claire Martin. A performance by Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca and his trio, recorded in April on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith salutes a master of the string bass, Oscar Pettiford (1922-60), who starred with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk
Sun 5 June
9.00 Drama on 3: Bix: Singing the Blues
Cornet player Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-31) and trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-71) met on several occasions, but collaborated only once - in a private session. Robert Forrest's play depicts a fictionalised version of that meeting
Looked interesting!
Mon 6 June
Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert by the Pascal Schumacher Quartet and Al Ryan meets the band backstage at Turner Sims Southampton
Plus the Seb Rochford/Matana Roberts item tonight (Thurs June 2 on Late Junction) which Alyn has kindly drawn to our attention as also included, in part, in the above Jazz Now
4.00 Jazz record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, including music by singer Gregory Porter
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
With Claire Martin. A performance by Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca and his trio, recorded in April on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith salutes a master of the string bass, Oscar Pettiford (1922-60), who starred with Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk
Sun 5 June
9.00 Drama on 3: Bix: Singing the Blues
Cornet player Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke (1903-31) and trumpeter Louis Armstrong (1901-71) met on several occasions, but collaborated only once - in a private session. Robert Forrest's play depicts a fictionalised version of that meeting
Looked interesting!
Mon 6 June
Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert by the Pascal Schumacher Quartet and Al Ryan meets the band backstage at Turner Sims Southampton
Plus the Seb Rochford/Matana Roberts item tonight (Thurs June 2 on Late Junction) which Alyn has kindly drawn to our attention as also included, in part, in the above Jazz Now
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