Alyn tucks in, and Bill Evans is COTW: 14-18 November

[Quarky]

Well, Bach maybe, but Beethoven's late quartets appealing to a jazz lover seems a bit of a generalisation I've never heard jazz afficionadoes (or musicians for that matter) talk about Beethoven. Bach, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Bartok, Messiaen, yes...

Anyway, thanks for the link, Flyposter - I do my ironing at that time every Sunday, so I'll be listening.

Having listened to the relevant part of Private Passions, it seems the write up on iPlayer was misleading. Jeff Dyer was not asserting a direct link between Beethoven and Jazz. So he likes Beethoven's late quartets. So do many of us. But as a music critic, I think I will give Jeff a miss.

[Quarky]

Noted that BBC Music Jazz is now going full blast. Currently listening to an excellent selection by Jezz Nelson. All programmes available on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033dmdy/episodes/player

Oddball highly recommends!!

[Old Grumpy]

Noted that BBC Music Jazz is now going full blast. Currently listening to an excellent selection by Jezz Nelson. All programmes available on iPlayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033dmdy/episodes/player

Oddball highly recommends!!

Currenty listening to Jan Garbarek at RFH

I imagine BBC Music Jazz will be available for 1 month (28 days or whatever) on iplayer, like the remainder of the content.

OG

[antongould]

Currenty listening to Jan Garbarek at RFH

I imagine BBC Music Jazz will be available for 1 month (28 days or whatever) on iplayer, like the remainder of the content.

OG

Just downloaded the Alyn interview with Keith Jarrett and it seems the content is available for 28 days .......

[Old Grumpy]

Just downloaded the Alyn interview with Keith Jarrett and it seems the content is available for 28 days .......

Excellent - I shall listen to that with interest.

OG

[Old Grumpy]

For myself, my enjoyment of listenting to and playing classical music is entirely separate from my enjoyment of jazz. I detest it when on some of those R3 drivetime 'shows' they mix up the genres. I love playing both (and folk guitar too) but they are in separate boxes when I think of music.

Disagree entirely - silos are for storing grain (or miss'ls). As a primetime drivetime listener (whilst driving) I appreciate the mix of genres, personally.

OG

[Ian Thumwood]

I caught some of the jazz programmes and it was good to see that there was a regular jazz station on the radio. I did wonder with some of the choice of presenters with Will Young confessing that he considered himself a jazz singer ( I had to turn this programme of) and wondered if Edward Reardon would be writing the tie-in publication to Steve Wright's "Sunday Jazz Love Songs." it sounded like he ought to. I always thought that SW was in to New Age music.

[Jazzrook]

Sat 12 Nov
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with requests across the full spectrum of jazz, including music related to food and drink.

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

5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Claire Martin celebrates the life and music of veteran pop and jazz vocalist Tony Bennett, 90 in August, who has collaborated with a whole host of performers including Lady Gaga and pianist Bill Evans. With contributions from biographer David Evanier, singer Joe Stilgoe and from Bennett himself. See Fri 12.00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082k79h

12.30am Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
At this year's London Jazz Festival swings into action, Geoffrey Smith spotlights some of its star turns, featuring saxophonists Kamasi Washington, Joshua Redman and Tim Garland, pianists Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran and Robert Glasper, and vocalists Norma Winstone and Madeleine Peyroux.

If you're not tucked up in bed, Mummy will be very cross.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vd2vc

Mon 14 Nov - Fri 18 Nov
12.00 Composer of the Week: Bill Evans (1929-1980)

Repeated 6.30 each day

11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert given earlier this evening at the London Jazz Festival by the SFJAZZ Collective, who play interpretations of the music of Michael Jackson.

That's San Francisco, not science fiction. Or maybe.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082kd7q

Tues 15 Nov
11.00 Late Junction
Fiona Talkington marks 20 years since Bugge Wesseltoft fused Nordic electronica with jazz improvisation to create "nu-jazz".

Well, I thought, why not include nude jazz in the week's menu?

Also, today(15/11/16) ~ 'The Sound of Soweto'(1/2), BBC Radio 4, 11.30am.

'Poet Thabiso Mohare explores the role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa'.

Repeated Saturday(19/11/16), 3.30pm

JR

[Tenor Freak]

Late to the discussion, but I also like Beethoven - esp. the Egmont Overture.