The fine habit of Kofi, imbibed unfiltered

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 28 Jan
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests, featuring jazz from all periods and in all styles.

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

5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Claire Martin presents saxophonist Tony Kofi in a concert recorded in November on the Jazz Line-Up stage at the London Jazz Festival. Kofi pays tribute to Thelonious Monk in a performance marking the influential pianist's centenary year.

Shouldn't it have been presented at the 100 Club then?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2lfy

10.00 Hear and Now

Just to draw attention to the inclusion of two Anthony Braxton premieres with James Fei and Taylor Ho Bynum among other Braxtonian firsts for this country from the 1970s by the very enterprising SSO under Ilan Volkov. Not sure of the order of broadcast - first you may have to sit through quite a lot of Philip Glass, of Philip Glass, of Philip Glass, of Philip Glass (etc etc ad nauseam).

12 midnight
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Including a special look at the career of Harlem, New York-born saxophonist-composer Benny "King" Carter (1907-2003).

A repeat of the 2012 programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mk8th

Mon 30 Jan
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a new set from a concert by Swedish pianist Bobo Stenson and UK saxophonist Martin Speake - performing in a quartet alongside Conor Chapin on bass and James Maddren on drums - given last year at Milton Court in the City of London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08bg9dx

Besides busily leading much in-demand lives, Mr Chapin is Laura Jurd's bass player, and Mr Maddren Trish Clowes's drummer

Jamie Cullum's hour returns to Radio 2 at 7 pm on Tuesday; and check out Thursday night's Late Junction at 11 pm, featuring in the second section top US pianist Matthew Shipp, synths player Thomas Lehn and our very own post-Evan Parker improvising sax player John Butcher - who would have thought it?

If there's anything I've missed, for which I apologise, put it down to the cold weather.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

A great deal of traditional jazz on JRR tomorrow? A "predominance" of traditional jazz? An awful lot of traditional jazz? (Not awful, just a lot of)? Hey, if we wanted "balance" on the BBC we'd sent Laura Kuenssberg away to Antartica to count the penguins (as long as it takes, Laura).

Its a bumper bonanza of banjoesqueness. Plus Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter and Freddie Hubbard. From the cupboard.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

A great deal of traditional jazz on JRR tomorrow? A "predominance" of traditional jazz? An awful lot of traditional jazz? (Not awful, just a lot of)? Hey, if we wanted "balance" on the BBC we'd sent Laura Kuenssberg away to Antartica to count the penguins (as long as it takes, Laura).

Its a bumper bonanza of banjoesqueness. Plus Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter and Freddie Hubbard. From the cupboard.

BN.

How long does a digitally remastered wax cylinder take to play on a 1920s HMV phonogram? 3 minutes? I'm quite certain trad selections are being given longer playing time.

[Alyn_Shipton]

You've not been following the show BN - this week's a special marking 100 years on Tuesday since the ODJB first stepped into a recording studio. They played - er - traditional jazzz....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You've not been following the show BN - this week's a special marking 100 years on Tuesday since the ODJB first stepped into a recording studio. They played - er - traditional jazzz....

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

You've not been following the show BN - this week's a special marking 100 years on Tuesday since the ODJB first stepped into a recording studio. They played - er - traditional jazzz....

Apologies Alyn, I didn't know that was the theme. I thought I was off my Nick LaRocca.

"All round the world, La Rocca Roll is all they play" - Little Richard.

BN.

[Ian Thumwood]

Pay attention, 007.

I think it is in "Live and let die" that Ian Fleming has James Bond meeting up with Felix Leiter and they discuss hanging out in Harlem in the 1930s listening to Noble Sissle and Fletcher Henderson. This seemed a bit anachronistic at the time I read the book and is certainly more reflective of Fleming's own experiences. It seemed peculiar as Leiter is always portrayed as being ahead of the curve and when the books were written you would have expected him to be into something like West Coast jazz. The only other musical references in the books refer to Tin Pan Alley stuff or local musicians.

I hadn't twigged the similarity between ODJB and Bond's Korean nemesis although I do understand that Fats Waller's bowler hat was also steel-rimmed to allow him to similarly dispatch errant bass players. Wonder too if Jo Jones flying symbol inspired Fleming's creation?

[CGR]

A great deal of traditional jazz on JRR tomorrow? A "predominance" of traditional jazz? An awful lot of traditional jazz? (Not awful, just a lot of)? Hey, if we wanted "balance" on the BBC we'd sent Laura Kuenssberg away to Antartica to count the penguins (as long as it takes, Laura).

Its a bumper bonanza of banjoesqueness. Plus Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter and Freddie Hubbard. From the cupboard.

BN.

Mmm... I'd just say 'awful'. Not my cup of Rosie Lee.

[CGR]

Looking forward ot Monday's Jazz Now. I've always liked Bobo Stenson's playing and alongside Martin Speake it should be very interesting.

[Ian Thumwood]

A great deal of traditional jazz on JRR tomorrow? A "predominance" of traditional jazz? An awful lot of traditional jazz? (Not awful, just a lot of)? Hey, if we wanted "balance" on the BBC we'd sent Laura Kuenssberg away to Antartica to count the penguins (as long as it takes, Laura).

Its a bumper bonanza of banjoesqueness. Plus Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter and Freddie Hubbard. From the cupboard.

BN.

Got to say that no one has done more to undermine Jeremy Corbyn than Laura Kuenssberg. I don't think she is quite as bad as she was originally but her reporting on the Labour Party struck me as the most blatant political bias I have encountered on BBC which , whilst there is often a liberal bias , is largely quite impartial. Even nutters like Farage have had a fair crack of the whip. Kuenssberg's unacceptable anti-Corbyn agenda effectively had the Labour scuppered before he had a chance to get going and I feel he has never effectively recovered from her onslaught. What was interesting that an on line poll to have her quite justifiably removed because some idiots posted from pretty stupid sexist posts which undermined a genuine issue. I feel that she has been extremely fortunate in retaining her position since, as opposed to doing her job, she clearly was not being objective. I am not convinced than Corbyn will ever recover from her slights.

Regarding the celebration of the ODJB, I would have to say that their music is far , far better than many critics would suggest. I think they have suffered as a consequence of La Rocca's ridiculous racist assertions yet the ODJB was hugely influential even if it was a band that was quickly overtaken by the music's evolution. I believe that an English pianist played with this band in 1919 when they toured the UK. I can't recollect his name but wondered if this makes him the UK's first jazz musician. Wondered if he had ever been honoured with a blue plaque or something similar.

[Serial_Apologist]

Got to say that no one has done more to undermine Jeremy Corbyn than Laura Kuenssberg. I don't think she is quite as bad as she was originally but her reporting on the Labour Party struck me as the most blatant political bias I have encountered on BBC which , whilst there is often a liberal bias , is largely quite impartial. Even nutters like Farage have had a fair crack of the whip. Kuenssberg's unacceptable anti-Corbyn agenda effectively had the Labour scuppered before he had a chance to get going and I feel he has never effectively recovered from her onslaught. What was interesting that an on line poll to have her quite justifiably removed because some idiots posted from pretty stupid sexist posts which undermined a genuine issue. I feel that she has been extremely fortunate in retaining her position since, as opposed to doing her job, she clearly was not being objective. I am not convinced than Corbyn will ever recover from her slights.

Regarding the celebration of the ODJB, I would have to say that their music is far , far better than many critics would suggest. I think they have suffered as a consequence of La Rocca's ridiculous racist assertions yet the ODJB was hugely influential even if it was a band that was quickly overtaken by the music's evolution. I believe that an English pianist played with this band in 1919 when they toured the UK. I can't recollect his name but wondered if this makes him the UK's first jazz musician. Wondered if he had ever been honoured with a blue plaque or something similar.

J. Russel Robinson is on my 1919 recorded tracks, if this is he...

Edit: Ah, Billy Jones, Alyn has just said.

[Serial_Apologist]

Today's JRR listings can be found on

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c2lfv

[Alyn_Shipton]

My website playing up - listing there - as per R3 site tomorrow

[Serial_Apologist]

My website playing up - listing there - as per R3 site tomorrow

No problem Alyn - see post above yours. Hope the website probs get soon sorted!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

No problem Alyn - see post above yours. Hope the website probs get soon sorted!

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Thought the Tony Kofi Monk set was rather good. More fire than I've heard him before, a touch of Ernie Henry.

BN.