Sat 22 Apr
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces more listeners' requests, including music by blind pianist and composer George Shearing (1919-2011) on the day that a blue plaque is unveiled in London in his honour.
Our people deserve many more of those!
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents a performance by progressive tuba player Oren Marshall, in a special collaboration with drummers from Ghana, recorded at the 2016 London Jazz Festival.
experimental, improv and avant guardians of all hues, please note
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith explores the work of Herbie Nichols, Richard Twardzik and Elmo Hope, three mid-20th century jazz pianists whose works may not have achieved the renown of some of their contemporaries, yet possess a rugged individuality and subtle wit that have made them favourites among conoisseurs of the genre.
Relieved to know we're in
company, then... 
Mon 24 Apr
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch introduces a set by Jasper Hoiby's Fellow Creatures recorded last month at the Bristol International Jazz Festival.
Jasper, who plays a fine Danish blues (even when not cheesed off
), offers us a chance to hear Laura Jurd in a new context, where she often brings out her best imv, alongside the ever-dependable tenor and soprano saxophonist Mark Lockheart.
I'll just list the stuff being broadcast next week celebrating Ella's Centenary:
Radio 2
Tues 25 Apr - two programmes
8 pm Remembering Ella
2 hour's worth with commentary from Nica you-know-who, Cleo ditto, Patti Austin and Imelda May (no relation?)
10 pm Ella Fitzgerald - the First Lady of Song
Not Charlotte Church, then. Pet Clark leads this one off, first of a two-parter, with contribs from biographer Stuart Nicholson (he gets around everywhere!) Ray Brown (the singer - the bass player was unavailable), Claire Martin and Clare Teal. .
Ella is also celebrated on Radio 3's Late Junction, which immediately follows, and is otherwise themed to grime: Carol Grimes, Helen Grime (look her up) and Team Supreme (don't bother). Is someone off their trolley in the programming department, fgs???
Then, when you've all recovered. on Weds 26 April there's a feature on an American singer some on here like, at 10 pm on Radio 2 - first of 4, titled At Home with Gregory Porter
And as if all that is not quite enough, Thursday's The Late Junction Mixtape at 12 midnight has Billy Jenkins, known for declaring the blues to have originated in Bromley, presenting one of his own; and Friday Night is Music Night at 8pm on 2 has Guy Barker cookin' up (I said c... LISTEN, will you!!!) Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin D Roosevelt and Diana Ross in chicken Supreme sauce, accompanied by Stevie Wonder and the wonderkinds, all served up by James Brown in two-tone suede shoes. It's all jazz, innit squire!
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces more listeners' requests, including music by blind pianist and composer George Shearing (1919-2011) on the day that a blue plaque is unveiled in London in his honour.
Our people deserve many more of those!
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents a performance by progressive tuba player Oren Marshall, in a special collaboration with drummers from Ghana, recorded at the 2016 London Jazz Festival.
experimental, improv and avant guardians of all hues, please note 
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith explores the work of Herbie Nichols, Richard Twardzik and Elmo Hope, three mid-20th century jazz pianists whose works may not have achieved the renown of some of their contemporaries, yet possess a rugged individuality and subtle wit that have made them favourites among conoisseurs of the genre.
Relieved to know we're in
company, then... 
Mon 24 Apr
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch introduces a set by Jasper Hoiby's Fellow Creatures recorded last month at the Bristol International Jazz Festival.
Jasper, who plays a fine Danish blues (even when not cheesed off
), offers us a chance to hear Laura Jurd in a new context, where she often brings out her best imv, alongside the ever-dependable tenor and soprano saxophonist Mark Lockheart.
I'll just list the stuff being broadcast next week celebrating Ella's Centenary:
Radio 2
Tues 25 Apr - two programmes
8 pm Remembering Ella
2 hour's worth with commentary from Nica you-know-who, Cleo ditto, Patti Austin and Imelda May (no relation?)
10 pm Ella Fitzgerald - the First Lady of Song
Not Charlotte Church, then. Pet Clark leads this one off, first of a two-parter, with contribs from biographer Stuart Nicholson (he gets around everywhere!) Ray Brown (the singer - the bass player was unavailable), Claire Martin and Clare Teal. .
Ella is also celebrated on Radio 3's Late Junction, which immediately follows, and is otherwise themed to grime: Carol Grimes, Helen Grime (look her up) and Team Supreme (don't bother). Is someone off their trolley in the programming department, fgs???
Then, when you've all recovered. on Weds 26 April there's a feature on an American singer some on here like, at 10 pm on Radio 2 - first of 4, titled At Home with Gregory Porter
And as if all that is not quite enough, Thursday's The Late Junction Mixtape at 12 midnight has Billy Jenkins, known for declaring the blues to have originated in Bromley, presenting one of his own; and Friday Night is Music Night at 8pm on 2 has Guy Barker cookin' up (I said c... LISTEN, will you!!!) Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin D Roosevelt and Diana Ross in chicken Supreme sauce, accompanied by Stevie Wonder and the wonderkinds, all served up by James Brown in two-tone suede shoes. It's all jazz, innit squire!
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