Sat 29 Apr
12.15 pm Music Matters
Includes an interview with Daryl Runswick, dscribed as composer, arranger and producer, but whom jazz afficionados of a certain age will remember as a gifted and versatile bass player, one of the few figures anywhere to have worked with both John Cage and Ornette Coleman, and the choice of John Dankworth and Cleo Laine for some 13 years until son Alec took over in 1983. These facets of his remarkable 50 + years long musical career might just get a mention, for the latter also includes work with the Kings Singers and singer-songwriter Pete Atkin ("Beware the Beautiful Stranger"), Daryl celebrates his 70 years on this earth with a celebratory concert at London's prestigious Cadogan Hall on June 6th with a couple of new CD releases, one of some of his compositions in the classical genre, the other jazz recordings he made between the late 1960s and early 1980s, which I'll give more details of when I get them.
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
In this week's pick of requests in all styles and periods of jazz, Alyn Shipton plays music by the Modern Jazz Quartet, featuring the writing and piano playing of John Lewis.
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph talks to celebrated Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and introduces a performance by him featuring Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu, recorded at the 2016 London Jazz Festival. Garbarek discusses his early experiments, working with pianist Keith Jarrett, and his relationship with composer George Russell who once described Garbarek as "the most original voice in European jazz since Django Reinhardt".
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The career of jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Buck Clayton, who was a leading member of Count Basie's "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s.
Mon 1 May
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a set from London's Café Oto by saxophonist Trevor Watts, while Pete Churchill talks about the European premiere of Jon Hendricks's Miles Ahead - a vocal project based on Miles Davis and Gil Evans's seminal big band album.
I was there at the Oto for this last Sunday, and a pretty intense experience it was, a long way from any jazz vernacular in my estimation, but not one as a jazzer I would have missed. Trevor may be well into his 70s now but as usual shows no signs of flagging in the energy department - this was as strong as anything you'd hear from say Marshall Allen or Oliver Lake, with great support coming from the two string players and his old pal Veryan Weston on piano.
Which just leaves mention of Ella Fitzgerald's the First Lady of Song part 2 of the 2 on Tuesday at 10 pm on R2, and Part 2 of the 4-part At Home with Gregory Porter the following night on R2 at 10 pm.
12.15 pm Music Matters
Includes an interview with Daryl Runswick, dscribed as composer, arranger and producer, but whom jazz afficionados of a certain age will remember as a gifted and versatile bass player, one of the few figures anywhere to have worked with both John Cage and Ornette Coleman, and the choice of John Dankworth and Cleo Laine for some 13 years until son Alec took over in 1983. These facets of his remarkable 50 + years long musical career might just get a mention, for the latter also includes work with the Kings Singers and singer-songwriter Pete Atkin ("Beware the Beautiful Stranger"), Daryl celebrates his 70 years on this earth with a celebratory concert at London's prestigious Cadogan Hall on June 6th with a couple of new CD releases, one of some of his compositions in the classical genre, the other jazz recordings he made between the late 1960s and early 1980s, which I'll give more details of when I get them.
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
In this week's pick of requests in all styles and periods of jazz, Alyn Shipton plays music by the Modern Jazz Quartet, featuring the writing and piano playing of John Lewis.
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph talks to celebrated Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and introduces a performance by him featuring Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu, recorded at the 2016 London Jazz Festival. Garbarek discusses his early experiments, working with pianist Keith Jarrett, and his relationship with composer George Russell who once described Garbarek as "the most original voice in European jazz since Django Reinhardt".
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The career of jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger Buck Clayton, who was a leading member of Count Basie's "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s.
Mon 1 May
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a set from London's Café Oto by saxophonist Trevor Watts, while Pete Churchill talks about the European premiere of Jon Hendricks's Miles Ahead - a vocal project based on Miles Davis and Gil Evans's seminal big band album.
I was there at the Oto for this last Sunday, and a pretty intense experience it was, a long way from any jazz vernacular in my estimation, but not one as a jazzer I would have missed. Trevor may be well into his 70s now but as usual shows no signs of flagging in the energy department - this was as strong as anything you'd hear from say Marshall Allen or Oliver Lake, with great support coming from the two string players and his old pal Veryan Weston on piano.
Which just leaves mention of Ella Fitzgerald's the First Lady of Song part 2 of the 2 on Tuesday at 10 pm on R2, and Part 2 of the 4-part At Home with Gregory Porter the following night on R2 at 10 pm.
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