And a Merry Julligan to all Jazz Afflictionados!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 16 Sept
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents recordings showcasing saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz.

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

5.00 Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph selects previously unheard recordings from the Jazz Line-Up archives, including music from Austrian percussionist Manu Delago, Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen and British pianist/composer Greg Foat and his group.

Good, I say; but why oh why can't we hear some of the large quantity of stuff from long past broadcasts which surely must be locked up mouldering in the BBC's crypt, such as the excerpts from ones that occasionally appear on Jamie Cullum's programme on Radio 2, dincha know? Just to remind us...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094s409

12 midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A celebration of Louis Armstrong's work as an accompanist to other singers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094scd7

Mon 18 Sept
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch introduces Gareth Lockrane's Big Band playing music from new album Fistfight at the Barndance in a concert from King's Place in London.

Gareth is one of the best of the F-ire/Loop/Leeds collectives generation specialising on flute - a fluent post-bop player who leads energetic groups with strong line-ups of varying size playing latin and funky jazz. He also teaches at the school not 5 minutes from where I live - or was last time I spoke to him, a few years ago - and is a dab-handed pianist, whom I've seen backing singers, among them Anita Wardell.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094sq72

Nest Tues 19 Sept, Late Junction (11 pm) includes a review of a new live recording by American saxophonist and flautist Charles Lloyd, among other exotic delicacies. The famous music hall artiste Marie Lloyd was not his great grandmother, as far as is known, in case anybody was wondering, though if she was his uncle we could of course all be wrong...

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Talking of ze old daze....I was re-listening to one of Alyn's Jazz Libraries from 2009, with John Surman. Surman says the reason he left to work in mainland Europe at the end of the 1960s was, frankly, there was very little work here. He gave as an example Mike Osborne and Tony Oxley (I think), going up to Coventry to play a gig (for £4.10s) and that was their only jazz thing for a month. It surprised me as I always thought/remembered there was a shed load of jazz gigs around that time, with the rot setting in later. This fits in with the late John Jack interview where he said (in effect) that Europe saved British jazz. Or that "kind".

[eighthobstruction]

please don't think that the hours you must have spent thinking of your topic headline do not go un appreciated....

[Pianorak]

please don't think that the hours you must have spent thinking of your topic headline do not go un appreciated....

Indeed. Merry Julligan was easy. Still working on the Affifictionados. Some cryptography called for?

[Serial_Apologist]

please don't think that the hours you must have spent thinking of your topic headline do not go un appreciated....

They usually take about 10 minutes to "formulate". Doubtless I'll eventually run out of puns from the available names. I'm still waiting for Ruddy Bitch to come up...

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I remember one from the "old board" about Charlie "Bird" Parker and Budgie Powell. Not sure if Gary Peacock was included...

BN.

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I see JRR is playing Mingus's "Oh Lord, don't let them drop that atom bomb on me" (from "Oh yeah"), which is hopefully not a topical request...

Although....

[Serial_Apologist]

I see JRR is playing Mingus's "Oh Lord, don't let them drop that atom bomb on me" (from "Oh yeah"), which is hopefully not a topical request...

Although....

I have an Alexis Korner version of that from 1964. It's all right actually! - Danny Thompson on bass; Alan Skidmore does an impressive Sonny Stittish solo. Danny had at least two double basses back then, which he gave female names to. He got very annoyed once when I had the temerity to ask him if, in order to get the rich sound out of his bass, it had to be specially customised. He said he got that sound out of ANY bass he had to play, as anybody could tell me from the number of times he'd been called on to dep at last minute.

(Blimey - I don't know what's going on just down the road here - really really loud rock party going on; helicopter with downward pointing searchlight hovering over what looks to be the place! )

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Phil Seaman used to sleep on Alexis Korner's living room floor with Charles Fox having the attic, stuffed with all his records ...and lady visitors. Not many people know this....

*"It was dangerous to wake Phil up for breakfast..."

[Serial_Apologist]

Phil Seaman used to sleep on Alexis Korner's living room floor with Charles Fox having the attic, stuffed with all his records ...and lady visitors. Not many people know this....

*"It was dangerous to wake Phil up for breakfast..."

There was a great article in one of the very first editions of The Wire mag, in which a number of people who knew Phil reminisced. I've kept nearly all those copies, to remind myself there really was a time when such a thing as good informative jazz journalism still existed. Must dig it out...

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My memory of him is at Ronnie's during one of my very first visits there with my girlfriend. She whispered to me that he kept staring right at her (uncomfortably) while he played. When we moved tables we realised he was fixed on the wall.

[Old Grumpy]

Rather a good JLU, I thought. Particularly liked Gilad Atzmon's Naima and was well impressed by Manu Delago and Isa Kurtz - especially on Herzkeks. Love the sound of the "hang"!

OG

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Yes, Naima was good, although I wonder at the point with something SO closely bound up and personal to Coltrane. He also does Sentimental Mood, Giant Steps, Invitation, Blue trane etc on the album. He's previously put out a reworking (nice enough) of the Parker with strings dates, which I actually bought. And gave away. OK, the recorded sound, strings etc are much "improved", but what's the point? You're always referencing back. Far better, if you're "doing" Coltrane, is the Archie Shepp Impulse date, "Four for Trane" which makes absolutely no attempt to emulate.

[Ian Thumwood]

Bluesnik


the best ever Coltrane tribute album I have heard is the Kenny Garrett one which included a younf brina Blade on drums and Pat Metheny. The version of "After the rain" is incredible but the whole disc was still not as good as hearing this quartet play live in the Jazzhaus in Copenhagen , especially when Dave Liebman sat in on "Like Sonny." Still the best gig I have ever been to.

there is a second hand edition going oin Amazon for £1.29 plus p&p. I would snap this up as this record is truly sensational even if you have reservations about Metheny who is totally in the tradition on this disc. One of the best albums of the 1990's.

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I can imagine. There's a live concert of Kenny Garrett's quartet on Utube from a few years back (Jazz Baltica?) and its phenomenal for its intensity and intelligence. Hugely impressive, even to a "senior" like me...