Sat 14 Oct
4 pm Jazz Record Requests
For Radio 3's Why Music? The Key to Memory weekend Alyn Shipton introduces memory-themed requests, including highlights of recorded concert performances by Humphrey Lyttelton and Ted Heath. Plus specific recollections of Bill Dixon and Chick Corea.
5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph explores the theme of music and memory, with musicians performing well-known jazz standards from memory. The live music includes a collaboration between pianist Nikki Yeoh and harpist Tori Handsley, students from the Royal Academy of Music and a specially assembled quartet.
12 midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
BC Radio 3's Wellcome Collection residency inspires Geoffrey Smith to showcase jazz performances recaling people and places from the past. Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker all figure in tonight's playlist.
Mon 16 Oct
11 pm Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch introduces a concert by drummer Dejan Terzic, featuring pianist Bojan Z, and Emma Smith talks to Matthew Bourne about his new album.
Matthew Bourne comes up for a duo performance in London sometime in November with someone he's long admired, Keith Tippett. I'll keep everyone posted on the details.
Tues 17 Oct
11 pm Late Junction
Verity Sharp heads to the edgelands of Lincolnshire for a special programme recorded at home with one of the most distinctive voices in British songwriting, Robert Wyatt. Wyatt talks Verity through some of the music that has helped shape him as an artist and the stories that go with it.
Should be a most enlightening programme with this most engaging of personalities, who makes all sorts of connections between music, politics and different cultures and has always drawn all this into his music.
4 pm Jazz Record Requests
For Radio 3's Why Music? The Key to Memory weekend Alyn Shipton introduces memory-themed requests, including highlights of recorded concert performances by Humphrey Lyttelton and Ted Heath. Plus specific recollections of Bill Dixon and Chick Corea.
5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph explores the theme of music and memory, with musicians performing well-known jazz standards from memory. The live music includes a collaboration between pianist Nikki Yeoh and harpist Tori Handsley, students from the Royal Academy of Music and a specially assembled quartet.
12 midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
BC Radio 3's Wellcome Collection residency inspires Geoffrey Smith to showcase jazz performances recaling people and places from the past. Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker all figure in tonight's playlist.
Mon 16 Oct
11 pm Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch introduces a concert by drummer Dejan Terzic, featuring pianist Bojan Z, and Emma Smith talks to Matthew Bourne about his new album.
Matthew Bourne comes up for a duo performance in London sometime in November with someone he's long admired, Keith Tippett. I'll keep everyone posted on the details.
Tues 17 Oct
11 pm Late Junction
Verity Sharp heads to the edgelands of Lincolnshire for a special programme recorded at home with one of the most distinctive voices in British songwriting, Robert Wyatt. Wyatt talks Verity through some of the music that has helped shape him as an artist and the stories that go with it.
Should be a most enlightening programme with this most engaging of personalities, who makes all sorts of connections between music, politics and different cultures and has always drawn all this into his music.
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