The latest Fashola a-Bates - there's a Spanier in the works

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 4 Nov
4 pm Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with requests from a broad spectrum of jazz today including a recording by celebrated American trumpeter Clifford Brown (1930-56).

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

5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents a special edition featuring music by US saxophonist Donny McCaslin, best known for is work on David Bowie's final album Blackstar. In this concert, recorded at BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow, McCaslin plays his own compositions and pays tribute to Bowie. Singer Jumoké Fashola performs material from her latest project Protest! and delivers a reading of The Slave's Lament by poet Robert Burns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09cz43g

Best known? How to people rate Mr. McCaslin?

12 midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith surveys the legacy of old-school brassmen - trumpeters Max Kaminsky (1908-94) and Muggsy Spanier (1901-67), who pioneered the Dixieland sound alongside the likes of Eddie Condon and Sidney Bechet.

A repeat (like all repeats) for the traddies probably not reading this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09czcrg

Mon 6 Nov
11 pm Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert from this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival by Schnellertollermeier, plus an interview with Django Bates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09d00xf

The London Jazz Festival commences on Friday 10th November, with a nervous breakdown-inducing roster of gigs, the best of which are often the freebies taking place at the two weekend event days held at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Iplayer link details are as yet unavailable, but here I reproduce two events due for broadcast on that day from Radio Times:

Fri 10 Nov
7.30 pm Radio 3 in Concert
Andrew McGregor introduces Jazz Voice - the London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Royal Festival Hall in London.

11 pm Jazz Now: London Jazz Festival
Soweto Kinch, with Al Ryan and Emma Smith, presents the opening night of the London Jazz Festival from Pizza Express Jazz Club in Dean Street, Soho. With Karin Krog and John Surman, Steven Keogh's tribute to Louis Stewart with Bill Charlap and Colin Oxley, Helge Lien and Adam Baldych, and the Weekend Guitar Trio.

"Play the weekend like you don't know how to play the weekend" - not said by Miles Davis to John McLaughlin, but by myself, who will, somehow, hopefully, manage to reach the age of 72 this coming Monday. Firework celebrations on the eve of this event are not compulsory.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Sat 4 Nov
4 pm Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with requests from a broad spectrum of jazz today including a recording by celebrated American trumpeter Clifford Brown (1930-56).

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

5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents a special edition featuring music by US saxophonist Donny McCaslin, best known for is work on David Bowie's final album Blackstar. In this concert, recorded at BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow, McCaslin plays his own compositions and pays tribute to Bowie. Singer Jumoké Fashola performs material from her latest project Protest! and delivers a reading of The Slave's Lament by poet Robert Burns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09cz43g

Best known? How to people rate Mr. McCaslin?

12 midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith surveys the legacy of old-school brassmen - trumpeters Max Kaminsky (1908-94) and Muggsy Spanier (1901-67), who pioneered the Dixieland sound alongside the likes of Eddie Condon and Sidney Bechet.

A repeat (like all repeats) for the traddies probably not reading this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09czcrg

Mon 6 Nov
11 pm Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert from this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival by Schnellertollermeier, plus an interview with Django Bates.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09d00xf

The London Jazz Festival commences on Friday 10th November, with a nervous breakdown-inducing roster of gigs, the best of which are often the freebies taking place at the two weekend event days held at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. Iplayer link details are as yet unavailable, but here I reproduce two events due for broadcast on that day from Radio Times:

Fri 10 Nov
7.30 pm Radio 3 in Concert
Andrew McGregor introduces Jazz Voice - the London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Royal Festival Hall in London.

11 pm Jazz Now: London Jazz Festival
Soweto Kinch, with Al Ryan and Emma Smith, presents the opening night of the London Jazz Festival from Pizza Express Jazz Club in Dean Street, Soho. With Karin Krog and John Surman, Steven Keogh's tribute to Louis Stewart with Bill Charlap and Colin Oxley, Helge Lien and Adam Baldych, and the Weekend Guitar Trio.

"Play the weekend like you don't know how to play the weekend" - not said by Miles Davis to John McLaughlin, but by myself, who will, somehow, hopefully, manage to reach the age of 72 this coming Monday. Firework celebrations on the eve of this event are not compulsory.

MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS SA! "As long as your living" and/or "Members don't get weary" by Max Roach, (which I've just learnt is one of Billy Cobham's top six ever drum albums). I hit the glamorous 71 mark on Monday. Reassured that Georgie Fame is 74 (own hair) and Terrance Stamp is late 70's? (own blue eyes). Have a tres good one. And thanks for all this.

BN.

[Old Grumpy]

MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS SA! Have a tres good one. And thanks for all this.

BN.

Indeed!. All the very best!

And to you too BN

All this makes me feel a bit of a fraud at a mere 60.

Middle aged Grumpy

[Serial_Apologist]

MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS SA! "As long as your living" and/or "Members don't get weary" by Max Roach, (which I've just learnt is one of Billy Cobham's top six ever drum albums). I hit the glamorous 71 mark on Monday. Reassured that Georgie Fame is 74 (own hair) and Terrance Stamp is late 70's? (own blue eyes). Have a tres good one. And thanks for all this.

BN.

Then many happy returns in your direction too, Bluesie.

[Serial_Apologist]

Indeed!. All the very best!

And to you too BN

All this makes me feel a bit of a fraud at a mere 60.

Middle aged Grumpy

That just means you were too young to have enjoyed the sixties!

[Old Grumpy]

That just means you were too young to have enjoyed the sixties!

Still a "baby boomer" though and apparently to blame for all the world's ills!

[Quarky]

5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Julian Joseph presents a special edition featuring music by US saxophonist Donny McCaslin, best known for is work on David Bowie's final album Blackstar. In this concert, recorded at BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow, McCaslin plays his own compositions and pays tribute to Bowie. Singer Jumoké Fashola performs material from her latest project Protest! and delivers a reading of The Slave's Lament by poet Robert Burns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09cz43g

Best known? How to people rate Mr. McCaslin?

Thumbs down from my Lady Friend, noted retired Belly Dancer, while sitting in a traffic queue on the North Circular.
What's Ms. Fashola complaining about now?

Anyhow, Happy birthday S_A!

And full marks to JRR.

[Ian Thumwood]

Happy Birthdays, Bluesnik and SA.

I heard part of the McCaslin gig on the radio as I drove to the fireworks at Winchester last night. It was interesting to hear this band on the radio and contrast it with the live concert I heard this summer . (Same group except Mark Gulliana on drums - the 2010's answer to Steve Gadd.) The interview was suggestive that McCaslin was in awe of David Bowie which strikes me as a bit unfortunate because you would have thought he should have been in awe of playing in Maria Schneider's big band, for example. McCaslin's albums of the late 2000's are pretty decent ("In pursuit" is well-recommended) but the current fixation with electronica does his music a grave disservice. It feels like this is a kind of musical mid-life crisis and the live performance I heard was pretty rank. I hate this kind of stuff. "Casting for gravity" has got to be one of the worst travesties in jazz in the last 10 years. It is an awful record.

Having said that, I would have to add that the radio performance was much better (maybe due to a better / different drummer than the rock musician Guliana whose playing has nothing to do with jazz.) My initial impression was that is was much quieter on the radio than the full-on, ear-damaging deluge of the live session. Still, the music just came across as an up-dated version of Weather Report - Michael Brecker-ish tenor cut and pasted over wooden dance floor grooves that are unlikely to appeal to anyone under the age of 30. Quite why the 50-something McCaslin is indulging is difficult to say but, in the end, it is just an average group and I doubt anyone in to jazz is really going to be too concerned that Bowie employed this band. If anything, likely to put more people off. It is not as if Bowie was Duke Ellington. I would guess than someone like Bluesnik would be surprised to see that this music is considered to be jazz and that DMcC is this year's biggest "draw" in jazz. Weird listening to Herbie's "Thrust" this week which is almost ultimate fusion yet far more jazz integrity than last night's efforts. Still, the concert wasn't quite as abject as Southampton's 1-0 defeat to Burnley yesterday afternoon which was truly woeful.

[Pianorak]

A long shot, but here goes: Sometime late last night/early morning I happened across "The Thrill is Gone", sung (?!) by a female performer. I was half asleep and don't remember the time or radio station. Checked the schedules of R2, R3, R4, R5 and WS without success. Any idea who that could have been?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Happy Birthdays, Bluesnik and SA.

I heard part of the McCaslin gig on the radio as I drove to the fireworks at Winchester last night. It was interesting to hear this band on the radio and contrast it with the live concert I heard this summer . (Same group except Mark Gulliana on drums - the 2010's answer to Steve Gadd.) The interview was suggestive that McCaslin was in awe of David Bowie which strikes me as a bit unfortunate because you would have thought he should have been in awe of playing in Maria Schneider's big band, for example. McCaslin's albums of the late 2000's are pretty decent ("In pursuit" is well-recommended) but the current fixation with electronica does his music a grave disservice. It feels like this is a kind of musical mid-life crisis and the live performance I heard was pretty rank. I hate this kind of stuff. "Casting for gravity" has got to be one of the worst travesties in jazz in the last 10 years. It is an awful record.

Having said that, I would have to add that the radio performance was much better (maybe due to a better / different drummer than the rock musician Guliana whose playing has nothing to do with jazz.) My initial impression was that is was much quieter on the radio than the full-on, ear-damaging deluge of the live session. Still, the music just came across as an up-dated version of Weather Report - Michael Brecker-ish tenor cut and pasted over wooden dance floor grooves that are unlikely to appeal to anyone under the age of 30. Quite why the 50-something McCaslin is indulging is difficult to say but, in the end, it is just an average group and I doubt anyone in to jazz is really going to be too concerned that Bowie employed this band. If anything, likely to put more people off. It is not as if Bowie was Duke Ellington. I would guess than someone like Bluesnik would be surprised to see that this music is considered to be jazz and that DMcC is this year's biggest "draw" in jazz. Weird listening to Herbie's "Thrust" this week which is almost ultimate fusion yet far more jazz integrity than last night's efforts. Still, the concert wasn't quite as abject as Southampton's 1-0 defeat to Burnley yesterday afternoon which was truly woeful.

I didn't hear him as I switched off JLU at the sound of (another) God awful female singer. I do have DM's very first CD cut for Naxos, which is pretty much in the tradition with a nice reading of "Along came Betty" but he's obviously left all that far behind.

I thought JRR was v good and did respond to Alyn's thoughts on Johnny Hartman. Someone who it took me a very long time to adjust to but I now do like his Impulse albums, with Trane and without. Alyn's reservations go deeper than mine, I stumbled at the treacle, Alyn at his pitching etc and insensitivity to lyrics. Quincey's Walkin on the other hand was right up my highroad. Lucky Thompson et al. Must did out my box set.

Thanks for the good wishes Ian.

BN.

[PUSB]

I heard that too on Radio 3. I think it was Diamanda Galas or some name like that.

[Pianorak]

I heard that too on Radio 3. I think it was Diamanda Galas or some name like that.

Many thanks, PUSB. It was indeed. Still traumatised and need counselling! Much prefer the Anthony Newley version.

Lew Brown

The Thrill Is Gone

Composer: Ray Henderson. Music Arranger: Diamanda Galás. Singer: Diamanda Galás.

All the Way. Intravenal Sound Operations/Self Released. 1.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Very Many Happy Returns of the Day to S_A and Bluesnik.

[Serial_Apologist]

Very Many Happy Returns of the Day to S_A and Bluesnik.

Thanks ferney! Luckily they set off fireworks last night just to remind me, at my age!

[Pianorak]

. . . at my age!

A mere stripling! Happy Birthday Serial-Apologist! and Bluesnik