Tax relief on banjos plea in post budget Trad revival bid

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 25 Nov
4 pm Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces another selection of listener-requested tunes, including Wabash Blues by Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges in collaboration with Harry Sweets Edison.

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

5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Kevin Le Gendre presents a performance by British-Asian clarinettist Arun Ghosh and his group, featuring the cream of young British players including Chris Williams (alto saxophone), Yazz Ahmet (trumpet), Shirley Tetten (electric guitar), Liran Donin (electric bass) and Dave Walsh (drums). Recorded earlier this month at the 2017 London Jazz Festival and featuring material from his new labum, But Where Are you Really From?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gfcj7

12 Midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith celebrates the two-fisted tuneful energy of stride piano by highlighting the work of Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman and Dick Wellstood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gfdhd

Mon 27 Nov
11 pm Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents French bassist Henri Texier and his Hope Quartet in concert at Kings Place as part of the 2017 London Jazz Festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gg9kw

[ahinton]

Surely they attract as much tax relief on purchase as any other instrument? I do wonder whether there's any extra on offer for Hammond organs, though...

[Jazzrook]

Sat 25 Nov
4 pm Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton introduces another selection of listener-requested tunes, including Wabash Blues by Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges in collaboration with Harry Sweets Edison.

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

5 pm Jazz Line-Up
Kevin Le Gendre presents a performance by British-Asian clarinettist Arun Ghosh and his group, featuring the cream of young British players including Chris Williams (alto saxophone), Yazz Ahmet (trumpet), Shirley Tetten (electric guitar), Liran Donin (electric bass) and Dave Walsh (drums). Recorded earlier this month at the 2017 London Jazz Festival and featuring material from his new labum, But Where Are you Really From?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gfcj7

12 Midnight Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith celebrates the two-fisted tuneful energy of stride piano by highlighting the work of Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman and Dick Wellstood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gfdhd

Mon 27 Nov
11 pm Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents French bassist Henri Texier and his Hope Quartet in concert at Kings Place as part of the 2017 London Jazz Festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gg9kw

Also on Radio 4, Tuesday 28 November, 4pm: "I Was Billie Holliday's(sic) Replacement".

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Also on Radio 4, Tuesday 28 November, 4pm: "I Was Billie Holliday's(sic) Replacement".

JR

Deliberate spelling mistake notwithstanding, thanks nonetheless for spotting that programme, JR:

Andrew McKibbon on how Annie Ross, a young singer from Scotland, found herself in a biggers spotlight when she was asked by Duke Elington to strand in for Billie Holliday at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. - verbatim from RT.

I'm now wondering which of the three, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, it actually was who introduced "vocalese". I'd always assumed it was her lyrics to "Twisted", based on a James Moody solo (was it?), that started the genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0Kj3bPKtw

She had a club in Covent Garden in the 1960s - I never went there.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Deliberate spelling mistake notwithstanding, thanks nonetheless for spotting that programme, JR:

Andrew McKibbon on how Annie Ross, a young singer from Scotland, found herself in a biggers spotlight when she was asked by Duke Elington to strand in for Billie Holliday at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. - verbatim from RT.

I'm now wondering which of the three, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, it actually was who introduced "vocalese". I'd always assumed it was her lyrics to "Twisted", based on a James Moody solo (was it?), that started the genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0Kj3bPKtw

She had a club in Covent Garden in the 1960s - I never went there.

I think it was Eddie Jefferson, "Parker's Mood". Closely followed by King Pleasure who had the hit with it. Has there ever been an Annie Ross autobiography? That would be fascinating.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Twisted" was a Wardell Grey record and solo. I think she did "Farmer's Market" (Art Farmer) around the same time.

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

JRR's Lucky Thompson "There's no you" was indeed "peerless", just lovely stuff. The opening phrase etc of the Kathy Stobart track "2HS" reminds me strongly of something else...one of the Bluenote "one for Alberts"? There were so many...

[Ian Thumwood]

JLU once again throwing up another extended feature in a musician looking beyond jazz for influences. This seems to be all the fashion these days as if musicians are embarrassed to acknowledge that they play jazz. Elsewhere the selection continued to be the kind of jazz that just washes over you or , in the case of the Finish piano trio, conservatoire musicians with tremendous technique demonstrating how clever they are. The track with Anouar Braham was peculiar , not least because the album proved not to have anything to do with Sunderland - "Blue Mackems" would be totally appropriate this season! Odd to listen to a jazz programme and find that the best track of the lot is a Courtney Pine one !

[Serial_Apologist]

JLU once again throwing up another extended feature in a musician looking beyond jazz for influences. This seems to be all the fashion these days as if musicians are embarrassed to acknowledge that they play jazz. Elsewhere the selection continued to be the kind of jazz that just washes over you or , in the case of the Finish piano trio, conservatoire musicians with tremendous technique demonstrating how clever they are. The track with Anouar Braham was peculiar , not least because the album proved not to have anything to do with Sunderland - "Blue Mackems" would be totally appropriate this season! Odd to listen to a jazz programme and find that the best track of the lot is a Courtney Pine one !

Well of course there was th Roswell Rudd track, which I'm afraid sort of washed over me because I was busy trying to engage British Gas online to come and do a boiler repair and having repeated trouble trying to change my password! I shall have to give this programme another listen, remembering to fast forward through Mr Ghosh's apparent chase music sequences for an episode of The Sweeney, ca 1975!

[Ian Thumwood]

Well of course there was th Roswell Rudd track, which I'm afraid sort of washed over me because I was busy trying to engage British Gas online to come and do a boiler repair and having repeated trouble trying to change my password! I shall have to give this programme another listen, remembering to fast forward through Mr Ghosh's apparent chase music sequences for an episode of The Sweeney, ca 1975!

British Gas are easy to deal with in comparison with Vodafone. It is almost impossible to get a direct debit cancelled. Total rubbish.

[Jazzrook]

JLU once again throwing up another extended feature in a musician looking beyond jazz for influences. This seems to be all the fashion these days as if musicians are embarrassed to acknowledge that they play jazz. Elsewhere the selection continued to be the kind of jazz that just washes over you or , in the case of the Finish piano trio, conservatoire musicians with tremendous technique demonstrating how clever they are. The track with Anouar Braham was peculiar , not least because the album proved not to have anything to do with Sunderland - "Blue Mackems" would be totally appropriate this season! Odd to listen to a jazz programme and find that the best track of the lot is a Courtney Pine one !

The producer's tastes in non-jazz always seem to dominate this programme.

JR

[Rcartes]

"Twisted" was a Wardell Grey record and solo. I think she did "Farmer's Market" (Art Farmer) around the same time.

BN.

Er, Wardell Gray....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Er, Wardell Gray....

Is he the one who owns fifty pairs of sunglasses?

[Quarky]

I think it was Eddie Jefferson, "Parker's Mood". Closely followed by King Pleasure who had the hit with it. Has there ever been an Annie Ross autobiography? That would be fascinating.

BN.

I can't find any bio of Annie, apart from that on her website: http://www.annieross.net/about.html

Agreed it would be fascinating. I did hear her on the Radio a little while back, where she recounted a trip along the Champs Elysee with Billie Holliday. They were visiting the Jeweller's shops, and apparently Billie just helped herself to a stack full of Jewels, while the shop keepers looked the other way!

I don't know if there was any professional jealousy on the part of Jon Hendricks, as Annie was I guess the bigger star in the public's mind. But I did see a clip of Miles Davis' Four, which Jon scatted throughout, while Annie just clicked her fingers. I would have thought that Miles' trumpet would have been more suited to Annie's voice.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Wardell Grey, Wardell Gray...bloody Americans!

Annie Ross certainly was in the thick of it, married to Arnold Ross, Paris with Bobby Jaspar et al, and was she briefly married to Kenny Clarke? And that story of her giving Chet Baker xxxxdollars so he could "get his crankcase fixed" and "finish her record date". Never to be see again. "I didn't even know what a crankcase was!" said Ms Ross...

BN.