Geoffrey goes for a Burton

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 17 Mar
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton plays requested recordings from across a broad spectrum of jazz., today featuring music by American pianist Ramsey Lewis.

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

5pm - Jazz Line-Up
Repeat of the Alice Coltrane feature from last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w2q71

Midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A vibraphone superstar for some six decades, Indiana-born Gary Burton has combined jazz, rock, Latin and classical in starry groups featuring the likes of Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny and Keith Jarrett. On the eve of Burton's retirement, Geoffrey Smith surveys a great career.

I thought jazzers never retired.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w2s39

Mon 19 March
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch with further highlights from Austria's INNToene Jazzfestival

Kirk Lightsey is on the menu with his trio!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09w06lt

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[Alyn_Shipton]

If you can't wait til Midnight on Saturday, then download this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vkp5p

[Serial_Apologist]

Zhenya Strigalev is also featured on Monday's programme. He's keeping top company at the mo'. Here is a selection with the same bass player to be featured in an otherwise different line-up with the same band name - very confusing. Rather reminds me of some of the evergreen Trevor Watts's more jazz-rocky stuff with Colin McKenzie, that great bass guitarist everyone seems to have forgotten, and Liam Genockey the hairy Irish showband man with red beret who I've always regarded as one of the best jazz-rock drummers anywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwGAa5jiiEE

Mr Strigalev looks like the man selling The Big Issue outside my local St Sprees who calls himself Danny. I mean, a man who plays stuff like this wouldn't be selling the Big Issue, would he? I see he's at the Vortex fronting another outfit called "Blues for Maggie" on 29th of this month. Not "Blues for Bird" - John Bird.

[Serial_Apologist]

If you can't wait til Midnight on Saturday, then download this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vkp5p

Fantastic, thanks v much, Alyn.

[Serial_Apologist]

I can't have been listening "properly" first time, because this time I'm finding I'm really enjoying the JLU on Alice Coltrane - finding all sorts of connections; with Sun Ra, and with the Brotherhood of Breath "lineage", all those jams at the Duke of Wellington Balls Pond Road in the early '80s around Jim Dvorak and Elton Dean, Nick Evans, the Tippets Keith and Julie, & co. Louis Moholo: "It was all falling apart, man, but in a good way!"

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

From the BBC R3 Schedule overnight/ Through the Night:

"St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. Beethoven and Brahms
Through the Night

John Shea presents a chamber concert from members of Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota, playing Beethoven & Brahms"

I first saw/read that as PAUL CHAMBERS! Ah, aging eyesight and false hope and false dawn...

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

From the BBC R3 Schedule overnight/ Through the Night:

"St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. Beethoven and Brahms
Through the Night

John Shea presents a chamber concert from members of Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota, playing Beethoven & Brahms"

I first saw/read that as PAUL CHAMBERS! Ah, aging eyesight and false hope and false dawn...

BN.

Nah - just bass motives!!!

[Quarky]

I can't have been listening "properly" first time, because this time I'm finding I'm really enjoying the JLU on Alice Coltrane - finding all sorts of connections; with Sun Ra, and with the Brotherhood of Breath "lineage", all those jams at the Duke of Wellington Balls Pond Road in the early '80s around Jim Dvorak and Elton Dean, Nick Evans, the Tippets Keith and Julie, & co. Louis Moholo: "It was all falling apart, man, but in a good way!"

For me, the most worthwhile item was 'Trane's Spiritual. If he had stopped his musical development at that point, I would have been content.