Sat 12 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton plays listeners' requests and includes trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler.
The real dealer - much loved, greatly missed.
5pm - J to Z
In the programme celebrating the best in jazz past, present and future, Julian Joseph introduces a concert featuring trumpet great Eddie Henderson at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Read what it says in the link below!
12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
One of the great jazz gladiators, saxophonist Sonny Stitt (1924-82) loved to lock horns with the biggest names around: Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie. Geoffrey Smith selects some vintage encounters.
This is a repeat.
Mon 14 May
11pm - Jazz Now
For Jazz Now's first visit to the 2018 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Soweto Kinch presents an exclusive UK appearance by the Christian McBride Big Band, one of the most talked about ensembles on the international scene, featuring new music from the renowned bassist/bandleader.
Not jazz, but on Thursday next Humans is back at 9 pm on Channel 4 - a series which pressed all the right buttons last time round!
And...
Fri 18 May BBC4 TV
8pm - Tap America: How a Nation Found its Feet
Actor and writer Clarke Peters explores the origins, development and modern significance of tap dancing. He looks at 17th-century accounts of the dances performed by African slaves on American soil, as well as dance-offs and contests between Irish and African-American dancers in the 1800s. Clarke also covers the troubled Hollywood heyday of tap in the 1930s and 40s, when black performers were routinely excluded from film roles.
Not sure if this was on BBC2 before.
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton plays listeners' requests and includes trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler.
The real dealer - much loved, greatly missed.
5pm - J to Z
In the programme celebrating the best in jazz past, present and future, Julian Joseph introduces a concert featuring trumpet great Eddie Henderson at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Read what it says in the link below!
12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
One of the great jazz gladiators, saxophonist Sonny Stitt (1924-82) loved to lock horns with the biggest names around: Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie. Geoffrey Smith selects some vintage encounters.
This is a repeat.
Mon 14 May
11pm - Jazz Now
For Jazz Now's first visit to the 2018 Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Soweto Kinch presents an exclusive UK appearance by the Christian McBride Big Band, one of the most talked about ensembles on the international scene, featuring new music from the renowned bassist/bandleader.
Not jazz, but on Thursday next Humans is back at 9 pm on Channel 4 - a series which pressed all the right buttons last time round!
And...
Fri 18 May BBC4 TV
8pm - Tap America: How a Nation Found its Feet
Actor and writer Clarke Peters explores the origins, development and modern significance of tap dancing. He looks at 17th-century accounts of the dances performed by African slaves on American soil, as well as dance-offs and contests between Irish and African-American dancers in the 1800s. Clarke also covers the troubled Hollywood heyday of tap in the 1930s and 40s, when black performers were routinely excluded from film roles.
Not sure if this was on BBC2 before.
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