Yazzme blues, plus hipps and juicy bits of Quincy

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 30 June
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton, with listeners' requests for all styles of jazz, including recordings by German-born pianist Jutta Hipp.

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

5pm - J to Z
Featuring a session from Jean Toussaint Allstar 6Tet. Saxophonist Toussaint performs from his new album Brother Raymond. And Bahraini-British trumpeter Yazz Ahmed shares some of the musical influences which have inspired her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7y4l8

12midnight = Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
A repeat of the Quincy Jones programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b86yxh

Mon 2 July
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents German pianist Pablo Held in concert at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, with Robert Landfermann, bass, and Jonas Burgwinkel, drums, playing music from his new album Investigations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7hbwj

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Interesting that Alyn's JRR'ing Jutta Hipp because I had thought of requesting something from her Bluenote albums with Zoot Sims. Some very fine tenor on those. She had a story and not an easy one. And after Leonard Feather's debatable "counselling etc" , she retired from music and became (I think) a seamstress. At the end of her life Bluenote tracked her down and paid royalties, a lot of it from Japanese re-issues, I think she was quite surprised. (They also paid o/s royalties to Hank Mobley's father who was still living)

[Ian Thumwood]

What I have heard by Jutta Hipp is ok but not great. I think the interest was more due to the fact that she was a woman and had come from Germany. The fact that she recorded with Blue Note marks her out but I don't really think that she was as interesting as Herbie Nichols or Elmo Hope. There is very much a curiosity factor about her because of these matters but there are moments on the live album where she seems unsure. There is a full account of her life on Wicki which outlines her ultimate dissatisfaction with music. Her music is interesting and I would not dismiss it but I didn't find her too distinctive.

One pianist I was listening a lot a few weeks back was Hampton Hawes who is seriously under-rated and probably one of the most hard-swinging pianists until McCoy Tyner. I just find him to be really satisfying to listen to and love the drive within his player. My old piano teacher as a massive fan but Hawes seems really forgotten these days with the general lack of enthusiasm for West Coast music these days.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Hawes ain't forgotten by me! As for Ms Hipp, she was an OK pianist, a friend of Horace Silver and began to move more in that direction. The block was Leonard Feather who initially promoted her in the States and (if accounts be true) had a strong sexual interest that was very much not reciprocated. Then he stymied her career saying she'd lost her way. Apart from that, there were so many other good/better players that I think she just thought "enough".

The interest for me is Zoot Sims extremely well recorded, and unusually, by Bluenote. I'm not sure what Alyn is playing but there is a lovely "These Foolish Things" that would make a fine JRR tenor feature.

[Serial_Apologist]

Hawes ain't forgotten by me! As for Ms Hipp, she was an OK pianist, a friend of Horace Silver and began to move more in that direction. The block was Leonard Feather who initially promoted her in the States and (if accounts be true) had a strong sexual interest that was very much not reciprocated. Then he stymied her career saying she'd lost her way. Apart from that, there were so many other good/better players that I think she just thought "enough".

The interest for me is Zoot Sims extremely well recorded, and unusually, by Bluenote. I'm not sure what Alyn is playing but there is a lovely "These Foolish Things" that would make a fine JRR tenor feature.

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

Apologies for my typo in the original transfer.

BTW: Disc 3 is an interesting request of a recording by the shortlived early British jazzrock band, If. No relation to the other Quincy, ahem...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ah, the Jutta Hipp was from before she went to the States. Terry Smith in the Quincy band? There was also a US TV series called Quincy about a forensic detective...an ex partner of mine used to go all "hormonal strange" when it was on...."Oh, he's SO masterful!". I couldn't complete!

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah, the Jutta Hipp was from before she went to the States. Terry Smith in the Quincy band? There was also a US TV series called Quincy about a forensic detective...an ex partner of mine used to go all "hormonal strange" when it was on...."Oh, he's SO masterful!". I couldn't complete!

I think it was Jim Mullen originally, though I would need to check. It was Dave Quincy, btw, who gave John Taylor his first leg up, in a band he led that operated from a pub in the Blackheath district. I met him once... one could write a very depressing book about the many reasonably talented jazz people whom the fates cast to one side as others blossomed to relative fame in their wake...