Kirby your enthusiasms if your one mind is in two, and Goofus much as you like

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 28 July
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents music including the vintage American novelty group the Goofus Five, featuring multi-instrumentalist Adrian Rollini.

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

5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents a concert by Dhafer Youssef, the acclaimed singer and virtuoso oud player. Magnus Ostrom, drummer with the influential Esbjorn Svensson Trio (EST), reveals some of the tracks that inspired the group - including a piece by Chopin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bck29w

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The career of the John Kirby Orchestra, known in the swing era as "the biggest little band in the land". Geoffrey Smith surveys its brilliant career.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bck4hc

Mon 30 July
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents concert by quartet Two of a Mind from Herts Jazz, featuring saxophonists Alison Neale and Chris Biscoe, with Jeremy Brown (bass) and Matt Fishwick (drums).

This comes with strong recommendation from Yours Truly, having seen this band at the good old Bulls Head. Matt Fishwick is the bro of Steve Fishwick, that fine trumpeter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bclf0c

Jamie Cullum's programme next Tuesday (8pm - Radio 2) is the interview with Bluey - Jean-Paul Maulnick, the Incognito guy and once-collaborator of Stevie Wonder, but no mention of it being a repeat, suggesting it must have been cancelled or replaced last time.

Weds 1 Aug
10pm - Alice Coltrane: Her Sound and Spirit
Kevin Le Gendre presents a portrait of Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) - pianist, harpist, composer, improviser, bandleader, and ultimately Vedantic spiritual leader.

This is a repeat.

[Ian Thumwood]

Some of those Adrian Rollini records are amazing. He was a multi-instrumentalist who could turn his hand to anything. The stuff with Venuti and Lang as featured soloists strike me as being archaic and modern at the same time. I think Lang was potentially a greater loss to jazz than Beiderbecke and someone you could envisage really benefitting from the improved recording techniques from the 50'sonwards.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Well you'll have to wait til next week for the Goofus Five as R3 got the billings the wrong way round.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well you'll have to wait til next week for the Goofus Five as R3 got the billings the wrong way round.

Well thanks as ever for providing your own list Alyn, ready now for checking for anyone wishing to - see the OP link.

Much looking forward to the Ronnie Ross final track of the programme in particular; also intrigued by the Jean-Luc Ponty number: not often do we hear of him nowadays!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

There's some interesting "stuff" in JRR, even WHAAAAAAT, Peter Nero! Ray Charles once said that Nero was one of his favourite pianists, but Ray was either well "ginned" in the interview or looking to bridge to the Saga set.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The drummer on the Ronnie Ross track was Andy White...who played on the released..."Love me do", when George Martin didn't think Ringo was up to it. He was paid £5 and 50 shillings for bringing his own drums! A flat fee!

[Serial_Apologist]

The drummer on the Ronnie Ross track was Andy White...who played on the released..."Love me do", when George Martin didn't think Ringo was up to it. He was paid £5 and 50 shillings for bringing his own drums! A flat fee!

That would have been a week and a half's rent back then, mind. I must admit I had no knowledge of this!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

He was Scottish and played (quite young) with Vic Lewis in 50s, they toured the UK on a variety bill with Bill Haley, and he got the authentic "rock" rudiments from Haley's drummer. So, then as well as jazz, he did a load of first call sessions with Billy Fury, Marty Wilde et al. He's the guy on Tom Jones' "It's not unusual". Hope he got more than a fiver for that "thing".