This weekend, jazz continues almost unrecognised and totally unabashed to hold the banner high for the standard of Radio 3 we once lauded the BBC for.
3 Nov
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton [they got that right this time!] responds to listeners' letters and emails requesting favourite jazz tracks, today featuring contemporary jazz from Hastings-based band Hexagon, recordings by violininst Jean-Luc Ponty and Didier Lockwood, and classic tracks from Miles Davis and Charlie Byrd.
Wow for those names alone - I shall definitely be tuning in!
Jazz then makes way for Walkies (woof woof) this week, it being that time of year.
12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
During the swing era, it was typical for a big band to include a smaller jazz combo. Geoffrey Smith surveys some of the best, including outfits associated with Artie Shaw, Bob Crosby, Woody Herman and Count Basie.
I say Swing for the genre, and swing for what Fats said the music should do - but, hey, what does it matter?
Mon 5 Nov
11pm - Jazz Now
A concert from the Herts Jazz Festival by Misha Mullova-Abbado and his band. Plus a feature on the music of Emma Jean Thackray. With Soweto Kinch.
No relation to the Victorian poet - the spelling being the giveaway - but any family connections to the folk bard of happy adolescence reminiscence, (That Was The Week That Was), Jake? Perhaps we'll learn.
There's also Clare Teal and Moira Stuart, providing one and two hours respectively at the lighter end of things on Sunday from 9pm to midnight on Radio 2 - on which wavelength we learn in Radio Times that Jamie Cullum (Tuesday 8pm) is "... a recent gold winner at the Audio and Radio Industry Awards". A right little miner.............
3 Nov
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton [they got that right this time!] responds to listeners' letters and emails requesting favourite jazz tracks, today featuring contemporary jazz from Hastings-based band Hexagon, recordings by violininst Jean-Luc Ponty and Didier Lockwood, and classic tracks from Miles Davis and Charlie Byrd.
Wow for those names alone - I shall definitely be tuning in!
Jazz then makes way for Walkies (woof woof) this week, it being that time of year.
12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
During the swing era, it was typical for a big band to include a smaller jazz combo. Geoffrey Smith surveys some of the best, including outfits associated with Artie Shaw, Bob Crosby, Woody Herman and Count Basie.
I say Swing for the genre, and swing for what Fats said the music should do - but, hey, what does it matter?
Mon 5 Nov
11pm - Jazz Now
A concert from the Herts Jazz Festival by Misha Mullova-Abbado and his band. Plus a feature on the music of Emma Jean Thackray. With Soweto Kinch.
No relation to the Victorian poet - the spelling being the giveaway - but any family connections to the folk bard of happy adolescence reminiscence, (That Was The Week That Was), Jake? Perhaps we'll learn.
There's also Clare Teal and Moira Stuart, providing one and two hours respectively at the lighter end of things on Sunday from 9pm to midnight on Radio 2 - on which wavelength we learn in Radio Times that Jamie Cullum (Tuesday 8pm) is "... a recent gold winner at the Audio and Radio Industry Awards". A right little miner.............
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