Sat 15 Dec
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
5pm - J to Z
Kevin le Genre introduces pianist Tigran Hamasyan, who plays solo piano pieces from his latest release For Gyumri. And soul-inspired vocalist Zara MacFarlane shares some of the musical moments that have inspired her.
12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Festive treats featuring Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, John Coltrane and Woody Herman, plus a madcap Jingle Bells by scat master Leo Watson.
That's scat master, not scout master!
Mon 17 Dec
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert from this year's Herts Jazz Festival by Paul Dunmall's Sun Ship Quartet with special guest Alan Skidmore.
The first time I saw Alan Skidmore play was at the Royal Festival Hall, with Ronnie Scott's band, as the warm up to the Thelonious Monk Quartet. Would have been around 1966, I guess. Skid, as some know him, would be warming up innumerable recordings in years to come, including his own. Last I knew he was living around the corner from where they record EastEnders.
There's that story about Jimmy Skidmore, a fine tenor player who worked with Humph among others and was Alan's dad, and who made just one album under his own name, titled Skid Marks, which unfortunately did not sell very well!
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
5pm - J to Z
Kevin le Genre introduces pianist Tigran Hamasyan, who plays solo piano pieces from his latest release For Gyumri. And soul-inspired vocalist Zara MacFarlane shares some of the musical moments that have inspired her.
12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Festive treats featuring Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, John Coltrane and Woody Herman, plus a madcap Jingle Bells by scat master Leo Watson.
That's scat master, not scout master!
Mon 17 Dec
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert from this year's Herts Jazz Festival by Paul Dunmall's Sun Ship Quartet with special guest Alan Skidmore.
The first time I saw Alan Skidmore play was at the Royal Festival Hall, with Ronnie Scott's band, as the warm up to the Thelonious Monk Quartet. Would have been around 1966, I guess. Skid, as some know him, would be warming up innumerable recordings in years to come, including his own. Last I knew he was living around the corner from where they record EastEnders.
There's that story about Jimmy Skidmore, a fine tenor player who worked with Humph among others and was Alan's dad, and who made just one album under his own name, titled Skid Marks, which unfortunately did not sell very well!
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