Get Festive - Put a Tigran in your Jingles!

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  • Serial_Apologist
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    • Dec 2010
    • 37857

    Get Festive - Put a Tigran in your Jingles!

    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.

    The best in jazz - past, present and future. With pianist Tigran Hamasyan in session.


    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!
  • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 4316

    #2
    Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
    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.

    The best in jazz - past, present and future. With pianist Tigran Hamasyan in session.


    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!
    That looks a good one. For theeessee I defrost and load up two premier cru reserve C90s and slot them in my "studio quality" machine. "Have yourself a Sony Merry Little Christmas". After Brexit it will be all Ktel eight track cartridges from Poundland. If yer lucky.

    BN.

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    • Serial_Apologist
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      • Dec 2010
      • 37857

      #3
      Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
      That looks a good one. For theeessee I defrost and load up two premier cru reserve C90s and slot them in my "studio quality" machine. "Have yourself a Sony Merry Little Christmas". After Brexit it will be all Ktel eight track cartridges from Poundland. If yer lucky.

      BN.
      Can one still get blank cassettes? The police must get them from some source as they still use them for interviewing suspects; but one feels uncomfortable about going into the nearest cop shop and asking. I checked this huge Asian retailer in Peckham earlier this year where one could once find them, but no dice. I've thought about the local flea market, where one can sometimes find other people's unofficial "downloadings", which can be wiped, then over-recorded. Last year I found one with Scritti Politti's "Provision" one one side - including that Miles Davis solo - and Joni Mitchell's Blue on the other, just paid a quid for the "surplus value". I've kept those, naturally.

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      • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
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        • Dec 2010
        • 4316

        #4
        You can still get them. I think easily online, but I recently got a load of still wrapped Memorex and TDK tapes in a charity shop for about a fiver. The machines are harder to find as but they are still out there. I paid £25 for a hardly used Sony top range deck, and a tenner for a really good JVC at a car boot sale...the kid said his "father had left home with another woman", so his mother said to flog everything off! It's an ill wind!

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        • Serial_Apologist
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          • Dec 2010
          • 37857

          #5
          Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
          You can still get them. I think easily online, but I recently got a load of still wrapped Memorex and TDK tapes in a charity shop for about a fiver. The machines are harder to find as but they are still out there. I paid £25 for a hardly used Sony top range deck, and a tenner for a really good JVC at a car boot sale...the kid said his "father had left home with another woman", so his mother said to flog everything off! It's an ill wind!
          Thanks Bluesie. Might just do a round of the local charidee shops. Fortunately I still possess a top quality double cassette player donated to me by ex-neighbours when I moved here, and a cheap mini Aiwa which was abandoned in a nearby wood I use for recording purposes. Amazing what people throw away.

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          • Alyn_Shipton
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            • Nov 2010
            • 777

            #6
            Just to point out the Tigran show is a repeat of the 18 June J to Z. The Dunmall / Skid show is all new...

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            • Serial_Apologist
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              • Dec 2010
              • 37857

              #7
              Originally posted by Alyn_Shipton View Post
              Just to point out the Tigran show is a repeat of the 18 June J to Z. The Dunmall / Skid show is all new...
              So it is. Thank you, Alyn.

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              • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
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                • Dec 2010
                • 4316

                #8
                "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."

                Anyone have thoughts on this? I listened and taped it, and will relisten, but it's SUCH a specific to Coltrane period, session and style (in my mind) that maybe they are on a hiding to nothing. It was well enough done but maybe some things should be left to stand.

                Miles' typical response to Wynton & Branford Marsalis cloning the second quartet..."Doesn't he think we got it right the first time?"

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37857

                  #9
                  Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
                  "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."

                  Anyone have thoughts on this? I listened and taped it, and will relisten, but it's SUCH a specific to Coltrane period, session and style (in my mind) that maybe they are on a hiding to nothing. It was well enough done but maybe some things should be left to stand.
                  Yes I rather have that feeling too... Getting away from the joyous collective jamborees of "Kule se Mama" and "Meditations" right at the very end of his life, Coltrane was at the start of reinvestigating closed forms with his new quartet with Alice and Rashied in "Stellar Regions". That fact and Trane's sudden death caught those closely following his direction on the hop, and I think the main example he bequeathed was in terms of advancing the vocabulary of improvising in more complex directions more suited to abstract non-predetermined free improvisation than that based in predefined rhythmic schemes and tonalities. Of the three tenor players Dunmall has gone furthest in that area of exploration; Cottle was audibly the most in thrall to the model, and Skidmore, who had taken on board everything he needed from Trane's modal middle period by 1966, was never really influenced by Coltrane methods, more by the spirit, and would take this forward in collaborations with the likes of Osborne and Surman. In listening to recordings from the late 1960s/early 70s it is striking the extent to which those three would crib ideas off each other and absorb them into their subsequent playing. In coming later to the late Coltrane I've always felt that Dunmall benefitted from the time lapse needed to first get to grips with its complexity and then build most of his own approach on that.

                  Miles' typical response to Wynton & Branford Marsalis cloning the second quartet..."Doesn't he think we got it right the first time?"
                  Understandable, that remark; and of course they did get it "right" - the point (in my opinion) being that the Miles/Shorter/Hancock/Carter/Williams constellation evolved a working approach that had something in common with the ways in which Stravinsky had sowed all those seeds for others to follow, but less so himself, in composing "The Rite of Spring". The best jazz, informing straight ahead structures with freedoms from more radical stuff taking place at around the same time, has been that which has built on its possibilities in ways Miles had less interest in from "Bitches Brew" onwards.

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