Hackneyed seasonal theme: never overdose on Jelly.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 22 Dec
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

5pm - J to Z
There's a Christmas party feel to the last edition of the year, which comes from Kansas Smitty's bar in Hackney, east London. With live music from the house band and special guests.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001psv

12midnite - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith pays tribute to a New Orleans immortal, the pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), whose 1938 interviews at the Library of Congress provide a feast of memory and music from the great days of the "Crescent City".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zj3ch

RT does not indicate if this is a repeat.

Xmas Eve
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents Entropi recorded in concert at West Yorkshire's Marsden Jazz Festival in October.

Alto saxophonist Dee Byrne's Entropi's inaugural CD of a couple of years ago took cues from Filles de Kilimanjaro-era Miles, courtesy the finely nuanced trumpet of US-born André Cannière (cf. James Darcy Argue, Maria Schneider, Donny McCaslin, ao), and some, er, canny group interplay; since when this feisty woman has pursued directions which have taken her into both free and hip-hop territories, so it will be interesting to see if this is reflected beyond the comparatively restrained character of the music represented in the recording.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001qgv

One more set of jazz programmes to end the year, for which I will return in good time.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Thanks for pulling all these together throughout year SA, it's MUCH appreciated. Have a good Christmas. We will be playing Sonny Rollins's "Winter Wonderland" (RCA) and walking the dog. Or Sonny playing "Walking the Dog" depending on the Bourgogne intake. Recommend.

[elmo]

Bluesie

If you are "Walking the dog" no matter what alky hol intake its got to be Rufus........

https://youtu.be/QSyVnG7R9J4

elmo

[antongould]

Thanks for pulling all these together throughout year SA, it's MUCH appreciated. Have a good Christmas. We will be playing Sonny Rollins's "Winter Wonderland" (RCA) and walking the dog. Or Sonny playing "Walking the Dog" depending on the Bourgogne intake. Recommend.

Many thanks from me too S_A .... very much appreciated

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Rufus is top dog walking geezer. And his daughter, Carla. "Gee Wizz". No matter if you're a Retriever or a Beagle, it's jjjjjjjjjjj justa walking. Accept no Mick Jagger substitutes.

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm glad the weekly is appreciated - thanks! Calum da Jazzbo, much missed, inaugurated the idea, and I picked it up when he got ill, with his blessing. It only seemed right to carry on with it in his memory, and in his slightly sardonic tone as well, continuing the punning titles, which are great fun thinking up, if not always easy. One day the offerings are going to leave me completely stumped!

Tomorrow night I shall be celebrating the end of an absolutely awful year, for most of us and in so many respects, political, personal and so on, with a visit to the Bull's Head in Barnes to see Art Themen front a strong line-up. I may write this up in the Jazz in the Smoke thread. And joining me, if all goes according to plan, will be Barbara Thompson - "I'm not in a wheelchair, yet!" - for whom Art was a strong mentor in her early days going professional. This will be an amazing privilege for me! Wishing all devotees of the music a very happy Xmas, and maybe you'll find that special surprise in your stocking if you pretend to be asleep when Father Christmas drops down the chimney.

[Ian Thumwood]

Thanks very much too, SA

Here is some more "hackneyed" Christmas music from "An Albert Ayler Xmas Vol 2" …..

[Jazzrook]

Many thanks, S_A, for your helpful weekly listings and happy Christmas to you & all boredees.

Here's 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town' by the Bill Evans 'Trio 64'. Great bass solo from Gary Peacock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x4awrmnGXU

JR

[burning dog]

Thank for keeping it up SA

"Well Done Ewe!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab#/media/File:Doner_kebab,_Istanbul,_Turkey.JPG

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Here's one for the Christmas quiz night (after ten pints of Old Ornette home brew down the local)...

Which famous American jazz musician has a prominent left wing younger brother...Is it:

Vladimir Illich Leon Davidovitch Keef Jarrett?
Rosa Luxemburg Marsalis?

No it's...Jarvis Tyner (born July 11, 1941) is an American activist and the current Executive Vice Chair of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), & the YOUNGER brother of the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner. NOT many people know this (comps Organissimo web site).

Have a bon Christmas. And a Revolutionary New Year. "Forward to World Socialism, Crush the Fascist insects!" as Kenny Kingtone used to happily type. Good advice!

[Serial_Apologist]

[B]

Xmas Eve
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents Entropi recorded in concert at West Yorkshire's Marsden Jazz Festival in October.

Alto saxophonist Dee Byrne's Entropi's inaugural CD of a couple of years ago took cues from Filles de Kilimanjaro-era Miles, courtesy the finely nuanced trumpet of US-born André Cannière (cf. James Darcy Argue, Maria Schneider, Donny McCaslin, ao), and some, er, canny group interplay; since when this feisty woman has pursued directions which have taken her into both free and hip-hop territories, so it will be interesting to see if this is reflected beyond the comparatively restrained character of the music represented in the recording.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001qgv

It is not often that I am moved to say this, but I cannot speak too highly of Dee's band, having only just now got around to listening to the broadcast. Clearly things have evolved most positively since I saw the band at its reunion a couple of years ago, covering the materials featured in the eponymous 2013 album. Much greater variety and multiplicity of creative directions now marks the direction, one in which heads are presented for improvising on, but it would be mistaken from this to assume conventions or predictable adherence to mood in line with theme character, as the route chosen can shift on an instant, Messrs Fisher and Brice responding and in-feeding magnificently, always at the ready, and Ms Nash never wanting for fresh ways to either stimulate or challenge the mood shifts, whether on acoustic or electric piano. Surprises lay in wait around every musical turn.The themes range from evocative ballad to eccentric stop-start block structures leading to freebop counterpoint that may remind one of Cecil McBee's refreshing re-examination of compositional form in a band of young musicians led by him a few years back. Dee, a subtly rich, even-toned altoist, is capable of upping the pressure when state of play demands, and in Canniere she has a trumpeter of sweet tone and elegance of conception. Those with an interest in recent developments in form and composition will find heaps here to delight, while others more into the creative bits that birth spontaneously will be enchanted, will be outdone by others who find a perfect intermarriage of elements, and the feeling that this ensemble has much more to offer.