The Scaffold, sir? The cutting edge? This way please.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 2 Feb
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with records by Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Oscar Peterson and others.

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

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents music and insight from two leading drummers, with a live performance by Mark Guiliana and his jazz quartet recorded at Ronnie Scott's in London. And Makaya McCraven, a lynchpin of the Chicago jazz scene, discusses recordings that have inspired him, including music by Chicago-born drummer Tony Williams (1945-97) and US jazz-rock band the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c81

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Count Basie's illustrious big band career is usually divided into the free-wheeling crew of the 1930s and the juggernaut of the 1950s. But the Basie team of the 1940s combined solo swing and potent ensembles. Geoffrey Smith presents some highlights of a great Basie band.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c87

Sun 3 Feb
11pm - Jacob Collier's Music Room
New Series - 1/3
Multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier explores music's universal language, revealing musical and thematic parallels across styles from classical and jazz to folk and world.

Some here might be interested.

Mon 4 Feb
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert by Oregon, recorded last year in Munich with Ralph Towner on piano and guitar, Paul McCandless on reeds, Paolino Dalla Porta on double bass and Mark Walker on drums. And American trumpeter Theo Croker discusses his latest album.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002cbw

Also, on Radio 4:

Mon 4 Feb
4pm - Paris Blue
Jazz writer Kevin le Gendre explores the encounter between American modern jazz and the French New Wave in Paris in the late 1950s and 60s. With contributions from jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, film director Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight'), composer Martial Solal, jazz writer Geoff Dyer, historians Kevi Donat and Ginette Vincandeau, bass player Henri Texier and playwright Jake Lamar.

Gitanes, mademoiselle? - or Gauloises?

[teamsaint]

Sat 2 Feb
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with records by Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Oscar Peterson and others.

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

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents music and insight from two leading drummers, with a live performance by Mark Guiliana and his jazz quartet recorded at Ronnie Scott's in London. And Makaya McCraven, a lynchpin of the Chicago jazz scene, discusses recordings that have inspired him, including music by Chicago-born drummer Tony Williams (1945-97) and US jazz-rock band the Mahavishnu Orchestra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c81

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Count Basie's illustrious big band career is usually divided into the free-wheeling crew of the 1930s and the juggernaut of the 1950s. But the Basie team of the 1940s combined solo swing and potent ensembles. Geoffrey Smith presents some highlights of a great Basie band.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002c87

Sun 3 Feb
11pm - Jacob Collier's Music Room
New Series - 1/3
Multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier explores music's universal language, revealing musical and thematic parallels across styles from classical and jazz to folk and world.

Some here might be interested.

Mon 4 Feb
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert by Oregon, recorded last year in Munich with Ralph Towner on piano and guitar, Paul McCandless on reeds, Paolino Dalla Porta on double bass and Mark Walker on drums. And American trumpeter Theo Croker discusses his latest album.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002cbw

Also, on Radio 4:

Mon 4 Feb
4pm - Paris Blue
Jazz writer Kevin le Gendre explores the encounter between American modern jazz and the French New Wave in Paris in the late 1950s and 60s. With contributions from jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, film director Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight'), composer Martial Solal, jazz writer Geoff Dyer, historians Kevi Donat and Ginette Vincandeau, bass player Henri Texier and playwright Jake Lamar.

Gitanes? - or Gauloises?

I expect Mr GG Will be interested in The Jacob Collier programme......

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And there was me looking forward to Lily the Pink ...

[MrGongGong]

I expect Mr GG Will be interested in The Jacob Collier programme......

Music isn't a "universal language"
lazy copywriting or delusions ?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

That Jazz & the French New Wave looks very interesting to me, combining two key interests. Godard, Louis Malle, Anna Karina, wots not to like...Jazz and the Polish New Wave would also be interesting, good stuff there...

I'm not sure if they interview Tom Perchard for the program, but he wrote this book so they should..

"AFTER DJANGO" published 2015, University Michigan Press.

"How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz—that quintessentially American music—in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused French cultural and political life? After Django begins with the famous interwar triumphs of Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt, but, for the first time, the focus here falls on the French jazz practices of the postwar era. The work of important but neglected French musicians such as André Hodeir and BARNEY WILEN is examined in depth

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Perchard is (one) of the biographers of Lee Morgan, he was on Alyn's Jazz Library, he's pretty sharp.

[Old Grumpy]

The Scaffold, sir? The cutting edge? This way please

Blimey, it's getting a bit hot under the collar round here...

... I'll fetch my gilet jaune!


OG

[Tenor Freak]

Mon 4 Feb
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert by Oregon, recorded last year in Munich with Ralph Towner on piano and guitar, Paul McCandless on reeds, Paolino Dalla Porta on double bass and Mark Walker on drums. And American trumpeter Theo Croker discusses his latest album.

Wow...did not know that Oregon had re-formed.

[Old Grumpy]

Wow...did not know that Oregon had re-formed.

Paul McCandless was at the "Ambleside Days" Festival last year. He looked quite frail then.

[MarkG]

Wow...did not know that Oregon had re-formed.

They are still around but with a different line-up. Bassist Glen Moore left the group a few years ago.

[Ian Thumwood]

Jacob Collier is an interesting character. I have seen him perform live and he is a kind of one-man-band for the 21st century. I would have to say that I have reservations about whether he is actually jazz. I think the problem for me is that the "interesting" element of his music is the technology which fascinates in a way that the results do not. As a live act, the performance is compelling because of the fact that he used multitracking in a concert context and it is intriguing to see how this is achieved. However, I am of the opinion that this doesn't leave much room for spontaneity. The curious think will be to see how he develops as an artist as he will need to transcend the technology at some point in time. At the moment I think there is a novelty value with what he is doing yet his voice is not strong enough to make him unique and I don't think he is really compelling as a soloist.

I saw Oregon perform in Winchester in about 1990 and really enjoyed their set. It was a performance that my Dad went to as well and was something of a notorious concert in his mind because the fact that Trilok Gurtu was not playing a conventional kit and spend the whole gig sat on a carpet. I really like Oregon and am a particular fan of Ralph Towner albeit my favourite record with him on is actually the duo with John Abercrombie called "Sargasso Sea."

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Mon 4 Feb
4pm - Paris Blue
Jazz writer Kevin le Gendre explores the encounter between American modern jazz and the French New Wave in Paris in the late 1950s and 60s. With contributions from jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, film director Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight'), composer Martial Solal, jazz writer Geoff Dyer, historians Kevi Donat and Ginette Vincandeau, bass player Henri Texier and playwright Jake Lamar."

Finally got around to listening to this on Le Player! REALLY excellent, great program, Paris and France, the joy and the warts, the myopia of its own colonialism and selective racism. Also quite personal for Kevin le Grande, who I think is really coming into his own as a broadcaster. RECOMMENDED.