Pass the Portal

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 9 March
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, including tracks by Lester Young, George Shearing and Miles Davis.

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

5pm - J to Z
Pianist Trevor Watkis leads a live session celebrating the music of Jamaican-born, hard-bop trumpet pioneer Dizzy Reece. Over the years Watkis has forged a strong relationship with Reece, who arrived on HMS Windrush aged 17 and whose rich career has included work with trumpet great Donald Byrd and saxophonist Ronnie Scott. Plus musical insights from composer and trumpeter Jamie Branch. Presented by Julian Joseph.

I must admit, I didn't realise Dizzy Reece is still living.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00035ks

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
In 1969, trumpet icon Miles Davis shocked the jazz world by crossing over to rock with fusion albums such as In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. Geoffrey Smith charts the explosive rise of electric Miles.

Miles to Chick Corea: "The piano is over. It's an old-fashioned instrument. I don't want to hear it any more. It belongs to Beethoven. It's not a contemporary instrument" - quoted in Ian Carr's "Miles Davis the Definitive Biography", P238 (Harper Collins, 1999).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00035l9

Mon 11 March
11pm - Jazz Now

MIchel Portal. Soweto Kinch presents a concert by clarinettist Michel Portal, with pianist Bojan Z, Nils Wogram on trombone, basist Bruno Chevillon and drummer Lander Gyselinck.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000367w

Radio 2
Tues 12 March
9pm - Jamie Cullum
New and classic jazz and studio guests, tonight with Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Madison McFerrin discussing her influences and performing live.

Is she her own Walkwoman?? Will The Truth ever be revealed???

And don't forget the Sunday Feature on Japanese jazz, at 6.45pm on R3.

[eighthobstruction]

....a couple of people on here will be looking forward to GS on Electric Miles....

[Serial_Apologist]

....a couple of people on here will be looking forward to GS on Electric Miles....

Make that three, eighth!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Dizzy Reece available for concerts
For bookings and inquiries please call 212 x

Dizzy has hours of personal recordings ready for release as well as dozens and dozens of arrangements for big bands and small groups."

That was from 2007 so may not be current.

BN.

[Joseph K]

....a couple of people on here will be looking forward to GS on Electric Miles....

Absolutely! Though midnight is past my bedtime. I'll listen on catch up.

[Jazzrook]

"Dizzy Reece available for concerts
For bookings and inquiries please call 212 x

Dizzy has hours of personal recordings ready for release as well as dozens and dozens of arrangements for big bands and small groups."

That was from 2007 so may not be current.

BN.

Dizzy Reece recorded a fascinating but little-known quintet album, 'From In To Out'(FUTURA), with John Gilmore in Paris in 1970:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfZAAO7tLBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnFowHwn01M

JR

[Tenor Freak]

DISC 9

Artist Joni Mitchell

Title The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey

Composer Mitchell

Album Mingus

Label Asylum

Number 53091 Track 5

Duration 6.38

Performers: Joni Mitchell, g, v; Don Alias, Emil Richards, perc;



DISC 10 ORDERED FROM GRAMS

Artist Chick Corea

Title Humpty Dumpty

Composer Corea

Album The Mad Hatter

Label Polydor

Number 1-6130 Track 4

Duration 6.30

Performers Joe Farrell, ts; Chick Corea, p; Eddie Gomez, b; Steve Gadd, d. 1978.

Nice to see a track from Joni's "Mingus" LP on JRR today. One of my favourites, had it on cassette and played the hell out of it on my Walkman back in the early '90s. If I were requesting I'd have gone for "Sweet Sucker Dance" or "Chair in the Sky" meself....

As a PSA the Chick Corea LP is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Hatter_(album)

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

J to Z is exceptionally good this evening. It usually washes over me as not very interesting wallpaper. But this from the Dizzy Reece Homage through to Jamie Branch is THE stuff.

Mo' stuff please, BN.

[Jazzrook]

J to Z is exceptionally good this evening. It usually washes over me as not very interesting wallpaper. But this from the Dizzy Reece Homage through to Jamie Branch is THE stuff.

Mo' stuff please, BN.

Agreed, BN.
I usually turn off J to Z at some point but this week was hooked to the end!
Good to hear something from Don Cherry's
'Complete Communion'.

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yep, Compere Communion and Symphony for Improvisors are wonderful records. Cherry's high spot for me.

[Ian Thumwood]

Surprised that no one has commented on Jaimie Branch's appearance on A_Z who seems to be really overlooked by most jazz fans in the UK. It is strange how the UK seems to latch on to some players but not others. I have been paying a lot of attention to what has been going on in Chicago for the last 5 or 6 years and it is amazing how fertile it is so it is good that there was a little overview of some of this music. The American press was going a-bundle over Branch's playing two years ago yet she still remains pretty exoteric over here.

I am never quite so sure about Rob Mazarak. I find his stuff a bit of a difficult listen. Can't ever recall Tortoise being played on the radio.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Yet again, Jazz Now has featured a set by Mazurek, and in the segment of my World Service interview with him that we played in that show I am pretty sure there was an example of Tortoise.

[elmo]

Have to agree an excellent programme tonight - Ian is right about the new Chicago scene there is so much good stuff happening there as documented by the Delmark label. The Jaimie Branch track was very good indeed, I shall be getting a copy of that.
The Dizzy Reece tribute band - great soloing and a reminder of what a fine composer of Hard Bop tunes he was - Dezron Douglas reminded me a bit of Paul Chambers and for me it just does not get better than that.
Another reminder also of what a great Tenor player Harold McNair was - I have an album of Harold with Ornette's trio mates David Izenzon and Charles Moffett, an album that really needs reissuing - it is a classic.

elmo

[Jazzrook]

Have to agree an excellent programme tonight - Ian is right about the new Chicago scene there is so much good stuff happening there as documented by the Delmark label. The Jaimie Branch track was very good indeed, I shall be getting a copy of that.
The Dizzy Reece tribute band - great soloing and a reminder of what a fine composer of Hard Bop tunes he was - Dezron Douglas reminded me a bit of Paul Chambers and for me it just does not get better than that.
Another reminder also of what a great Tenor player Harold McNair was - I have an album of Harold with Ornette's trio mates David Izenzon and Charles Moffett, an album that really needs reissuing - it is a classic.

elmo

Harold McNair's 'Affectionate Fink' with 2/3 of the Ornette Coleman trio has been reissued. I've been trying to find a copy for years and have recently ordered it via Amazon.

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

There's a load of background on Dizzy Reece's activities on the "Band on the wall" website. I was surprised how much...

Example...
"It’s been mentioned that I’ve been under the radar for some time.’ Dizzy Reece told Jazz Inside magazine in 2014. ‘But while under the radar, I’ve been quite active.’

Reece’s activities of the last thirty-eight years have indeed been under the radar, deepening the mystery and intrigue surrounding the artist. He has recorded challenging solo trumpet works, kept archived numerous live recordings from the NYC jazz festival, written autobiographically, as well as penning articles and works including ‘a thick biographical history of jazz saxophonists,’ – but not necessarily thrusting those works onto the viewing public the second they are complete.

The past thirty-eight years have seen numerous recording released from his archive, but there are still many more unaccounted for, as his 2014 Facebook post suggests. Some of his live recordings from the eighties feature in Dermot Hussey’s Dizzy Reece radio hour, but otherwise his work from the era remains difficult to access.

One great document of the period though is the film, For Klook: The Story of the Paris Reunion Band. It captures the mid-eighties exploits of a band recalling the great Paris jazz scene of the sixties, while continuing their own relationship as musicians and to the music that had taken hold at least thirty years earlier. Reece can seen here soloing on various tracks."

BN.