From Jarrett to the Garrett: Geoffrey goes for a Burton

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 13 April
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' picks, today including Jack Teagarden, Billie Holiday and Archie Shepp.

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

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents concert highlights from one of the leading young trumpeters in the UK, Mark Kavuma, born in Uganda and based in London. He performs from his 2018 debut album in a gig recorded last month at the Cockpit in London. And US sax star Kenny Garrett discusses his music influences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00046dg

Preceding Geoffrey Smith, 10pm's New Music Show starts with a piece by bassist Mischa Mullova-Abbado titled The Linden Tree, performed by Hermes Experiment. Mischa has recently been featured in line-ups on various jazz programmes.

(Listeners are advised to be careful before attempting the Hermes Experiment: upload the Herpes Experiment step-by-step guide by mistake, and you could be in serious trouble).

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Vibraphone star Gary Burton has marked his retirement by compiling a set of discs covering the whole of his extraordinary 60-year career. Geoffrey Smith picks highlights from one of the leaders of contemporary jazz, featuring among others Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and Chick Corea.

Go to Retrospecs Savers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00046dv

Mon 15 April
11pm - Jazz Now: NYJO
Soweto Kinch presents a concert of well-known jazz classics and new commissions performed by the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, recorded last month in Leicester. And Emma Smith finds out about the background to the NYJO's nationwide work with young players.

Nice pic of three young women students on the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00047wb

[Old Grumpy]

Geoffrey goes for a Burton - is that another euphemism for having a lie down*?



*i.e. Resting


OG

[Alyn_Shipton]

Or you could listen to Mr Burton's own choice of his best work on this podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vkp5p

[Serial_Apologist]

Geoffrey goes for a Burton - is that another euphemism for having a lie down*?



*i.e. Resting


OG

I always think of John Surman announcing one of his tunes as "Goin' for a Burrrton", or "Gone for a Burrrton".

[Serial_Apologist]

Or you could listen to Mr Burton's own choice of his best work on this podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vkp5p

Thanks Alyn. I shall wait and see if a track should be included from "Lofty Fake Anagram", an album he recorded in 1967, which had probably the most "1967" cover of any album I have from that year, "Sergeant Pepper" excepted. I still have it - in remarkably good nick.