Fats and Jelly Rolls - all that Cole-esterol: we Musson miss 'un!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 18 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
A selection of listeners' requests from the world of jazz featuring Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and a musical battle as the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie join forces. Presented by Alyn Shipton.

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

5pm - J to Z
London-based trio Phronesis perform music from their album We Are All, and saxophonist Tim Garland discusses his musical inspirations.

NB: This is a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013z7

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The music of New Orleans-born reed player Sidney Bechet, who won international fame before fellow New Orleans giant Louis Armstrong, and who inspired saxophonists from Johnny Hodges to John Coltrane.

Hummm - another repeat - we must be into the Silly Season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/nb01nwbx2

Mon 20 May
11pm - Jazz Now
Saxophonist Rachel Musson and her nine-piece band perform her project I Went This Way, recorded in May at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and featuring saxophonist Xhosa Cole, BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year.

Strongly recommended: I've no idea what this is going to be like, but, knowing Ms Musson as one does, it is bound to be of interest. Great pic of Rachel standing next to the tall Pine!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057hr

[Old Grumpy]

Sat 18 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
A selection of listeners' requests from the world of jazz featuring Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and a musical battle as the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie join forces. Presented by Alyn Shipton.

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

5pm - J to Z
London-based trio Phronesis perform music from their album We Are All, and saxophonist Tim Garland discusses his musical inspirations.

NB: This is a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013z7

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The music of New Orleans-born reed player Sidney Bechet, who won international fame before fellow New Orleans giant Louis Armstrong, and who inspired saxophonists from Johnny Hodges to John Coltrane.

Hummm - another repeat - we must be into the Silly Season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/nb01nwbx2

Mon 20 May
11pm - Jazz Now
Saxophonist Rachel Musson and her nine-piece band perform her project I Went This Way, recorded in May at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and featuring saxophonist Xhosa Cole, BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year.

Strongly recommended: I've no idea what this is going to be like, but, knowing Ms Musson as one does, it is bound to be of interest. Great pic of Rachel standing next to the tall Pine!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057hr

Not the Lonesome one then.

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Not the Lonesome one then.

OG

No, OG - he just pined away.

[gradus]

Sat 18 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
A selection of listeners' requests from the world of jazz featuring Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and a musical battle as the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie join forces. Presented by Alyn Shipton.

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

My current ear worm is Fats's version of Lulu's back in town, prompted by Jessica Williams's somewhat different but equally smashing version.


5pm - J to Z
London-based trio Phronesis perform music from their album We Are All, and saxophonist Tim Garland discusses his musical inspirations.

NB: This is a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013z7

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The music of New Orleans-born reed player Sidney Bechet, who won international fame before fellow New Orleans giant Louis Armstrong, and who inspired saxophonists from Johnny Hodges to John Coltrane.

Hummm - another repeat - we must be into the Silly Season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/nb01nwbx2

Mon 20 May
11pm - Jazz Now
Saxophonist Rachel Musson and her nine-piece band perform her project I Went This Way, recorded in May at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and featuring saxophonist Xhosa Cole, BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year.

Strongly recommended: I've no idea what this is going to be like, but, knowing Ms Musson as one does, it is bound to be of interest. Great pic of Rachel standing next to the tall Pine!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057hr

My current ear worm is Fats's version of Lulu's back in town, prompted by Jessica Williams's somewhat different but equally smashing version.

[Serial_Apologist]

Winifred Atwell on J to Z..... er, WHAAAAAAT?????

[Jazzrook]

Winifred Atwell on J to Z..... er, WHAAAAAAT?????

...and that's a repeat!

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

...and that's a repeat!

JR

The first "jazz" I heard was my mum playing Zez Confrey's "Kitten on the Keys".

When I grew up (maybe) she accused me of "ruining" her piano.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Didn't she have "another piano"? Winifred did, bought for £10 in a junk shop! She had a really amazing career against great odds, made vast sums for the time, and by everything I've read, was a very decent woman. She may not have been Bud Powell, but he wasn't Winifred!

BN.

[Ian Thumwood]

I thought that JRR was excellent last night. I think that the Jelly Roll Morton Red Hot Pepper tracks are amazing on so many levels. The chapter in Gunther Schuller's "Early Jazz" really opened my ears to what is going on in these recordings and they demand close attention for the various combinations of instruments Morton employed throughout the length of the track and the way that the rhythms subtly change too. I just think that Armstrong's recordings in this era may have shown the way forward but Morton's band was the most sophisticated small group of it's time. What made the track really interesting was to hear Fate Marable's band beforehand.

I am not sure if I have heard that Marable record before. I am sure that I have heard some tracks by the band but the transfer played last night seemed really clear. My immediate thought was that this band sounded more assured from a rhythmic point of view from a lot of the jazz being played in 1924 and far more relaxed that the clockwork stuff someone like Fletcher Henderson was producing at the same time. You almost have to peer through a fog trying to understand what is happening in most acoustic records. On the Marable track, I felt that it was not too hard to get an impression of what this band might have sounded like in the flesh. I thought it sounded pretty good yet in comparison with Morton, Marable wasn't in the same league and was nowhere as near as sophisticated.

The Blue Note tracks were all good too even if a bit familiar, with the exception of the McLean track which I have never heard before. I think I have over 60 Blue Notes and am probably not atypical. I wonder how many post 1983 Blue Notes make it in to requests? I have not bought anything from this label since the first Akinmusire record which was at least five years ago.

[Jazzrook]

Sat 18 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
A selection of listeners' requests from the world of jazz featuring Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and a musical battle as the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie join forces. Presented by Alyn Shipton.

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

5pm - J to Z
London-based trio Phronesis perform music from their album We Are All, and saxophonist Tim Garland discusses his musical inspirations.

NB: This is a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013z7

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
The music of New Orleans-born reed player Sidney Bechet, who won international fame before fellow New Orleans giant Louis Armstrong, and who inspired saxophonists from Johnny Hodges to John Coltrane.

Hummm - another repeat - we must be into the Silly Season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/nb01nwbx2

Mon 20 May
11pm - Jazz Now
Saxophonist Rachel Musson and her nine-piece band perform her project I Went This Way, recorded in May at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and featuring saxophonist Xhosa Cole, BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year.

Strongly recommended: I've no idea what this is going to be like, but, knowing Ms Musson as one does, it is bound to be of interest. Great pic of Rachel standing next to the tall Pine!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057hr

Fascinating 'Great Lives' today on Alan Lomax with Shirley Collins & Billy Bragg.
Repeated on Friday 24 May(Radio 4, 11pm).

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Fascinating 'Great Lives' today on Alan Lomax with Shirley Collins & Billy Bragg.
Repeated on Friday 24 May(Radio 4, 11pm).

JR

Missed that one, so thanks, JR.