Alfa Mist on Jamie should be worth 2 fogs in a Shepherds Bush

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 25 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

5pm - J to Z
Concert highlights from Brazilian pianist, vocalist and composer Eliane Elias with the Danish Radio Big Band as they revisit her classic 1997 album Impulsive! And British multi-instrumentalist Orphy Robinson reveals some of the music that has inspired him. Presented by Jumoké Fashola.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gty

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith plays tribute to Philadelphia-raised clarinettist Buddy DeFranco (1923-2014), who started out in the swing bands of the 1940s but found his voice with the bebop revolution.

Buddy even went on to use 12-tone rows on his 1963 album "Polytones".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gv4

Bank Holiday Monday
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a concert by Trish Clowes and her band My Iris, recorded on 7 May at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho in London to launch their new second album Ninety Degrees Gravity.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005gsl

Tues 28 May
Radio 2: 9pm The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum
Singer Jamie Cullum presents the full spectrum of jazz including rising jazz stars and established international players. Plus live sessions and guests, tonight with London pianist and producer Alfa Mist discussing his early influences, his favourite tracks and his recently released album Structuralism.

My apologies for giving the wrong URL in the link for Geoffrey on Sidney Bechet last week. The correct link should have been:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nwbx2

[gradus]

Eliane Elias is a personal favourite, so will look forward to her with the Danish Radio BB.

[Serial_Apologist]

Eliane Elias is a personal favourite, so will look forward to her with the Danish Radio BB.

Indeed: she doesn't get much mention on this forum, though iirc Ian has positively recommended her. The one time I saw her was at obne of the Bracknells, where (again iirc) she opened the weekend, and had people dancing down the aisles of the big marquee - myself included! - in both instances a rare event indeed for an unequivocal jazz festival.

[Ian Thumwood]

I saw Elias in a trio with her husband Marc Johnson a few years back and the gig was so, so.

Incidentally, JRR includes Sidney Bechet's "Blue Horizon" which is one of the greatest blues performances in the history of jazz. I would consider this to be one of the finest clarinet solos as well and I am pretty sure was recorded by the fledgling Blue Note label. It is a shame that Blue Note did not continue with the generation of performers it enlisted when it started to record in 1939 - the pre-bop stuff gets overlooked but Bechet's two album's worth of material for the label represents a high point for Blue Note.

I will miss the radio tomorrow. Off to Lords to watch Hampshire play in the One Day final.

[Serial_Apologist]

I saw Elias in a trio with her husband Marc Johnson a few years back and the gig was so, so.

Incidentally, JRR includes Sidney Bechet's "Blue Horizon" which is one of the greatest blues performances in the history of jazz. I would consider this to be one of the finest clarinet solos as well and I am pretty sure was recorded by the fledgling Blue Note label. It is a shame that Blue Note did not continue with the generation of performers it enlisted when it started to record in 1939 - the pre-bop stuff gets overlooked but Bechet's two album's worth of material for the label represents a high point for Blue Note.

I will miss the radio tomorrow. Off to Lords to watch Hampshire play in the One Day final.

I hope and trust London greets you, Ian. The weather at least is fantastic, and should hold.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Cullum has new album out called "Taller", hyped largely by himself all over Twitterland. I did think of replying "Shorter" is much better Jamie, as short as possible, but I was tooooo kind.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Really excellent JRR today, much enjoyed. And the track by Susannah McCorkle, I'd completely forgotten her. Good to be reminded.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

Yes, a superb JRR today, esp the Trevor Watts and Harold McNair tracks. I agree with Alyn, on the evidence of that one track, someone should reissue that LP.

I have now finally found my round tuit and submitted a request to JRR for "Ballad for Bernt". Now for a butt of sack as it's Saturday night.

[Serial_Apologist]

And a pretty good J to Z.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Trevor Watts ....80th Birthday Party ...

http://youtu.be/590KnBqbKJE

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Trevor Watts/Ian Carr Qrt - "Crazy Jane" (from the same "Springboard" album as per the JRR track, but largely a feature for Ian Carr after JS's drums). It certainly should be reissued. Polydor? - when majors dipped in the water.

http://youtu.be/EZKq3ttJFOY

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Springboard - an album far ahead of its time. Falling within the polarities charted by Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler - shifting from wild frenetic interplay, and deeply sorrowful and soulful passages, the ensemble establishes a territory yet to be heard. Brittle, sharp, and incredibly thoughtful - its compositions respond and jut forward in wondrous conversation. Almost completely overlooked when it first emerged, it’s one of the rarest documents in the canon of British free jazz, making this pressing an event to celebrate for the brief moment we have it in our hands." - from an online posting of the LP. Recorded in1966, first ssued by Polydor in 1969.

[burning dog]

"Springboard - an album far ahead of its time. Falling within the polarities charted by Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler - shifting from wild frenetic interplay, and deeply sorrowful and soulful passages, the ensemble establishes a territory yet to be heard. Brittle, sharp, and incredibly thoughtful - its compositions respond and jut forward in wondrous conversation. Almost completely overlooked when it first emerged, it’s one of the rarest documents in the canon of British free jazz, making this pressing an event to celebrate for the brief moment we have it in our hands." - from an online posting of the LP. Recorded in1966, first ssued by Polydor in 1969.

Never heard it before listening now remarkable for '66


Amalgam Prayer for Peace - from 69

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

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It reminded me more than a bit of what Joe Harriot was doing in those early 60s Qrt albums, Abstract, Freeform, Movement, especially the latter. BN.

[burning dog]

It reminded me more than a bit of what Joe Harriot was doing in those early 60s Qrt albums, Abstract, Freeform, Movement, especially the latter. BN.

The Amalgam record makes me wonder what Dolphy would have sounded like in a later context. Stevens and Clyne "swing" on the Springboard track and to some extent on the Amalgam record (it has a jazz "feel") which makes for "British Free Jazz" rather than the contemporaneous early Free improv scene featuring some of the same musicians.