Charlie's Barnet heads Watson this weekend

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 22 June
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents a live concert by Texas-born jazz saxophonist Billy Harper with an all-star UK quintet. In a rare interview, Harper discusses his musical inspirations.

And a full choir, says the webtight!

This is a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001wlk

12midnight - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Charlie Barnet's swing band was known for hits such as Cherokee and for having no racial bounds, with members including African-American stars Lena Horne and Roy Eldridge. Geoffrey Smith celebrates a free spirit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00066mc

Mon 24 June
11pm - Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents a double bill of sets by saxophone masters David Murray and Bobby Watson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00066nd

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Knife in the Water", JRR .Bruce on the radio...

"Unusual for its miniscule cast (just three actors), Knife In The Water was Polish director Roman Polanski’s tenth film but his first feature-length movie. A tale of erotic tension between two men and a woman, largely shot on a boat in a lake, it was enhanced by a wonderful jazz score written by noted Polish pianist Krzysztof Komeda, who tragically died six years later after suffering a brain injury from a fall. His Knife In The Water score, a series of mood-evoking pieces that feature the virile tenor saxophone of Swedish hard bop musician Bernt Rosengren, is arguably Komeda’s crowning glory. He worked on several other Polanski movies, including Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby."

Classic.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Knife in the Water", JRR .Bruce on the radio...http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-lately/page79

"Unusual for its miniscule cast (just three actors), Knife In The Water was Polish director Roman Polanski’s tenth film but his first feature-length movie. A tale of erotic tension between two men and a woman, largely shot on a boat in a lake, it was enhanced by a wonderful jazz score written by noted Polish pianist Krzysztof Komeda, who tragically died six years later after suffering a brain injury from a fall. His Knife In The Water score, a series of mood-evoking pieces that feature the virile tenor saxophone of Swedish hard bop musician Bernt Rosengren, is arguably Komeda’s crowning glory. He worked on several other Polanski movies, including Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby."

Classic.

BN.

I hadn't realised that. I thought it was all Chico Hamilton's music.

Small autobiographical detail: I lived just around the corner when Repulsion was made: £5 per week for a third floor bedsit in posh Elvaston Place. I used that restaurant where Deneuve's boyfriend pops in for a meal when she passes by outside in that dazed state of mind, and he rushes out after her. I even recall the workmen's hut - they were completing the pedestrian island at the time. The place was still going in 1986 when I took two friends from Toronto there for an Italian meal.

Someone really needs to know this...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

People would pay for stuff like that! There's a kind of cult following for knowing all the locations for Antonioni's "Blow Up", the photographer's studio mews, the park etc. They painted the grass the exact shade of green that Antonioni demanded. Them's was the daze.

[Jazzrook]

"Knife in the Water", JRR .Bruce on the radio...

"Unusual for its miniscule cast (just three actors), Knife In The Water was Polish director Roman Polanski’s tenth film but his first feature-length movie. A tale of erotic tension between two men and a woman, largely shot on a boat in a lake, it was enhanced by a wonderful jazz score written by noted Polish pianist Krzysztof Komeda, who tragically died six years later after suffering a brain injury from a fall. His Knife In The Water score, a series of mood-evoking pieces that feature the virile tenor saxophone of Swedish hard bop musician Bernt Rosengren, is arguably Komeda’s crowning glory. He worked on several other Polanski movies, including Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby."

Classic.

BN.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=fpSP_a5XdNQ

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=fpSP_a5XdNQ

JR

Yep, I think I (just) prefer the original. I think there's a short and longer version. The music from Polanski's "Cul-de-sac" is also fine. Komeda's "Astigmatic" 1965 album was given a crown and max stars in Cook/Morton. That has Stanko also. "Lustrous and intense".

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

I missed JRR! Too busy shopping in Bath. Bugger. Thank somebody for teh BBC Sounds (sic) app.

[Tenor Freak]

I hadn't realised that. I thought it was all Chico Hamilton's music.

Small autobiographical detail: I lived just around the corner when Repulsion was made: £5 per week for a third floor bedsit in posh Elvaston Place. I used that restaurant where Deneuve's boyfriend pops in for a meal when she passes by outside in that dazed state of mind, and he rushes out after her. I even recall the workmen's hut - they were completing the pedestrian island at the time. The place was still going in 1986 when I took two friends from Toronto there for an Italian meal.

Someone really needs to know this...

There's a website which records locations used in various TV and fillums...where is it? Ah yes, here it is: http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/r/Repulsion.php

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[Tenor Freak]

I see someone else requested something from Pat's excellent CD "Trio 99/00". I was going to request "The Sun in Montreal"....

[Serial_Apologist]

People would pay for stuff like that! There's a kind of cult following for knowing all the locations for Antonioni's "Blow Up", the photographer's studio mews, the park etc. They painted the grass the exact shade of green that Antonioni demanded. Them's was the daze.

Maryon Park, Woolwich, is where the "murder" takes place - a place of pilgrimage for me when I first moved here. Pre-Bowie sojourn Lindsay Kemp Mime troupe do the opening excerpts in the open jeep and that wonderful "tennis match" at the end. Antonioni more-or-less claimed not to really know what his film was about; my interpretation (FWIW) is that by overfocussing on the particular (symbolised by what the title referred to in the plot) one loses touch with wider contexts, this reflecting on a fundamental of Western thinking about "reality".

I have to apologise for not mentioning in this weeks' fare the harpsichord piece currently on Radio 3 - it's by George Lewis: the once trombone-associated George Lewis from the AACM.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Terrance Stamp said he gave all the London info to Antonioni, clubs, restaurants, what was "in" etc., and it was him who really suggested that the film be made in London rather than Rome or Milan, thinking he'd obviously got the lead photographer part. He heard nothing for weeks then Antonioni's assistant called up saying David Hemmings had the role. In the interview with Stamp that I saw that still goes deep!