Sat 23 Nov
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents a special programme from the Clore Ball Room as part of the London Jazz Festival, with specially recorded live sets.
Some interesting stuff on here from the blurb, not what you might think.
10pm - New Music Show
This includes among other things a set from Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Quartet, so whether this ticks the jazz category box or should instead be under either the Experimental Etc or New Music slots is your poke in a piggery.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba showcases improvisations, with tracks by the husband-and-wife team of violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, and fellow saxophonists Lol Coxhill and Raymond MacDonald.
Not both at the same time - Feldman is a fine classicaly-endowed American jazz violinist who played with Kenny Wheeler in his latter days, and several years ago did spectacular improvised sets in duo with our own Graham Clark that effectively amounted to spontaneous Bartok, and some, while Lol (RIP) did a recording with the Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra, of which this may turn out to be an excerpt. So, break open the 3-star brandy. The GIO are rather like Barry Guy's London Jazz Improvisers Orchestra - not to be confused with... oh never mind, but more shall we say, eclectic? As for the rest, read the link blurb, because this MUSSON be missed!
Radio 4 - Fri 27 Nov
4pm - Thinking Allowed - Black Music Culture
Laurie Taylor talks to Caspar Melville, from the School of oriental and African Studies, about his study of the musical life which emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the 20th century - from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s to rare groove and rave in the 1980s and jungle in the 1990s, to the dubstep and grime of the 2000s.
Worth listening to to get some purchase on what's going on in today's jazz, I think.
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents a special programme from the Clore Ball Room as part of the London Jazz Festival, with specially recorded live sets.
Some interesting stuff on here from the blurb, not what you might think.
10pm - New Music Show
This includes among other things a set from Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Quartet, so whether this ticks the jazz category box or should instead be under either the Experimental Etc or New Music slots is your poke in a piggery.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba showcases improvisations, with tracks by the husband-and-wife team of violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, and fellow saxophonists Lol Coxhill and Raymond MacDonald.
Not both at the same time - Feldman is a fine classicaly-endowed American jazz violinist who played with Kenny Wheeler in his latter days, and several years ago did spectacular improvised sets in duo with our own Graham Clark that effectively amounted to spontaneous Bartok, and some, while Lol (RIP) did a recording with the Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra, of which this may turn out to be an excerpt. So, break open the 3-star brandy. The GIO are rather like Barry Guy's London Jazz Improvisers Orchestra - not to be confused with... oh never mind, but more shall we say, eclectic? As for the rest, read the link blurb, because this MUSSON be missed!
Radio 4 - Fri 27 Nov
4pm - Thinking Allowed - Black Music Culture
Laurie Taylor talks to Caspar Melville, from the School of oriental and African Studies, about his study of the musical life which emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the 20th century - from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s to rare groove and rave in the 1980s and jungle in the 1990s, to the dubstep and grime of the 2000s.
Worth listening to to get some purchase on what's going on in today's jazz, I think.
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