A British Jazz Christmas Present! "Charlie Parker" from 1982

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Just happened upon this on YouTube! From Ron Mathewson's personal tape archive no less, and just up on line.

It's a Sounds of Jazz (BBC radio) from 1982, a program based around Bird's life, written by Duncan Lamont, narrated by Peter Clayton. But the band...

Lamont...tenor
Tony Coe... tenor/clarinet
Kenny Wheeler... trumpet
Peter King...alto
Gordon Beck....piano
Ron Mathewson... bass
Martin Drew ... drums.

So, going to Kansas City...

http://youtu.be/BEfa48-L9aY

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

And another one...

Sounds of Jazz , Jan 1979. Louis Stewart Quartet...
Blue Bossa
Windows
Lament
Tricotism

http://youtu.be/FjdNZP_XwYY

Again from Ron Mathewson's archive.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks Bluesie. See my Msg 3845 on the What Jazz are you Listening To Now? thread for another one.

There's quite a lot of 1970s and 80 Britjazz coming up on youtube at the moment - best to make the most of it while it lasts; such links often disappear as quick as they come.

[Quarky]

Keep 'm coming - useful links!

Merry Christmas!

[CGR]

And another one...

Sounds of Jazz , Jan 1979. Louis Stewart Quartet...
Blue Bossa
Windows
Lament
Tricotism

http://youtu.be/FjdNZP_XwYY

Again from Ron Mathewson's archive.

Great stuff. Really enjoyed that.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Humphrey Lyttleton's "Best of Jazz" complete BBC radio program from 1972. This does bring back memories. There's also an even earlier one (60s?) on YouTube with Steve Race playing the latest Oliver Nelson record and talking about some "fine young musicians" coming through! Aghhhhhh, nostalgia!

http://youtu.be/XNareM6GPDk

[Serial_Apologist]

Humphrey Lyttleton's "Best of Jazz" complete BBC radio program from 1972. This does bring back memories. There's also an even earlier one (60s?) on YouTube with Steve Race playing the latest Oliver Nelson record and talking about some "fine young musicians" coming through! Aghhhhhh, nostalgia!

http://youtu.be/XNareM6GPDk

Well now, thanks again! Normally when I'm looking for stuff on youtube, it's only of recordings I happen to know about but haven't had a chance to hear.

[elmo]

Just happened upon this on YouTube! From Ron Mathewson's personal tape archive no less, and just up on line.

It's a Sounds of Jazz (BBC radio) from 1982, a program based around Bird's life, written by Duncan Lamont, narrated by Peter Clayton. But the band...

Lamont...tenor
Tony Coe... tenor/clarinet
Kenny Wheeler... trumpet
Peter King...alto
Gordon Beck....piano
Ron Mathewson... bass
Martin Drew ... drums.

So, going to Kansas City...
http://youtu.be/BEfa48-L9aY

BBC Radio 4 "Great Lives" Jan 7th 2020 at 16:30 Charles Christopher "Yardbird" Parker.
Nominated by Sir Ken "Klook" Clarke the brown loafered Conservative Bopper with contributions from Richard Williams and Val Wilmer - one for the diary

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

BBC Radio 4 "Great Lives" Jan 7th 2020 at 16:30 Charles Christopher "Yardbird" Parker.
Nominated by Sir Ken "Klook" Clarke the brown loafered Conservative Bopper with contributions from Richard Williams and Val Wilmer - one for the diary

elmo

I find that Clarke is a really frustrating commentator on jazz although I enjoy "Great Lives" when I am around to listen. I suppose Clarke has a lot of free now time he is no longer involved with politics. He did a really disappointing programme that looked at jazz legends several years ago which did not shed any new light on his subjects.

It is curious hearing some of these jazz programmes which underscore just how the music has evolved since the last forty years. There is almost a case perceived wisdom that most of the significant changes in jazz had somehow taken place by the 1970s but listening to some Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard this afternoon from live sessions in the same 70's / 80's era, it is noticeable just how much free-blowing jazz has fallen out of fashion. I have been really intrigued by the "Live at Onkel Po's" series of recordings which look fascinating. I stumbled across them by accident but there is a wealth of seemingly great jazz recorded live at this jazz club from artists as varied as Shaw, Hubbard, junior Cook, Harold Land, Elvin Jones and David Liebman. The samples of the records sound amazing but there is a nagging sense in my mind that records labels would be very reluctant to issue these kinds of live recordings today. The music seems far more honest and natural than so much contemporary jazz. Woody Shaw seems especially under-valued on the evidence of what I have heard.

[Tenor Freak]

Just happened upon this on YouTube! From Ron Mathewson's personal tape archive no less, and just up on line.

It's a Sounds of Jazz (BBC radio) from 1982, a program based around Bird's life, written by Duncan Lamont, narrated by Peter Clayton. But the band...

Lamont...tenor
Tony Coe... tenor/clarinet
Kenny Wheeler... trumpet
Peter King...alto
Gordon Beck....piano
Ron Mathewson... bass
Martin Drew ... drums.

So, going to Kansas City...
http://youtu.be/BEfa48-L9aY

Nice one.
Now exploring some of Ron's old tapes on the old Chewb.

[Tenor Freak]

Teh BBC must be sitting on a goldmine (in cultural terms, not actual cash money) of these old sessions. If only there was a way to get them released: unless they were all wiped, or dumped in a skip.

[Tenor Freak]

NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D72NpnOE9Co

[Serial_Apologist]

NP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D72NpnOE9Co

Wonderful stuff TF!

All being well there should be some Barbara Thompson stuff (Paraphernalia etc) from the BBC vaults coming out sometime in the new year. all being well, a little bird tells me.

[burning dog]

Had these yet?


Stan Tracey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtSTuwe0TCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsydfQy95g

Alan Skidmore with a top quartet (Beck, Runswick, Oxley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1n8OITyOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu9-AfSpdns

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks BD - those clips demonstrate a number of things: Skid covering mid-period Coltrane materials with those musicians, for one - this was before he had people who would basically replicate the "Coltrane Classic Quartet" manner.

The Ron Mathewson archive is proving quite a goldmine. Here is the earliest Ray Russell I have come across - he would go on to record his debut for CBS, "Turn Circle", which Humph who is hosting announces. This was the summer of 1968. He already had the Preston-born Rushton as his regular drummer, but before the Daryl Runswick period - I think the two had previously been Graham Bond's last and most short-lived before disbanding the cursed Graham Bond Organisaton. Hiseman and Heckstall-Smith had gone off to form Colosseum at that point. Ron was prepared to think beyond the Tubby Hayes orbit that would have been his B&B. Roy Fry on piano would do one more LP before dying tragically early, though I don't know the details. I think it's amazing and really risk-taking, just imagine, Radio 1!!!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBxYy1WyPKo