In a great start to 2020 there is to be no J to Z on Saturday - they must all still be down the pub recovering from the election result. Please don't shoot the messenger. However, Saturday's This Classical Life, from 12.30 to 1pm, features recordings from Branford Marsalis and Ivy Benson as part of Jess's weekly chinwag - this week with fellow saxist Charlotte Harding.
Sat 4 Jan
12 midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents the closing section of a set by clarinettist Angel Bat Dawid. Plus tracks from Dust -the new album by viola player Mat Manieri and his quartet. And vocalist Fay Victor, together with cellist Marika Hughes, and saxophonist Darius Jones, presents her reaction to the modern way of life. There's also a live recording from British bassist Barry Guy's 70th birthday concert.
I have to keep reminding myself that Barry Guy, bass player and composer extraordinaire, as well, for half a century, as leader/instigator of key improvisation ensembles, is 4 years younger than myself!
There's more about Angel and the others to be found on the link. Ms Dawid hails from Chicago and she looks fantastic on the programme shot.
Sun 5 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
May I/we take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year to Alyn.
Jamie's programme on R2 (Tues 9pm) invites on singer/songwriter Tawiah Tawiah, "who has collaborated with Mark Ronson, Cinematic Orchestra, Ghostpoet, Zed Bias and Eric Lau, and who released her debut album last year". Are you paying attention at the back?
Fri 10 Jan
2pm Afternoon Concert
A performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, recorded last December. Joe Cutler's BBC commission Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, written for saxophonist Trish Clowes and given its first performance pere, is inspired by David Mitchell's dystopian novel Cloud Atlas. Trish Clowes (saxophone), Ross Stanley (organ), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ben Palmer.
This is followed up by Trish Clowes' Abbott and Costello (?) and the concert concludes with Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D. This is not April 1st - I kid you not.
Sat 4 Jan
12 midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents the closing section of a set by clarinettist Angel Bat Dawid. Plus tracks from Dust -the new album by viola player Mat Manieri and his quartet. And vocalist Fay Victor, together with cellist Marika Hughes, and saxophonist Darius Jones, presents her reaction to the modern way of life. There's also a live recording from British bassist Barry Guy's 70th birthday concert.
I have to keep reminding myself that Barry Guy, bass player and composer extraordinaire, as well, for half a century, as leader/instigator of key improvisation ensembles, is 4 years younger than myself!
There's more about Angel and the others to be found on the link. Ms Dawid hails from Chicago and she looks fantastic on the programme shot.
Sun 5 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
May I/we take this opportunity to wish a Happy New Year to Alyn.
Jamie's programme on R2 (Tues 9pm) invites on singer/songwriter Tawiah Tawiah, "who has collaborated with Mark Ronson, Cinematic Orchestra, Ghostpoet, Zed Bias and Eric Lau, and who released her debut album last year". Are you paying attention at the back?
Fri 10 Jan
2pm Afternoon Concert
A performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, recorded last December. Joe Cutler's BBC commission Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii, written for saxophonist Trish Clowes and given its first performance pere, is inspired by David Mitchell's dystopian novel Cloud Atlas. Trish Clowes (saxophone), Ross Stanley (organ), BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Ben Palmer.
This is followed up by Trish Clowes' Abbott and Costello (?) and the concert concludes with Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D. This is not April 1st - I kid you not.
- we certainly should, but that's not the way the Beeb works. Even on Composer of the Week, the focus is on biographical details, interspersed with individual movements from larger works. On telly, Jim al-Khalili can present the mathematical processes behind Quantum Physics theory - but matters of Music Theory? Forget it: the beeb thinks we're too thick.
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