Global embraced Hamid the turmoil, but Nelson saved the Drake and the Fox!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 11 Jan
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents a performance by Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez and his new Global Messengers project, recorded in November at the London Jazz Festival. And drummer Terri Lyne Carrington shares tracks that have inspired her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d6nj

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents the show from the 40th Konfrontationen festival, showcasing new free and improvised music across central Europe and recorded in July in a small town on the Austrian/Hungarian border. Featuring highlights from an improvised set by US drummer Hamid Drake and Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer. Plus music from pianist and composer Satoko Fujii and a recording by drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and psychedelia-inspired act Leverton Fox.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d6nq

Sun 12 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' picks including recordings by Oliver Nelson, Alice Coltrane and Miles Davis.

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

Tues 14 Jan
10.45pm - The Essay: My Life in Music - Programme 2/5
Five musicians reflect on the music that has shaped their personal lives. In this next instalment Soweto Kinch discusses Ella Fitzgerald's 1957 recording of Duke Ellington's Rockin' in Rhythm, and why it reminds him of the importance of positivity and joy in music.

Oh I profoundly disagree. Why positivy-ee when negativity accords so much more truthfully with reality. And besides, being proved wrong every so often offers a rare and thus welcome excuse to be cheerful. "Optimism of the intellect, pessimism of the will". Or was it the other way around, Vladimir Illych? I can never remember which.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Sat 11 Jan
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents a performance by Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez and his new Global Messengers project, recorded in November at the London Jazz Festival. And drummer Terri Lyne Carrington shares tracks that have inspired her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d6nj

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents the show from the 40th Konfrontationen festival, showcasing new free and improvised music across central Europe and recorded in July in a small town on the Austrian/Hungarian border. Featuring highlights from an improvised set by US drummer Hamid Drake and Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer. Plus music from pianist and composer Satoko Fujii and a recording by drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and psychedelia-inspired act Leverton Fox.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d6nq

Sun 12 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' picks including recordings by Oliver Nelson, Alice Coltrane and Miles Davis.

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

Tues 14 Jan
10.45pm - The Essay: My Life in Music - Programme 2/5
Five musicians reflect on the music that has shaped their personal lives. In this next instalment Soweto Kinch discusses Ella Fitzgerald's 1957 recording of Duke Ellington's Rockin' in Rhythm, and why it reminds him of the importance of positivity and joy in music.

Oh I profoundly disagree. Why positivy-ee when negativity accords so much more truthfully with reality. And besides, being proved wrong every so often offers a rare and thus welcome excuse to be cheerful. "Optimism of the intellect, pessimism of the will". Or was it the other way around, Vladimir Illych? I can never remember which.

"Optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect" - The great Antonio Gramsci. "Prison Notebooks". Who, I used to joke in the embryo Workers Revolutionary Party, had a popular ice cream van on Dowlais Top (Merthyr) and had many furious arguments with "Mr Trotsky", the other revolutionary local ice cream man about tactical "wars of position vs wars of manoeuvre". Needless to say this levity was not appreciated. Nor any levity really.

BN.

[burning dog]

Did Edvard Munch had an I scream van?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Here's two for one... Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "Ice Cream Man".

http://youtu.be/V_86LdgBTUQ

I was once standing alongside Screaming Jay in a small club in Bristol in the mid '60s, right next to his upright piano, when the big (plastic) skull he had on the lid started to roll off. I reached to steady it and he shouted, "Don't you ever touch HENRY!". A funny guy and actually a very good blues singer underneath all the jive in the Joe Turner manner. 57 plus kids... stamina!!

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

Here's two for one... Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "Ice Cream Man".

http://youtu.be/V_86LdgBTUQ

I was once standing alongside Screaming Jay in a small club in Bristol in the mid '60s, right next to his upright piano, when the big (plastic) skull he had on the lid started to roll off. I reached to steady it and he shouted, "Don't you ever touch HENRY!". A funny guy and actually a very good blues singer underneath all the jive in the Joe Turner manner. 57 plus kids... stamina!!

BN.

That's rather a coincidence in a way, because I was at the Vortex for Olie Brice's Octet last Monday. On drums was the American Jeff Williams, possibly best known for his continuing longtime asociation with Dave Liebman, who now spends roughly half his time working in his home city of New York and half in London, with talented mostly young musicians. My friend had booked us a table, and we were at the front, right beside Jeff's drumkit as it happened. Apart from a totally improvised exchange with Chris Biscoe halfway through the second half, musically the gig was unremarkable, which is why I hadn't considered mentioning it here. However, in the first half, at one point when I had my head down, eyes closed and concentrating hard, I had a sudden sensation of something landing right in my lap. There was a quick movement on my left, and I opened my eyes to discover one of Jeff's ride cymbals on me, and being quickly restored to its owner! I told Jeff in the interval, "Now I can announce to the jazz world that I have had the famous drummer Jeff Williams's cymbal land on my lap". He burst out laughing, apologised profusely, and shook me warmly by the hand!

[Tenor Freak]

Meanwhile, down the road, past the recreation ground, under the railway bridge and through the cutting, inbetween the bindweed and brambles of the footpath behind the war memorial, Gilles Peterson has this going on this arvo:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d7dv

[Old Grumpy]

Sat 11 Jan
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents a performance by Panamanian pianist Danilo Pérez and his new Global Messengers project, recorded in November at the London Jazz Festival. And drummer Terri Lyne Carrington shares tracks that have inspired her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d6nj

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents the show from the 40th Konfrontationen festival, showcasing new free and improvised music across central Europe and recorded in July in a small town on the Austrian/Hungarian border. Featuring highlights from an improvised set by US drummer Hamid Drake and Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer. Plus music from pianist and composer Satoko Fujii and a recording by drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and psychedelia-inspired act Leverton Fox.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d6nq

Sun 12 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' picks including recordings by Oliver Nelson, Alice Coltrane and Miles Davis.

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

Tues 14 Jan
10.45pm - The Essay: My Life in Music - Programme 2/5
Five musicians reflect on the music that has shaped their personal lives. In this next instalment Soweto Kinch discusses Ella Fitzgerald's 1957 recording of Duke Ellington's Rockin' in Rhythm, and why it reminds him of the importance of positivity and joy in music.

Oh I profoundly disagree. Why positivy-ee when negativity accords so much more truthfully with reality. And besides, being proved wrong every so often offers a rare and thus welcome excuse to be cheerful. "Optimism of the intellect, pessimism of the will". Or was it the other way around, Vladimir Illych? I can never remember which.

Just catching JRR before it disappears off Sounds.

Good to hear a shout out for the venerable Paul Edis and a track from his Cuthbert Suite (I was at the Ushaw premiere).

He is indeed a powerhouse for jazz in North East, as mentioned by the requester. However, not for much longer; word on the social media street is that he is "gannin doon the smoke". Give him a good welcome - we'll miss him up here!

OG