Sat 25 Jan
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre introduce [sic] Scottish bassist Calum Gourlay and his quartet in a live performance of new material. And UK jazz pianist Nikki Yeoh, who has worked with Courtney Pine, Neneh Cherry and the Roots, discusses her music influences including pianist MCcoy Tyner.
10pm New Music Show
Includes Eliane Radigue's Occam River XV, performed by sometimes jazz musicians Angharad Davies (violin) and Dominic Lash (double bass). Ms. Radigue has worked in the past with Kate Westbrook.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with exploratory improvisation from Newcastle upon Tyne trio Taupe, and music by John Butcher and Steve Beresford.
There's a council block just down the road here named after Steve - Beresford House. And we have Max Roach Park not far away in Brixton - not that anybody's ever heard of him*.
Sunday 26 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a playlist including Louis Armstrong, Wayne Shorter and Norma Winstone.
And there's a even Shorter Avenue in Essex! Welcome back, Alyn, by the way.
All next week, Radio 4 broadcasts a 5-part play, starting nightly on Monday at 7.45pm, titled Riot Girls: Trumpet.
The Radio Times blurb for the first episode reads as follows:
Tanika Gupta's dramatisation of Jackie Kay's novel, starring Maureen Beattie, Enyi Okoronkwo and Adjoa Andoh. When celebrated jazz trumpeter Joss Moody dies, his adopted son Colman makes an extraordinary discovery - the man he adored as his father was, in fact, a woman.
Just thought I'd include this as it's on a jazz theme, ostensibly. Make of that what you will...
*Just as an aside, Max Roach Park was constructed in 1986 from an open space vacated after the demolition of a Victorian terrace in adjacent Villa Road - ironically the site of a large squatters' occupation in the 1970s and early 1980s that had successfully managed to delay Lambeth Council's repeated efforts to evict them, including destroying interior fittings and fixtures, smashing up the WCs and filling main drains with concrete. The squatters had managed to dig up and replace the latter, and carried out enough remedial work on the properties to make them sufficiently habitable to accommodate homeless people. The squats were run autonomously on co-operative lines, and included a women's refuge and a free-to-users alternative psychotherapy centre. The occupants barricaded themselves well in so that it took several violent offensives by police and council workers to evict them. One of the residents composed a moving Requiem in commemoration. There was some great as well as not so great street art. Eventually some of the properties were established long-term as parts of housing associations; the 1860s terrace on the southern half of the street was demolished in its entirety to make way for the park. I asked how and by whom the park's name had been decided, and he told us the council put the issue out to its staff, and somebody who just happened to be a jazz fan came up with it. Come and visit! Below are some pictures of the location, taken in recent years:
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre introduce [sic] Scottish bassist Calum Gourlay and his quartet in a live performance of new material. And UK jazz pianist Nikki Yeoh, who has worked with Courtney Pine, Neneh Cherry and the Roots, discusses her music influences including pianist MCcoy Tyner.
10pm New Music Show
Includes Eliane Radigue's Occam River XV, performed by sometimes jazz musicians Angharad Davies (violin) and Dominic Lash (double bass). Ms. Radigue has worked in the past with Kate Westbrook.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with exploratory improvisation from Newcastle upon Tyne trio Taupe, and music by John Butcher and Steve Beresford.
There's a council block just down the road here named after Steve - Beresford House. And we have Max Roach Park not far away in Brixton - not that anybody's ever heard of him*.
Sunday 26 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a playlist including Louis Armstrong, Wayne Shorter and Norma Winstone.
And there's a even Shorter Avenue in Essex! Welcome back, Alyn, by the way.
All next week, Radio 4 broadcasts a 5-part play, starting nightly on Monday at 7.45pm, titled Riot Girls: Trumpet.
The Radio Times blurb for the first episode reads as follows:
Tanika Gupta's dramatisation of Jackie Kay's novel, starring Maureen Beattie, Enyi Okoronkwo and Adjoa Andoh. When celebrated jazz trumpeter Joss Moody dies, his adopted son Colman makes an extraordinary discovery - the man he adored as his father was, in fact, a woman.
Just thought I'd include this as it's on a jazz theme, ostensibly. Make of that what you will...
*Just as an aside, Max Roach Park was constructed in 1986 from an open space vacated after the demolition of a Victorian terrace in adjacent Villa Road - ironically the site of a large squatters' occupation in the 1970s and early 1980s that had successfully managed to delay Lambeth Council's repeated efforts to evict them, including destroying interior fittings and fixtures, smashing up the WCs and filling main drains with concrete. The squatters had managed to dig up and replace the latter, and carried out enough remedial work on the properties to make them sufficiently habitable to accommodate homeless people. The squats were run autonomously on co-operative lines, and included a women's refuge and a free-to-users alternative psychotherapy centre. The occupants barricaded themselves well in so that it took several violent offensives by police and council workers to evict them. One of the residents composed a moving Requiem in commemoration. There was some great as well as not so great street art. Eventually some of the properties were established long-term as parts of housing associations; the 1860s terrace on the southern half of the street was demolished in its entirety to make way for the park. I asked how and by whom the park's name had been decided, and he told us the council put the issue out to its staff, and somebody who just happened to be a jazz fan came up with it. Come and visit! Below are some pictures of the location, taken in recent years:
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