I just thought I'd register this to our domain, as it might be thought of some significance in relation to jazz broacasting past and present that the first black woman to head one of the colleges at Oxford (Jesus College), Sonita Alleyne, was the subject on this week's Desert Island Discs - broadcast last Sunday and repeated this morning on Radio 4.
Sonita, who, en route to deserving high office, co-founded Somethin' Else in 1991 at the age of 23 after being made redundant from JazzFM, and prefixed her selections by emphasising the importance to her of jazz throughout her can-do attitude-navigated life, this being reflected in her life-affirming music choices, though there was not much in the way of jazz until the final track, a number by the great Hannibal Marvin Peterson.
A programme nevertheless worth hearing.
Sonita, who, en route to deserving high office, co-founded Somethin' Else in 1991 at the age of 23 after being made redundant from JazzFM, and prefixed her selections by emphasising the importance to her of jazz throughout her can-do attitude-navigated life, this being reflected in her life-affirming music choices, though there was not much in the way of jazz until the final track, a number by the great Hannibal Marvin Peterson.
A programme nevertheless worth hearing.
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