Sat 7 March
5pm - J to Z
The programme that everybody loves. Everybody on here, that is.
On the eve of International Women's Day, Jumoké Fashola celebrates women in jazz. She is joined in session by vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadski, whose latest album, Within You is a World of Spring, draws from folk, alt-rock and other genres.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with improvisatory explorations within African avant-garde music, featuring a collaboration between South African musician Gugulethu Duma (aka Dumama) and Algerian-German composer and musician Kechou. Plus driving grooves from the new release by Wildflower and an electro-acoustic piece by Russian musician Ilia Belorukov, who makes music with percussion, field recordings and samples.
Wildflower is a trio including flautist Idris Rahman, who I believe is the brother of the well-known pianist Zoe Rahman.
Sun 8 March
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents requests for music by female composers, among them Mary Lou Williams, Peggy Lee, Geri Allen, Carla Bley and Maria Schneider.
People might want to stay tuned for The Listening Service which immediately follows JRR - Tom Service on the Helsinki-born woman composer Kaija Saariaho - whose music harks back to the halcyon period when most modern contemporary music sounded unambiguously modern, and sported a good, er, finish.
Next Tuesday's Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, starting at 1pm, concludes with a selection of Chick Corea's Children's Songs, performed by pianist Gabriela Montero.
And at 9.30pm Radio 4 features the first of four programmes titled New Weird Britain - nothing to do with Boris Johnson or Priti Patel, but, it says:
Urban Hinterlands. John Doran goes in search of an underground movement of musicians blossoming in the margins of Britain. Today he seeks out the musicians who are managing to cling on to the edgelands of big cities.
I missed this the first time around. Maybe it will include the man whose name I forget who composed electronic music by recording the wailing sounds given off by barbed wire. These sounds are actually the ghost echoes of victims who died entangled, trying to gain political asylum in neighbouring pastures, and whose skeletons, some of them still wearing old school ties, weren't discovered until thousands of years after.
5pm - J to Z
The programme that everybody loves. Everybody on here, that is.
On the eve of International Women's Day, Jumoké Fashola celebrates women in jazz. She is joined in session by vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadski, whose latest album, Within You is a World of Spring, draws from folk, alt-rock and other genres.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with improvisatory explorations within African avant-garde music, featuring a collaboration between South African musician Gugulethu Duma (aka Dumama) and Algerian-German composer and musician Kechou. Plus driving grooves from the new release by Wildflower and an electro-acoustic piece by Russian musician Ilia Belorukov, who makes music with percussion, field recordings and samples.
Wildflower is a trio including flautist Idris Rahman, who I believe is the brother of the well-known pianist Zoe Rahman.
Sun 8 March
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents requests for music by female composers, among them Mary Lou Williams, Peggy Lee, Geri Allen, Carla Bley and Maria Schneider.
People might want to stay tuned for The Listening Service which immediately follows JRR - Tom Service on the Helsinki-born woman composer Kaija Saariaho - whose music harks back to the halcyon period when most modern contemporary music sounded unambiguously modern, and sported a good, er, finish.
Next Tuesday's Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, starting at 1pm, concludes with a selection of Chick Corea's Children's Songs, performed by pianist Gabriela Montero.
And at 9.30pm Radio 4 features the first of four programmes titled New Weird Britain - nothing to do with Boris Johnson or Priti Patel, but, it says:
Urban Hinterlands. John Doran goes in search of an underground movement of musicians blossoming in the margins of Britain. Today he seeks out the musicians who are managing to cling on to the edgelands of big cities.
I missed this the first time around. Maybe it will include the man whose name I forget who composed electronic music by recording the wailing sounds given off by barbed wire. These sounds are actually the ghost echoes of victims who died entangled, trying to gain political asylum in neighbouring pastures, and whose skeletons, some of them still wearing old school ties, weren't discovered until thousands of years after.
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