Midsummer gladness

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Hat's off for today's J to Z - one of the best yet, benefitting enormously from having an underlying theme, particularly this one, which was both political and timely. Great hosting from Julian, and the Terri Lyne Carrington track in particular was highly original and truly wonderful.

Excellent, with no punches pulled. More like this please.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Harold Land playing "Some Soul from..." from the Manchurian Candidate soundtrack...

http://youtu.be/qbT_1x4oMy8

Btw, it was Amram's insistance that Land play on the soundtrack sessions that got Harold into financially much needed session work. The studio was saying, "who is this, a jazz guy? We've never heard of him, why him?".

[Quarky]

Sun June 21
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests for recordings by British artists including Roger Beaujolais, Quentin Collins, Lindsay Hannon and Huw Warren.

Excellent promo for British artists. thanks! For those who don't know, Lindsay Hannon is a vocalist from Tyneside.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k8y1

Regretfully, I have patchy knowledge of British Jazz, but I really enjoyed this edition of JRR. What stood out was the natural sounds of the instruments, beautiful in their own right, no need for honking, squealing, shrieking, unusual harmonics, etc, etc.

I guess that's where I came into Jazz in my teens, enjoying very toneful music (e.g. Getz-Desifinado, Duke). Converted to free Jazz in late teens, but eventually turned away from those bad sounds. Didn't fancy Jazz-rock or Jazz Fusion, so moved into the classical area.

In recent years, I feel I have made amends , and enjoy more or less the whole gamut of Jazz currently being performed. But I still have an underlying preference for "toneful" sounds, and I feel these will in time eventually win out, even in the Free Jazz sector.