Freeness repeat - flipping Norah!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 18 July
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph with live music from American pianist Carla Bley and her trio last October at the Stockholm Jazz Festival. Bley, now 84, has been a pivotal figure in free jazz since the 1960s when she worked with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and many more, and recorded her celebrated jazz opera, Escalator over the Hill.

This programme is well worth listening out for the widow of Dexter Gordon, Maxine Gordon, reminiscing and introducing a Dexter Gordon track. Was she not featured in the Round Midnight fillum?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l28c

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents Adam Fairhall performing on keyboard instrument the dulcitone. Plus Tim Hill's quartet and Laura Cole with Metamorphic.

This is a repeat. I said a repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cl2m

Sun 19 July
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with recordings by Louis Armstrong, saxophonist Don Weller - who died in May - and Bristol-born pianist Keith Tippett, who died last month.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l1yf

Tues 21 July
9pm - The Jamie Cullum Show with Jazz

Spot the deliberate mistake there.

Singer Jamie Cullum returns to his 9pm slot with new and classic jazz recordings and guests, tonight featuring a performance from a recent session by Norah Jones, recorded at her home studio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l1qt

And on the Tee Vee:

Fri 24 July - BBC4
9pm - Rodney P's Jazz Funk
London-born rap veteran Rodney P explores the origins and development of jazz funk, the first home-grown black British music culture. The jazz funk scene, inspired by the avant-garde fusion of soul, funk and jazz in 1970s black America, forged new sounds around which new clubs and radio shows sprang up. Among those reminiscing are Imagination frontman Leee John, Kenny Wellington from Light of the World, producer Morgan Khan, DJ Carl Cox and broadcaster Robert Elms.

"The first home-grown black British music culture" - hmmm, hadn't thought about it quite like that - I suppose that is true. This programme seemed to belong as much here as on the Fusion etc thread, given the strong influence the "movement" had in part-shaping the upcoming generation of black British jazz in the 1980s. Very good write-up on the link page below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l426

Also item on P101 of RT.

[Joseph K]

"The first home-grown black British music culture" - hmmm, hadn't thought about it quite like that - I suppose that is true.

Really? I thought it was Herbie, Joe Zee and Miles who did it first?

[Serial_Apologist]

Really? I thought it was Herbie, Joe Zee and Miles who did it first?

Well, I think whoever formulated it in that way was probably thinking of previous stages of popular music in the UK, in which black Britons had not largely been the primary instigators. I think that is what is known as a truism.

[Serial_Apologist]

How lovely of Clark Tracey to choose a track from one of his dad's duet recordings with Keith Tippett - one that was only released a few years back, of whose existence I'd been unaware until hearing Alyn's interview with Keith. Of this pairing I've always particularly admired Stan for venturing literally out for these sessions, given that he would have strayed further from his comfort zone than Keith, for whom this would have been a stimulus: Stan used to say he had always been afraid he wasn't doing free improvisation "right"; but as one of the contributers to the Keith Facebook tribute I posted the other day on his dedicated thread mentioned, for Keith there were no "wrong notes".

Beautiful playing from Don Weller too on the final JJR request: Don's dedication to a piece of wood, as he announced at the festival premier of the Pennine Suite, I believe was its title, from which this track was taken.

[Quarky]

Sat 18 July
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph with live music from American pianist Carla Bley and her trio last October at the Stockholm Jazz Festival. Bley, now 84, has been a pivotal figure in free jazz since the 1960s when she worked with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and many more, and recorded her celebrated jazz opera, Escalator over the Hill.

This programme is well worth listening out for the widow of Dexter Gordon, Maxine Gordon, reminiscing and introducing a Dexter Gordon track. Was she not featured in the Round Midnight fillum?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l28c

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Yes Maxine Gordon I found her very interesting. Her selections corresponded roughly to where I was when I first got into Jazz.
Ah the innocence of youth in a golden age of Jazz - Nothing lasts forever - except may be.......

[Alyn_Shipton]

Good to see Carla featured again since this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091w62r
Maxine was also married to Woody Shaw. Her son Woody Jr. Was also a guest on Jazz Now talking about the Larry Young in Paris set on Resonance which featured his dad and which he worked on with Zev Feldman.

[Serial_Apologist]

Fri 24 July - BBC4
9pm - Rodney P's Jazz Funk
London-born rap veteran Rodney P explores the origins and development of jazz funk, the first home-grown black British music culture. The jazz funk scene, inspired by the avant-garde fusion of soul, funk and jazz in 1970s black America, forged new sounds around which new clubs and radio shows sprang up. Among those reminiscing are Imagination frontman Leee John, Kenny Wellington from Light of the World, producer Morgan Khan, DJ Carl Cox and broadcaster Robert Elms.

"The first home-grown black British music culture" - hmmm, hadn't thought about it quite like that - I suppose that is true. This programme seemed to belong as much here as on the Fusion etc thread, given the strong influence the "movement" had in part-shaping the upcoming generation of black British jazz in the 1980s. Very good write-up on the link page below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l426

Also item on P101 of RT.

Just bumping this up to prompt people about this programme being on tonight. You never know: it could be interesting... correction: it should be interesting.

[Serial_Apologist]

Just bumping this up to prompt people about this programme being on tonight. You never know: it could be interesting... correction: it should be interesting.

Did anyone else watch this? I found the documentary interesting, maybe more from a socio-cultural pov than as regards actual music - the only mentioning of the mechanics of which concerned the faster pacing of the British version of jazz-funk than its American predecessor. The fact that I only recognised one of the contributers, whom I had seen on a previous series on Dance music and the Rave scene of the late 1980s, probably says as much about my involvement in radical politics at the time elbowing out more than cursory attention to music as it does the ostensibly tenuous relationship of the genre to jazz in Britain more generally in the 1970s. No sign of Courtney Pine, who participated in several line-ups as a teenager, was a surprise and a disappointment. A useful gap filler in terms of popular tastes, how they came about and who followed them at a time when the mainstream media were slow to catch on, just about sums it up for me.