Ant Law Rules!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 8 Aug
11.45am - New Generation Artists
Sad Stars: One Day in Romentino is to be heard as part of the programme, composed by the fine young jazz guitarist Rob Luft with a quintet of equal adepts, to whit Joe Wright (tenor sax) Joe Webb (piano, keyboards) Tom McCredie (bass & bass guitar, whom some may remember from Keith Tippett's Patrick McGonagon octet of just a few years ago) and Corrie Dick (who's fine outside Dinosaur, on drums).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ln7m

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents British guitarist Ant Law in concert just before lockdown with music from his recently released album The Sleeper Wakes. Acclaimed vocalist Ian Shaw shares the music that has inspired his own musical journey.

At least two of us will welcome Ant being showcased by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ln7v

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with exploratory improvisation from Newcastle upon Tyne trio Taupe, music from the debut full-length album by saxophonist John Butcher and Steve Beresford, who plays electronics and objects. Plus a track recorded in a reverberant church. First broadcast in January*.

*My emphasis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dpg4

Sun 9 Aug
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, today featuring recordings by Count Basie, King Oliver and Pat Metheny.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000llhb

Tues 11 Aug
9pm - The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum
Jamie introduces new and classic jazz and guests, tonight with drummer, composer and band leader Sarathy Korwar, who mixes Indian classical music influences with jazz. Korwar discusses his route into jazz, his latest EP Birthright, and what he is working on at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lns3

[Joseph K]

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents British guitarist Ant Law in concert just before lockdown with music from his recently released album The Sleeper Wakes. Acclaimed vocalist Ian Shaw shares the music that has inspired his own musical journey.

At least two of us will welcome Ant being showcased by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ln7v

[Old Grumpy]

Sat 8 Aug
11.45am - New Generation Artists
Sad Stars: One Day in Romentino is to be heard as part of the programme, composed by the fine young jazz guitarist Rob Luft with a quintet of equal adepts, to whit Joe Wright (tenor sax) Joe Webb (piano, keyboards) Tom McCredie (bass & bass guitar, whom some may remember from Keith Tippett's Patrick McGonagon octet of just a few years ago) and Corrie Dick (who's fine outside Dinosaur, on drums).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ln7m

5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents British guitarist Ant Law in concert just before lockdown with music from his recently released album The Sleeper Wakes. Acclaimed vocalist Ian Shaw shares the music that has inspired his own musical journey.

At least two of us will welcome Ant being showcased by the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ln7v

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with exploratory improvisation from Newcastle upon Tyne trio Taupe, music from the debut full-length album by saxophonist John Butcher and Steve Beresford, who plays electronics and objects. Plus a track recorded in a reverberant church. First broadcast in January*.

*My emphasis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dpg4

Sun 9 Aug
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, today featuring recordings by Count Basie, King Oliver and Pat Metheny.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000llhb

Tues 11 Aug
9pm - The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum
Jamie introduces new and classic jazz and guests, tonight with drummer, composer and band leader Sarathy Korwar, who mixes Indian classical music influences with jazz. Korwar discusses his route into jazz, his latest EP Birthright, and what he is working on at the moment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lns3

Good start to J to Z!

[Joseph K]

I knew I'd miss the first part of J to Z since we always have tea at around 5 - but I'd rather listen to the whole thing a bit later...

[Serial_Apologist]

I knew I'd miss the first part of J to Z since we always have tea at around 5 - but I'd rather listen to the whole thing a bit later...

You have much to look forward to then, Joseph, judging by J to Z so far. Kevin has found a new guitarist in his part of N London, Harry Crystellis if I've spelt his name correctly, and aired his new CD on the programme.

The Maria Schneider track, musically "commenting" on the amount of space waste littering, was interesting once I'd overcome a feeling that it was too obviously indebted to Pärt's Fratres, stemming from its overplaying in all its guises probably his only work for many people, and realised that the strongest echo was of Vaughan Williams, not exactly the first composer one might bring to mind in a jazz context, especially an American one! Ms Schneider's portrait fronts this month's Jazzwise, by the way, which I have still to read.

[Serial_Apologist]

You have much to look forward to then, Joseph, judging by J to Z so far. Kevin has found a new guitarist in his part of N London, Harry Crystellis if I've spelt his name correctly, and aired his new CD on the programme.

Christelis, acksherly.