Sat 22 Aug
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola presents a concert from the Danish Radio Big Band, which formed in 1964 in Copenhagen. They're joined by Ohio-born blues-jazz guitarist John Scofield. And Anglo-Polish vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadski shares some [of] her inspirations including music by Bartok and a recording by trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
Not a repeat - yippee!
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents an improvisation rooted in Hindustani classical music performed by cellist, sitarist and vocalist Pete Yelding. Plus new music from Portuguese trumpeter, composer and vocalist Susana Santos Silva and her Impermanence quintet.
This is a repeat, however.
Sun 23 Aug
No Jazz Record Requests this week, and furthermore, there's no taking Pärt.
Comrades may however like to know about the following (repeat) programme on Radio 3, which is available on the iplayer:
Weds 26 Aug
10pm - The Bernstein Files
Investigative journalist Jonathan Coffey describes how the FBI and other parts of the US government spied on composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein over three decades. Drawing on previously classified FBI files, he examines how the bureau, the US State Department and the Nixon White House suspected Bernstein of being a Communist and a national security threat. He talks to Bernstein's friends and family, to political activists, to a former White House staffer who exchanged secret memos about Bernstein and to witnesses who attended a fundraiser for the Black Panthers at Bernstein's New York apartment.
Whatever you feel about his music, Bernstein lent strong support to Ornette Coleman at the start of his musical life in New York. Charlie Haden recalls wondering who this bloke was who crept up and crouched right next to his bass one night when he was soloing, and someone telling him, "That's the great Leonard Bernstein".
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola presents a concert from the Danish Radio Big Band, which formed in 1964 in Copenhagen. They're joined by Ohio-born blues-jazz guitarist John Scofield. And Anglo-Polish vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadski shares some [of] her inspirations including music by Bartok and a recording by trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
Not a repeat - yippee!
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba presents an improvisation rooted in Hindustani classical music performed by cellist, sitarist and vocalist Pete Yelding. Plus new music from Portuguese trumpeter, composer and vocalist Susana Santos Silva and her Impermanence quintet.
This is a repeat, however.
Sun 23 Aug
No Jazz Record Requests this week, and furthermore, there's no taking Pärt.
Comrades may however like to know about the following (repeat) programme on Radio 3, which is available on the iplayer:
Weds 26 Aug
10pm - The Bernstein Files
Investigative journalist Jonathan Coffey describes how the FBI and other parts of the US government spied on composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein over three decades. Drawing on previously classified FBI files, he examines how the bureau, the US State Department and the Nixon White House suspected Bernstein of being a Communist and a national security threat. He talks to Bernstein's friends and family, to political activists, to a former White House staffer who exchanged secret memos about Bernstein and to witnesses who attended a fundraiser for the Black Panthers at Bernstein's New York apartment.
Whatever you feel about his music, Bernstein lent strong support to Ornette Coleman at the start of his musical life in New York. Charlie Haden recalls wondering who this bloke was who crept up and crouched right next to his bass one night when he was soloing, and someone telling him, "That's the great Leonard Bernstein".
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