Pan-fried with a Mat Finnish

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 26 Sept
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents live music from star of the Finnish jazz scene the trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, who performs tracks from his atmospheric recent album The Dead Don't Dream. And Lars Horntveth of cult Norwegian band Jaga Jazzist shares some of the music that has shaped their sound.

Not Pohjola's daughter, then, who composes using Sibelius. (Classical crossover fanatics will get this ).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n055

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba reflects on the exploratory double bass playing of Gary Peacock, who died earlier this month, aged 85. Featuring a track from his 1981 LP Voice from the Past - Paradigm, with saxophonist Jan Garbarek, drummer Jack DeJohnette and trumpeter Tomasz Stanko. Plus viola duets by Mat Maneri and Tanya Kalmanovitch, and a 1976 session from the Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra.

Nobody from Saturn sitting in?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n05c

Sun 27 Sept
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mxt1

11pm - A History of Black Classical Music
2/3 A Great and Noble Music

A repeat of the 3-part series from earlier this year - which I strongly vouch for - this one with British composer Eleanor Alberga charting the influence of black composers and focussing on C20 America, including the musics of Lawrence Freeman, William Grant Still, Margaret Bonds and Julia Perry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000j96f

Tues 29 Sept Radio 2
9pm - The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum
Singer Jamie Cullum with a broad spectrum of jazz music, including live studio sessions, tonight featuring east London act Kansas Smitty's, fronted by band leader Giacomo Smith.

Two tracks performed en attelier from their new album Things Happen Here, says the link. Act global, listen local .

Smith comes as rather a disappointment after scrupulously pronouncing Giacomo, doesn't it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n0k9

I haven't yet checked for telly, so may return later with any addenda to be found.

[Ian Thumwood]

Got to say that I prefer "Voice from the past" to Gary Peacock's" later "Guamba." Smae trumpet and sax with bass and drums. A really underrated ECM disc.

The Arkestra is the group led by Horace Tapscott and not Sun Ra's band.

[Jazzrook]

Sun 27 Sep BBC4
9pm - Black Classical Music: the Forgotten History

"Sir Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein celebrate the lives and works of black classical composers and musicians whose stories have been forgotten and music neglected in the classical repertoire."

Sounds fascinating but the presenters could ruin it if the trailer is anything to go by.

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

What in god's name was Jaga Jazzist doing, being featured on a jazz programme? I listened, in hope, rather as one leaves a boring film on just to see if anything interesting is going to happen, and what I heard was pleasant enough - one could admire the careful crafting that went into the finished article (no pun), but as Mr Horntveth made clear in his description of the band's music by way of influences, neither it nor they were anything to do with jazz. Maybe Ambient, New Age or something. Enos what he's doing in those areas . Pohjola's band was okaaaaay in a sub-Mikkelborgy kinda way, but I was left depressed at the end of the programme: had it not been for two interesting female vocal choices from Julian it would have been a wasted 90 minutes for me.

[Old Grumpy]

What in god's name was Jaga Jazzist doing, being featured on a jazz programme? I listened, in hope, rather as one leaves a boring film on just to see if anything interesting is going to happen, and what I heard was pleasant enough - one could admire the careful crafting that went into the finished article (no pun), but as Mr Horntveth made clear in his description of the band's music by way of influences, neither it nor they were anything to do with jazz. Maybe Ambient, New Age or something. Enos what he's doing in those areas

Er, that was my feeling too S_A

OG

[Jazzrook]

What in god's name was Jaga Jazzist doing, being featured on a jazz programme? I listened, in hope, rather as one leaves a boring film on just to see if anything interesting is going to happen, and what I heard was pleasant enough - one could admire the careful crafting that went into the finished article (no pun), but as Mr Horntveth made clear in his description of the band's music by way of influences, neither it nor they were anything to do with jazz. Maybe Ambient, New Age or something. Enos what he's doing in those areas . Pohjola's band was okaaaaay in a sub-Mikkelborgy kinda way, but I was left depressed at the end of the programme: had it not been for two interesting female vocal choices from Julian it would have been a wasted 90 minutes for me.

Yes, apart from the Gary Peacock bass solo, a dismal programme and a waste of precious jazz broadcasting time.
Difficult to know what kind of audience they are targeting.
I think J to Z is a 'Something Else' production
which might explain things.

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Yes, apart from the Gary Peacock bass solo, a dismal programme and a waste of precious jazz broadcasting time.
Difficult to know what kind of audience they are targeting.
I think J to Z is a 'Something Else' production
which might explain things.

JR

Presumably this is the obvious "master plan" in search of the elusive young demographic. Shifting JRR to Sunday (only old people there), to clear the way for jazz not jazz. Young people obviously sleep through Sundays after taking too many drugs and dancing the night way in discotheques still called "Tiffany's" or "Capone's". (The 1970s, a God awful decade).

Spare a penny for the jazz, Mister?