Attack nails it!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 28 Nov
5pm J to Z
Julian Joseph presents highlights from this year's BBC Young Jazz Musician competition. And London-raised trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey, who leads Afrobeat collective Kokoroko, shares some of the music that inspires her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pw0m

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba showcases improvised music, featuring screaming saxophone lines from Swedish musician Anna Hogberg's group Attack. Plus highlights of a new album from pianist Alexander Hawkins and clarinettist Marco Colonna featuring their fresh take on the unpredictable harmonies and rhythmic invention of American modern-jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy (1928-64).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pw0t

Sun 29 Nov
4.30pm - Jazz Record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, featuring Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Dudu Pukwana and saxophonist Grace Kelly.

Note the starting time - of which Alyn reminded us last week.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pvbn

Fri 4 Dec
7.30pm - Radio 3 in Concert
Another chance to hear a 1992 concert featuring jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London and featuring Bill Smith (clarinet), Jack Six (bass) and Randy Jones (drums), joined by Brubeck's cellist son Matthew.
Dave Brubeck Quartet

Howard Brubeck - Theme for June

Dave Brubeck - Once When I Was Very Young; Peace of Jerusalem; Softly William Softly; Out of the Way of the People; Three to Get Ready; Sermon on the Mount; In Your Own Sweet Way; Brandenburg Gate

Desmond - Take Five

Handy - St Louis Blues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q236

[eighthobstruction]

...Anna Attacks Hog Berg, might have done it this week.....far be it from me to blaa blaa....lol

[Serial_Apologist]

...Anna Attacks Hog Berg, might have done it this week.....far be it from me to blaa blaa....lol

Only one tack needed to nail it!

[Serial_Apologist]

I am enjoying the Young Musicians final more in listening mode than I did watching it taking place. This bears out my thought that jazz is above all best treated as a listening form, like classical concert music, without the visual aspect that acts as a distraction. Maybe those who carp at jazz musicians for ensuring jazz has only minority appeal by not putting on a show will only gain approval for an incidental side to the music - one that normalises the visual over the primacy of the auditory.

[Serial_Apologist]

Today's Jazz Record Requests is turning out to be a particularly good one! I hadn't come across the Jazz Messengers track previously - really knocked out by Lee Morgan and Benny Golson, some of the best playing from either of them, with Benny sounding like he'd been paying attention to 'Trane at the time. Would I be right in thinking that tracks are being terminated early sometimes these days? I know we may have had this out before, but the Harold McNair track did seem to bite the dust before its time was out.

Much anticipating the Dudu Pukwana track from an album that has somehow managed to pass me by. I guess that would be guitarist Phil Lee's debut on vinyl.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Along came Betty is the hippest tune in Hiptown. That wonderful nonchalance, theme and solos. I think Wayne was being "subjective" when he said the Messengers were "all bash bash bash", Maybe more in his time but the band's with Golson/Morgan and Mobley/Dorham/Byrd certainly were not. IMHO.

[burning dog]

Killer Joe is Betty's beau, I reckon.

Another slow burner from Golson

[Quarky]

Sat 28 Nov
5pm J to Z
Julian Joseph presents highlights from this year's BBC Young Jazz Musician competition. And London-raised trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey, who leads Afrobeat collective Kokoroko, shares some of the music that inspires her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pw0m

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba showcases improvised music, featuring screaming saxophone lines from Swedish musician Anna Hogberg's group Attack. Plus highlights of a new album from pianist Alexander Hawkins and clarinettist Marco Colonna featuring their fresh take on the unpredictable harmonies and rhythmic invention of American modern-jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy (1928-64).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pw0t

Sun 29 Nov
4.30pm - Jazz Record Requests
With Alyn Shipton, featuring Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Dudu Pukwana and saxophonist Grace Kelly.

Note the starting time - of which Alyn reminded us last week.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pvbn

Fri 4 Dec
7.30pm - Radio 3 in Concert
Another chance to hear a 1992 concert featuring jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London and featuring Bill Smith (clarinet), Jack Six (bass) and Randy Jones (drums), joined by Brubeck's cellist son Matthew.
Dave Brubeck Quartet

Howard Brubeck - Theme for June

Dave Brubeck - Once When I Was Very Young; Peace of Jerusalem; Softly William Softly; Out of the Way of the People; Three to Get Ready; Sermon on the Mount; In Your Own Sweet Way; Brandenburg Gate

Desmond - Take Five

Handy - St Louis Blues.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q236

A strongly Jazz flavoured Ivors Composer Awards may be of interest to some:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000pxmy

[Serial_Apologist]

A strongly Jazz flavoured Ivors Composer Awards may be of interest to some:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000pxmy

I heard it on Toady this morning: Julian Joseph has been awarded a Fellowship.

[Old Grumpy]

I heard it on Toady this morning: Julian Joseph has been awarded a Fellowship.

I heard it on Free Brekfust, from the Squire 'imself.