Sat 15 May
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola introduces highlights of a recently recorded session by saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Jason Rebello, as a tribute to US jazz pianist Chick Corea, who died in February, aged 79. The performance featured at the online Cheltenham Jazz Festival. And tuba player Theon Cross - a member of Shabaka Hutchings's Sons of Kemet band - shares his inspirations.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba invites Helen Svoboda to celebrate her favourite food group in sound.
Sun 16 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Weds 19 May - Radio 4
9am - Life Changing: 7/7
Jane Garvey talks to Tony Kofi, who as a child was kicked out of music class at school; he was told he wasn't any good and to study woodwork instead. He did and then at the age of 16, now a carpentry apprentice, he fell off the roof of a building he was working on. That fall happened for him in slow motion; he saw his life, and all he hadn't done yet, flash before him. Scroll forward many years, Tony is now an acclaimed jazz saxophonist and credits that fall with turning his life around.
Tony's other credits include the Jazz Warriors, Tim Richards' Great Spirit, co-leadership with Chris Biscoe of a quintet majoring in Mingus and Monk compositions, and at least one collaboration with Ornette Coleman - I guess I should really check. A rough-and-ready player equally capable of no nonsense straight-ahead playing, emotional ballad renditions, and breaking formal boundaries into Free territories, I think of Tony as being maybe "our" Stanley Turrentine equivalent. I must admit I knew nothing of this past. By the way, Radio Times spells his name KUFI, which I am quite sure is wrong.
Fri 21 May
11pm - Late Junction
Includes mention of the re-issue of vocalist innovator and inspirationalist Jeanne Lee's 1974 debut LP Conspiracy - part of a very enticing programme: please do at least look at the link at the bottom. Here is Ms Lee's remarkable Conspiracy album, in its entirety, and thank Brian for the gift of her, and that particular band.
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola introduces highlights of a recently recorded session by saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Jason Rebello, as a tribute to US jazz pianist Chick Corea, who died in February, aged 79. The performance featured at the online Cheltenham Jazz Festival. And tuba player Theon Cross - a member of Shabaka Hutchings's Sons of Kemet band - shares his inspirations.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba invites Helen Svoboda to celebrate her favourite food group in sound.
Sun 16 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Weds 19 May - Radio 4
9am - Life Changing: 7/7
Jane Garvey talks to Tony Kofi, who as a child was kicked out of music class at school; he was told he wasn't any good and to study woodwork instead. He did and then at the age of 16, now a carpentry apprentice, he fell off the roof of a building he was working on. That fall happened for him in slow motion; he saw his life, and all he hadn't done yet, flash before him. Scroll forward many years, Tony is now an acclaimed jazz saxophonist and credits that fall with turning his life around.
Tony's other credits include the Jazz Warriors, Tim Richards' Great Spirit, co-leadership with Chris Biscoe of a quintet majoring in Mingus and Monk compositions, and at least one collaboration with Ornette Coleman - I guess I should really check. A rough-and-ready player equally capable of no nonsense straight-ahead playing, emotional ballad renditions, and breaking formal boundaries into Free territories, I think of Tony as being maybe "our" Stanley Turrentine equivalent. I must admit I knew nothing of this past. By the way, Radio Times spells his name KUFI, which I am quite sure is wrong.
Fri 21 May
11pm - Late Junction
Includes mention of the re-issue of vocalist innovator and inspirationalist Jeanne Lee's 1974 debut LP Conspiracy - part of a very enticing programme: please do at least look at the link at the bottom. Here is Ms Lee's remarkable Conspiracy album, in its entirety, and thank Brian for the gift of her, and that particular band.
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