Today's Worriers were yesterday's Irons!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 7 Aug
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola celebrates the 30th anniversary of youth jazz and talent development organisation Tomorrow's Warriors, which promotes diversity and inclusivity across the arts through jazz. She's joined by co-founders Janine Irons and Gary Crosby. And trumpeter and Tomorrow's Warriors alumnus Mark Kavuma shares his musical inspirations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ym65

Two compositions from our favourite living British jazz trumpet player feature in evening programmes:

6.30 - New Generation Artists
Laura Jurd - Invertebrates, with Jurd (tpt) John Edwards (b) Seb Rochford (d).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ym67

7.30 BBC Proms
Laura Jurd - CHANT (first London performance) - part of something featuring well-known classical violinist Nicola Benedetti getting down with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

This is what I believe is a called a simulcast, on Radio 3 and BBC4 TV. Expect much quirkiness.

12midnight - Freeness
Another chance to hear three sessions including a collaboration between turntablist Mariam Rezael and electronic artist Stephen Bishop, Anglo-American folk duo Cath and Phil Tyler, and jazz quartet Caröm fronted by bassist Andy Champion. First broadcast last October as part of the online festival TUSK (normally at Sage Gateshead in Newcastle).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000n54d

Sun 8 Aug
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ykc8

Sky Arts TV
6.50pm - Jack Bruce Tribute Concert
A performance from London's Roundhouse in October 2015, celebrating the former Cream bassist's life and career, and featuring the likes of Ginger Baker and Vernon Reid.

[Serial_Apologist]

Good J to Z today, I thought. Great to hear Gary Crosby so positive about his Tomorrow's Warriors project, with 100 names on the books at present. Good representative range of bands and personalities, with one particular track from Empirical, the band moving further into the Dolphy/Out To Lunch terrain they've adopted without Nathaniel sounding remotely imitative of Eric D, which, in this instance please read as a plus! I think he's one of the better saxophonists to come out of that stable, though I can imagine Ian demurring over the unoriginality and reliance on two-chord basics from several others on the schedule: our generation used that simple format to launch out into the previously unknown, which this lot really ain't so much about, are they?

[Quarky]

Agreed that J to Z was good, at least the music played. Could have done without the excessive banter, but that seems to be a feature of so many BBC programmes these days.

I guess Laura Jurd must tick all the right boxes for the BBC, but I felt "Chant" was undeserving of a broadcast, particularly in Radio 3's most important Showcase.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Today (Sunday) at 6.45pm...

"Rewiring Raymond Scott
Sunday Feature"

"At the height of his fame as a jazz composer and band leader in the late 1930s, Raymond Scott was billed as ‘America’s Foremost Composer of Modern Music’. Jazz legend Art Blakey confessed that his music ‘scared the hell out of me’.

Electrical engineer, inventor, composer and musician Raymond Scott became adept at creating music that demonstrated a unique commercial appeal. He wrote for Broadway and Hollywood, he appeared weekly on national radio, his ‘novelty jazz’ tunes were licensed to Warner Bros for use in their Looney Tunes cartoons. The financial success this brought enabled Scott in the 1950s to build one of the first commercial electronic music studios in America, stocked with musical devices he himself had invented, designed and built - the Clavivox, the Circle Machine, the highly complex and ambitious Electronium, to name just a few.

Scott focused on composing and recording jingles, spots and commercials for radio and TV, grabbing Americans “by the ears”, as he described it. His soundtracks for the likes of IBM provided the wider listening public with some of their first encounters with electronic music, conjuring up visions of a future that chimed with the times. General Motors commissioned him to provide the soundtrack to their ‘Futura’ pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair; and the founder of Tamla Motown Records, Berry Gordy, later brought Scott out to California to help create the label's pop hits of the future..."

[Jazzrook]

Here's another version of Komeda's 'Kattorna' played on JRR(8/8/21):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=e8FYNCYeBXI

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Agreed that J to Z was good, at least the music played. Could have done without the excessive banter, but that seems to be a feature of so many BBC programmes these days.

I guess Laura Jurd must tick all the right boxes for the BBC, but I felt "Chant" was undeserving of a broadcast, particularly in Radio 3's most important Showcase.

I was a bit underwhelmed by Laura's piece, expecting a lot more spark.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Fabulous short film that DA Pennebaker (of Dylan's Don't look back doc frame) made in 1953 around & using Ellington's "Daybreak express"...

http://youtu.be/9fZ0-T80YD8