Quiet dude: we're going for a Jimmy!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 16 Oct
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre pays tribute to Florida-born saxophonist, composer and arranger Pee Wee Ellis, who died last month, aged 80. Today's show features highlights from a concert given by Ellis with the NDR Big Band, recorded in 2015 in Hamburg. And singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux shares some of the music that has inspired her, notably Billie Holiday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010pj2

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, this week featuring pianist Aman Mahajan's musical responses to his mother's poetic reflections on quietude and a contained tempest of improvisation from vocalist Mankwe Ndosi with trio Body MemOri. Plus music by multi-instrumentalist Maeve Shallert.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010pj8

Sun 17 Oct
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010nx2

And not forgetting:

Fri 22 Oct - BBC4
9pm - Zappa
The first all-access documentary - years in the making - about the American musician Frank Zappa, who died in 1993. It conveys the scope of his prodigious and varied creative output, and the breadth of his extraordinary personal and political life. The documentary team was granted exclusive access by his widow Gail to a vast collection of Zappa's unreleased music, movies, incomplete projects, unseen interviews and unheard concert recordings, much of which was deteriorating and in danger of being lost forever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010rl8

And a special thanks once more to Jazzrook for drawing attention to this.

[Serial_Apologist]

Lovely choice of vocals from Madeleine Peyroux on J to Z just now. I remember first hearing Bessie Smith's "I'm Wild About That Thing" on one of Charles Fox's programmes, and him drawing attention to the close proximity of "rock" and "roll" in the line, "Just rock me with a steady roll".

I think I need to put that Betty Carter/Ray Charles album on after this.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The Ray and Betty album is a favourite...the entry of Betty Carter on "Everytime we say goodbye", where she just "floats" in over the background is classic. Also one of Georgie Fames's life choices, the "For all we know" from that record. I was surprised how (audio) clean the Bessie Smith track was, they can do wonders nowadays!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Ray Charles/Betty Carter - "Everyone we say goodbye"...Betty MAJESTIC!

http://youtu.be/qkXYqUB-9NM

[kernelbogey]

This thread is a complete riddle to me.

[Quarky]

A different side to Betty Carter, to the fierce scatting I associate her with. Wish she'd stuck to more of this kinda stuff.

A funky J to Z !

Thanks for prompt on Zappa - must really get to grips with him.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Betty's "Social Call" from 1956 with Ray Bryant and Gigi Gryce is fairly "straight" and well worth checking out.

[Serial_Apologist]

This thread is a complete riddle to me.

Can't see why, tbh - after all, this thread isn't exactly Nelson's Column!

[kernelbogey]

Can't see why, tbh - after all, this thread isn't exactly Nelson's Column!

I may have over-interpeted your thread title, S_A...!

[Quarky]

Betty's "Social Call" from 1956 with Ray Bryant and Gigi Gryce is fairly "straight" and well worth checking out.

Thanks BN. Currently preferring her to Sarah Vaughn, perhaps even Ella. Plenty of improvisation there, even when singing "straight".

[Serial_Apologist]

I amy have over-interpeted your thread title, S_A...!

No I over-interpreted your post!!!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Excellent JRR again today, we are on a roll. Good to hear Dexter ("Doxy") with "fluid" in his playing before his tone solidified.

[Serial_Apologist]

Excellent JRR again today, we are on a roll. Good to hear Dexter ("Doxy") with "fluid" in his playing before his tone solidified.

I've long felt Dexter to have been Rollins's biggest influence, so hearing that father-to-the-Sonny tribute was really something.

[cloughie]

Ray Charles/Betty Carter - "Everyone we say goodbye"...Betty MAJESTIC!
http://youtu.be/qkXYqUB-9NM

Exquisite! I must check out the album! The Madeline chat was very good too.

[Ian Thumwood]

I have quite a few of the Verve albums that Betty Carter made in the 1990s. Not played them for ages but they always struck me as being made by an artist who was stridently in the jazz camp. One of the albums was called "It is not about the melody" and that whole approach really appealed to me back then. Listening to them the last time I played them, it was quite striking how risky ditching the melody was and I am not convinced it always worked. When she was on the money, I have to say that she was quite unsurpassed. The live "Feed the fire" album is terrific. What she did was taking a chance and maybe not for everyone?

I wondered how many others had checked out Jazzmeia Horn, a young singer firmly in the Better Carter camp ? The few records I have heard by her shows she wears this influence on her sleeve and maybe she is an antedote to the slew of young singers rattling out standards. For my money, Dianne Reeves does take some beating, though.