Attune yourselves for some potentially great jazz broadcasts this weekend, and a kick-in-the-tail to Friday's Guy Fawkes!
Sat 30 Oct
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola presents a rare interview with British guitarist John Mclaughlin, who shares some of the music that inspires him. Plus a concert performance by Indonesian pianist Joey Alexander, recorded in Baltimore with his trio and featuring music from his album Warna.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, tonight with Amina Claudine Myers - who breathes new life and meaning into an old spiritual through questioning vocals and her indomitable piano performance - and the sprawling Go Organic Orchestra in collaboration with the collective Brooklyn Raga Massive in an experiment with Indian classical music. Plus a previously unheard 1970s live performance from Splinters.
Splinters was early 1970s initiative of drummer John Stevens, which brought together musicians from Britain's bebop and free jazz generations, and included Phil Seamen on second drumkit alongside Stevens, Stan Tracey, Jeff Clyne on basses, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, and Tubby Hayes and Trevor Watts on saxophones. Of these musicians, only 82-year old Trevor Watts remains, and continues to play with ever-renewed energy in a number of contexts.
Sun 31 Oct
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a broad spectrum of requests, today including trumpeter Clifford Brown, organist Jimmy Smith with drummer Grady Tate, and orchestral work from Maria Schneider.
Fri 5 Nov
7.30pm - Radio 3 In Concert
From the Barbican in London, Martin Handley introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of works including Mark-Anthony Turnage's sports-themed Up for Grabs.
Lee Dixon (footballer), Peter Erskine (drums), John Parricelli (guitar), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ryan Bancroft.
This starts around 8.30, following Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1919) and Ravel's famous commission for Torville and Dean, the well-known fleapit advertising outfit. Turnage is apparently an Arsenal supporter
, but as a generous-spirited south London-adopted west Londoner by birth, I'll forgive him - "C'mon you Blues!"
Sat 30 Oct
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola presents a rare interview with British guitarist John Mclaughlin, who shares some of the music that inspires him. Plus a concert performance by Indonesian pianist Joey Alexander, recorded in Baltimore with his trio and featuring music from his album Warna.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, tonight with Amina Claudine Myers - who breathes new life and meaning into an old spiritual through questioning vocals and her indomitable piano performance - and the sprawling Go Organic Orchestra in collaboration with the collective Brooklyn Raga Massive in an experiment with Indian classical music. Plus a previously unheard 1970s live performance from Splinters.
Splinters was early 1970s initiative of drummer John Stevens, which brought together musicians from Britain's bebop and free jazz generations, and included Phil Seamen on second drumkit alongside Stevens, Stan Tracey, Jeff Clyne on basses, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, and Tubby Hayes and Trevor Watts on saxophones. Of these musicians, only 82-year old Trevor Watts remains, and continues to play with ever-renewed energy in a number of contexts.
Sun 31 Oct
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a broad spectrum of requests, today including trumpeter Clifford Brown, organist Jimmy Smith with drummer Grady Tate, and orchestral work from Maria Schneider.
Fri 5 Nov
7.30pm - Radio 3 In Concert
From the Barbican in London, Martin Handley introduces the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of works including Mark-Anthony Turnage's sports-themed Up for Grabs.
Lee Dixon (footballer), Peter Erskine (drums), John Parricelli (guitar), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ryan Bancroft.
This starts around 8.30, following Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1919) and Ravel's famous commission for Torville and Dean, the well-known fleapit advertising outfit. Turnage is apparently an Arsenal supporter
, but as a generous-spirited south London-adopted west Londoner by birth, I'll forgive him - "C'mon you Blues!"