New Year's Day
12 midnight
To make up for all the jazz that didn't get broadcast over Christmas, there will be no J to Z this Saturday. However, the gig mentioned below should be more than worth tuning in for; for one reason apart from the music, this would if I remember rightly have coincided with the generals in Poland seizing power in order (unsuccessfully) to put down the growing influence of Solidarnosc and the shipbuilders at Gdansk.
Corey Mwamba with music by pianist and poet Robert Mitchell and cellist Shirley Smart, who reflect on new ways of seeing* and remembering. Plus Boston-based South Korean pianist Eunhye Jeong and a 1984 jazz performance in Poland featuring an all-star lineup including Cecil Taylor, Tomasz Stanko, Jimmy and Karen Lyons, and William Parker.
*Somebody else must have noticed that John Berger's remarkable programme series of 1972, Ways of Seeing, is being commemorated in a series on Radio 4 next week!
Sun 2 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests.
Alyn Shipton with requests for Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, British vocalist Tina May and American Pianist Jessica Williams.
Finally, the prominent Trinidad-born Errollyn Wallen is featured Composer of the Week next week, for which I'll post a separate thread.
12 midnight
To make up for all the jazz that didn't get broadcast over Christmas, there will be no J to Z this Saturday. However, the gig mentioned below should be more than worth tuning in for; for one reason apart from the music, this would if I remember rightly have coincided with the generals in Poland seizing power in order (unsuccessfully) to put down the growing influence of Solidarnosc and the shipbuilders at Gdansk.
Corey Mwamba with music by pianist and poet Robert Mitchell and cellist Shirley Smart, who reflect on new ways of seeing* and remembering. Plus Boston-based South Korean pianist Eunhye Jeong and a 1984 jazz performance in Poland featuring an all-star lineup including Cecil Taylor, Tomasz Stanko, Jimmy and Karen Lyons, and William Parker.
*Somebody else must have noticed that John Berger's remarkable programme series of 1972, Ways of Seeing, is being commemorated in a series on Radio 4 next week!
Sun 2 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests.
Alyn Shipton with requests for Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, British vocalist Tina May and American Pianist Jessica Williams.
Finally, the prominent Trinidad-born Errollyn Wallen is featured Composer of the Week next week, for which I'll post a separate thread.
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