Ding Dong Merrilly on - Unlock your Heart!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 8 Jan
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre sees in 2022 with some exciting new jazz releases, including an album from US vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant that takes her music in a bold new direction, and a celebration of British carnival band and grassroots education initiative Kinetika Bloco. Plus music that inspire and influences British saxophonist Mark Lockheart, who's about to release his latest project, Dreamers - a creative blend of jazz, alt-rock and more.

Is "alt-rock" what we used to call "art rock", e.g. bands such as Slapp Happy and Henry Cow?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00138fb

6.30 - Opera on 3 from the Met

Never thought I'd be mentioning an opera on the board!

A chance to hear an October 2021 performance of jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones - an adaptation of Charles M Blow's moving memoir, first performed in 2019 at the Opera Theatre of St Louis.

Forgive me for not including the lengthy details - er umm, shouldn't that be "Theater"???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00138fd

'Round About Midnight -
Freeness
Corey Mwamba shares highlights from a night of improvisation at GIOfest, a festival at Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts organised by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.

Nice to see "Improvisers" spelt correctly!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00138fj

Sun 9 Jan
5pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents a broad spectrum of requests, including Hank Jones, Keith Jarrett and Helen Merrill.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013830

Fri 14 Jan
5pm - In Tune
British-Bahraini trumpet player Yazz Ahmed joins Sean Rafferty to perform live in the studio as part of the Yazz Ahmed Quartet ahead of a concert at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London on Monday. Plus the latest arts news.

So says Radio Times - totally different schedule on the BBC website.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Which deals with the way spirits drift in and out of our lives" - Kevin Le G on Ms Salvant's new album. Wait a minute: I haven't had a Scotch in years!

[Jazzrook]

Just noticed, 'John Berger: the Art of Looking'(BBC4, Mon Jan 10, 11.20pm).
It's a repeat from 2016 but worth seeing again.

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Just noticed, 'John Berger: the Art of Looking'(BBC4, Mon Jan 10, 11.20pm).
It's a repeat from 2016 but worth seeing again.

JR

Thanks JR - my schedules check usually stops at 11 pm so I'll have to try & stay awake for this one!

[Quarky]

On the evidence in JRR J to Z, Cecile seems to be losing her voice mannerisms. But she faces stiff competition.

[Serial_Apologist]

On the evidence in JRR, Cecile seems to be losing her voice mannerisms. But she faces stiff competition.

I listened to about half an hour of Terence Blanchard's opera, but found myself disappointed in the very conventional musical idiom employed for it, which failed to measure up to the seriousness of the work's subject matter.

[Serial_Apologist]

On the evidence in JRR J to Z, Cecile seems to be losing her voice mannerisms. But she faces stiff competition.

And I publicised JRR as commencing at 5, not 4 o'clock today. Sorry if anyone was misled!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Stands the church clock at ten to four, and is that Keith Jarrett banging on the door?" Or the neighbors.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Is that a wind-up, BN?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I actually liked that track! No fan of Keef but that was OK, Garbarek little licks of Ornette, he said grudgingly. The Helen Merrill was the standout for me, and then Hank J and Emily R.