Made in Chelsea

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 29 Jan
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre presents highlights from a concert by saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael, recorded in November on the J to Z Presents stage at the London Jazz Festival. And guitarist and vocalist Monette Sudler - who in the 1970s was a member of the Philadelphia-based collective Sounds of Liberation - shares some of the music that inspires her.

Much more info about Chelsea, and Monette, on the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010x1p

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new music exploring the early-20th-century Anglo-American poetry movement, imagism. Soprano singer Stephanie Lamprea collaborates with composer Hannah Selin to bring to life the words of the 20th-century imagist poet Hilda Doolittle, known as HD (1886-1961). Plus a re-released late-1970ss recording by the London Bass Trio and music by Slovenian star Samo Salamon.

Information about the London Bass trio on the link below - this looks to be a Saturday with much to offer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013zyw

Sun 30 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013zy0

[Ian Thumwood]

I thought that this was going to be about the trumpeter Chelsea Quealey ! Out of curiousity I looked him up as I recalled he was an American musician who had worked in the UK in the late 1920s when he was a part of the band lef by Fred Elizalde that played on London between 1928-29 and subsequently played trumpet in a number of "hot dance bands" in the States before dying from heart failure in 1950 at the age of 45. This led me to looking up Fred Elizalde whose name I recalled as being a bandleader who tried to introduce jazz to the UK. I was quite shocked to listen to the band on Youtube and discover how good they were. The music owes a heavy debt to the kind of jazz played by Bix and also featured Adrian Rollini on bass saxophone. There is also really good trumpet soloist who may either by Quealey or the English player Bobby Davis.

I am surprised that Elizalde has been wiped from history as he seems a quite complex character. He was a virtuoso concert pianist who camed from Manila who had eventually ended up studying in America where be caught the bug for jazz and was leading a jazz group there before he was in his twenties. I did not appreciate that he subsequently returned to PH where he returned to classical music before eventially studying with De Falla in Spain before fighting to Franco in the Civil War. He seems to have then focused on classical position albeit based on the Philippines where he eventually had a role in their broadcasting company. It seems like his fliration with jazz was very brief. Elizalde seems to have had quite an intereating career and it is very strange to think that it would be someone from SE Asia who had such a large influence on the jazz scene in this country. The band was made up of a mixture of British and American musicians.

[Alyn_Shipton]

There is a long chapter about Elizalde in Arthur Rollini's autobiography which I published in 1986. Art was a nice man, with great memories, specially of his more famous brother Adrian. But the book is also an insider's view of the great years of Benny Goodman. https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/arth...saAhISEALw_wcB