Hiromi - and there you are

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 2 April
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph with new and classic jazz, today inviting Japanese piano star Hiromi to share some of the music that inspires her, from Oscar Peterson to Frank Zappa. Plus highlights of a concert featuring bassist Henri Texier, a grandee of the French jazz scene, recorded in February 2021 for Radio France in Paris.

Also US pianist/composer Helen Sung, giving her inspirations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00161yc

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with a playlist of improvised music exploring new frontiers in outer space, technology and language. Trumpeter Nick Walters's piercing horn meets inventive loops and Nasa audio samples from space exploration missions. British duo Moses Boyd and Binker Golding extend their collaborative partnership to include producer Max Luthert for their new album Feed the Machine. Corey also travels back to 1970s Ireland via the archives of the former Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory, an experimental project founded in the mid-1960s by Jacinta Delaney and Eoghan Comerford.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015tyv

Sun 3 April
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with recordings by Esbjorn Svensson, Miles Davis, Cecile McLorin Salvant and others.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015tzv

Mon 4 April
4.30pm - New Generation Artists

Programme includes:

Rob Luft - South Wind: Rob Luft (electric guitar) Dave O'Higgins (saxophone) Misha Mullov-Abbado (jazz bass) Ross Stanley (piano) Billy Pod (drums)

Trad Italian, arr Luft - Bella ci dormi: Elina Duni (vocals) Rob Luft (guitar) Fred Thomas (piano).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015vs5

[Serial_Apologist]

Did anyone else have a sense of déjà vu listening to Hiromi giving her delightful choice of inspirations on today's J to Z?

[Jazzrook]

Did anyone else have a sense of déjà vu listening to Hiromi giving her delightful choice of inspirations on today's J to Z?

No, as I missed the original programme broadcast last October.
I particularly enjoyed her Zappa choice, 'Inca Roads':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=nHWLcS-24A8

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

No, as I missed the original programme broadcast last October.
I particularly enjoyed her Zappa choice, 'Inca Roads':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=nHWLcS-24A8

JR

Me too - amazing Nat King Cole parody. Hadn't realised it was a repeat programme - nothing to say as such in RT.

[Alyn_Shipton]

You can catch me talking about multiple Grammy nominee Tony Bennett earlier today on BBC Radio 4 by following this link! I am on at 25 minutes into the programme (and Jazz Record Requests does get a mention!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00161r8

[Old Grumpy]

You can catch me talking about multiple Grammy nominee Tony Bennett earlier today on BBC Radio 4 by following this link! I am on at 25 minutes into the programme (and Jazz Record Requests does get a mention!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00161r8

[Serial_Apologist]

You can catch me talking about multiple Grammy nominee Tony Bennett earlier today on BBC Radio 4 by following this link! I am on at 25 minutes into the programme (and Jazz Record Requests does get a mention!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00161r8

Yep - caught that.

[Serial_Apologist]

Who else noticed how, right at the end of his How Long Blues, Jimmy Yancey abruptly switched to finish in E flat? I was told once that it was an article of faith for Jimmy always to finish in that key, irrespective of the key he'd been using up to that point.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It says here...

"Nevertheless, the ingeniousness of Yancey’s playing is in its unpredictability and the way he makes his sometimes-eccentric ideas make sense. Yancey had a famous stylistic quirk– at the end of every piece he would always turn back to the same tag in E-flat, without regard for what he was doing before leading up to that. The theoretical and formal implications of Yancey’s work are so interesting that it motivated Dutch minimalist composer Louis Andriessen to compose a piece for wind ensemble entitled “On Jimmy Yancey” (1973). Yancey seldom repeated pieces, apart from vocal numbers, and is not known to have gone beyond two takes"

Some good stuff today, the Yancey, Doug Watkins (those lovely dragged bass lines) and Carmen McRae being smashing. And the Getz!

[Ian Thumwood]

It says here...

"Nevertheless, the ingeniousness of Yancey’s playing is in its unpredictability and the way he makes his sometimes-eccentric ideas make sense. Yancey had a famous stylistic quirk– at the end of every piece he would always turn back to the same tag in E-flat, without regard for what he was doing before leading up to that. The theoretical and formal implications of Yancey’s work are so interesting that it motivated Dutch minimalist composer Louis Andriessen to compose a piece for wind ensemble entitled “On Jimmy Yancey” (1973). Yancey seldom repeated pieces, apart from vocal numbers, and is not known to have gone beyond two takes"

Some good stuff today, the Yancey, Doug Watkins (those lovely dragged bass lines) and Carmen McRae being smashing. And the Getz!

I still think that there is a lot of fascinating music from the first 50 or so years of jazz that has never been picked up or is little understood. I have been looking through the lead sheets of a number of Kenny Dorham compositions and they are often based on Blues but take some very odd turns.The book includes a lot of the material from Joe Henderson's "our thing" record and it is fascinating to see how Dorham's compositional brain worked. The odd turns his music takes almost predicts Wayne Shorter. What is curious is how many of these tunes are culled from albums that are largely forgotten such as a suite dedictated to Spring and a two horn./ two rhythm session with Ernie Henry.