The Brice is right

[Serial_Apologist]

Apologies for this week's minimalist schedule presentation. Plenty of jazz, too much for me to cope with in detail.

Sat 12 Nov
5pm - J to Z

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dy0s

12midnight - Freeness

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dy0z

Sun 13 Nov
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dxy7

Mon -Fri 14-18 Nov
12noon - The Harlem Renaissance

Scroll down the right hand column for each programme in succession.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dy5r

Weds 16 Nov
1pm - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dfyp

Fri 18 Nov
7.30pm - Radio 3 In Concert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dyb3

11pm - Late Junction

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dyb7

[Alyn_Shipton]

Hmm that Harlem Renaissance link seems to connect me to Look North on BBC tv! Worth a second look?

[Serial_Apologist]

Hmm that Harlem Renaissance link seems to connect me to Look North on BBC tv! Worth a second look?

Woops! Apologies, Alyn. Now corrected.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Just caught up with JRR and Fats Domino joyously opening! Every JRR should open with Fats and his band, the signpost for me to get to jazz in the first place. More Fats please. But not his ECM albums...

[Jazzrook]

Just caught up with JRR and Fats Domino joyously opening! Every JRR should open with Fats and his band, the signpost for me to get to jazz in the first place. More Fats please. But not his ECM albums...

Talking of "signposts", have just read a fascinating review of the CD 'A Snapshot In Time'(1960-63) by Richard Williams:

https://thebluemoment.com/2022/11/06/-just-before-the-world-changed/

Several of the tracks hit the spot with me at the time and led me on the path to exploring blues & jazz.
Here's Cyril Davies playing 'Chicago Calling' which was one of the first blues records I bought in the early 1960s on the red & yellow Pye R & B label:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=YbCdvRxCyU0

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Talking of "signposts", have just read a fascinating review of the CD 'A Snapshot In Time'(1960-63) by Richard Williams:

https://thebluemoment.com/2022/11/06/-just-before-the-world-changed/

Several of the tracks hit the spot with me at the time and led me on the path to exploring blues & jazz.
Here's Cyril Davies playing 'Chicago Calling' which was one of the first blues records I bought in the early 1960s on the red & yellow Pye R & B label:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=YbCdvRxCyU0

JR

Oh for the joys of being informed by having been there! I love Williams's description of Cyril Davies as "the Ken Colyer Of British R&B" - Cyril, from what I have read, was as hostile to the tenor saxophonist (from what I remember Dick Heckstall-Smith having written in his autobiog) as Colyer - it was I think the main reason for him (Davies) leaving Blues Inc. "Why Should We Not?" is on the instrumentals-mostly album "Soul of Manne", my copy of which has Jack Bruce featured on the cover and Henry Lowther and Lyn Dobson too, all wearing black polo-necks and checked drainpipe trousers - not jeans, please note! - very cool (even today I reckon), probably from a TOTP session.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Oh for the joys of being informed by having been there! I love Williams's description of Cyril Davies as "the Ken Colyer Of British R&B" - Cyril, from what I have read, was as hostile to the tenor saxophonist (from what I remember Dick Heckstall-Smith having written in his autobiog) as Colyer - it was I think the main reason for him (Davies) leaving Blues Inc. "Why Should We Not?" is on the instrumentals-mostly album "Soul of Manne", my copy of which has Jack Bruce featured on the cover and Henry Lowther and Lyn Dobson too, all wearing black polo-necks and checked drainpipe trousers - not jeans, please note! - very cool (even today I reckon), probably from a TOTP session.

"At ten to eight the clattery pub doors were flung open and a burly balding figure in a dirty raincoat pushed in, holding an old and very bulging briefcase. Ignoring the good natured shouts of 'hello Cyril!' he made his way straight to the decrepit upright piano in the corner of the room, and upended his briefcase over the top of it. An enormous number of harmonicas flowed out, rather like a liquid, and he cursed roundly and obscenely.


So it was that Dick met Cyril Davies for the first time. If Cyril was the first "fully fledged genius" that Dick had ever worked with, for the first few weeks at least, Dick was convinced that the harp man didn't like him. He eventually realized that Cyril's contempt was not aimed at the man (in fact they became drinking buddies early on) but at the instrument he played. Davies hated the Saxophone with a vengeance. As Dick said, "He liked my playing, he just didn't like what I played it on."

Musicians memories of Cyril Davies"

[Alyn_Shipton]

I don't know where all this about Ken Colyer being hostile to the tenor sax has come from. In the seven years I played fairly regularly with him we quite often had a clarinettist who doubled on tenor, and on our last CD from 1986 George Berry plays tenor on a track, as he does on a different piece in the DVD by the band. Ken himself played the tenor, and used to wax lyrical about Lester Young. There's a chapter about this in my book "On Jazz".

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't know where all this about Ken Colyer being hostile to the tenor sax has come from. In the seven years I played fairly regularly with him we quite often had a clarinettist who doubled on tenor, and on our last CD from 1986 George Berry plays tenor on a track, as he does on a different piece in the DVD by the band. Ken himself played the tenor, and used to wax lyrical about Lester Young. There's a chapter about this in my book "On Jazz".

From Jim Godbolt would be my guess, though I'd have to re-read his book, which I haven't done for many years.

[Jazzrook]

Excellent Harlem Renaissance episode today on CoTW featuring Langston Hughes with Mingus & Horace Parlan.
Well worth hearing again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dybk

JR