Sat 10 Dec
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola with new and classic jazz. Plus guests, today with US jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato sharing some of the music that has inspired her. Plus more highlights from this year's Out Here Festival, held in August in Cambridgeshire.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba previews a previously unreleased live recording of a 1989 performance by soprano saxophonist Paul Dunmall and drummer Tony Orrell with double bassist Paul Rogers.
People will remember Tim Richards' Spirit Level in the early 1980s as first introducing Paul Dunmall and Tony Orrell to jazz audiences; Paul Rogers would work with Dunmall in Mujician, alongside Tony Levin and Keith Tippett; so this particular distillation should be a must for discerning aficionados!
Sun 11 Dec
4.30pm - Jazz Record Requests
The second in the 4-part series The Truth about Jazz (BBC4 - Fri 16 Dec, 11am) subtitled Jazz Diplomacy, deals with Mingus's recording of Fables of Faubus and the circumstances surrounding it.
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola with new and classic jazz. Plus guests, today with US jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato sharing some of the music that has inspired her. Plus more highlights from this year's Out Here Festival, held in August in Cambridgeshire.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba previews a previously unreleased live recording of a 1989 performance by soprano saxophonist Paul Dunmall and drummer Tony Orrell with double bassist Paul Rogers.
People will remember Tim Richards' Spirit Level in the early 1980s as first introducing Paul Dunmall and Tony Orrell to jazz audiences; Paul Rogers would work with Dunmall in Mujician, alongside Tony Levin and Keith Tippett; so this particular distillation should be a must for discerning aficionados!

Sun 11 Dec
4.30pm - Jazz Record Requests
The second in the 4-part series The Truth about Jazz (BBC4 - Fri 16 Dec, 11am) subtitled Jazz Diplomacy, deals with Mingus's recording of Fables of Faubus and the circumstances surrounding it.
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