Tinselled sounds, courtesy the BeeBee, see?

[Serial_Apologist]

Apologies for the lateness!

Xmas Eve
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, tonight with baritone saxophonist and improviser Cath Roberts, Yorkshire-based keyboard adventurer Matthew Bourne and German vocalist Ute Wasserman all providing specially recorded takes on seasonal tunes. Plus a performance by Pat Thomas of Duke Ellington's hymn to the sabbath, Come Sunday, Rhodri Davies's whirling improvisations on lap harp, and the tinselled sound of Martin Payne and David BeeBee in their combination of vibraphone and Fender Rhodes electric piano.

You can hear it all here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9zd

Christmas Pudding with post-turkey trots *** Brandy
5pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with Christmassy jazz requests.

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9ps

Rob Luft's piece Tributary comes tacked onto next Tuesday's New Generation Artists programme (27 Dec)- tune in at 5pm and hear mere preambles to this by Mozart, Chausson, Poulenc, and Scriabin's (to me) best piano sonata. Luft (g, waffer) Iain Ballamy (ts,ss) Huw Warren (p) Conor Chaplin (b,bg, vicar's gaiters) Will Glaser (drums, replacement window panes).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9ry

See you next time for New Year's Eve's pudding.

[Serial_Apologist]

Disk 7 on JRR is from the then ground-breaking (for the UK) musical, Black Nativity; I well remember a school party of us coming up West to see this at the Astoria in Piccadilly (iirc). My first exposure to then-contemporary Gospel music - the nearest I'd heard up to that time was Burl Ives singing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" on an old 78, and Ray Charles, and I remember thinking, if this was what Christian worship should be about I must have been enrolled into the wrong denomination! Marion Williams - not in front but the back row, but easily the most powerful voice in the ensemble. Can't wait to hear this. Looks an interesting programme today.

[Serial_Apologist]

Rob Luft's piece Tributary comes tacked onto next Tuesday's New Generation Artists programme (27 Dec)- tune in at 5pm and hear mere preambles to this by Mozart, Chausson, Poulenc, and Scriabin's (to me) best piano sonata. Luft (g, waffer) Iain Ballamy (ts,ss) Huw Warren (p) Conor Chaplin (b,bg, vicar's gaiters) Will Glaser (drums, replacement window panes).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001g9ry

Just re-flashing this programme, partly with Ian Thumwood in mind for the Scriabin piano sonata, which was given a fine rendition by Tom Borrow. It comes about an hour into the programme, which by the way also included some lovely songs by Debussy's friend and compatriot Ernest Chausson and Poulenc's rather good violin sonata, which for some reason had escaped me up to this time.