Life with the Kainars

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 21 Jan
5pm - J to Z!
Kevin Le Gendre with the finest new jazz alongside classics of the gendre. Plus guests, today featuring innovative American jazz saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins, who has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jason Moran and Gretchen Parlato and here shares some of the music that has influenced him, including a track that showcases John Coltrane's later experimental and ever more transcendental ears. Plus further highlights performance from last summer's We Out Here festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00194yg

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music. Plus guests, tonight with saxophonist Paul Dunmall discussing what made Bristol such a bustling stage for free jazz in the 1980s*. He also shares some of the creative inspirations, both in jazz and other genres, that led to the development of his personal technique and approach as an improviser. Plus an unreleased track by Latvian/German pianist and singer Maria Kainars and British bass player Ian Robinson and music from the first album by Earscratcher.

*Such happy memories...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h575

Sun 22 Jan
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h56d

[Joseph K]

Looks good.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think J to Z redeemed itself today, with a brace of good tracks, every one of them, and phenomenal piano playing on some. The Tim Garland track with Jason Rebello was outstanding in my view: it's great to come across jazz musicians not resting on their laurels, but improving over time with maturity, like Wayne Shorter has - might consider getting that album. Calum was a great fan of Mr Garland, and would have given this track the big thumbs up, I think.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

The Graham Collier concert track was worth listening to, Nick Evans in the ensemble. And the Benny Golson track in the final selection. That period Golson, still influenced by Lucky Thompson but moving on, is intriguing.

[Ian Thumwood]

I caught about 20 mins of the programme coming back from the football as I did not want to listen to the post-match analysis. I liked the Graham Collier track but the Latin big band was under-whelming. I usually like this kind of music and I think that they should be cut some slack as they are a new ensemble. However, having heard band liks Jesus Almeny's Cubanissimo perform this material live, they fell a long way short of how the music can be executed. I find the way the percussion instruments gel together is these kinds of bands to be fascinating albeit the music often is based on four-bar motives.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Intriguing that Alyn - JRR - is playing a track today by Stan Tracey in Hamburg (1966 recorded for NDR) an Under Milkwood reworking of the original, plus Kenny Wheeler on trumpet. I'd never heard of this - I think it came on CD end of last year? Shame it wasn't a longer working group. Anyway, a very good "plus Wheeler" sample, not the one Alyn is featuring, but "AM Mayhem"...

http://youtu.be/hKwF7WN_5z0

[Serial_Apologist]

Intriguing that Alyn - JRR - is playing a track today by Stan Tracey in Hamburg (1966 recorded for NDR) an Under Milkwood reworking of the original, plus Kenny Wheeler on trumpet. I'd never heard of this - I think it came on CD end of last year? Shame it wasn't a longer working group. Anyway, a very good "plus Wheeler" sample, not the one Alyn is featuring, but "AM Mayhem"...

http://youtu.be/hKwF7WN_5z0

The Tracey was fascinating - well, Kenny was, the others not markedly departing from their contributions on the original, though Tracey more Monkishly forceful. There's not an awful lot of Wheeler on recordings pre the early SME period when he felt he found his niche. Kenny would always say he never mastered bebop idiom, only finding self-confidence after coming across Booker Little somehow, and realising there was "another way" of doing it. All partly down to lack of exposure to the music due to visiting restrictions all through the 1950s, added to a paucity of choice in American album imports. JRR's on the wireless at the mo - I'll listen to the above link later, thanks Bluesnik.

[Joseph K]

Sat 21 Jan
5pm - J to Z!
Kevin Le Gendre with the finest new jazz alongside classics of the gendre. Plus guests, today featuring innovative American jazz saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins, who has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jason Moran and Gretchen Parlato and here shares some of the music that has influenced him, including a track that showcases John Coltrane's later experimental and ever more transcendental ears. Plus further highlights performance from last summer's We Out Here festival.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00194yg

Really nice hearing Immanuel Wilkins talking about late Coltrane, as well as the Trane track itself of course.

[Joseph K]

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music. Plus guests, tonight with saxophonist Paul Dunmall discussing what made Bristol such a bustling stage for free jazz in the 1980s*. He also shares some of the creative inspirations, both in jazz and other genres, that led to the development of his personal technique and approach as an improviser. Plus an unreleased track by Latvian/German pianist and singer Maria Kainars and British bass player Ian Robinson and music from the first album by Earscratcher.

*Such happy memories...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001h575

Currently listening to this and really enjoying it - currently playing Earscratcher.