Miner offerings.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 18 Mar
5pm - J to Z
New and classic jazz. In this special one-hour edition, Julian Joseph presents highlights of a concert in which drummer and composer Terri Lyne Carrington is joined by singer Michael Mayo and other musicians to perform music from Carrington's latest album New Standards Vol.1, recorded in Februrary in Miner Auditorium at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016z9x

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, tonight featuring a performance meditating on space, time and movement by cellist and sound artist Semay Wu and John Cavanagh, recorded in November at the Kinetic Theatre in Glasgow. Plus a collaboration from drummer Sebastian Rochford and pianist Kit Downes and a work by electronic improviser Chunyang Yao, who uses vocal distortions and drones to re-create the ominous sight and sound of crows circling over seas and empty streets in Tomakomai, Japan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k18c

Sun 19 Mar
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k17p

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Nice chunk of 1940s live Ellington in today's JRR, although when the US announcer said "with Albert Hibbler", for a moment I thought he said "with Adolf Hitler", which would have been an interesting career move.

[Serial_Apologist]

Nice chunk of 1940s live Ellington in today's JRR, although when the US announcer said "with Albert Hibbler", for a moment I thought he said "with Adolf Hitler", which would have been an interesting career move.

I was disappointed with Terri Lyne Carrington's band on J to Z, with its straining to not be straight ahead and terrible vocalist (I thought). Innovation needs to come "naturally" (ie unforced) the way as was so stunningly demonstrated on tonight's BBC4 of the Wayne Shorter band from 2001. Shame cos I've always had huge respect for her. And Claire Martin's tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett ( or as I prefer to call him Wretched Rodney Bin It), with its colourless backing arrangement, was awful. Or was I just in a bad mood yesterday? I'd lost my wrist watch.

[Quarky]

I was disappointed with Terri Lyne Carrington's band on J to Z, with its straining to not be straight ahead and terrible vocalist (I thought). Innovation needs to come "naturally" (ie unforced) the way as was so stunningly demonstrated on tonight's BBC4 of the Wayne Shorter band from 2001. Shame cos I've always had huge respect for her. And Claire Martin's tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett ( or as I prefer to call him Wretched Rodney Bin It), with its colourless backing arrangement, was awful. Or was I just in a bad mood yesterday? I'd lost my wrist watch.

Same here. J to Z might have selected some other numbers without the vocalist.

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, without Gonsalves' solo, was very interesting and forced me to concentrate on the composition. As regards Al Hibbler, I appreciated the quality of his voice, but some vocal mannerisms I found irritating.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Same here. J to Z might have selected some other numbers without the vocalist.

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, without Gonsalves' solo, was very interesting and forced me to concentrate on the composition. As regards Al Hibbler, I appreciated the quality of his voice, but some vocal mannerisms I found irritating.

There was a thing he did there that reminded me of a Jimmy Witherspoon mannerism/identifier. I hadn't heard that before.

[Serial_Apologist]

There was a thing he did there that reminded me of a Jimmy Witherspoon mannerism/identifier. I hadn't heard that before.

You mean sweeping down into the bass register? Billie Holiday would do that, and I imagine she took it from Louis, but please don't ask me for examples!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It was like a kind of strangulated inflection at the end of a phrase. Spoon did it for emotional effect and I always thought it characteristic of him alone. But I suppose Hibbler could well be an influence.

[Jazzrook]

Nice chunk of 1940s live Ellington in today's JRR, although when the US announcer said "with Albert Hibbler", for a moment I thought he said "with Adolf Hitler", which would have been an interesting career move.

Al Hibbler with Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing 'Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me' from the 1972 ATLANTIC album 'A Meeting Of The Times'(awarded a rare 'crown' in The Penguin Guide):

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=xuoy4n0UMAA

JR

[Ian Thumwood]

I was disappointed with Terri Lyne Carrington's band on J to Z, with its straining to not be straight ahead and terrible vocalist (I thought). Innovation needs to come "naturally" (ie unforced) the way as was so stunningly demonstrated on tonight's BBC4 of the Wayne Shorter band from 2001. Shame cos I've always had huge respect for her. And Claire Martin's tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett ( or as I prefer to call him Wretched Rodney Bin It), with its colourless backing arrangement, was awful. Or was I just in a bad mood yesterday? I'd lost my wrist watch.

I caught some of the TLC set and have to agree that it was under-whelming. For me the problem was that I was aware of the original versions of the compositions so somthing like Tomeka Reid's "Etoile" came across as a bland tribute. COnversely, I thiought that the Claire Martin track was terrific. If I had been told what it was beforehand, I would have been less positive but I was surprised how good it was regardless of how "jazzy" it was.

I see the line up for Vienne has been announced and am glad that I took my fortnight's holiday off earlier this year and chose to go to the Philippines instead. Not worth going to this year as the commercial stuff continues to push out the more hardcore jazz.