Richt Here, Right Now are forever Ni.

[Serial_Apologist]

Genuinely interesting lookng stuff coming up this next week:

Sat 17 June
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre with the cream of old and new jazz, today including concert highlights from last month's Manchester Jazz Festival recorded live for J to Z. Featuring music from Manchester trumpeter Nick Walters, Liverpudlian vocalist Ni Maxine and riotous ensemble Ferg's Imaginary Big Band, led by bassist and composer Fergus Quill. And innovative drummer and Polar Bear founder Seb Rochford shares some of the music that has inspired him, including a recording by Thelonious Monk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mtzg

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, tonight featuring a set from Charlotte Keefe's Right Here Right Now Quartet recorded last month at the Manchester Jazz Festival. Plus highlights from Know: Delirium Atom Path, the forthcoming album by pianist Pat Thomas with guitarist Chris Sharkey and drummer Luke Reddin-Williams.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mtzz

Sun 18 June
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mttf

Fri 23 June
5pm - In Tune
Sean Rafferty with news from the classical world*, music and studio guests, today featuring a live performance by the Wang/Luft/Fält Trio - contrabassist Ellen Andrea Wang, guitarist Rob Luft and drummer Jon Fält - ahead of their concert in London, Bristol and Poole.

*The classical world???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mvpq

[Old Grumpy]

Genuinely interesting lookng stuff coming up this next week:

Sat 17 June
5pm - J to Z
Kevin Le Gendre with the cream of old and new jazz, today including concert highlights from last month's Manchester Jazz Festival recorded live for J to Z. Featuring music from Manchester trumpeter Nick Walters, Liverpudlian vocalist Ni Maxine and riotous ensemble Ferg's Imaginary Big Band, led by bassist and composer Fergus Quill. And innovative drummer and Polar Bear founder Seb Rochford shares some of the music that has inspired him, including a recording by Thelonious Monk.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mtzg

12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with new jazz and improvised music, tonight featuring a set from Charlotte Keefe's Right Here Right Now Quartet recorded last month at the Manchester Jazz Festival. Plus highlights from Know: Delirium Atom Path, the forthcoming album by pianist Pat Thomas with guitarist Chris Sharkey and drummer Luke Reddin-Williams.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mtzz

Sun 18 June
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n25w

Fri 23 June
5pm - In Tune
Sean Rafferty with news from the classical world*, music and studio guests, today featuring a live performance by the Wang/Luft/Fält Trio - contrabassist Ellen Andrea Wang, guitarist Rob Luft and drummer Jon Fält - ahead of their concert in London, Bristol and Poole.

*The classical world???

*Well maybe/maybe not: http://dirtydogjazz.com/Blog/index.p...ss%20prominent.

You pays yer money, you takes yer choice

[Serial_Apologist]

Just to let bordees that I have changed the URL for tomorrow's Jazz record Requests. Following which programme to publicise from the BBC website can be quite confusing, and I inadvertently gave the programme for June 25, so apologies to Alyn and everyone for that mistake.

Listening to the version of Impressions with Trane on soprano right now for the first time ever, and it's a corker.

[Joseph K]

Listening to the version of Impressions with Trane on soprano right now for the first time ever, and it's a corker.

I caught it too and agree (my mum is on holiday so I've been having much more opportunity to listen to R3 and my own CDs downstairs...)

[Serial_Apologist]

I caught it too and agree (my mum is on holiday so I've been having much more opportunity to listen to R3 and my own CDs downstairs...)

Well what can I say? Jay to Zee genuinely back on track today once more. Just now listening to the final track and I really like the vocalist. Seb couldn't have chosen better nor put views across more in sync with my own. He really is that quiet when you talk to him, which seems so at odds with the explosive sometimes a tad demagogic drummer. I can only second his remarks about free improv, and for me that number with Gail Brand and Mark Sanders nicely summed up what that music can do, over and above "jazz", when at its best. The big band took me back to the 70s - B of B, Globe Unity, even if the solos didn't quite match up to the radical s[urr]ounding diaspora.

British jazz has been getting some short shrift on this board of late - maybe we haven't been getting enough of it on the wireless?

I guess J to Z is always going to be hit-and-miss, which is why the chances can go either way and why I continue to tune in every week.

[Jazzrook]

Well what can I say? Jay to Zee genuinely back on track today once more. Just now listening to the final track and I really like the vocalist. Seb couldn't have chosen better nor put views across more in sync with my own. He really is that quiet when you talk to him, which seems so at odds with the explosive sometimes a tad demagogic drummer. I can only second his remarks about free improv, and for me that number with Gail Brand and Mark Sanders nicely summed up what that music can do, over and above "jazz", when at its best. The big band took me back to the 70s - B of B, Globe Unity, even if the solos didn't quite match up to the radical s[urr]ounding diaspora.

British jazz has been getting some short shrift on this board of late - maybe we haven't been getting enough of it on the wireless?

I guess J to Z is always going to be hit-and-miss, which is why the chances can go either way and why I continue to tune in every week.

J to Z always seems to improve when Kevin Le Gendre presents. Great Coltrane/Dolphy 'Impressions' from the forthcoming 'Evenings at the Village Gate'(Impulse!) Also enjoyed the Sarah Gail Brand(a new name to me) & Mark Sanders track 'Dean's Dream' & Monk's brilliant version of 'Everything Happens To Me'.

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

J to Z always seems to improve when Kevin Le Gendre presents. Great Coltrane/Dolphy 'Impressions' from the forthcoming 'Evenings at the Village Gate'(Impulse!) Also enjoyed the Sarah Gail Brand(a new name to me) & Mark Sanders track 'Dean's Dream' & Monk's brilliant version of 'Everything Happens To Me'.

JR

Gail (or maybe she prefers addressing as Sarah these days) is quite a women! I only ever heard her play "straight" trombone once, when depping with Phil Miller's jazz-rock In Cahoots. My guess is that the Dean in the track title would refer to the Elton from whom a certain Mr Dwight purloined his stage name - Elton "They wanted the Dean part of it too but I said I'd charge double for that". Gail was either married or shacked up with Martin Hathaway, the altoist who at 17 played Joe Harriott in the Joe Harriott Memorial Band, for which an ageing Shake Keane came over from the States, somewhere around 1987. Michael Garrick (5 ft 2 ins, introducing): "This is my old friend Shake Keane" - indicating to my rear; Shake (6 ft 6, deep gravelly voice: "How do you do?". There were two tours, an earlier one featuring John Etheridge; luckily I taped both of them. Going back to Gail and Martin I teased Gail and Martin at the time, saying their relationship was a stylistic mismatch. They took it in good spirit, but it turned out I was right - Martin: "We split up". End of famous jazz celebrities gossip piece.

[Serial_Apologist]

I really should have that Herbie Hancock Joni tribute album - only having heard the odd track played which I've enjoyed every time - some really nice slinky piano and tenor from Herbie and Wayne on the chosen track, the omni-versatile Tina really getting Joni's lyrics. Glad to see Ezzthetics from my favourite George Russell album on JRR today - also, not that version of it, but the solo of solos - Dolphy's Round Midnight from the great 1961 record. I prefer the earlier West Coast-style to the later George Russell which I thought often too bombastic, though I had a girlfriend at the time who was crazy about GR and having Andy Sheppard in the band. I have Andy on cassette talking about that, relating to Charles Fox (if memory serves me) of Russell telling him "The last person to hold that tenor chair was John Coltrane", and Andy thinking, hey ho, no challenge there then!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I really should have that Herbie Hancock Joni tribute album - only having heard the odd track played which I've enjoyed every time - some really nice slinky piano and tenor from Herbie and Wayne on the chosen track, the omni-versatile Tina really getting Joni's lyrics. Glad to see Ezzthetics from my favourite George Russell album on JRR today - also, not that version of it, but the solo of solos - Dolphy's Round Midnight from the great 1961 record. I prefer the earlier West Coast-style to the later George Russell which I thought often too bombastic, though I had a girlfriend at the time who was crazy about GR and having Andy Sheppard in the band. I have Andy on cassette talking about that, relating to Charles Fox (if memory serves me) of Russell telling him "The last person to hold that tenor chair was John Coltrane", and Andy thinking, hey ho, no challenge there then!

The RCA album was the first George Russell record I bought and still find it full of fascinating stuff and fine soloists, Art Farmer etc

The Russell album that reality got me was the 60s Riverside "Stratus Seekers" including the (now) little known saxophonists, John Pierce and Paul Plumber. Both of who play wonderfully. I think they were students of GR at Boston, but should have had far greater careers.

Nice programme today, and with Chet & Gerry. I'm going to buy Alyn's new book on the Mulligan quartets...plug!

[Old Grumpy]

I'm going to buy Alyn's new book on the Mulligan quartets...plug!

Review: https://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogsp...-mulligan.html

[Ian Thumwood]

The first time I heard the Tin Turner track with Herbie Hancock I was stunned how good it was and I just that she had missed her true vocation. Shame that she never recorded more music like that. A genuine loss to jazz.

[Jazzrook]

The first time I heard the Tin Turner track with Herbie Hancock I was stunned how good it was and I just that she had missed her true vocation. Shame that she never recorded more music like that. A genuine loss to jazz.

Tina Turner's fine version of Eddie Boyd's 'Five Long Years':

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=OnxxUF9Mr0c

JR