Brazil nuts going for free

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 1 July
Kevin Le Gendre old and new jazz, today including highlights of a concert by Leeds ensemble Ferg's Imaginary Big Band, recorded in May at the Manchester Jazz Festival. Plus an interview with Sami-Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette, who shares some of the recordings that have inspired her, including a masterclass in emotional expression by opera star Maria Callas.

Don't ask me - I don't write these Radio Times headers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n8qw

12midnight - Freeness
With Corey Mwamba, featuring music by Swiss saxophonist Eva-Maria Karbacher evoking the mountainous habitat of the ochotona, a small mammal with a lively call found in Asia and North America. Plus howling vocals and eerie echolocation by way of Brazil - from sound artists Renata Roman, Paola Ribeiro and Laura.aLL - and sounds from improviser Maria Sappho, who plays experimental music with the world's only multimodal creative Al.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n8rz

Sun 2 July
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n80c

[Jazzrook]

Sat 1 July
Kevin Le Gendre old and new jazz, today including highlights of a concert by Leeds ensemble Ferg's Imaginary Big Band, recorded in May at the Manchester Jazz Festival. Plus an interview with Sami-Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette, who shares some of the recordings that have inspired her, including a masterclass in emotional expression by opera star Maria Callas.

Don't ask me - I don't write these Radio Times headers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n001n8qw

12midnight - Freeness
With Corey Mwamba, featuring music by Swiss saxophonist Eva-Maria Karbacher evoking the mountainous habitat of the ochotona, a small mammal with a lively call found in Asia and North America. Plus howling vocals and eerie echolocation by way of Brazil - from sound artists Renata Roman, Paola Ribeiro and Laura.aLL - and sounds from improviser Maria Sappho, who plays experimental music with the world's only multimodal creative Al.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n001n8rz

Sun 2 July
4pm - Jazz Record Requests

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n80c

Sun 2 July
Sky Arts 8pm
Miles Davis: Miles Electric - a Different Kind of Blue

JR

[Joseph K]

Sun 2 July
Sky Arts 8pm
Miles Davis: Miles Electric - a Different Kind of Blue

JR

Cheers JR. I've watched that before but will probably record it.

[Ian Thumwood]

Mette Henriette - i would have loved this forty years ago but it is something and nothing. As Bluesniks said, you wonder who the audience is for ECM . The music sounds beautiful on first listen yet ultimately it seem pretty shallow

[Serial_Apologist]

Great starter track from Phil Bancroft on JRR just now, backed by some of the ablest youngsters around London through the second decade. Phil always spoke of Coltrane's importance, yet of that late 1980s bevvy of upcoming Scots players he immediately came across as the least imitative, with that warm slightly laryngitic tone. He would take risks, go Scots free, write interesting materials, and lead a thrilling big band: at the time of one of the last Bracknells I rated him above the less original albeit possibly technically more proficient Tommy Smith.

[Tenor Freak]

Mette Henriette - i would have loved this forty years ago but it is something and nothing. As Bluesniks said, you wonder who the audience is for ECM . The music sounds beautiful on first listen yet ultimately it seem pretty shallow

It's simple, really: this is (relatively) popular still. There's a market for audio wallpaper. But ECM has quietly been releasing some recognisable jazz from various musicians such as Joe Lovano's trio with Marilyn Crispell, Vijay Iyer or Billy Hart over the last decade or so.

[Ian Thumwood]

It's simple, really: this is (relatively) popular still. There's a market for audio wallpaper. But ECM has quietly been releasing some recognisable jazz from various musicians such as Joe Lovano's trio with Marilyn Crispell, Vijay Iyer or Billy Hart over the last decade or so.

I was addicted to ECM in the mid 1980s throuh to the 1990s but it gradually lost appeal. I think ECM still has a roster of decent jazz musicians but have suffered with the passing of some of their better and more original artists or where others like Egberto Gismonti seem to have gone in to retirement. The last few newer releases I have bought are ok yet I think the label has lost the ability to shock. Even players like Iyer and Lovano seem to suffer under the ECM production values which always come across as an additional musician.