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**Serial_Apologist** · 26-03-12, 13:28

Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post

it has been a few days since the Jazzwise story broke and i can find no comment or reaction from R3 any where ....

there can be no rationale for the alleged changes merely the opportunistic and perhaps desperate tactical stumbles in response to Delivering Quality First, being managed by Davie, and Squealer's own choices ...

there may be more bad news to come

An understandable conclusion to reach when the information machine goes totally schtum.

**Alyn_Shipton** · 29-03-12, 20:05

I think this might be what you were looking for...http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...rey-smith.html

**Old Grumpy** · 29-03-12, 20:16

Originally posted by Alyn_Shipton View Post

I think this might be what you were looking for...http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...rey-smith.html

Yep - looks good. Shame it's on so late though - will this be Geoffrey's regular slot?

OG

**hackneyvi** · 29-03-12, 21:27

Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post

Yep - looks good. Shame it's on so late though - will this be Geoffrey's regular slot?

OG

The schedule has explicitly become what it always really was - an index for finding music. I appreciate that significance can attach to a slot but every R3 programme is now broadcast continuously for a week. The slot is now just the point at which the 7 day broadcast starts.

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 29-03-12, 22:52

well it just looks like musical presenters chairs to me with no real rhyme nor reason other than operational tactics and i wonder just how long GS can sustain a midnight personal programme .... with the end of JL any pretense at analysis and review leaves the schedule ... so it is just a game of presenters musical chairs now and we are still in the graveyard of broadcasting time slots ...

i really think jazz would be better served on R6 well away from Squealer, he has miserably failed to live up to his words over the years ... as a matter of fact the whole approach of R6 to music would be well suited to R3 ..

if as hackneyvi posts it is essentailly a web based week long programme availability tyhen R3 just fails to compare with NPR for content and presentation

i think that the management of R3 and its policies and decisions affecting Jazz are now failing their remit and i am despondent since i do not believe there is any lever to get change for the better

**french frank** · 30-03-12, 08:15

I hope Alyn will have a bit of freedom to do more than just spin the discs and interact with the audience. I don't see how a request show is going to use his knowledge and expertise to the full. The Jazzwise story says he has a remit 'to draw in a broader, and slightly younger listenership' (I wonder where they got that from: it's not in the press release Alyn gave the link to). So, a sort of cross between the Sara Mohr-Pietsch and the Rob Cowan of jazz? That could be a poisoned chalice

[And how did they hide that press link? The story isn't showing on either of the Media Centre's Latest News pages, the general one or the Radio 3 one.

Add: It's there now ..]

**Serial_Apologist** · 30-03-12, 10:50

Originally posted by french frank View Post

I hope Alyn will have a bit of freedom to do more than just spin the discs and interact with the audience. I don't see how a request show is going to use his knowledge and expertise to the full. The Jazzwise story says he has a remit 'to draw in a broader, and slightly younger listenership' (I wonder where they got that from: it's not in the press release Alyn gave the link to). So, a sort of cross between the Sara Mohr-Pietsch and the Rob Cowan of jazz? That could be a poisoned chalice

[And how did they hide that press link? The story isn't showing on either of the Media Centre's Latest News pages, the general one or the Radio 3 one.]

EXACTLY my thoughts, French Frank.

**Tenor Freak** · 30-03-12, 21:17

Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post

Yep - looks good. Shame it's on so late though - will this be Geoffrey's regular slot?

OG

Yes...until the following week when it will be on at 11.30pm, then 12.15am, then missed out for a week so as not to interrupt Through the Night...

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 31-03-12, 10:50

The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.

Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

**Alyn_Shipton** · 31-03-12, 13:08

with the end of JL any pretense at analysis and review

I assure you Calum, whatever it may sound like, there has never been any pretence on my part. JL has been five and a bit years of a genuine attempt at both those things.

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 31-03-12, 13:29

i believe you Alyn but my understanding is that you will now do JRR, GS will have his own 'presenter' show in the JL time slot and no more JL ..... so my despondency is for the future, not the past ... indeed the past of jazz on r3 is what makes the present and future so depressing

**Paul Sherratt** · 31-03-12, 14:20

>>>as a matter of fact the whole approach of R6 to music would be well suited to R3 ..

Hang on Mr C. Don't get carried away !!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks AS for that link. I always wondered what that nice Mr Kurowski's job title was !

**Tenor Freak** · 01-04-12, 20:05

Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post

>>>as a matter of fact the whole approach of R6 to music would be well suited to R3 ..

Hang on Mr C. Don't get carried away !!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't understand.

**aka Calum Da Jazbo** · 29-04-12, 13:17

Andrew Kurowski, Editor of New Music and Jazz, BBC Radio 3 said: "The station continues in its commitment to broadcast a wide range of jazz programmes aimed at both jazz aficionados and listeners who are newer to the genre."

http://www.jazzjournal.co.uk/jazz-la...ecord-requests

ANDREW KUROWSKI
Andrew Kurowski has been on the staff of BBC Radio since 1979, first as a sound-technician and as a member of
the music production department for Radio 3. His interests have always been dominated by new music: he studied
contemporary music and composition at Cambridge with Alexander Goehr, and is now responsible for the new
music output on Radio 3. This embraces not only programme output but also the management of the Network’s
new music commissions – including the BBC Orchestras and Singers and the BBC Proms. He also represents Radio
3 on matters of new music outside the BBC and for several years was chair of the International Society for
Contemporary Music, work which was brought to a head in the 1998 ISCM World Music Days in Manchester. In
his years as a Producer and Subsequently Editor in Radio 3’s music department, he has worked predominantly on
programmes devoted to new music: Music in our Time, Midnight Oil, Hear and Now, Between the Ears and most
recently Late Junction. In 1990 he devised and mounted the BBC’s Berio at the Barbican weekend, bringing new
and rare performances to the London stage. He also oversees the jazz and crossover output of Radio 3 including
Mixing It and Jazz Legends, Andy Kershaw and World Routes. Andrew is currently the Editor of the new and
specialist music in the London production department.

Association of British Orchestras

http://www.abo.org.uk/user_files/Downloads/pdf/events/symposia/new-music/NewMusic_Biographies.pdf

like the cat said no comment ..... but it is good to know who is doing jazz down on R£ innit