Black Pudding Rissoles at the Jugged Hare

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

.....was the reason for only catching Alyn in the car ...Anita O'Day is lovely but my the Billy May Band clunks ...

Geoffrey did Benny

Alyn gets fully exposed on JLU tonight

Julian Joseph presents a concert of music by the Buck Clayton Legacy Band recorded at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival. Buck Clayton was star trumpeter with Count Basie in the 1930s and went on to become a fine arranger and bandleader in his own right.The Buck Clayton Legacy Band features writer, broadcaster and musician Alyn Shipton, and when Shipton published Buck Clayton's life story the legendary trumpeter gave him a set of new arrangements that had never been recorded. The band features the stellar line-up of Menno Daams and Ian Smith, trumpets; Alan Barnes and Matthias Seuffert, reeds; Adrian Fry, trombone; Martin Litton, piano; Martin Wheatley, guitar; Alyn Shipton, bass and Norman Emberson, drums.The set features the Clayton compositions Smoothie, Scorpio and Claytonia

hells bells it troubles my failing neurons keeping track of all the personalities on Jon3

Last week Kevin Le Gendre featured Collider on the show. This week, Jez is back and keeping the rock/improv party going. Our main artist has been pioneering that stylistic collision for a little while now, still bringing fresh ears and ideas 40 years after he started – guitarist Fred Frith.

'Not Wes Montgomery' is how BBC 6Music presenter and Frith fan Stuart Maconie describes him before the concert – definitely a fair comment! He dives straight into the full sonic artillery of his guitar – from ambient pulsing to distortion and even bowing at one point. It's an approach that bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders feel ideally suited to: there's a great passage where bass and guitar swap roles in a beautiful and mysterious duet, while Sanders delivers a masterclass in drum textures.

Frith has acknowledged the influence of John Cage on his music and we celebrate the centenary of that composer's birth later in the programme, as Steve Beresford leads us through the impact his ideas have had on improvisation, and questions the nature of his self-proclaimed dislike of jazz.

So join Jez for all of this on Monday 10 September at 11pm, or listen online for seven days after broadcast.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

.... in listening to Fred Frith does one discover anything new after sixty seconds, or worthwhile at all at any instant ..... ?

after the idea of it what is there to say at all ....