stuck inside of London with the Paris Blues again ....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Alyn has the blues

Geoffrey surveys Jim Hall's career

Julian has embraced Eurojazz

Every year the The European Broadcasting Union invites a host country to put together a unique Jazz Orchestra to reflect Jazz in their country. The band is made of musicians from all over Europe and this year, Jazz Line-Up sent Baritone Saxophonist Colin Mills to the Ukraine to represent the UK.
Julian Joseph plays music from the European-wide tour and talks to Colin about the challenges made by the Ukraine composer and conductor Igor Stetsyuk.

Jon3 is similarly European plus a touch of the exotic antipodes

Henri Texier Octet at the 2012 London Jazz Festival
Jez Nelson presents Parisian bassist Henri Texier with a new octet, commissioned for the London Jazz Festival. Since the 1960s Texier has been a major figure on the European jazz scene as both a composer and virtuoso performer. His early work with trumpeter Don Cherry has had a lasting impact on his music, which combines jazz with avant-garde and African influences. In recent years he has made memorable appearances on Jazz on 3 with both trio and sextet. This time he expands his regular trio with saxophonist Sebastien Texier and drummer Louis Moutin into a pan-European, 8-piece band that includes British saxophonist Julian Argüelles, Dutch viola player Oene van Geel and French vibes player Benjamin Flament.
Also on the programme, a mini-session featuring one of the oldest musical cultures known to man: the Australian Art Orchestra join forces with members of the Young Wagilak Group to bring together Western improvisation and indigenous songs from the Northern Territory.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Wait til UKIP find out!

They will demand a balancing gig by the Bill Cash All Stars and the Nadine Dorries Big Two. PENDING.

BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

very tasty mix on JRR today .... El Senor's ducks been dancing innit

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Clapsticks, violas, vibes, didjeridus – all fully paid up members of the Marginalised Instruments Club, and all featuring on this week's show. Forget tokenism though, as we’ve genuinely got one of our most diverse international billings yet. Kevin Le Gendre joins Jez in the studio to present live performances from The Henri Texier Octet and the Australian Art Orchestra: two one-offs, if that makes sense!
Parisian bassist and bandleader Henri Texier has long featured as an important pillar of the European jazz scene. His ability to bring together different soundworlds is celebrated here by the pan-European band he put together especially for this London Jazz Festival performance. Featuring the likes of British saxophonist Julian Argüelles, Dutch viola player Oene van Geel and French vibes player Benjamin Flament, the result is rich, warm and folksy, and lends perfectly to Texier’s strong melodies. Of course there's plenty of space for individual personalities to add to the smouldering intensity – watch out for trumpeter Alain Vankenhove’s blistering opening on ‘Sacrifice’.
Texier may be a veteran but he's a nano-blip on the timeline of musical history when compared with the songs of the indigenous Wagilak people of northern Australia – as featured in our intriguing mini-session with the Australian Art Orchestra. Combining jazz with one of the world’s oldest living musical traditions is surely no easy feat, but the end result is stunningly hypnotising. The band is driven by the bilma (clapsticks) and yidaki (didgeridu), with the ‘jazz half’ of the band improvising freely throughout. Kevin Le Gendre is on hand to talk to the band about this fascinating meeting of cultures.

swingtime in lunnun avec Jex 'n Kev

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It must be many months since I last heard a really good clapstick solo....

On R3.

BN.

Clapstick, Lipstick, Pritstick, Dipstick, thats enuff sticks...

[Serial_Apologist]

Upstick?