far too much opera for this jazbo - Wagner all week at tea time and Bizet knocks JRR

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Alyn is dropped for Les Troyens

Geoffrey does Brubeck

JLU is Elling & Jordan singing and chatting ... one in the eye for TC

Jon3 continues the let's save the budget coz it'z dead eh ... or is that Neneh Cherry and dat tinggy stuff ... again




insulting or what?

[Mr Pee]

Alyn is dropped for Les Troyens

Geoffrey does Brubeck

JLU is Elling & Jordan singing and chatting ... one in the eye for TC

Jon3 continues the let's save the budget coz it'z dead eh ... or is that Neneh Cherry and dat tinggy stuff ... again




insulting or what?

what

[Serial_Apologist]

I popped the cherry a long time ago

[Old Grumpy]

Agree annoying that opera has again displaced JRR, but more annoying that the BBC has not scheduled In Tune in favour of repeats of Wagner. In mitigation, perhaps there would not have been many musicians available to appear on In Tune.

OG

[teamsaint]

Agree annoying that opera has again displaced JRR, but more annoying that the BBC has not scheduled In Tune in favour of repeats of Wagner. In mitigation, perhaps there would not have been many musicians available to appear on In Tune.

OG

surely plenty of folks with a disc/concert to promote, even over a quiet period?!

[Tenor Freak]

5.5 hours of warbling...

Happy New Year to you too Radio £3

[Bryn]

"far too much opera for this jazbo - Wagner all week at tea time and Bizet[sic] knocks JRR"

Try Berlioz. It was only a disc jockey show that was lost for this week. It's not as if it was the real thing, like the Les Troyens was. I'm off to spin some Eric Dolphy CDs. Back after lunch, maybe.

[BBMmk2]

Admittedly, although I do like Jazz, I am not an affectionado as some other members on this board are^^^^, but I think R3 has it out of balance. They always seem to replace the jazz programmes with opera and not reschedule them elsewhere. Which i think is wrong??

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"It was only a disc jockey show lost this week" (sic).

That does conjure up some wonderful images of Alyn Shipton as one half of Smashy and Nicey..."Now R3 jazzpickers, a top platter you can all twist the night away to, Johnny Coltrane and his honking horn hit, "Chasin the Trane"..

BN.

[Bryn]

"It was only a disc jockey show lost this week" (sic).

That does conjure up some wonderful images of Alyn Shipton as one half of Smashy and Nicey..."Now R3 jazzpickers, a top platter you can all twist the night away to, Johnny Coltrane and his honking horn hit, "Chasin the Trane"..

BN.

Hey, it was JRR, as much a disc jockey programme as Essential Classics. That too has knowledgeable presenters, but is still a disc jockey programme. Now if it was a live jazz event which had been dropped ...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

You mean when R3 has its wonderful five hour evening slots of live jazz? Now I see where you are coming from...as the young people say.

BN.

Jazz isnt just dead on R3, its a totally disposable and disliked part of the woooonerful producer portfolio...'fek em

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

what was Brendan Behan's word for fek?

[Bryn]

You mean when R3 has its wonderful five hour evening slots of live jazz? Now I see where you are coming from...as the young people say.

BN.

Jazz isnt[sic] just dead on R3, its a totally disposable and disliked part of the woooonerful producer portfolio...'fek em

Five hour operas are fairly thin on the ground. Five hour integrated jazz performances are even more like hens' teeth. However, there were a few Perfomance on 3 broadcasts devoted to jazz last year, thus effectively displacing the more usual fare. Most looked a bit MotR for may taste, but there you go ... . I'm sure they were to some listeners' tastes.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

hmmm why not put the bloody Wagner on at 130 in the morning? let the Met run late

actually broadcast 5.5 hours of live jazz [non repeated] for a few weeks a year?

the fat controller is taking the proverbial .... welcome to 2013 let's start as we will go eh?

[Bryn]

hmmm why not put the bloody Wagner on at 130 in the morning? let the Met run late

actually broadcast 5.5 hours of live jazz [non repeated] for a few weeks a year?

the fat controller is taking the proverbial .... welcome to 2013 let's start as we will go eh?

Oh do get real. The Met broadcast was carried live, as it was throughout Europe. Breaking The Ring up into more manageable portions and giving the In Tune team a bit of a rest over the holiday period was a welcome bit of programming in my book, and I am no particular fan of Wagner. Back to the Dolphy CD fest for me.