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

[Flosshilde]

but was he on last week?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Assuming that one can 'listen again' without interruptions every few minutes, which I've never ben able to achieve.

Sorry to hear this, Flossie; it's a real problem that the Beeb needs to sort out ('tho' not one I've encountered).

As for 'World Music', whatever that is, when I've heard it it does seem to be more like pop music from Africa or wherever - more at home on Radio 1.

There is a lot of commercially centred stuff that would perhaps be welcome on and better suited to R1, but Music from the Indian, Japanese and Indonesian Classical traditions is in perfect keeping with the R3 remit, as are the "Folk Musics" that inspired composers from the Western Classical traditions - and the Keenings of Scotland (indescribable in their emtional intensity), Mongolian overtone singing, Appalachian and Bluegrass playing - and all the great stuff that's out there that I know nothing about!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No, but then he's not on every week, is he?

That's the point for me, Flossie: Musicians of his calibre from different traditions should be "on every week", shouldn't they?

[Flosshilde]

There is a lot of commercially centred stuff that would perhaps be welcome on and better suited to R1, but Music from the Indian, Japanese and Indonesian Classical traditions is in perfect keeping with the R3 remit, as are the "Folk Musics" that inspired composers from the Western Classical traditions - and the Keenings of Scotland (indescribable in their emtional intensity), Mongolian overtone singing, Appalachian and Bluegrass playing - and all the great stuff that's out there that I know nothing about!

It's a pity that the latter isn't separated out more from the 'pop-ish' stuff - I would be interested in it but when its all lumped together it puts one off.

[Bryn]

Sorry to hear this, Flossie; it's a real problem that the Beeb needs to sort out ('tho' not one I've encountered).

Not necessarily a Beeb problem, fg. More often than not I think it's down to the ISP. There are ways round it if you do experience pauses, however. PM me for more info if interested.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

er back to jazz progs

Jazz On 3 prides itself on being forward looking but for our first show of 2013 we’re allowing ourselves one last look back over our shoulders to 2012. In fact the gig we’re looking back to was quite possibly my favourite of the last 12 months and followed shortly after the release of my album of the year – The Cherry Thing.

Like all the best unlikely couplings, thrashy sax-bass-drums trio The Thing and Neneh Cherry have much more in common than you might think. The Don Cherry factor is the obvious starting point – the avant-garde icon was stepfather to Neneh and the catalyst for The Thing forming in the first place. But in Neneh's conversation with the group's saxophonist Mats Gustafsson before the performance, shared fondness of everything from Lapland to 80s punk emerges.

And the on-stage chemistry that Mats refers to is really apparent in the gig – all the more so because the range of music is amazingly broad. From the opening wail-fest, through the mystical cycling of Don Cherry's Golden Heart, via an MF Doom hip-hop cover to a Cajun party number, the band gives the music a distinctive flavour. Dream Baby Dream is a great example: 'slow' and 'quiet' are not words you'll often find associated with The Thing, but Gustafsson's dirty baritone and Cherry's soulful vocals - a feature throughout the set - make for compelling listening.

newsletter explains the repeat .... too good to miss huh ....nah the Wagner took all the budgets eh

[Nick Armstrong]

Too much opera generally for this music-lover...

Including endless Verdi to come this year presumably....

I started the journey home to the strains of something rumpty-tumpty, on and on it went... I confess to thinking 'what on earth is this tat?!' ... Then warbling began... Just checked the schedule: Sicilian Vespers...

Please tell me there's not going to to be a Verdi immersion weekend or week....

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Caliban would you share my view that Opera is not Music?

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Too much opera generally for this music-lover...

Including endless Verdi to come this year presumably....

Please tell me there's not going to to be a Verdi immersion weekend or week....

Caliban would you share my view that Opera is not Music?

Be warned. The Inquisition has eyes and ears everywhere.

[johncorrigan]

Be warned. The Inquisition has eyes and ears everywhere.

I thought it had surpreyes and f-ears, IGI.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

I thought it had surpreyes and f-ears, IGI.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

<pencils in date for next auto-da-fé into Inquisitorial diary>

[Flosshilde]

Be warned. The Inquisition has eyes and ears everywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprjmoSMJ-o

[Flosshilde]

Please tell me there's not going to to be a Verdi immersion weekend or week....

No - it's a year

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban would you share my view that Opera is not Music?

The phrasing of the first line in my #52 was not coincidental, Calum...

Be warned. The Inquisition has eyes and ears everywhere

Bring out your comfiest chair, IGI... I shall not recant!

[Nick Armstrong]

No - it's a year