Alyn on later tonight with vintage recordings from all eras including the anthemic masterpiece Devil Woman by Charles Mingus but as Ian et al highlight in the redactions thread much much more .....
Geoffrey plays Bird .... noting the anniversary of his passing and with a focus on the later years including the classic Just Friends
Julian has a great programme:
Jon3 is also a stellar event [The New Yorker once described Red Mitchell thus]
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Geoffrey plays Bird .... noting the anniversary of his passing and with a focus on the later years including the classic Just Friends
Julian has a great programme:
Julian Joseph presents concert music by tenor saxophonist Marius Neset and his quartet, recorded at the 2013 Southport "Jazz on a Winter's Weekend", featuring the stellar line-up of pianist Ivo Neame, bassist Jasper Hoiby and drummer Anton Eger. Plus an interview with saxophonist Mark Lockheart about his latest project 'Ellington in Anticipation' which sees him deconstruct some of the Duke's most famous compositions and arrange these into a fascinating set of new music. The impressive line-up of the 'Ellington In Anticipation' project includes Seb Rochford (drums) Liam Noble (piano) Tom Herbert (bass) Finn Peters (alto sax), James Allsop (clarinets) and Emma Smith (violin).
Performances by French bassist Henri Texier and his trio, and free-improvising duo Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston, recorded at last year's London Jazz Festival.
On the face of it, these two groups adopt strikingly different approaches to improvised music: Texier's melodic, often folksy themes are built on grooves driven by his warm, virtuosic bass playing; Watts and Weston, on the other hand, shape their music as they go, jumping restlessly and spontaneously from one idea to another. But they have more in common than meets the eye. The trio, with Henri's son Sébastien on reeds and Louis Moutin on drums, has an open-ness about it that reflects Texier senior's grounding in the more avant-garde end of the music. Meanwhile, there's often a distinctive jazz flavour to the free-roaming journeys that Watts (saxophone) and Weston (piano) embark upon, taking in epic high-points and spikier, more playful moments along the way.
On the face of it, these two groups adopt strikingly different approaches to improvised music: Texier's melodic, often folksy themes are built on grooves driven by his warm, virtuosic bass playing; Watts and Weston, on the other hand, shape their music as they go, jumping restlessly and spontaneously from one idea to another. But they have more in common than meets the eye. The trio, with Henri's son Sébastien on reeds and Louis Moutin on drums, has an open-ness about it that reflects Texier senior's grounding in the more avant-garde end of the music. Meanwhile, there's often a distinctive jazz flavour to the free-roaming journeys that Watts (saxophone) and Weston (piano) embark upon, taking in epic high-points and spikier, more playful moments along the way.
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