... they are Chrysanthemums.... i know one when i see one ... and not his best!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

apologies for late posting but family affairs demanded the whole day yesterday ... matter of fact i only ever listen on iPlayer that way i can set my own bedtime and rely on the schedule ... and r3 still fails to match the furriners and yanks as an internet jazz resource innit .... pass the joint


Alyn offers a very welcome and adventurously live programme from The Sage at Gateshead

Geoffrey if you like hip cabaret you will like this

JLU has a playlist and no introduction and is still vblank on the schedule ... hope there is nothing wrong beyond the usual slack alice ... pass the joint eh

Jon3 offers an interesting looking interview by Kevin Le Gendre [who were the STAASI? remember] with Amiri Baraka ... i have no comment on the first half of the programme so perhaps someone else may care to comment on Hello Skinny

"Isn't it remarkable, Mr Spalding," she said, "the amount of money that was paid for Van Gogh's 'Chrysanthemums'."

"Sunflowers, Prime Minister," he gently corrected her.

"And, do you know, Mr Spalding," she continued, ignoring the interruption, "they weren't even his best chrysanthemums!"

Independent

.... my Ma was called Margaret, they all called her Peggie, we called her Mum .....

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Now playing..."Flowers for Albert", David Murray, and then some Albert's Witches...'wont rest until the stake is slammed thro her frozen heart.

BN.

[Byas'd Opinion]

Interview with Amiri Baraka: http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-e...ights.20773214

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Thats an interesting int and hes an interesting guy in a host of ways...theres an interview somewhere on line where he talks about living over the Five Spot and Monk et Trane first playing there, meeting Marion Brown, Albert et al.

BN.

"Blues People" is still a very good read. Well, far better than the Guardian.

[Serial_Apologist]

I was once very rude to Steve Beresford. Years later I apologised. "That's all right mate" he said.

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"Never apologise, never explain"...Disraeli.

And... Ron Coltrane, when he threw up over Tubby Hayes.

BN

[Ian Thumwood]

"Never apologise, never explain"...Disraeli.

And... Ron Coltrane, when he threw up over Tubby Hayes.

BN

That's nothing. Ron Coltrane once pee'd down Trevor Cooper's trousers.

[Serial_Apologist]

That's nothing. Ron Coltrane once pee'd down Trevor Cooper's trousers.

Reminds me of a story Larry Adler once told on radio. Apparently he was at a jewish gathering at which he made a speech. During this speech he told an anecdote about going to the Gents at a certain synagogue, and a man standing beside him peeing down his trouser leg, and then apologising, to which LA replied that he understood the man's predicament, having himself also been circumcised by Goldfarb, and knowing that Goldfarb always cut on the bias. Adler went on to say that the instant he related this story, three ladies in the front row got up in disgust and walked out.

[Quarky]

Some Jazz-related sounds on Afternoon on 3 this week:

Henry Gilbert: The Dance in Place Congo

2.20pm William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"

2.45pm Duke Ellington: A tone parallel to Harlem (Harlem Suite); medley of Cotton Club numbers

Nu Civilisation Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra Keith Lockhart, conductor

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I heard the full program yesterday morning...very interesting and the Ellington material is fronted by Gary Crosby.


BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

Jon3 offers an interesting looking interview by Kevin Le Gendre [who were the STAASI? remember] with Amiri Baraka ... i have no comment on the first half of the programme so perhaps someone else may care to comment on Hello Skinny

Anyone hear this remarkable programme? Baraka fascinating about the jazz/radical black emancipation movement of the 60s; a great and unexpected track from Metheny; and interesting tracks from the late 70s/early 80s improv/dub crossover in Britain, of which little mention has previously been made on any UK jazz programme, to the best of my knowledge. While in no way wishing to downplay drummer Tom Skinner's skills and versatility shifting betwen grooves and free-flow, I didn't find the Mr Skinny sesh convincing overall somehow, notwithstanding it had a few good moments, but there we go...

[burning dog]

Didnt think much of the Skiiny dip myself and was puzzled by his comments about Dub (it isn't really minimalist) and the Slits, I'm sure he called them post punk(?? )Interesting programme in general though.