9.5. Perhaps now they were glad after all that they did not sleep.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Alyn @21130hrs is in touch with his roots and presents a track from Mike Gibbs featuring Derek Watkins who died last month.

Geoffrey ticks Chic Corea with full frontal xover etc

Julian continues the lets big up piano theme

Julian Joseph presents a duet piano performance by Jason Rebello and Dave Newton recorded at the Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho as part of the Steinway Piano Festival. Also on the show an interview with pianist Kit Downes profiling his brand new album 'Light From Old Stars' plus a preview of an exhibition opening at the Royal Academy of Music, London celebrating the work of master trumpeter Kenny Wheeler.

Jon3 concludes the big up piano weekend with Marilyn Crispell in Trio performance and interview

One of America's most accomplished contemporary exponents of free jazz, Marilyn Crispell is capable of expansive virtuosity and a fragile simplicity. The pianist's visit to London's Cafe Oto in November 2012 provided many memorable examples of both, with her delight in delicate, quiet textures proving to be real highlights of the two improvised sets.
While touring the world as Anthony Braxton's pianist of choice, Marilyn Crispell was first introduced to UK audiences in 1985, through a series of landmark performances with his then-new quartet. Almost three decades later, she continues to excel in creating spontaneous dialogues within a small ensemble and the no-compositions context of this gig featuring UK improvisers Eddie Prévost on percussion and saxophonist Harrison Smith, shows her to be as imaginative as ever.

Presenter: Jez Nelson

thread title is a quote from Ann Carson's By Chance the Cycladic People in the current edition of London Review of Books

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

btw this week's Private Passions [on as i post or la]

Michael Berkeley's guest is the Bosnian-born writer Aleksandar Hemon, who has lived in the USA for the past two decades, after leaving his native Sarajevo during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s. He has published four acclaimed works of fiction: the novel 'The Lazarus Project', and three collections of short stories, including 'The Question of Bruno' and 'Love and Obstacles'. His latest autobiographical work, 'The Book of My Lives', has just been published. His work has been compared to Vladimir Nabokov and Joseph Conrad.

His eclectic musical tastes range from an aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion and the famous Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony to traditional Bosnian music, a song by David Bowie, and jazz by Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington.

[Serial_Apologist]

Jon3 concludes the big up piano weekend with Marilyn Crispell in Trio performance and interview

I was there - listen out for the clap.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... er missed Jon3, went to bed early had to get up at crack of sparrows ... did hear couple of minutes ... not really enticed

and so help us actually rose from bed at the appointed hour .....

[Quarky]

Beg to differ on Marily Crispell. Females seem to have a more laid back approach to free jazz, not so frenetic, which I find appealing.
One performance for which I would have got out of the house and made the trip to Stoke Newington.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i will listen properly on the iPlayer oddball; it as but a cursory hearing ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

keeps noddin off to all this noodlin stuff ....
and then i cam eacross this late last night and sat entranced instead of putting my pyjamas on

just doodled me way down the list ...... with a growing astonishment and joy at the playing ...

ah yes Ms Crispell now .....

[Serial_Apologist]

ah yes Ms Crispell now .....

Deep and Crispell even.

[Ian Thumwood]

Theres some amazing jazz being played on JRR this weekend. There are a couple of classic tracks by Jelly Roll Morton and Tommy Dorsey, the latter being an arrangement I grew up with as my Dad had a double LP of all the jazz-orientated recordings of this band which totally dispensed with the more commercial / vocal material. I was shocked to hear some of the sweeter material Dorsey also recorded many years later and this record totally distorted my preception of a band that was loaded with jazz talent. "Hawaiian War Chant" always sounds so exciting although this is probably my favorite all time TD track:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0kJZoGYhH0

There is also some Lee Morgan which will go down well but the stand out track is the Maria Schneider effort. I love the whole of the album "Sky Blue" and was fortunate to hear this band play live when they toured the album. My mate Alain was full of enthusiasm for this band when we met up for a beer a few days later and seeing as he himself was a co-founder of a long-established big band in Lyon, his judgement is usually spot on. Schneider studied with both Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer (who also mentored both John Hollenbeck and James Darcy Argue) and I really feel that she represents a new generation of jazz composer who is taking the music to greater levels of expression. I think she is probably the Gil Evans of our era and although I think that Evans was something special, Scheider is demonstrative of just how far jazz writing has progressed in the 55 years since "Miles Ahead." There is as pulpable a difference as between Evans and Fletcher Henderson and the whole album "Sky Blue" crackles with imagination. For my money, she is one of the major voices in contemporary jazz and I think people who have not encountered her music before are in for an amazing surprise.

[Old Grumpy]

Theres some amazing jazz being played on JRR this weekend. There are a couple of classic tracks by Jelly Roll Morton and Tommy Dorsey, the latter being an arrangement I grew up with as my Dad had a double LP of all the jazz-orientated recordings of this band which totally dispensed with the more commercial / vocal material. I was shocked to hear some of the sweeter material Dorsey also recorded many years later and this record totally distorted my preception of a band that was loaded with jazz talent. "Hawaiian War Chant" always sounds so exciting although this is probably my favorite all time TD track:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0kJZoGYhH0

There is also some Lee Morgan which will go down well but the stand out track is the Maria Schneider effort. I love the whole of the album "Sky Blue" and was fortunate to hear this band play live when they toured the album. My mate Alain was full of enthusiasm for this band when we met up for a beer a few days later and seeing as he himself was a co-founder of a long-established big band in Lyon, his judgement is usually spot on. Schneider studied with both Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer (who also mentored both John Hollenbeck and James Darcy Argue) and I really feel that she represents a new generation of jazz composer who is taking the music to greater levels of expression. I think she is probably the Gil Evans of our era and although I think that Evans was something special, Scheider is demonstrative of just how far jazz writing has progressed in the 55 years since "Miles Ahead." There is as pulpable a difference as between Evans and Fletcher Henderson and the whole album "Sky Blue" crackles with imagination. For my money, she is one of the major voices in contemporary jazz and I think people who have not encountered her music before are in for an amazing surprise.

Looking forward to catching up with this on i-player. I have a date with Quercus (from the latin for Oak) [or should that be Quirkus (from the latin for Quirky)] tonite. From what I've heard of them (they were on In Tune a while back), could be an interesting gig.

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

Quirkus (from the latin for Quirky)

If true, then Quirk-us, -a, -um would presumably be Latin for Mingus

(a-hum)

[Old Grumpy]

Quercus - solid oak, not at all quirky.

Didn't really know what to expect, but thoroughly enjoyed the gig.

Highly recommended if they are near you.

OG

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i shall look out for them OG

might i respectfully note that this weekend's programmes have been posted here