... as one listens to the rain

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

Alyn now released from the Brits Writs has a great selection, of which the standout for me is this

The Emperor
Composer: Charles. Performers: Art Farmer, t; Don Butterfield, tu; Gigi Gryce, J R Monterose, Sol Schlinger, reeds; Teddy Charles, vib; Mal Waldron, p; Jimmy Raney, g; Teddy Kotick, b; Joe Harris d. Jan 1956

Geoffrey is doing Bud Powell [who else after Monk] ... you may well have heard it all before but then hearing it again will be just as awesome eh?

JLU has the so called BBC Big Band live in Glasgow .... the choice of arrangers looks passably interesting

Jon3 delivers coverage of contemporary european jazz - a five star prog in prospect?

Barbacana at the 2013 Cheltenham Jazz Festival
A quartet bringing together musicians from the London and Paris scenes, via a Lithuanian jam session: Barbacana are rooted in a cosmopolitan outlook that's reflected in this performance from the 2013 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

The Parisian duo of guitarist Adrien Dennefeld and percussionist Sylvain Darrifourcq bring African and minimalist flavours to a group that grew out of a chance meeting between Dennefeld and keys player Kit Downes in Vilnius. Downes and reeds player James Allsopp offer what Dennefeld describes as London's 'more instinctive' approach to collective improvisation and interplay. And together, Barbacana take in lilting grooves, sparse electronic textures, and slow-building riffs that visit a heavier, noisier soundworld.

Also on the programme, we explore the enduring appeal of Duke Ellington and his music to today's progressive musicians.

all this and a track from Melt Yourself Down!

bless Norway, first Tristano and now this

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bro Jack McDuff..."Rockcandy." at the Front Room.

Awwwww, I'm a modski yoof again, 1965, down the F'Mingo staircase, midnight, and Mcduff's rude riffing twelve bars, honking hammond calling card is slammed on. The very bliss to be alive. Loved this noisy album then avec a young George Benson, Red et Joe Dukes, even Whistle while you work....what the fek ?!

ECM = Tory buspassers and Lib Dem dinner parties. Dont mourn, Organise. Whats on that skillet? Itza Baby Face Willette.

BN.

[grippie]

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz sold short again!

On this weeks prog on Bud Powell it started 15mins late so that the end was truncated by the same amount. Also on the iPlayer the 15 minutes are missing even though that states Duration: 1 hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0339kbv
What's point

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I think the midnight slot was given to Geoff Smith as token compensation for losing the JRR gig. In truth the BBC couldnt give a fk about it. When he goes so will it.

BN.

Chris Patten writes...."I am at present lighting my barbi with used BBC fivers, I will get back to you when we've finished the Pimms. Mark Thompson's chopper has just landed in the Blue Peter retirement orchard."

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

what short changed by Aunt! Good Lord!

never happen on NPR try this


and what a tragic life story Bud lived through .... serious and very damaging mistreatment and violence from the psychiatric and police systems in 40s USA; is one to assume that Alan Groves and Alyn Shipton's The Glass Enclosure is out of print?

[grippie]

Cheers Calum, Tempus really does Fugit at the moment, but lookforward to NPR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I've mentioned it before but Peter King's fascinating autobiography is deeply disturbing about meeting and playing with Bud in Paris etc. A good wake-up for those of us who used to think the jazz life romantic.



BN.

Hey, if its "glamour" you want, there'll be a job going soon heading up the BBC Trust. Print your own pension.

[Serial_Apologist]

Ive mentioned it before but Peter King's fascinating autobiography is deeply disturbing about meeting and playing with Bud in Paris etc. A good wake-up for those of us who used to think the jazz life glamourous.



BN.

I really must get that autobiog.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Calum
It would appear that after 20 years the little book Alan G and I did on Bud is out of print - quite a few Continuum titles went with the Bloomsbury takeover. But the well-known sizeable river UK has some s/h and new copies, and some of the online bookshops such as Jazzprint seem to have copies (new) left. But for everything you ever wanted to know about Bud and a bit more besides, try Peter Pullman's new magnum opus. http://www.wailthelifeofbudpowell.com/ Did Val Wilmer take the cover shot? Looks like one of hers...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Not VW but Francis Wolf, Birdland 1957. (caption just under the photo!)

Looks good.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

Aki Takase playing The Duke among a selection of Ellington tracks on tonight's Jon3! Whoopie!! Ms Takase is a remarkable free pianist, for anybody unfamiliar. Rest of the programme looks well worth a listen too.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

much preferred the melt Yourself Down track to a really underwhelming Barbacana [the dreaded noodling syndrome strikes again]

much impressed again by the Mark Lockheart's Ellingtonian pieces ... as well as the whole section on Ellington

[Serial_Apologist]

much preferred the melt Yourself Down track to a really underwhelming Barbacana [the dreaded noodling syndrome strikes again]

much impressed again by the Mark Lockheart's Ellingtonian pieces ... as well as the whole section on Ellington

I'm really gonna have to listen again, because, for me, the Ellington section of the prog was very mixed up: which verbal comments referred to which tiny clips of recordings. If I've got this right, Ellington was heard at one point coming up with some very Schoenbergian chords!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

section of the prog was very mixed up

good heavens! mixed up! jazz?

thought Geoffrey's comment that when critics heard Monk as an influence in other artists's work they were actually hearing Duke ...our Stanley T would agree there i think ...

[Quarky]

much preferred the melt Yourself Down track to a really underwhelming Barbacana [the dreaded noodling syndrome strikes again]

much impressed again by the Mark Lockheart's Ellingtonian pieces ... as well as the whole section on Ellington

Well JLU might have been a five star programme...

I guess it may be argued that only current Jazz music played by currently active Jazz musicians is worth listening to. But as with contemporary Classical music, there seems an awful lot of chaff to separate from the wheat, which for mere spectators such as myself, is a very tricky issue.