public service announcement

[Alain Maréchal]

I venture into this strange area of the board frequented by people whose language I do not speak, just to mention that France Musique has an hour-long jazz programme every evening at 1800 Paris time, in case you did not know of it already. (Its at that point that I usually switch to "CD" in the car but have just spent a week ferrying around a colleague who requested I leave it on. It was interesting.)

[burning dog]

I venture into this strange area of the board frequented by people whose language I do not speak, just to mention that France Musique has an hour-long jazz programme every evening at 1800 Paris time, in case you did not know of it already. (Its at that point that I usually switch to "CD" in the car but have just spent a week ferrying around a colleague who requested I leave it on. It was interesting.)

Thanks for the reminder. I heard it first in France they were playing archive material (old concerts) at the time, very interesting.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

an hour a day eh ....

[Alain Maréchal]

an hour a day eh ....

I'm unfamilar with R3's jazz output so not sure if that means "as little as" or "as much as". France Musique does present a very wide spectrum of music, and tends to avoid morning drivel and phone-ins. Monday evenings you can usually rely on hearing screams accompanied by mallets attacking concrete blocks or grand pianos, with defibrillator obbligato.

http://www.francemusique.fr/programmes?date=2013-10-23

"Open Jazz" has podcasts

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

R3 manages about six hours per week; until very recently all but one at midnight hours ... it is the daily schedule that is of interest and one presumes concerts or other jazz programmes are also broadcast ..

[Alyn_Shipton]

The actual jazz output in terms of regular hours per week is about the same - 5 x 1 hour at 6pm. However, just as R3 does additional jazz concerts and occasional (now VERY occasional) documentaries, France Musique does the same. They also ran (last year and earlier this year) a Saturday lunchtime season of a programmes extremely similar to Jazz Library. I caught Laurent De Wilde talking about Red Garland, and selecting key discs, much as R3 did with JL.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

and the odd piece of jazz pops up in the bricolllage of Late Junction ....

[Paul Sherratt]

Still in the late night ghetto, though, Calum.