as of noon today there is no playlist for Alyn's programme
Julian is covering the Verve label's contribution to Jazz and playing tasty bits from various concerts in 2013 ... pie and mash for a Saturday afternoon innit
Geoffrey is paying tribute to Stan but has no playlist as of noon
Jon3
and it promises a serious evening by the wireless for all of our ageing freedom fighters &c ....
the CD Review of early muisc was stunning this am; "Geoffrey Smith and Mahan Esfahani discuss recent releases of repertoire from Dowland to Telemann" 'the idiomatic familiarity of the 1938 Ellington Orchestra" well worth chugging the iPlayer bar for ... lovely music ... especially the cornetto playing and the Biber is
why no playlists Henry, is there a hole in your bucket?
Julian is covering the Verve label's contribution to Jazz and playing tasty bits from various concerts in 2013 ... pie and mash for a Saturday afternoon innit
Geoffrey is paying tribute to Stan but has no playlist as of noon
Jon3
Wadada Leo Smith
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Monday 20 January 2014
Wadada Leo Smith performing pieces from his work Ten Freedom Summers at London's Café Oto.
Ten Freedom Summers is seven hours of music inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. It's less of a suite in the traditional sense, more of a collection of compositions that Smith curates into different groupings according to mood and moment. Rigorously composed, but with plenty of room for free improvisation, pieces like Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers and Emmet Till provide a starkly dramatic signpost to key events and personalities in the struggle; while That Sunday Morning is a moving elegy for the four girls murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama in 1963.
It's an ambitious work, but one which rewards the listener with passages of extraordinary power and beauty, Smith's trumpet variously evoking the raw energy of the gospel preacher, the cut-glass quality of Miles Davis and the gnomic utterances of Sun Ra.
Smith's Golden Quartet featuring Anthony Davis on piano, John Lindberg on bass and Anthony Brown on drums is accompanied by the Ligeti String Quartet.
sez Jez
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Monday 20 January 2014
Wadada Leo Smith performing pieces from his work Ten Freedom Summers at London's Café Oto.
Ten Freedom Summers is seven hours of music inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. It's less of a suite in the traditional sense, more of a collection of compositions that Smith curates into different groupings according to mood and moment. Rigorously composed, but with plenty of room for free improvisation, pieces like Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers and Emmet Till provide a starkly dramatic signpost to key events and personalities in the struggle; while That Sunday Morning is a moving elegy for the four girls murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama in 1963.
It's an ambitious work, but one which rewards the listener with passages of extraordinary power and beauty, Smith's trumpet variously evoking the raw energy of the gospel preacher, the cut-glass quality of Miles Davis and the gnomic utterances of Sun Ra.
Smith's Golden Quartet featuring Anthony Davis on piano, John Lindberg on bass and Anthony Brown on drums is accompanied by the Ligeti String Quartet.
sez Jez
the CD Review of early muisc was stunning this am; "Geoffrey Smith and Mahan Esfahani discuss recent releases of repertoire from Dowland to Telemann" 'the idiomatic familiarity of the 1938 Ellington Orchestra" well worth chugging the iPlayer bar for ... lovely music ... especially the cornetto playing and the Biber is
why no playlists Henry, is there a hole in your bucket?
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