... bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

[QUOTE=Serial_Apologist;374352]This is one of the problems for me as well as Oddball, I'm assuming, and has been since jazz became accessorised in the '80s, though I dare say it doesn't apply to much of the today stuff I go.

There's a great book called "The Shock of the Old" by the Prof of Science History/Technology at Imperial College. Worth reading for those awed by innovation/marketing hype. Could also apply to the music.

BN.

[Jazzrook]

like the playlist

jeez but the performer listing is truly dreadful ....




performer! On What!!!!!!!!!!!!? Miming?
and it just gave up the ghost on the Stan Tracey Band and soloists ....
a serious disappointing drop in standards
low grade cr*p innit!

Can anyone at Radio 3 give a rational explanation for the recent regressive changes to the playlists for JRR and other jazz programmes?

PERFORMER: JAZZROOK

[Ian Thumwood]

I didn't think the ST track was bad at all.

There are a few Trad tracks on JRR but any selection is determined by the audience. I would also have to say that JRR remains one of the few platforms for pre-1945 jazz which is neglected.

Been listening to Jaimeo Brown's "Transcendence" this week. A mash up of field hollers, country blues, Coltrane, Sonny6 Sharrock~style abrasive guitar and Indian singing. Obviously spiritual and with a politicized edge, I'm in two minds about this. It sounds like a jazz soundtrack to "Twelve years a slave" yet the sampling is often more startling than J D Allen's tenor. The leader's drums dominate a rather filmatic record. "Regressive" or cutting edge, I wouldn't like to say but it is a curious hybrid. Couldn't see it5 being the stand out as suggested on "All about jazz." Maybe time for some Thomas Chapin , Alan Berber or David Binney on JRR to suggest some current favourites of mine.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Maybe time Ian? Email your request, or post it. Amazingly, that is how the music played on the programme happens, because people ask for it....nobody else has requested these artists.
Also SA if you address an email with your questions about the playlist to the JRR address, I suspect you will receive an explanation in reply.