Prom 62 - 28.08.13: A Celebration of Charlie Parker

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall

Programme to include:

Django Bates
The Study of Touch (10 mins)
UK Premiere

Django Bates piano
Peter Bruun drums, Proms debut artist
Petter Eldh double bass, Proms debut artist
Norrbotten Big Band
Ashley Slater vocalist, Proms debut artist

Twenty-six years after his first Proms appearance, with his big band Loose Tubes, jazz pianist and composer Django Bates returns with his own trio in a new partnership with the Grammy-nominated Norrbotten Big Band from northern Sweden. Together they present a celebration of Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker – bebop pioneer and beloved hero of Bates – adding their own spin on
Parker classics such as ‘Confirmation’ ‘Scrapple from the Apple’ and ‘Donna Lee’, interleaved with Bates’s own compositions, fast becoming part of the jazz canon.

There will be no interval

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Perhaps the jazz experts could chip in a few comments in anticipation of this one?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Just bumping this one in anticipation of this evening.

[Anna]

Just bumping this one in anticipation of this evening.

I'm looking forward to this, although I expect I'll have to listen via iplayer tomorrow. Django Bates presented Saturday Classics last week and we all agreed (well, at least two of us!) that it was the most enjoyable SC we've heard for a long time. I think he was on In Tune this evening but I would have missed his contribution - having only turned on R3.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hope this will be better than the rather staid tribute to Stan Kenton a couple of years ago.

[Serial_Apologist]

I hope this will be better than the rather staid tribute to Stan Kenton a couple of years ago.

Almost guaranteed to be, knowing Django.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Almost guaranteed to be, knowing Django.

Indeed: I was most encouraged to learn that he is another Morton Feldman admirer. (I nearly added this point to my last post, but it seemed rather a non sequitur there.)

[Serial_Apologist]

Indeed: I was most encouraged to learn that he is another Morton Feldman admirer. (I nearly added this point to my last post, but it seemed rather a non sequitur there.)

Django included this on the SC referred to by Anna earlier; it's from his 2003 Cd "You Live and Learn.... (Apparently)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2d4zS56cY

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Django included this on the SC referred to by Anna earlier; it's from his 2003 Cd "You Live and Learn.... (Apparently)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2d4zS56cY

Now that's what I call an "all-interval Row".

[marvin]

Charlie Parker at the Proms - Oh please, come now! Where is this nonsense going to end. Perhaps we should have 24 hour Prom concerts?

The Prommers at any of these events seem to rule the roost with their rude, childish inter-movement applause which seems to be done selectively when they think that they can get away with such antisocial behaviour. There seem to be some conductors whom they know wouldn't put up with it.

Just like mobile phones there ought to be a notice asking the people in the auditorium only to show their apprecitation when a work has finished.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Charlie Parker at the Proms - Oh please, come now!

Not quite as excited about this event as that.

Where is this nonsense going to end.

About 11:30.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The Prommers at any of these events seem to rule the roost with their rude, childish inter-movement applause which seems to be done selectively when they think that they can get away with such antisocial behaviour. There seem to be some conductors whom they know wouldn't put up with it.

Just like mobile phones there ought to be a notice asking the people in the auditorium only to show their apprecitation when a work has finished.

Whilst agreeing with the general principle (much discussed here and on the BBC Messageboard over many years) it is not necessarily the prommers who instigate this practice. My recent visit to the Snape Proms was a much happier experience - no happy-clappy intrusions.

[PJPJ]

I thought it was traditional to applaud soloists during jazz performances, while the music continues, the band vamping (is that the correct word?) until the next solo spot.

[Serial_Apologist]

I thought it was traditional to applaud soloists during jazz performances, while the music continues, the band vamping (is that the correct word?) until the next solo spot.

It is, you are right; however, I have recently noted the practice diminishing somewhat among younger jazz audiences. And yes, there are such things!

[PJPJ]

It is, you are right; however, I have recently noted the practice diminishing somewhat among younger jazz audiences. And yes, there are such things!

Meanwhile, I've listened to the first half of the concert and the audience seems to me very well behaved by any standard. Nice "Laura", by the way.