Worth a listen on the BBC Replayer...

Bev Stapleton · March 11th, 2006, 12:57 PM

A thread to alert about good jazz (and related) programmes on BBC radio.

Most of these programmes stream for 7 days after broadcast.

Please feel free to add programmes you spot that other might enjoy.

Bev Stapleton · March 11th, 2006, 12:59 PM

One broadcast on 10th March:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/

Brad Mehldau Trio
Brad Mehldau - piano
Larry Grenadier - bass
Jeff Ballard - drums

Recorded on the 13 th February at the Barbican, London

Part One:
Title Day Is Done
Composer Nick Drake
Duration 14'52"

Title The Very Thought Of You
Composer Ray Noble
Duration 11'02"

Title Knives out
Composer Radiohead
Duration 10'18"

Interval:
Brad Mehldau talks to Jez Nelson

Part Two:
Title Black Hole Sun
Composer Cornell, Christopher J (Soundgarden)
Duration 14'17"

Title Countdown
Composer John Coltrane
Duration 11'25"

Bev Stapleton · March 11th, 2006, 01:01 PM

Jazz File - part 3 of a documentary on Stan Getz.

Covers Focus and the Bossa Nova records.

Not particularly incisive but enjoyable:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfile/index.shtml

Bev Stapleton · March 11th, 2006, 01:27 PM

And Jazz Record Requests is always fun. I first started listening in 1977 when Peter Clayton did it. Always does an eclectic mix of tonal jazz.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzreco...sts/pip/w9xwr/

This week's playlist:

Quote:

JRR Signature Tune:
Oh, but on the Third Day (Happy Feet Blues) (Marsalis)
Performed by Wynton Marsalis (tpt), Marcus Roberts (pno), Todd Williams (t/sx), Dr Michael White (clt), Danny Barker (bjo), Teddy Riley (tpt), Freddie Lonzo (tbn), Reginald Veal (bs), Herlin Riley (dms)
Recorded 28 October 1988
Taken from the album The Majesty of the Blues
1989 CD (CBS 465129 2)

Steppin' on the Gas (Morgan)
Performed by Sam Morgan Jazz Band: Sam Morgan (cnt), Isaiah Morgan (cnt), Jim Robinson (tbn), Earl Fouche (a/sx), Andrew Morgan (clt), Tink Baptiste (pno), Johnny Davis (bjo), Sidney Brown (bs), Nolan Williams (dms)
Recorded 14 April 1927, New Orleans
Taken from the album Steppin' on the Gas - Rags to Jazz 1913-1927
1977 LP (New World NW 269)

When You're Smiling (Fisher, Goodwin, Shay, arr. Pierce)
Performed by Jimmy Rushing (voc), Emmett Berry (tpt), Doc Cheatham (tpt), Buck Clayton (tpt), Mel Davis (tpt), Urbie Green (tbn), Frank Rehak (tbn), Dickie Wells (tbn), Rudy Powell (a/sx), Earle Warren (a/sx), Coleman Hawkins (t/sx), Buddy Tate (t/sx), Danny Bank (b/sx), Nat Pierce (pno), Danny Barker (gtr), Milt Hinton (bs), Osie Johnson (dms)
Recorded 27 February 1958, New York City
Taken from the album Rushing Lullabies
1997 CD (Columbia/Legacy CK 65118)

Undecided (Shavers, Robin)
Performed by Django Reinhardt (gtr), Beryl Davies (voc), Stéphane Grappelli (vln), Joseph Reinhardt (gtr), Eugene Vees (gtr), Emmanuel Soudieux (bs)
Recorded 25 August 1939, London
Taken from the album Django Reinhardt - Volume 2: the London Deccas (1938 & 1939)
1993 CD (JSP JSPCD342)

Well You Needn't (Monk, Ferro)
Performed by Mina Agossi (voc), Alex Hièle (bs), Ichiro Onoe (dms)
Recorded 14-17 June 2005, Meudon
Taken from the album Well You Needn't
2005 CD (Candid CCD79841)

Pea-Eye (Terry)
Performed by Clark Terry (flg), Thelonious Monk (pno), Sam Jones (bs), Philly Joe Jones (dms)
Recorded 7 or 12 May 1958, New York City
Taken from the album Thelonious Monk and the Jazz Giants
1986 CD (Riverside FCD60018)

The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (Jones, Salvador, Cochran)
Performed by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Cat Anderson (tpt), Cootie Williams (tpt), Roy Burrowes (tpt), Ray Nance (tpt), Lawrence Brown (tbn), Chuck Connors (tbn), Buster Cooper (tbn), Johnny Hodges (solo a/sx), Russell Procope (a/sx, clt), Jimmy Hamilton (t/sx, clt), Paul Gonsalves (t/sx), Harry Carney (b/sx), Duke Ellington (pno), Ernie Shepard (bs), Sam Woodyard (dms)
Recorded 3 January 1963, New York City
Taken from the album Duke Ellington: the Reprise Studio Recordings
1999 6-CD Box Set (Reprise 8122-73658-2)

Red Door (Sims, Mulligan)
Performed by Gerry Mulligan (b/sx), Zoot Sims (t/sx), Bob Brookmeyer (pno), Buddy Clark (bs), Mel Lewis (dms)
Recorded late 1960, Santa Monica
Taken from the album Gerry Mulligan Meets the Saxophonists
1985 CD (Verve 8274362)

In a Wondrous Place (Simcock)
Performed by Acoustic Triangle: Tim Garland (s/sx), Gwilym Simcock (pno), Malcolm Creese (bs)
Recorded 26 or 27 August 2003, Bristol
Taken from the album Catalyst
2003 CD (Audio-B ABCD5015)

The Whiffenpoof Song (Galloway, Minnigerode, Pomeroy, Vallee)
Performed by J.J. Johnson (tbn), Kai Winding (tbn), Dick Katz (pno), Paul Chambers (bs), Osie Johnson (dms)
Recorded 24 June 1955, New York City
Taken from the album Complete Fifties Studio Recordings
CD (Lonehill Jazz LHJ10179)

Moon River (Mancini, Mercer)
Performed by Brad Mehldau (pno), Larry Grenadier (bs), Jorge Rossy (dms)
Recorded 29 July-3 August 1997, New York City
Taken from the album The Art of the Trio Vol.2: Live at the Village Vanguard
1998 CD (Warner 9362468482)

Rhythm-a-ning (Monk)
Performed by Dexter Gordon (t/sx), Cees Slinger (pno), Jacques Schols (bs), Han Bennink (dms)
Recorded 5 February 1969, Amsterdam
Taken from the album Live at the Amsterdam Paradiso
1989 CD (Affinity CDAFF751)

I really enjoyed the Django, Acoustic Triangle, Mehldau and Dexter Gordon.

burning dog · March 11th, 2006, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bev Stapleton

One broadcast on 10th March:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/

Brad Mehldau Trio
Brad Mehldau - piano
Larry Grenadier - bass
Jeff Ballard - drums

Recorded on the 13 th February at the Barbican, London

I reckon they left out a couple of tracks. I heard them at Poole, a better night I think

, but about half the audience

peter rh · March 11th, 2006, 01:57 PM

Swinging in a cerebral sort of way
(Filed: 16/02/2006)

Peter Culshaw reviews the Brad Mehldau Trio at the Barbican

The influence of English songwriter Nick Drake, who died largely unremarked in 1974, seems to get more pronounced every year.

He's currently being seen as a key figure in the folk revival, but perhaps his most unlikely devotee is the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Mehldau's last album featured two Drake songs, and the present album, Day Is Done, is named after the Drake tune he opened proceedings with here.

Like Drake, Mehldau is a sensitive, introverted type. If you were sitting on the left, all you would have seen was the back of his head, and he didn't speak to the audience until the last number. In a lesser musician you would have suspected a certain preciousness about all this, but Mehldau manages to build, with long-time bass player Larry Grenadier and new drummer Jeff Ballard, an impressive atmosphere of intensity and poetry in his playing.

It did seem to take a couple of numbers for the trio to entirely gel - the first seemed to have the sound balance wrong, and the bass and drums were nervously over-busy. But by the time they played an unnamed new bossa nova-ish tune, they were swinging, or at least as much as you could expect from such an essentially cerebral group.

Mehldau's strength seems to be to balance a semi-classical formalism with an original, minimal style of improvising, aware at all times of the architecture of the song he is deconstructing. Technically, I haven't seen a jazz pianist with such ambidextrous abilities, equally fluent with both hands.

I would have preferred to hear more of Mehldau on his own - with the trio he spent quite a lot of time playing just with his right hand; as a soloist his melodic bass lines were continually inventive and surprising. It would be interesting to hear him pushing his chamber-jazz ideas even further - playing with a cellist, for example.

An Anglophile, Mehldau has moved away from the American songbook so beloved of jazzers. Here the highlights included a take on Radiohead's Knives Out and a scintillating encore of the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, a version that brought out the delicious counter-melodies in the original. Mehldau's control as a pianist led to an almost trance-like effect on the audience.

Only on the second encore did Mehldau metaphorically let his hair down, finally letting rip with a coruscating solo that used all the keyboard, before the bass and drums kicked in for a rousing finale.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2006.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...6/bmjazz16.xml

Bev Stapleton · March 18th, 2006, 02:39 PM

Coming up next week:

Saturday 25 March 2006 18:00 (UK time)
Pee Wee's Blues: Michael Pointon marks the centenary of jazz clarinettist Pee Wee Russell's birth. 1/2. From the beginnings to the famous Nicksieland Club years in New York.

Bev Stapleton · March 18th, 2006, 02:44 PM

And next Friday:

Mike Westbrook
In the week of his 70th birthday, British composer and bandleader Mike Westbrook joins Jez Nelson to look back over his career. Hear some rare material from the BBC archive and a newly recorded session from Mike's current band Art Wolf, specially augmented for the occasion with guests Tim Harries on bass and drummer Seb Rochford of cult band Polar Bear.

jazzscriveyn · March 20th, 2006, 02:29 AM

Quote:

From the BBC Jazz bulletin board

Don't miss today's (March 19th) show over on 6Music.

"We've swept the corners of the British Jazz cupboard to bring you rare tunes from Mike Westbrook, Neil Ardley and Joe Harriot. Plus tracks by Wire, Caetano Veloso and Sargasso Trio...
'Professor' Justin Spear continues his odyssey across the Britsh Jazz terrain."

Looking forward to this one.

Bruce

I only found out just now (Monday morning,

). At a quick look I can't find it on the 6Music replay list. If you can, please post the link here!!!

jazzscriveyn · March 20th, 2006, 04:56 AM

Been pointed in the right direction: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/fr...20060319.shtml.

Haven't checked it yet.

Frank Mullen · March 20th, 2006, 10:43 AM

And bless the internet for making this stuff available to us here in the US. I've been listenng to BBC-3 for a year now and have only begun to plumb whats available on the other BBC stations. I particularly like their catholic attitude toward jazz. --liable to hear anything-including big globs of British musicians I'd never even heard of before. AAH if only I could get BBC tv as well.

peter rh · March 20th, 2006, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank Mullen

AAH if only I could get BBC tv as well.

that might be possible in the near future

sidewinder · March 20th, 2006, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazzscriveyn

I only found out just now (Monday morning,

). At a quick look I can't find it on the 6Music replay list. If you can, please post the link here!!!

What a show ! I only heard about this one this week too. A previous show had features on the new Dutton Vocalions including the Amancio D'Silva, Michael Garrick etc. Why the heck can't they put this show on Radio 2 or 3 (even midnight on Sunday would be OK..)

Frank Mullen · March 20th, 2006, 01:18 PM

Do you know something about bbc-tv we don't? There is a bbc=tv channel available in the US but only , I believe, on satellite dish.

peter rh · March 20th, 2006, 01:30 PM

Frank - BBC Interactive Media Player (iMP) is explained at :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruc...uk/imp_1.shtml

"Programmes will only be available to users within the UK for two reasons:

the service is funded by UK TV licence payers
copyright is only cleared for use within the UK for seven days after the first broadcast "

but this might change - last I heard the trials were continuing

March 11th, 2006, 12:57 PM	#1
Bev Stapleton Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 7,317	Worth a listen on the BBC Replayer... A thread to alert about good jazz (and related) programmes on BBC radio. Most of these programmes stream for 7 days after broadcast. Please feel free to add programmes you spot that other might enjoy.

March 20th, 2006, 10:43 AM	#11
Frank Mullen Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Long Island.NY Posts: 636	I couldn't agree more. And bless the internet for making this stuff available to us here in the US. I've been listenng to BBC-3 for a year now and have only begun to plumb whats available on the other BBC stations. I particularly like their catholic attitude toward jazz. --liable to hear anything-including big globs of British musicians I'd never even heard of before. AAH if only I could get BBC tv as well. __________________ Frank

March 20th, 2006, 01:18 PM	#14
Frank Mullen Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Long Island.NY Posts: 636	peterrh Do you know something about bbc-tv we don't? There is a bbc=tv channel available in the US but only , I believe, on satellite dish. __________________ Frank

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March 11th, 2006, 12:59 PM	#2
Bev Stapleton Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 7,317	One broadcast on 10th March: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/ Brad Mehldau Trio Brad Mehldau - piano Larry Grenadier - bass Jeff Ballard - drums Recorded on the 13 th February at the Barbican, London Part One: Title Day Is Done Composer Nick Drake Duration 14'52" Title The Very Thought Of You Composer Ray Noble Duration 11'02" Title Knives out Composer Radiohead Duration 10'18" Interval: Brad Mehldau talks to Jez Nelson Part Two: Title Black Hole Sun Composer Cornell, Christopher J (Soundgarden) Duration 14'17" Title Countdown Composer John Coltrane Duration 11'25"

March 11th, 2006, 01:01 PM	#3
Bev Stapleton Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 7,317	Jazz File - part 3 of a documentary on Stan Getz. Covers Focus and the Bossa Nova records. Not particularly incisive but enjoyable: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfile/index.shtml

March 11th, 2006, 01:57 PM	#6
peter rh Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 2,112	Swinging in a cerebral sort of way (Filed: 16/02/2006) Peter Culshaw reviews the Brad Mehldau Trio at the Barbican The influence of English songwriter Nick Drake, who died largely unremarked in 1974, seems to get more pronounced every year. He's currently being seen as a key figure in the folk revival, but perhaps his most unlikely devotee is the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Mehldau's last album featured two Drake songs, and the present album, Day Is Done, is named after the Drake tune he opened proceedings with here. Like Drake, Mehldau is a sensitive, introverted type. If you were sitting on the left, all you would have seen was the back of his head, and he didn't speak to the audience until the last number. In a lesser musician you would have suspected a certain preciousness about all this, but Mehldau manages to build, with long-time bass player Larry Grenadier and new drummer Jeff Ballard, an impressive atmosphere of intensity and poetry in his playing. It did seem to take a couple of numbers for the trio to entirely gel - the first seemed to have the sound balance wrong, and the bass and drums were nervously over-busy. But by the time they played an unnamed new bossa nova-ish tune, they were swinging, or at least as much as you could expect from such an essentially cerebral group. Mehldau's strength seems to be to balance a semi-classical formalism with an original, minimal style of improvising, aware at all times of the architecture of the song he is deconstructing. Technically, I haven't seen a jazz pianist with such ambidextrous abilities, equally fluent with both hands. I would have preferred to hear more of Mehldau on his own - with the trio he spent quite a lot of time playing just with his right hand; as a soloist his melodic bass lines were continually inventive and surprising. It would be interesting to hear him pushing his chamber-jazz ideas even further - playing with a cellist, for example. An Anglophile, Mehldau has moved away from the American songbook so beloved of jazzers. Here the highlights included a take on Radiohead's Knives Out and a scintillating encore of the Beatles' She's Leaving Home, a version that brought out the delicious counter-melodies in the original. Mehldau's control as a pianist led to an almost trance-like effect on the audience. Only on the second encore did Mehldau metaphorically let his hair down, finally letting rip with a coruscating solo that used all the keyboard, before the bass and drums kicked in for a rousing finale. © Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2006. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...6/bmjazz16.xml

March 18th, 2006, 02:39 PM	#7
Bev Stapleton Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 7,317	Coming up next week: Saturday 25 March 2006 18:00 (UK time) Pee Wee's Blues: Michael Pointon marks the centenary of jazz clarinettist Pee Wee Russell's birth. 1/2. From the beginnings to the famous Nicksieland Club years in New York.

March 18th, 2006, 02:44 PM	#8
Bev Stapleton Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 7,317	And next Friday: Mike Westbrook In the week of his 70th birthday, British composer and bandleader Mike Westbrook joins Jez Nelson to look back over his career. Hear some rare material from the BBC archive and a newly recorded session from Mike's current band Art Wolf, specially augmented for the occasion with guests Tim Harries on bass and drummer Seb Rochford of cult band Polar Bear.

March 20th, 2006, 04:56 AM	#10
jazzscriveyn Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Europe Posts: 194	Been pointed in the right direction: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/fr...20060319.shtml. Haven't checked it yet.

March 20th, 2006, 01:30 PM	#15
peter rh Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 2,112	Frank - BBC Interactive Media Player (iMP) is explained at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruc...uk/imp_1.shtml "Programmes will only be available to users within the UK for two reasons: the service is funded by UK TV licence payers copyright is only cleared for use within the UK for seven days after the first broadcast " but this might change - last I heard the trials were continuing