Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnn9
Sat 25 Feb 2012
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents a selection of listeners' jazz requests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c6qbn
Music played
1. Louis Armstrong — Jubilee
Composer: Hoagy Carmichael & Stanley Adams Performers: Louis Armstrong (voc), Henry ‘Red’ Allen, Louis Bacon, Shelton Hemphill (tr), Wilbur De Paris, J.C Higginbotham, George Washington (tb), Bingie Madison, Albert Nicholas (cl, ts), Pete Clark, Charlie Holmes (as), Luis Russell (p), Lee Blair (g), Pops Foster (b), Paul Barbarin (d) Recorded: La 1938
The Ultimate Collection, Verve 543 699-2, 1/17, 2.35
2. Burgundy Street Blues — George Lewis
Composer: George Lewis Performers: George Lewis (cl), Ian Wheeler (cl), John Bastable (banjo), Ron Ward (b), Colin Bowden (d) Recorded: Manchester, 1957
The Famous Manchester Free Trade Hall Concert (2nd Half), 504 CD 51, 6, 3.44
3. Ken Moule Seven — Main Stem
Composer: Duke Ellington Performers: Ken Moule (p), Dave Usden (tr), Roy Sidwell and Keith Barr (ts), Don Cooper (bs), Allan Watts (b), Lennie Breslow (d) Recorded: 1955
Single, Decca F 10508, 1, 2.47
4. Una Mae Carlisle — Blitzkrieg Baby
Composer: Fred & Doris Fisher Performers: Una Mae Carlisle (voc), Shad Collins (tr), Lester Young (ts), Clyde Hart (p), John Collins (g), Nick Fenton (b), Harold ‘Doc’ West (d) Recorded: 1941
Una Mae Carlisle 1938-1941, Classics 1209, 14, 3.18
5. Stan Kenton — Stella by Starlight
Composer: Victor Young Performers: Stam Kenton (p), Bobby Clark, Ed Lenny, Sam Noto, Al Porcino,Stu Williamson (tr), Don Davidson, Charlie Mariano, Lennie Niehaus, Bill Perkins, Dave Van Kriedt (s), Gus Chappell, Bob Fitzpatrick, Carl Fontana, Don Kelly, Kent Larson (tb), Ralph Blaze (g), Max Bennett (b), Mel Lewis (d) Recorded: 1955
Na, Capitol EAP 1-666, S2, 5.05
6. Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank — Carioca Hills
Composer: Laurindo Almeida Performers: Bud Shank (as), Laurindo Almeida (g), Gary Peacock (b), Chuck Flores (d) Recorded: La 1958
Brazilliance Vol. 2, World Pacific CDP7961022 (1), 10, 3.05
7. Woody Herman — Four Brothers
Composer: Jimmy Giuffre Performers: Woody Herman (cl), Mary Ann McCall (voc), Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Stan Fishelson, Shorty Rogers, Marky Markowitz (tr), Earl Swope, Ollie Wilson, Bob Swift (tb), Sam Marowitz (as), Herbie Steward (ts), Stan Getz, Zoot Sims (ts), Serge Chaloff (bs), Fred Otis (p), Gene Sargent (g), Walt Yoder (b), Don Lamond (d) Recorded: 1947
The Woody Herman Story – Four Brothers, Proper P1160, 5, 3.18
8. Bob Brookmeyer — Jive Hoot
Composer: R. Brookmeyer Performers: Bob Brookmeyer (valve tb), Stan Getz (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Gary Burton (vib), Elvin Jones (d) Recorded: New York, 1964
Bob Brookmeyer and Friends, Columbia 468413 2, 1, 4.43
9. Jimmy Yancey — At the Window
Composer: Jimmy Yancey Performers: Jimmy Yancey (p) Recorded: 1943
Jazz Immortals No.2, Vogue LDE166 (1), 5, 2.57
10. Horace Silver — Song for My Father
Composer: Horace Silver Performers: Horace Silver (p), Carmell Jones (tr), Joe Henderson (ts), Teddy Smith (b), Roger Humphries (d) Recorded: New Jersey, 1964
Song for My Father, Blue Note CDP 7 84185 2, 1, 7.15
11. Jimmy Deuchar — Swingin’ in Studio Two
Composer: Sonny Stitt Performers: Jimmy Deuchar (tr), Derek Humble (as), Tubby Hayes (ts), Eddie Harvey (p), Kenny Napper (bass), Phil Seaman (d) Recorded: 1957
Swingin’ in the Blues, Tempo TAP 21, S2/4, 13.13
Jazz Line-Up
Programme exploring jazz music, focussing both on established, mainstream players and on the new generation of younger artists..
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Jim Mullen Reunion Band
Sun 26 Feb 2012
23:00
BBC Radio 3
Claire Martin presents the Jim Mullen Reunion Band in concert.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c9n7g
Jazz Line-Up this week presents The Jim Mullen Reunion Band, a stellar cast of British jazz musicians
Jim Mullen on Guitar, Gareth Williams,Piano; Mick Hutton, Bass and Gary Husband, Drums.
As the name suggests this band is a reunion of the Quartet that was in existence for six years from 1996. Its members are amongst the most experienced jazz musicians in the country and the group developed an extremely powerful musical identity during its lifetime. The Quartet has recorded five CDs: We Go Back (1996), Live In Glasgow (1997), Burns (2000), Animation (2001), Somewhere In The Hills (2002). This group is one of the most powerful and exciting bands ever to appear on the UK Jazz Scene.
Jim Mullen moved to London from Glasgow in 1969, going on to work in the groups of Pete Brown, Brian Auger Vinegar Joe and Kokomo . In 1975 he met sax player Dick Morrissey and began a 15 year association. After the demise of Morrissey Mullen he worked with jazz vocalist Claire Martin and formed a series of quartets . As sideman he is in demand by visiting U.S. stars like Gene Harris, Mose Allison and, Jimmy Smith. He is twice winner of 'Best Guitar' in the British Telecom jazz awards and 'Best Guitar' in the British Jazz Awards for 2000.
Also on the show, Claire profiles Geri Allen's album "The Gathering" in the company of Kevin Le Gendre in this month's 'Now Is The Time' feature.
Music played
1. Tania Maria — Dear Dee Vee
Performers: Tania Maria (Piano), Eddie Gomez (Bass) Composer: Tania Maria, Correa Reis
Tempo, Naïve NJ621711
2. Ronnie Scott’s All-Stars — Bye Bye Blackbird
Performers: Natalie Williams (Vocal), Sum Burgess (Bass), Alex Garnett (Sax), James Pearson (Piano), Pedro Segundo (Drums) Composer: Dickson, Henderson
Ronnie Scott’s All Stars Live At The Club, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club RSR 001
3. Geri Allen — The Gathering
Performers: Geri Allen (Piano), Buster Williams (Bass), Lenny White (Drums), Vernon Reid (Guitar), Wallace Roney (Trumpet), Robin Eubanks (Trombone) Composer: Geri Allen
The Gathering, Polygram/Verve 557 614-2
4. Geri Allen — Light Matters
Performers: Geri Allen (Piano), Buster Williams (Bass), Lenny White (Drums), Vernon Reid (Guitar), Wallace Roney (Trumpet), Robin Eubanks (Trombone) Composer: Geri Allen
The Gathering, Polygram/Verve 557 614-2
5. Geri Allen — Angels
Performers: Geri Allen (Piano), Buster Williams (Bass), Lenny White (Drums), Vernon Reid (Guitar), Wallace Roney (Trumpet), Robin Eubanks (Trombone) Composer: Geri Allen
The Gathering, Polygram/Verve 557 614-2
6. Vijay Iyer Trio — Wildflower
Performers: Vijay Iyer (Piano), Stephen Crump (Bass), Marcus Gilmore (Drums) Composer: Vijay Iyer
Accelerando, ACT 9524-2
7. Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet — You’ve Changed
Performers: Jim Mullen (Guitar), Mick Hutton (Double Bass), Gareth Williams (Piano), Gary Husband (Drums) Composer: Bill Carey, Carl Fischer BBC Recording, recorded at Southport’s “Jazz On A Winter’s Weekend” on Sunday 5th February 2012
8. Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet — Song for Carla
Performers: Jim Mullen (Guitar), Mick Hutton (Double Bass), Gareth Williams (Piano), Gary Husband (Drums) Composer: Max Middleton BBC Recording, recorded at Southport’s “Jazz On A Winter’s Weekend” on Sunday 5th February 2012
9. Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet — Dreams So Real
Performers: Jim Mullen (Guitar), Mick Hutton (Double Bass), Gareth Williams (Piano), Gary Husband (Drums) Composer: Carla Bley BBC Recording, recorded at Southport’s “Jazz On A Winter’s Weekend” on Sunday 5th February 2012
10. Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet — Love Is Real
Performers: Jim Mullen (Guitar), Mick Hutton (Double Bass), Gareth Williams (Piano), Gary Husband (Drums) Composer: John Lennon BBC Recording, recorded at Southport’s “Jazz On A Winter’s Weekend” on Sunday 5th February 2012
11. Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet — Over The Hills And Far Away
Performers: Jim Mullen (Guitar), Mick Hutton (Double Bass), Gareth Williams (Piano), Gary Husband (Drums) Composer: Trad/Scottish BBC Recording, recorded at Southport’s “Jazz On A Winter’s Weekend” on Sunday 5th February 2012
12. Gregory Porter — Real Good Hands
Performers: Gregory Porter (Vocal), Chip Crawford (Piano), Aaron Jems (Bass), Emanuel harrold (Drums), Keyon Harrold (Trumpet), Tivon Pennicott (Sax), Kamau Kenyatta (Horns) Composer: Gregory Porter
Be Good, Motema Records 233488
13. Ahmad Jamal — Woody’n You
Performers: Ahmad Jamal (Piano), Reginald Veal (Double Bass), Herlin Riley (Drums), Manolo Badrena (Percussion) Composer: Ahmad Jamal
Blue Moon, Jazzbook Records SP 9570001
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley in 1942, and the format is simple: a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
Brian Moore
Sun 26 Feb 2012
11:15
BBC Radio 4
Brian Moore, former rugby international and commentator, is interviewed by Kirsty Young.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cj4ky
Kirsty Young's castaway is the former rugby player and commentator Brian Moore.
As a player he was ferociously competitive, he says his approach to the game was almost pathological and it earned him the nickname 'the pitbull'.
By the time he retired, he'd earned dozens of England caps and played in three grand slams. But he discovered the obsessive determination he'd shown as a player was not so useful off the pitch.
"In sport, the 'I won't give up', 'carry on training' and 'going again and again and again', that's rewarded because people say isn't that fantastic - but when it comes to normal life, you can't solve everything like that."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.
Music played
1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Queen of the Night
Artist: Edda Moser with the Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch
Mozart: Die Zauberflote, EMI
2. Ian Dury and The Blockheads — Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
Composer: Dury/Jankel
Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Very Best Of Ian Dury And The Blockheads, EMI
3. Genesis — In the Cage
Composer: Banks, Collins, Gabriel, Hackett, Rutherford
The Lamb Lies down on Broadway, Virgin
4. Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Artist: London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andre Previn
Classical Favourites, EMI
5. Pink Floyd — Us and Them
Composer: Waters/Wright
Dark Side of the Moon, EMI
6. The Stranglers — Always the Sun
Composer: The Stranglers
The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990, Epic
7. Green Day — Jesus of Suburbia
Composer: Billie Joe Armstrong/Greenday
Jesus Of Suburbia, Reprise Records
8. Pietro Mascagni — The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Artist: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, EMI
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Tacita Dean
Sun 26 Feb 2012
12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is artist Tacita Dean, best known for her work in 16mm film.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c6qjt
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the visual artist Tacita Dean, one of the Young British Artists, who is best-known for her work in 16mm film, although she also uses a variety of media including drawing, photography, and sound. Her large-scale installation, Film, is currently on show in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
Born in Canterbury, she studied at Falmouth School of Art and the Slade. In 1995 she was included in General Release: Young British Artists held at the Venice Biennale, and has been associated with the group thereafter known as Young British Artists, who also include the Chapman brothers, Sam Taylor-Wood, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Douglas Gordon.
She works predominantly in 16mm tape, and in 2001 she was given a solo show at Tate Britain. The previous year, she was awarded a scholarship to Berlin, where she now lives. In 2006 the most comprehensive retrospective of her work to date, Analogue, was shown at Basel, and in 2009 she had her first major solo show in Italy, Still Life. She was nominated for the 1998 Turner Prize, following her 1996 film Disappearance at Sea. Her current Tate Modern installation, Film, is an elegy for a fast-disappearing medium.
Music played
1. Henry Purcell — Sound the Trumpet
Performers: Alfred & Mark Deller, The Deller Consort
VANGUARD 08506071
2. Gregorio Allegri — Miserere
Performers: Choir of King’s College Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks Treble Soloist: Roy Goodman
DECCA 4211472
3. Dmitri Shostakovich — 2nd mvt from Sonata no 4 for Cello & Piano in D minor (op 40)
Performers: Stephen Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (piano)
RCA 09026684372
4. Maurice Ravel — 1st mvt from ‘Sonatine’
Performers: Robert Casadesus (piano)
SONY CLASSICAL MP2K46733
5. Leos Janacek — 1st mvt from String Quartet no 2
Performers: Smetana Quartet (In Prague Concert)
SUPRAPHON CO1130
6. Miklós Rózsa — Generique’ from ‘Providence
Performers: from the original motion picture soundtrack
CAM CSE085
7. Neil Young — Like A Hurricane (live)
Performers: Neil Young
WARNERS 7599272332
Words and Music
A sequence of classical music mixed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f
Middles
Sun 26 Feb 2012
18:30
BBC Radio 3
Texts and music on the theme of middles. Readings by Juliet Stevenson and Peter Marinker.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c6qk2
Middles: neither the fresh hope of beginning nor the reflection of the end but complexity and endurance. Poems by W.H. Auden, Robert Frost and Thomas Hardy are read by Juliet Stevenson and Peter Marinker with music by Shostakovitch, Mozart and Ned Rorem.
Producer's Note
This Words and Music is an exploration of the idea of the middle: neither the promise of beginnings nor the resolution of the end but complexity, fragments and the need to keep on going.
The transformative wood of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (Britten and Mendelssohn) bookends the programme. Inside, we first encounter Dante’s traveller and the ‘Prelude and Fugue fragment for string quintet in D Minor’ by Beethoven followed by a trio of poems about male middle-age accompanied by John Cage’s jangling ‘Fourth Interlude for prepared piano’ and completed by Aretha Franklin’s interpretation of Bob Dylan’s hymn to endurance: ‘I Shall Be Released’.
Then, a nostalgic interlude with Charles Williams’ The Young Ballerina’ conjuring images of a mesmerising potter’s wheel.
In the next section an exploration of the passions and pains of love. Thomas Campion urges intensity not mediocrity in love even if it means rejection and despair whilst Tracey Thorn reflects on the divorces of her middle-aged friends. And you’ll hear the middle section of Bartok’s ‘Violin Concerto No 2’ – Bartok suffered in his unrequited love for the violinist Steffi Geyer. George Meredith and Thomas Hardy articulate the almost unendurable pain of unhappy marriage and love whilst Emily Dickinson distils the agony.
Then, the necessity and hopeful possibility of carrying on; how to live with the inevitably “diminished thing”. Robert Frost offers the example of the ‘Oven Bird’, Michael Donaghy the Purcell pavan and the racing bike whilst Auden observes that the world stills moves on, in an ordinary way, despite the extreme suffering and intense experience of others.
To end, Louis Macneice and Philip Larkin both offer a vision of the middle as a positive thing - an acceptance of the impossibility of getting things right “entirely” and a celebration of the potential to be had in a certain kind of dullness.
Natalie Steed
Music and featured items
Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.
00:00
Benjamin Britten — Introductions (Act II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra, cond Benjamin Britten
LONDON 4256632, Tr 14
00:00
Dante (trans Mark Musa)
Inferno (extract), reader Juliet Stevenson
00:03
Ludwig van Beethoven — Prelude and Fugue fragment for string quintet in D minor, H40
Performer: Endellion String Quartet
WARNER 2564687133, Tr 9
00:06
Kenneth Rexroth
Delia Rexroth, died June 1916, reader Peter Marinker
00:06
Frédéric Chopin — Etude No. 3, (op 10)
Performer: Maurizio Pollini
Deutsche Gramaphon 4137942, Tr 3
00:10
Donald Justice
Men at Forty (permission of Alfred A Knopf -Random House), reader Juliet Stevenson
00:11
John Cage — Fourth Interlude
Performer: Maro Ajemian
El B000HC2OGY, Tr 16
00:14
Roddy Lumsden
The Man I Could Have Been, reader Peter Marinker
00:17
Bob Dylan — I Shall Be Released
Performer: Nina Simone
SonyBMG B000JU8FY4, Tr 3
00:21
Charles Williams — The Young Ballerina
Performer:
EMI B0000267MC, Tr 5 (disc 2)
00:23
Thomas Campion
Mediocrity in Love Rejected, reader Juliet Stevenson
00:24
Tracey Thorn — Oh The Divorces!
Performer: Tracey Thorn
Strange Feeling B003CP12GG, Tr 1
00:28
George Meredith
Modern Love I, reader Peter Marinker
00:29
Béla Bartók — Violin Concerto no 2 , (middle section)
Performer: James Ehnes (violin), BBc Philaharmonic
CHAN10690, Tr 4
00:32
Thomas Hardy
Neutral Tones, reader Juliet Stevenson
00:38
Emily Dickinson
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes, reader Juliet Stevenson
00:39
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Lachrymosa, Requiem
Performer: Karl Richter (conductor), Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Bach-Orchester
TELDEC 4509979262, Tr08
00:42
Aaron Copland — Interlude, Music For Theatre
Performer: Andrew Littion (cond), Dallas Symphony Orchestra
DELOS DE3221, Tr 10
00:47
Robert Frost
The Oven Bird, reader Peter Marinker
00:48
Ned Rorem — Hymn For Evening, From Evidence of Things Not Seen, II Middles
Performer: Monique McDonald, Delores Ziegler, Rufus Müller, Kurt Ollmann, Michael Barrett (piano)
NEWWORLD 805752, 27
00:51
WH Auden
Musee des Beaux Arts, (Permission Curtis Brown, Ltd. © 81939) reader Juliet Stevenson
00:52
Dmitri Shostakovich — Piano Concerto No 2 in F major (second movement)
Performer: Marc-André Hamelin (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67425, Tr 6
00:59
Michael Donaghy
Machines, reader Peter Marinker
01:00
Henry Purcell — Sefauchi’s Farewell in D Minor
Performer: Leonhardt-Consort / Brüggen-Consort
TELDEC9031776082, Tr 10 (Disc 2)
01:01
Louis MacNeice
Entirely, reader Juliet Stevenson
01:03
Benjamin Britten — Interlude, A Ceremony of Carols
Performer: Rachel Masters (harp)
ARGO 4332152, Tr 8
01:05
Philip Larkin
Born Yesterday, for Sally Amis, reader Peter Marinker
01:07
Felix Mendelssohn — Nocture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Performer: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur (cond)
TELDEC 2292463232, Tr 10
01:12
Ezra Pound
And the days are not full enough
