BillF

Can't get much better than that! Yes, I haven't heard it in so long (had it on vinyl, which was donated to my sister when my turntable died in the mid-90s) it sent shivers down my spine. Is this a new thing for Radio 3, sticking jazz in the middle of their regular programming? Can't keep track of Radio 3's jazz programming; it's always changing. One thing is certain: it's likely at any moment to be peremptorily swept aside by the BBC old guard which is clearly uneasy about anything that doesn't fit with European middle-class cultural dominance. Opera Rules, you know! At the moment I listen to a two-hour block from 4 to 6 on Saturday (available later online, if you prefer.) Jazz Library is first with the excellent Alyn Shipton (last week's subject, Art Farmer; this week's, Gene Krupa), then Jazz Record Requests follows with an intriguing selection of stuff that's likely to run from Jimmy Yancey to Brad Meldhau!

Can't get much better than that!

Chaka Khan Tiny Kahn Al Cohn

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now playing: Carl Saunders, "Ow" from The Lost Bill Holman Charts (MAMA)

Article in today's Guardian about a building by Italian architect, Massimiliano Fuksas. There are a lot of these guys around, aren't there?

Birdie Tebbets Eagle Eye Fleagle Putney Dandridge Martin Sheen Alan Barnes Kim Richmond

Jack Shepherd Archie Shepp Dr Harold Shipman

Sinister Minister Sally Vickers Walter Bishop Jr

Wayne Shorter, Night Dreamer (Blue Note)

Child Roland Billy Childs Buddy Childers

Very sorry indeed to hear about that, Tom.

Britt Woodman Jihad Axeman (aka Gilad Atzmon) Raymond Carver

Saw him leading a big band of British musicians at the Davenport Theatre, Stockport in the 1980s. His work for Norman Grantz with Oscar Peterson was always good. Roy and Diz and Jazz Giants '58 are the first ones that come to mind.

Ernie Royal Pallas Athene Donald Peers

Red Rodney, Then and Now (Chesky)

Joe Pass Swiss Tony Lord Gnome

French. (Born in Liege.) wondered the same thing about jacques pelzer this morning - "pelzer" doesn't sound french at all (?) Doesn't it? What about Claude Luter (say it "loot-air"), celebrated French trad band leader of my youth?

Alden Pyle Uriah Heep Loadsamoney

Now that's blown my cover completely!

French. (Born in Liege.)

L P Hartley E P Thompson The Stereos

Al Cohn, Cohn's Tones (Realm/Savoy)

Shouldn't it be "zhas-par"?

Helena Bonham Carter James Carter Jimmy Carter

Tonton Macoutes Tintin Led Zeppelin