Brotzmann / Waits duo @ Vision Festival

[Gary]

To be broadcast tonight & available on the website for 1 week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzon3/index.shtml

From the BBC Jazz on 3 Email

Subject: What's on Tonight's Jazz on 3

   

Peter Brotzmann / Nasheet Waits Duo

Tonight - Friday 28th October - at 11.30pm on BBC Radio 3

Recently a listener wrote in saying she liked to do the ironing to Jazz

on 3 and we wondered what the rest of you do while listening. Back came

one reply "I fall asleep". Well, being thick skinned, or perhaps just

thick, we'd like to put that down to the lateness of the hour rather

than the musical content. It was ever thus for jazz radio it seems. We're

on the air a whole half hour before Symphony Sid ever was. Anyway, if

you're nodding off with the radio on tonight, there's a rude awakening

waiting for you at around 12.15am, courtesy of a firebreathing Peter

Brotzmann set.

In another slice of our recordings from New York's Vision Festival, the

pioneering German energy improvisor goes downtown with the drummer

Nasheet Waits, best known for his playing with Geri Allen and Andrew Hill.

Right from the off, it's a fiercely intense 45 minutes. The famous

Brotzmann tone is there. If you happen to have any recalcitrant woodchip

wallpaper on your walls, try holding the speaker against it tonight. That

should melt it off.

Before that, there's an in depth interview with Brad Mehldau, who'll be

talking about his new trio, his anglophile musical tastes and how he

found his own voice as an improviser. And to start the show, we've got a

little extra from our David Murray session earlier in the year playing

with Julian Joseph's trio.

Hope you enjoy it!

Russell at Jazz on 3