"More With Four: Jazz and String Quartets" on Night Lights

[ghost of miles]

This week on Night Lights it’s More With Four: Jazz and String Quartets as we explore historical recordings of jazz artists and ensembles with string quartets, ranging from Artie Shaw’s augmented orchestra of the late 1930s to Max Roach’s “double-quartet” of the 1980s. We’ll also hear music from saxophonist Lee Konitz (with arrangements by Bill Russo), vibraphonist Joe Roland (playing Miles Davis’ “Half Nelson”), pianist Andrew Hill, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and more. Jazz meets a classic classical format this week on “A Jazzy Quartet,” airing Saturday, December 16 at 11:05 p.m. EST on WFIU and at 9 p.m. Central Time on WNIN-Evansville; West-Central Michigan listeners can hear it Sunday night at 10 p.m. EST on Blue Lake Public Radio. The program will be posted Monday afternoon in the Night Lights archives.

Next week: "The Night Lights Before Christmas."

Edited September 19, 2009 by ghost of miles

[Chuck Nessa]

How about flipping the coin and adding Benny Goodman with the Budapest Quartet in Mozart?

[alocispepraluger102]

How about flipping the coin and adding Benny Goodman with the Budapest Quartet in Mozart?

your frivolity was sorely missed.

[Lazaro Vega]

Hi Ghost,

This Sunday Blue Lake will be broadcasting the Night Light's Chirstmas program as on Christmas Eve our jazz programming is bumped for holiday specials.

LV

[ghost of miles]

Thanks for the correction, Lazaro. Didn't realize B. Lake was doing that, but I'm glad the Christmas show will get an airing up there. Chuck, yeah--I didn't get a chance to fit everything into this show that I wanted to, including Artie's sides with the New String Quartet circa '49... good chance I'll do a followup down the road, and I'll look to include those Goodman/Budapest recordings as part of a flipping-the-coin set. Alocsis, in answer to your post elsewhere, there's a Max double-quartet side at the very end of this show. Hoping I can squeeze "Bird Feathers" into the eventual followup.

[ghost of miles]

"A Jazzy Quartet" is now archived.

Edited September 19, 2009 by ghost of miles

[Randy Twizzle]

No offense meant, but it seems like the best place to post this cartoon.

[ghost of miles]

I have a New Yorker cartoon pinned up on the bulletin board next to my desk, with two bedraggled, chained-up prisoners sitting forlorn on a jail-cell floor, one of them saying to the other: "It wouldn't be so bad, if they'd just pipe in some jazz."

Lately I've really been enjoying the back-page cartoon-caption contest.

[ghost of miles]

We're re-airing More With Four: Jazz and String Quartets this week; it's already archived for online listening.