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Jan Jazz on the wireless
Topic Started: Feb 7 2013, 04:00 PM (356 Views)
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A few random notes about a good month...

Two superb Geoffrey Smith profiles - Eric Dolphy and Charlie Mingus.
(A bit of an overlap, of course; he couldn't play "Fables Of Faubus" on the Mingus show coz he'd already played it on the Dolphy show!)

Talking of Dolphy...
On "JRR", Robert Wyatt (the great man himself!) wrote in to request a Dolphy tune.

Two weird'n'wonderful "Jazz On 3" sessions -
Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith

Braxton's music is now so abstract that the term "jazz" hardly applies.
Wadada was on great free-form form.

(Non-fans of "free jazz" would have been bewildered.
To convert the unbelievers, I always play them Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz" classic; which is really throwing them in at the deep end.
And which features - that man again! - Eric Dolphy.)

The maverick jazzer, John Zorn, had the first full-length concert of his classical pieces on R3.
The Zorn expert, Tom Service, compared them to Berg, Copland and Cage. He didn't mention Stockhausen; which is what I heard throughout.

On the Mayo / Kermode show, Denzel Washington said that he has a script about Thelonious Monk that he wants to do.
Here's hoping!

I know that actors are giving a performance rather than an impression (in "Bird" Forrest Whittagher (sp?) didn't look very much like Charlie Parker) but I've always thought that Denzel Washington is a dead ringer for the young Herbie Hancock.
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