(Review
by Russell).
A live edition
of Jazz Record Requests! The
welcoming yet authoritative voice of Alyn Shipton visits jazz homes tuned to
BBC 3 every Saturday afternoon. Here at the Sage Shipton invited the audience
to listen to requests, request a track of their own and hear some jazz ‘live’ from the stage in Hall Two
at the Sage. The programme will be broadcast this coming Saturday (13 April) on
Radio 3, so you will have to listen to find out which tracks were chosen for
broadcast!
A bonus for the
audience in the hall was a performance by Lighthouse Trio (Tim Garland, Gwilym
Simcock and Asaf Sirkis), Simcock solo and the wonderful Zoe Rahman played
Ellington. The musicians, including Larry Stabbins (he was on late night duty
the previous evening), joined the presenter to discuss their love of the music.
Shipton and the Sage are to be commended
for including a listener’s choice of a tune by the West Jesmond Rhythm Kings
featuring the late Mike Durham (musician and festival organiser of the
international Whitley Bay Jazz Festival and Whitley Bay Classic Jazz Party). It
is to be hoped JRR, as it is
affectionately known, returns next year and the year after.
Russell
1 comment :
"The welcoming yet authoritative voice of Alyn Shipton visits jazz homes tuned to BBC 3 every Saturday afternoon."
Er, well, not recently he doesn't - the timing having been messed about by 1) the differing dates of introduction of US/UK daylight time and 2) Wagner (yet again!)
It's about time Radio 3 fixed the time of JRR and pushed the opera to the graveyard slot! Oooh, was that a pig I just saw flying by my window?
When I finally did get to hear JRR (2130 this evening) it was certainly well worth the wait.
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