(Preview by Russell)
Kurt Elling presents Radio 4’s Archive on 4: The Selling of Sinatra (Saturday, 8:00pm) in which
the Chicagoan looks at the image making of Francis Albert Sinatra. Clare Teal (Sunday 20, Radio 2, 9:00pm)
presents a big band concert recorded at the Stables, Bucks, with guests Gary
Williams, Pee Wee Ellis and Georgina Jackson. Tonight (Sunday 20) at eleven o’clock the final
installment of Radio 3’s annual EBU Day
of Christmas Music comes from Sofia, Bulgaria. The Bulgarian National Radio
Jazz Chorus and Big Band, conducted by Antoni Donchev, perform Duke Ellington’s
Sacred Concert.
At eleven o’clock in the evening over on Radio 4 John Wilson talks to Georgie Fame in Mastertapes about his recording Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo.
At eleven o’clock in the evening over on Radio 4 John Wilson talks to Georgie Fame in Mastertapes about his recording Rhythm and Blues at the Flamingo.
Matthew Parris’ Great
Lives (Radio 4, 4:30pm) celebrates Harlem-born writer and civil rights
activist James Baldwin. At 11:00pm on Radio 2 Ralph Johnson: Jazz Epicenter 6.7 includes jazz tracks by Kenny
Burrell and Roland Kirk. The Christmas Eve edition of New Generation Artists (Radio 3, 5:45pm) ranges from CPE Bach to
Tchaikovsky to a composer of today – Laura Jurd. Improvisation features the
composer (trumpet) and her band Dinosaur. Jurd returns to the north east in
early 2016. In the early hours of Boxing Day, BBC 6 Music Insight: New Orleans (1:00am), a 1976 documentary about NOLA,
includes a timely contribution from the late Allen Toussaint.
Russell.
The Stables of course, being in the grounds of the home of Cleo and the late John Dankworth. One of the highlights of my life was being there with the hosts and many more star studded guests. You enter it by a staircase with fairy lights at the sides, it is like tripping the light fantastic, truly Hollywood style!
ReplyDeleteI too have fond memories of the Stables - Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Barney Kessel, John Dankworth himself and others.
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