https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/ en-us Copyright 2007 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:35:37 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Just to say that this blog will be closing on August 1st. Thanks to all those who contributed our commented. https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/07/goodbye.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/07/goodbye.shtml Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:35:37 +0000 There are no plans for a jazz series on BBC Radio Wales this summer, but instead of twiddling my thumbs I've put them to good use - creating a BBC website about Jazz in Wales at bbc.co.uk/jazzinwales The site includes... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/06/jazz_in_wales_from_the_bbc.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/06/jazz_in_wales_from_the_bbc.shtml Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:40:45 +0000 Despite all the copyright hoohah surrounding it, there's no doubt that Youtube has some unbelievably good stuff on it. And if that wasn't enough, they've made their jazz content much easier to find...say hello to Jazztube! https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/02/jazztube.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/02/jazztube.shtml Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:10:12 +0000 In recent years there has been a lot of discussion about the centre of Jazz gravity moving from the United States to Europe. Indeed, in 2005 journalist Stuart Nicholson wrote a whole book on the subject - Is Jazz Dead... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/02/jazz_grammys_business_as_usual.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/02/jazz_grammys_business_as_usual.shtml Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:53:20 +0000 RIP Alice Coltrane, who was set to play the UK for the first time in aeons this spring. Though a lot of jazzers are rather sniffy about her music and particularly her playing with her husband's quartet, she was... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/01/alice_doesnt_live_here_anymore.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/01/alice_doesnt_live_here_anymore.shtml Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:06:19 +0000 George Shearing’s knighthood in the New Year Honours brings to mind his rare double of achieving popular success as an instrumentalist while maintaining the respect of his jazz peers. In 1949 the Shearing Quintet recording of September in the Rain... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/01/george_shearing_kbe.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2007/01/george_shearing_kbe.shtml Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:58:52 +0000 I know I know. Spending a week listening to jazz in New York isn’t what most people reading this would consider ‘work’. But my purpose for posting isn’t merely to boast but to add some personal insights that might not... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/12/jazz_on_3_new_york_special_200.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/12/jazz_on_3_new_york_special_200.shtml Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:18:27 +0000 GCap, the commercial radio group which owns Classic FM, has unveiled the name of the UK-wide jazz station to be launched on digital radio and TV at 9am on Christmas Day. thejazz will broadcast on DAB, Sky Digital and NTL:telewest... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/12/get_set_for_thejazz.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/12/get_set_for_thejazz.shtml Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:57:52 +0000 I'm just listening to the Gordon Beck Quartet's album Experiments with Pops which features pop songs such as Norwegian Wood, Up Up and Away, Good Vibrations and Michelle. It got me thinking - why is it that a huge bulk... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/12/pop_songs_in_jazz.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/12/pop_songs_in_jazz.shtml Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:57:10 +0000 A petition's been launched to include Stan Tracey on the next honours list. Not a bad idea, IMHO. Sign up if you're interested. And here's a related thread on the Radio 3 messageboard. https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/11/make_stan_a_lord.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/11/make_stan_a_lord.shtml Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:49:59 +0000 A plainly ludicrous headline (who was the old ambassador for jazz? and where's the embassy?) but this interview with Gwilym Simcock echoes some of the points made in Alex's post. It's interesting that Gwilym suggests that the recent changes at... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/11/a_new_ambassador_for_jazz.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/11/a_new_ambassador_for_jazz.shtml Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:22:14 +0000 The usual jazz discourse is about crisis and under-recognition – and probably always has been. But here’s an interesting thought. Admittedly this is a London-centric way of looking at things (though some would say jazz has always tended to be... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/10/let_the_good_times_roll.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/10/let_the_good_times_roll.shtml Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:58:25 +0000 If you're interested in the place where small group composition meets free improvisation, and want to know a bit more about how the music's conceived and realised, don't miss tonight's Jazz on 3, featuring pianist Veryan Weston's international quintet. For... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/10/veryan_westons_quintet_of_unce.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/10/veryan_westons_quintet_of_unce.shtml Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:42:32 +0000 An interesting if slightly peculiar letter in today's Times laments Radio3's jazz coverage. I was particularly struck by the last couple of paragraphs, which suggest that maybe it was written in the 1950s and has been lost in the post... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/09/a_letter_to_the_times.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/09/a_letter_to_the_times.shtml Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:44:34 +0000 When Maynard Ferguson died I was one of what must have been hundreds of radio presenters who paid tribute to his remarkable abilities and considerable achievements. His approach to band-lelding had been consistently adventurous and his playing routinely displayed a... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/09/lipshtick.shtml https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/jazz/2006/09/lipshtick.shtml Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:10:51 +0000