Sat 16 April
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' personal music picks, including a classic jazz vocal version of Don't Fence Me In featuring singer Velma Middleton
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
In the show's regular Inside the Mind feature British-Asian bassist Shez Raja provides insights into his approach to music-making. And there's a live session from pianist and composer Alan Benzie, who in 2007 became Radio Scotland's first Young Jazz Musician of the Year
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith revisits some of Duke Ellington's most evocative compositions. Music includes pieces inspired by the Deep South, the Far East, Shakespeare and the Queen. Repeat
Mon 18 Apr
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents the Ralph Alessi Quartet and Weather Report drummer Peter Erskine
Also worthy of note:
Tues 19 Spr
11.00 Late Junction
Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings brings presenter Nick Luscombe some of the records he is listening to at the moment.
(But is he a vinyl freak??? - this is the burning question of the moment: see reports that youngsters of today are buying LPs, not to listen to the music, but to display on their bedroom walls! Now, in my day , it was... )
4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' personal music picks, including a classic jazz vocal version of Don't Fence Me In featuring singer Velma Middleton
5.00 Jazz Line-Up
In the show's regular Inside the Mind feature British-Asian bassist Shez Raja provides insights into his approach to music-making. And there's a live session from pianist and composer Alan Benzie, who in 2007 became Radio Scotland's first Young Jazz Musician of the Year
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith revisits some of Duke Ellington's most evocative compositions. Music includes pieces inspired by the Deep South, the Far East, Shakespeare and the Queen. Repeat
Mon 18 Apr
11.00 Jazz Now
Soweto Kinch presents the Ralph Alessi Quartet and Weather Report drummer Peter Erskine
Also worthy of note:
Tues 19 Spr
11.00 Late Junction
Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings brings presenter Nick Luscombe some of the records he is listening to at the moment.
(But is he a vinyl freak??? - this is the burning question of the moment: see reports that youngsters of today are buying LPs, not to listen to the music, but to display on their bedroom walls! Now, in my day , it was... )
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