Top Tip Jazz 625 , BBC Four Avoid.
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Tonight as part of WDR Leverkusener Jazztage 2025 coverage is Fergus McCreadie 
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The Jazz 625 compilation has been put back to early tomorrow morning due to the addition of a tribute to Sonny Rollins recorded at Ronnie Scotts in 1974.
There is also a collaboration on Radio 3 Late Junction marking 100 years of Miles Davis.
It will be a long night!
There is also a collaboration on Radio 3 Late Junction marking 100 years of Miles Davis.
It will be a long night!
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This afternoon on Radio 3
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Mark Radcliffe's Nature Ramblings
In the second part of Mark Radcliffe's Nature Ramblings, he features music inspired by mountains, including Grieg, Liszt, Mussorgsky and Hawkwind.
IIRC Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill is hommage to a 'grillomat' in Notting Hill Gate where they used to get fried spam on toast for breakfast.
That was possibly where they got the name Hawkwind, which would have made them eligible for the previous weeks programme about birds and their song . . .
Tonight on arte is an edition of Ground Control with Los Bitchos and The Fat White Family with their song "I Am Mark E Smith".
BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Mark Radcliffe's Nature Ramblings, Mountains
In this week's Nature Ramblings, Mark Radcliffe features music inspired by mountains.
Mark Radcliffe's Nature Ramblings
In the second part of Mark Radcliffe's Nature Ramblings, he features music inspired by mountains, including Grieg, Liszt, Mussorgsky and Hawkwind.
IIRC Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill is hommage to a 'grillomat' in Notting Hill Gate where they used to get fried spam on toast for breakfast.
That was possibly where they got the name Hawkwind, which would have made them eligible for the previous weeks programme about birds and their song . . .
Tonight on arte is an edition of Ground Control with Los Bitchos and The Fat White Family with their song "I Am Mark E Smith".
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By coincidence I picked up a few Chris Barber LPs during the week
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A few more days left to watch the recent jazz programmes on BBC Four.
When I watched Sonny Rollins live, I remembered that there was another programme that was originally shown with it. A quick seach and I found it, it was called Sonny Rollins Beyond The Notes. I have no idea why they did not show this. They had shown Cleo Laine recently so they could easily have dropped it and shown the Sonny Rollins documentary with the live performance. More barmyness from the BBC.
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The restoration of the Jazz 625 performances on the compilation is good so I wonder yet again why they don't show the programmes.
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Now they are showing the companion programme Music 625 on Sunday featuring Igor Stravinsky conducting his own work, Variations in Memory of Aldous Huxley and The Firebird Suite. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. Stravinsky conducting his own work and the connection to Aldous Huxley are both excellent reasons to show it again. Amazingly it was only shown once in 1965. That's hard to believe.
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But, being the new BBC, there is some crack pipe level wackyness here. By chance I discovered it is being shown as a tribute to Brian Large!
Nothing wrong with having a tribute but this programme should have been repeated years ago and more than once. It is not clear if there will be an onscreen tribute, in the past the BBC has shown programmes as tributes without mentioning the tribute on air!
Looking on the bright side, rbb is showing Berliner Philharmoniker live on Saturday (playing Pini di Roma), 3Sat has some more classical and rock shows, SWR Big Band has some shows in July on SWR and Radio Bremen, sunday night jazz is weekly on ARD alpha, arte has put Hellfest on their site and death metal is back on WDR. So much for the wonderful BBC.
When I watched Sonny Rollins live, I remembered that there was another programme that was originally shown with it. A quick seach and I found it, it was called Sonny Rollins Beyond The Notes. I have no idea why they did not show this. They had shown Cleo Laine recently so they could easily have dropped it and shown the Sonny Rollins documentary with the live performance. More barmyness from the BBC.
BBC Four - Arena, Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!
Newly discovered film footage of tenor sax legend Sonny Rollins at Ronnie Scott's in 1974.
BBC Four - Arena, Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
Documentary about the saxophonist Sonny Rollins, built around his 80th birthday concert.
The restoration of the Jazz 625 performances on the compilation is good so I wonder yet again why they don't show the programmes.
BBC Four - Jazz 625 at the BBC
With Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery and many more.
Now they are showing the companion programme Music 625 on Sunday featuring Igor Stravinsky conducting his own work, Variations in Memory of Aldous Huxley and The Firebird Suite. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. Stravinsky conducting his own work and the connection to Aldous Huxley are both excellent reasons to show it again. Amazingly it was only shown once in 1965. That's hard to believe.
BBC Two - Music 625: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra in performances of his own work.
But, being the new BBC, there is some crack pipe level wackyness here. By chance I discovered it is being shown as a tribute to Brian Large!
Tribute to Brian Large
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Nothing wrong with having a tribute but this programme should have been repeated years ago and more than once. It is not clear if there will be an onscreen tribute, in the past the BBC has shown programmes as tributes without mentioning the tribute on air!
Looking on the bright side, rbb is showing Berliner Philharmoniker live on Saturday (playing Pini di Roma), 3Sat has some more classical and rock shows, SWR Big Band has some shows in July on SWR and Radio Bremen, sunday night jazz is weekly on ARD alpha, arte has put Hellfest on their site and death metal is back on WDR. So much for the wonderful BBC.
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After writing the previous post, I noticed this
promising an unmissable summer of music on the BBC. No jazz or metal in there, most of it is bland boring crap. Some of this has been previously announced. A lot of it is typical radio stuff, nothing to do with summer. There has been loads of stuff on Bowie in Berlin recently so why there is yet more of it? The Jamal thing looks like propaganda being passed off as fact. There is not much of an effort to promote contemporary British music across as many genres as possible.
There is mention of some live sets but no details and no link. Its not even clear if it is audio or video or both. We will be half way through summer in a couple of weeks. Where is it and what is it? Is it like some kind of Easter egg hunt?!
Glastonbury on the iPlayer is just as wacky. What is the Glastonbury channel? It does not say. There is no link. Is it the sets already available or is it other stuff? If it is other stuff and I have to go to work can I watch it later? No idea from this, there is nothing on the iPlayer page. Not very competent. Remember, we are paying for this, and all we get here is incompetence.
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The weird choice of Glastonbury sets on iPlayer is yet another example of the wacky crack pipe level being reached at the BBC. It is obviously what they and their m8s like. For all their going on about representiveness and diversity the hypocrisy here is shocking.
Obviously anyone who lives in the real world would know there is a fallow year coming up and would have agreed with the festival and artists to show the sets on iPlayer in 2025 and 2026. This would avoid favouritism by supporting British music across all genres and generate goodwill for the BBC by giving viewers what they have paid for.
But anyone with sense who has to make a selection and who wants to provide a public service would take the top 3 streams from each stage and add some more to make sure all genres are represented. Also add anyone who has won awards after their Glastonbury 2025 performance. What they have actually done reminds us how far BBC Music has fallen and just how totally full of shit these moronic incompetent hypocritical fartheads are. . .
BBC to bring audiences an unmissable summer of music
Charli xcx, Sam Smith, Foo Fighters and many others announced
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promising an unmissable summer of music on the BBC. No jazz or metal in there, most of it is bland boring crap. Some of this has been previously announced. A lot of it is typical radio stuff, nothing to do with summer. There has been loads of stuff on Bowie in Berlin recently so why there is yet more of it? The Jamal thing looks like propaganda being passed off as fact. There is not much of an effort to promote contemporary British music across as many genres as possible.
There is mention of some live sets but no details and no link. Its not even clear if it is audio or video or both. We will be half way through summer in a couple of weeks. Where is it and what is it? Is it like some kind of Easter egg hunt?!
Glastonbury on the iPlayer is just as wacky. What is the Glastonbury channel? It does not say. There is no link. Is it the sets already available or is it other stuff? If it is other stuff and I have to go to work can I watch it later? No idea from this, there is nothing on the iPlayer page. Not very competent. Remember, we are paying for this, and all we get here is incompetence.
Glastonbury
No Glastonbury this summer? No problem! Relive unforgettable performances and iconic moments from the world's most famous music festival.
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BBC Sounds - Glastonbury - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Glastonbury on BBC Sounds.
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The weird choice of Glastonbury sets on iPlayer is yet another example of the wacky crack pipe level being reached at the BBC. It is obviously what they and their m8s like. For all their going on about representiveness and diversity the hypocrisy here is shocking.
Obviously anyone who lives in the real world would know there is a fallow year coming up and would have agreed with the festival and artists to show the sets on iPlayer in 2025 and 2026. This would avoid favouritism by supporting British music across all genres and generate goodwill for the BBC by giving viewers what they have paid for.
But anyone with sense who has to make a selection and who wants to provide a public service would take the top 3 streams from each stage and add some more to make sure all genres are represented. Also add anyone who has won awards after their Glastonbury 2025 performance. What they have actually done reminds us how far BBC Music has fallen and just how totally full of shit these moronic incompetent hypocritical fartheads are. . .
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I was listening to BBC Radio 3's Jazz Record Requests some weeks ago with Alyn Shipton, The first record played was announced as Clifford Brown's Joy Spring (an all-time favourite of mine). Only that wasn't what we heard - it was Woody Herman's Greasy Sack Blues. The two were transposed in the running list, supposably not by Alyn himself. No mention of the error by Alyn in the next or following weeks.
They were still played in that order online for some time, perhaps until listen again for that episode ceased.
They were still played in that order online for some time, perhaps until listen again for that episode ceased.
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Sounds like Shipton recorded his audio sections one after another and then the music sections were inserted by a computer if he didn't make any reference to it at the time. I've heard this sort of thing before on other stations where the host's patter becomes disconnected from the music we hear.
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I have come across such mistakes before but they seem to be very rare on the BBC.
Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests is a good programme, particularly for young people new to jazz.
Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests is a good programme, particularly for young people new to jazz.
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The BBC is leaving BBC Maida Vale music studio for an expensive purpose built music studio in Stratford, in what was the 2012 Olympic park in East Babyloondon.
The BBC had intended to build a brand new building in White City behind the old Television Center in Shepherds Bush. White City would be much better than Stratford because it is quiet and just off the M4 making it easy to get to from around the country. Bands and orchestras carry instruments and equipment with them and in White City there is enough space to expand car, van and coach parking.
Stratford is a shithole full of rubbish, noise and drug addled loons
To get there with instruments and equipment performers would have to drive, potentially for hours at snails pace, through congested London streets and there isn't much parking there or space to expand it.
The New Music Show on Radio 3 has a 2 part programme bidding farewell to Maida Vale studios.
The Radiophonic Workshop was based in Maida Vale so part one has a radiophonic style piece using recordings of the sounds made during a typical day in the building.
24:30 Sasha Scott
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There is a tribute to all the sessions The Fall did over the decades, featuring the lyrics of Mark E Smith.
1:03:50 The Fall
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The presenter Tom Service mentioned the online Maida Vale Studios history page, the URL is
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I wonder if the dummy in the video tour was used for binaural recording.
'Round Midnight had a good tribute to Sonny Rollins.
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The BBC had intended to build a brand new building in White City behind the old Television Center in Shepherds Bush. White City would be much better than Stratford because it is quiet and just off the M4 making it easy to get to from around the country. Bands and orchestras carry instruments and equipment with them and in White City there is enough space to expand car, van and coach parking.
Stratford is a shithole full of rubbish, noise and drug addled loons
To get there with instruments and equipment performers would have to drive, potentially for hours at snails pace, through congested London streets and there isn't much parking there or space to expand it.The New Music Show on Radio 3 has a 2 part programme bidding farewell to Maida Vale studios.
The Radiophonic Workshop was based in Maida Vale so part one has a radiophonic style piece using recordings of the sounds made during a typical day in the building.
24:30 Sasha Scott
New Music Show - Farewell to Maida Vale (1/2) - BBC Sounds
Apartment House with a special performance at BBC Maida Vale.
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There is a tribute to all the sessions The Fall did over the decades, featuring the lyrics of Mark E Smith.
1:03:50 The Fall
New Music Show - Farewell to Maida Vale (1/2) - BBC Sounds
Apartment House with a special performance at BBC Maida Vale.
www.bbc.co.uk
The presenter Tom Service mentioned the online Maida Vale Studios history page, the URL is
www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc
I wonder if the dummy in the video tour was used for binaural recording.
'Round Midnight had a good tribute to Sonny Rollins.
'Round Midnight - Sonny Rollins in tribute - BBC Sounds
Soweto pays tribute to the late saxophonist, one of the most influential figures in jazz.
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'Round Midnight - Stratospheric sounds from Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band - BBC Sounds
Soweto shares a new track from the Leeds-based raucous experimental jazz ensemble.
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The Proms started earlier today.
One good thing is that the AC3 bitrate was doubled back in March. Though it took them three goes to make it stick. I instantly heard the difference and was disappointed each time it briefly switched back! This evenings broadcast was great. AFAIK ACC is unchanged for now for those stuck with DTT. Hopefully one day they they will offer FLAC streams again, they were good while they lasted (especially for the lucky gits with huge electrostatic speakers, though the double bitrate AC3 will keep them happy).
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But there is too much carp in the Proms schedules this year, too much stuff that should be on Radio 2. A few weeks ago they even had a musical tribute to The Archers, the radio equivalent of Crossroads
That should have been on Radio 2 or just shoved in the bin.
There is a prom dedicated to British prog rock on Saturday (hours from now) which will also be on BBC Four next Friday. Sadly this has an American title and some American stuff added, and doesn't have enough variety of bands because it is about 45 minutes too short, and yet they managed to keep the Northern Soul prom and The Great American Songbook proms all American and last for longer, so it makes me think this is more about making sales in America than celebrating British prog rock . . . . . . . . .
One good thing is that the AC3 bitrate was doubled back in March. Though it took them three goes to make it stick. I instantly heard the difference and was disappointed each time it briefly switched back! This evenings broadcast was great. AFAIK ACC is unchanged for now for those stuck with DTT. Hopefully one day they they will offer FLAC streams again, they were good while they lasted (especially for the lucky gits with huge electrostatic speakers, though the double bitrate AC3 will keep them happy).
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
But there is too much carp in the Proms schedules this year, too much stuff that should be on Radio 2. A few weeks ago they even had a musical tribute to The Archers, the radio equivalent of Crossroads
That should have been on Radio 2 or just shoved in the bin.There is a prom dedicated to British prog rock on Saturday (hours from now) which will also be on BBC Four next Friday. Sadly this has an American title and some American stuff added, and doesn't have enough variety of bands because it is about 45 minutes too short, and yet they managed to keep the Northern Soul prom and The Great American Songbook proms all American and last for longer, so it makes me think this is more about making sales in America than celebrating British prog rock . . . . . . . . .
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Prog evening on BBC Four tonight.
The prom had an awful sound mix with the vocals drowning out the diabolical orchestra. Hopefully it will have been improved for tonight's broadcast.
The BBC Concert Orchestra (responsible for the abominable Friday Night Is Music Night that should be shunted back to Radio Two) sounded like they were on valium. They made the Prom sound like a pub covers band who had a few too many to wash down the valium. Peaches en Regalia and And You And I medley stood out as awful dull plodding.
They were so bad it was surprising they didn't have Quasimodo tap dancing to Tubular Bells to distract the audience.
It is a pity it wasn't longer, they could have squeezed in a Neon Neon song as a more recent prog song from a concept album. . .
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The prom had an awful sound mix with the vocals drowning out the diabolical orchestra. Hopefully it will have been improved for tonight's broadcast.
The BBC Concert Orchestra (responsible for the abominable Friday Night Is Music Night that should be shunted back to Radio Two) sounded like they were on valium. They made the Prom sound like a pub covers band who had a few too many to wash down the valium. Peaches en Regalia and And You And I medley stood out as awful dull plodding.
They were so bad it was surprising they didn't have Quasimodo tap dancing to Tubular Bells to distract the audience.
It is a pity it wasn't longer, they could have squeezed in a Neon Neon song as a more recent prog song from a concept album. . .
Don't forget to order a case of buckie for Belladrum next week...