What radio are you listening to right now?

[BillF]

Smooth Jazz channel on SKY.fm

"Blues for Rupert"?

[Serioza]

Smooth Jazz channel on SKY.fm

"Blues for Rupert"?

here is playlist

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Now playing: S K Y . F M - Absolutely Smooth Jazz - the world's smoothest jazz 24 hours a day

via FoxyTunes

[BillF]

Archived radio from oscartreadwell.com.

Now playing: Muddy Waters Blues Band, "Louisiana Blues".

[Bright Moments]

[BillF]

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS.

Now playing: Art Pepper, "Donna Lee" from Art Pepper: A Tribute to Charlie Parker.

[Serioza]

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Now playing:KCSM Jazz 91 * The Bay Area's Jazz Station

Edited February 3, 2009 by Serioza

[BillF]

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3.

Now playing: Dexter Gordon, "Cheese Cake" from Go!

[A Lark Ascending]

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3.

Now playing: Dexter Gordon, "Cheese Cake" from Go!

Another good one. Pleased to hear Partisans at the end - the most convincing 'fusion' band of recent years.

[BillF]

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3.

Now playing: Dexter Gordon, "Cheese Cake" from Go!

Another good one. Pleased to hear Partisans at the end - the most convincing 'fusion' band of recent years.

Thought you'd like that one, Bev, when I heard it!

[A Lark Ascending]

Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3.

Now playing: Dexter Gordon, "Cheese Cake" from Go!

Another good one. Pleased to hear Partisans at the end - the most convincing 'fusion' band of recent years.

Thought you'd like that one, Bev, when I heard it!

The thing I love about JRR is that in the space of one hour you can hear the Partisans alongside Coleman Hawkins and Albert Nicholas. It's probabably done more to shape (or deconstruct!) my listening than any programme since John Peel in the early 70s!

How it has survived in the world of 'target' audiences is a miracle!

Edited February 7, 2009 by Bev Stapleton

[BillF]

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS.

Now playing: Buddy Montgomery, "In Walked Bud" from Mostly Monk.

Edited February 10, 2009 by BillF

[BillF]

Blues from WGBH.

Now playing: Magic Sam in Chicago in 1966.

[BillF]

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3.

Today's subject: Art Farmer.

[jazzbo]

What radio am I listening to now? The one in the bedroom. It's the only one in the house! An alarm clock.

[A Lark Ascending]

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3.

Today's subject: Art Farmer.

Nice programme.

And you have to hand it to Geoffrey Smith for ending the subsequent JRR Valentine Special with Eric Dolphy's 'Straight Up and Down'.

[BillF]

Jazz Library from BBC Radio 3.

Today's subject: Art Farmer.

Nice programme.

And you have to hand it to Geoffrey Smith for ending the subsequent JRR Valentine Special with Eric Dolphy's 'Straight Up and Down'.

I heard that one at the end, but will have to catch up with the rest of the programme online tomorrow.

[BillF]

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS.

Now playing: Carl Saunders, "Ow" from The Lost Bill Holman Charts (MAMA)

[Royal Oak]

Been listening to BBC Radio 3 lately (in the car). I tuned in only because I don't have a CD player, I can't have pop/rock radio at any price, and Classic FM has too many ads and the unspeakable Simon Bates presenting during the morning commute.

I've really been enjoying the absence of ads, the distinctly low-key approach of the presenters, and have enjoyed some of the music I've heard, most of which I'd never heard before.

Anyway, this morning, out of nowhere, they played a Teddy Wilson trio playing a gorgeous version of "Sweet Lorraine". Then, on my way to the supermarket this evening, I heard Wes Montgomery playing "D Natural Blues" from "The Incredible Jazz Guitar".

Edited February 17, 2009 by rdavenport

[BillF]

I heard Wes Montgomery playing "D Natural Blues" from "The Incredible Jazz Guitar".

Can't get much better than that!

[Royal Oak]

I heard Wes Montgomery playing "D Natural Blues" from "The Incredible Jazz Guitar".

Can't get much better than that!

Yes, I haven't heard it in so long (had it on vinyl, which was donated to my sister when my turntable died in the mid-90s) it sent shivers down my spine. Is this a new thing for Radio 3, sticking jazz in the middle of their regular programming?

[BillF]

I heard Wes Montgomery playing "D Natural Blues" from "The Incredible Jazz Guitar".

Can't get much better than that!

Yes, I haven't heard it in so long (had it on vinyl, which was donated to my sister when my turntable died in the mid-90s) it sent shivers down my spine. Is this a new thing for Radio 3, sticking jazz in the middle of their regular programming?

Can't keep track of Radio 3's jazz programming; it's always changing. One thing is certain: it's likely at any moment to be peremptorily swept aside by the BBC old guard which is clearly uneasy about anything that doesn't fit with European middle-class cultural dominance. Opera Rules, you know! At the moment I listen to a two-hour block from 4 to 6 on Saturday (available later online, if you prefer.) Jazz Library is first with the excellent Alyn Shipton (last week's subject, Art Farmer; this week's, Gene Krupa), then Jazz Record Requests follows with an intriguing selection of stuff that's likely to run from Jimmy Yancey to Brad Meldhau!

[Royal Oak]

I heard Wes Montgomery playing "D Natural Blues" from "The Incredible Jazz Guitar".

Can't get much better than that!

Yes, I haven't heard it in so long (had it on vinyl, which was donated to my sister when my turntable died in the mid-90s) it sent shivers down my spine. Is this a new thing for Radio 3, sticking jazz in the middle of their regular programming?

Can't keep track of Radio 3's jazz programming; it's always changing. One thing is certain: it's likely at any moment to be peremptorily swept aside by the BBC old guard which is clearly uneasy about anything that doesn't fit with European middle-class cultural dominance. Opera Rules, you know! At the moment I listen to a two-hour block from 4 to 6 on Saturday (available later online, if you prefer.) Jazz Library is first with the excellent Alyn Shipton (last week's subject, Art Farmer; this week's, Gene Krupa), then Jazz Record Requests follows with an intriguing selection of stuff that's likely to run from Jimmy Yancey to Brad Meldhau!

I rarely listen to JRR; Saturdays are too busy and I never get around to "listen again". I've listened to a couple "Jazz Library" programmes (Monk and Horace Silver as I recall).

I have little knowledge of what I hear at other times. I tend to prefer solo piano or quiet string quartet music, though I enjoyed Bartok's "The Miraculous Mandarin" yesterday lunchtime.

Opera, though, I hate. Especially comic opera - who likes that stuff? It's THE stiffest, most upper-middle class, amateur dramatic society, whimsical horseshit.

Edited February 18, 2009 by rdavenport

[BillF]

It's THE stiffest, most upper-middle class, amateur dramatic society, whimsical horseshit.

Well said, Richard!

[Serioza]

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Now playing: S K Y . F M - Solo Piano - Musical journeys with piano masters and talented undiscovered pianists

[A Lark Ascending]

Opera, though, I hate. Especially comic opera - who likes that stuff? It's THE stiffest, most upper-middle class, amateur dramatic society, whimsical horseshit.

I do...and I'm first generation, nouveaux lower-to-middling middle class!

Can't cope with G+S, have to suspend my disbelief at the plots and the exaggerated nature of the singing in most opera. Hate the ritual that surrounds it (especially the ripple of gentile laughter at a weak joke that everyone has heard a million times before).

But if you can get past that, there's some wonderful music and powerful drama in Britten, Janacek, Berg, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss and so on.

Though I wholly agree that opera is disproportionately favoured both by the Beeb and the Arts Council. Strong cultural prejudices there (was it John Tusa who once said that the whining of jazz fans about their music being underrepresented should be ignored?).