Results for "Colosseum"

Colosseum

Charles Mingus, Victor Feldman, and Chris McGregor

by Jerome Wilson
February 19, 2025

I was not able to do a live show last week so here is an old show from December 2020 that featured Charles Mingus, Brian Lynch, Gary Burton, Victor Feldman, and Chris McGregor. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill ...

Ellie Lee, Jenny Scheinman, and Alden Hellmuth

by Jerome Wilson
December 4, 2024

This show features recent music from Ellie Lee, Jenny Scheinman, and Alden Hellmuth. It also contains a set of British jazz/blues artists such as Graham Bond and Blodwyn Pig. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 ...

A Blues Spectacular

by Jerome Wilson
July 10, 2024

In a change from this show's usual format, this episode investigates the blues in many different forms. There are jump blues, British blues, acoustic blues, female blues singers, and much more. Artists featured on the show include Jimmy Rushing, Josh White, James Blood Ulmer, Ernie Andrews, Lil Green, and Jeff Beck. Playlist Henry Threadgill ...

John Mayall: The First Generation 1965-1974

by Maurizio Comandini
August 8, 2022

Se gli inglesi hanno soprannominato “The Godfather of the British Blues" l'imperturbabile John Mayall una ragione ci sarà... La malavita non c'entra nulla, per fortuna, ma c'entra tantissimo la buona musica e la capacità di organizzarla partendo da zero, o quasi. John Mayall è nato a Macclesfield, il 29 novembre del 1933. ...

Many Shades of Blues

by Jerome Wilson
April 22, 2022

This special episode deals with all manners of blues: piano blues, jump blues, harmonica blues, British blues, blues singers and more. Artists heard on the show go all the way from Memphis Slim and Big Mama Thornton to Cecile McLorin Salvant and The Microscopic Septet. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I ...

Jazz in Britain: The Back Story

by Chris May
April 25, 2021

Jazz In Britain is a not-for-profit label that curates and releases previously unissued studio, performance and broadcast recordings made in the mid-1960s and '70s by the movers and shakers of the contemporary British jazz scene—proving along the way that the radical new wave jazz emanating from London in 2021 comes from a distinguished lineage.

Group Sounds Four & Five: Black & White Raga

by Chris May
January 31, 2021

So seismic were the eruptions of British pop and rock in the mid 1960s, along with the effusive chronicling which accompanied them, that the parallel fecundity of the country's jazz scene was widely overlooked then and has been largely forgotten since. Contemporary media coverage was practically non-existent except on those occasions when a musician got busted. ...

Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 2

by Duncan Heining
January 26, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 1966 was an important year in British popular music. Bob Dylan, performing with the Hawks, was booed for “going electric" at Manchester Free Trade Hall. The Rolling Stones topped the charts for the first time with “Paint It Black." The Beatles, fresh from the John Lennon “Bigger than Jesus" ...

Yazz Ahmed & The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra

by Chris May
November 30, 2019

Yazz Ahmed / The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra / Scott Stroman Milton Court Concert Hall Yazz Ahmed & The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra London November 27, 2019 Performances by student orchestras rarely qualify as must-see events. Audiences tend to be composed of fellow students and friends and ...