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Unclassified  with Elizabeth Alker                               
Jazz J to Z
Late Junction with Jennifer Lucy Allen  and Verity Sharp
Jazz Records Request
Freeness

Late Junction

Jennifer is always listening for lost voices to bring back into the light.



Jennifer Lucy Allan is driven by a hunger to hear something she hasn’t heard before. This hunger has led to curious places, not least making her a doctor of foghorns. Chasing an obsession with this massive coastal sound, she has written a PhD on the subject at UAL, which she is now turning into a book for a UK publisher. When she’s not doing this she is getting stuck in elsewhere, usually writing about music, but also singing with Laura Cannell; teaching workshops on music writing, hosting talks, curating events, occasionally DJing, and now, presenting Late Junction.

She has mainly been a music writer for over a decade, writing almost exclusively about underground, experimental and avant-garde sounds. She spent some years as the The Wire’s Online Editor, and is a regular freelancer for various publications. Resulting excesses of lost and found music also led to her starting a record label with James Ginzburg (Multiverse) in 2013, to make important records available again, with a catalogue that includes Finnish jazz, extended vocal technique, and early electronic music. She’s now also started a second, Good Energy, with Kevin McCarvel (Nyali Recordings) to release missives from the Scottish underground.

Whether she’s flicking through crates in record shops, excavating the forgotten corners of the internet, or scouring vast archives for traces of sound, she’s always listening for lost voices to bring back into the light.

Laura Cannell - Untethered

The Soft Pink Truth - Shall

Meredith Monk - Nightfall

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Late Junction #2

Verity Sharo grew up surrounded by chickens, sheep and horses on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset – a countryside setting which, combined with daily rides and regular family walks, fostered her dreams of becoming a vet from an early age. Fortunately, for us, she decided to pursue her other great love - music.



After graduating from The University of York, where she nurtured her interest in classical cello, and fiddle (and her burgeoning interest in the wider world of musical possibilities), Verity produced and anchored Pebble Mill’s Music Machine programme before going on to front BBC2’s Culture Show. She’s a familiar face of the Proms and one of the founding voices of Late Junction. She’s has also recorded TV documentaries and is the voice you might recognise in the audio guides for the British Museum and Tate Modern.

Yet, despite enjoying the buzz of city life, the need to be surrounded by the countryside has never left her,. When not leafing through a hefty music collection, Verity finds nourishment in the naked landscapes and ancient monuments of Wiltshire. In 2012, she completed her RHS Diploma in Horticulture, and when not gracing the airwaves with her dulcet tones, her interest in botany and horticulture finds her making a haven for wildlife in her very own garden.

Masahiko Sato - Take It Easy

Marja Ahti - Lost Lake

Angel Bat Dawid - Transition East

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New Music Show - Zorn

NMS is another contemporary music show on BBC Radio 3. Another reason to love the Beeb.

This was one of the recent programmes -

New Music Show: Tom Service introduces the latest sounds in new music. The show tonight includes Unsuk Chin's Le Silence des Sirènes, a scene for soprano and orchestra based on the Greek myth of the sirens who lured sailors to their destruction in the depths of the sea with their singing - with texts from Homer’s Odyssey, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Franz Kafka. There are also tracks from John Zorn's latest album 'Calculus,' and Christian Kobi's 'Cathedral, "a pure, dramatic, and vague exhalation in an empty space," that space being a vast underground former warehouse in Switzerland. Plus a reflection from Jacob ter Veldhuis on William Blake's poem, 'The Garden Of Love.

John Zorn ‎– Calculus

[00:00] 1. The Ghost of Departed Quantities
[22:21] 2. Parabolas

John Zorn - composer, arranger, producer
Brian Marsella - piano
Trevor Dunn - bass
Kenny Wollesen - drums
Kazunori Sugiyama - associate producer
Ryan Streber - recording engineer, mixer
Scott Hull - mastering

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BBC R3 Freeness

Unclassifiable free music and jazz programmes on BBC Radio 3 - home to classical music - based on improv, noise, free jazz,jazz etc.





Musician and composer Kim Macari sits in the presenter chair for the first of two shows. Featuring music that likes to ask hard questions, break rules and follow its own path. Including the pianist Vijay Iyer’s project with the MC/poet Mike Ladd which voices the dreams of American veterans returning from war, improvisations for radio by John Cage and David Tudor, and new music from the Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma.

Originally from Fife and now based in London, Kim’s artistic work includes her quartet Family Band, solo trumpet, spoken word and an exploration of graphic scores. She is also a programmer for the Vortex Jazz Club in north London and an artist-activist often appearing as a speaker on topics including gender politics in the arts, political art and national identity.


Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd - Rentals

Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra - Throughout

Omri Ziegele Where's Africa Trio - Rare Bird

Tim Berne - Geez (For Craig)

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The Listening Service

Another fascinating BBC Radio 3 programme for music is this one -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qcyxw

Guess that's why they call it the Blues
The Listening Service

We all think we know what 'The Blues' means - whether it's feeling down in the dumps or a musical genre that links Muddy Waters through to The Rolling Stones.

But what is it really? What makes The Blues the Blues? And where did it come from? Tom Service is joined by jazz pianist Julian Joseph to discover its earliest African-American origins right up to current-day Blues music and its influence on classical musicians.

Whether we're talking Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, classical composers using 'Blue' notes or that feeling of melancholy - the Blues has often found its way onto the concert stage too. Tom looks back across classical music history to find that actually music has had a bad case of the blues for many centuries.

Igor Stravinsky - Ebony Concerto

Igor Stravinsky composed his Ebony Concerto in 1945 for Woody Herman and his band. This version features Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Jazz Band with Benny Goodman as the soloist in the mid 1960s.

Bessie Smith - A Good Man is Hard to Find

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime

Robert Johnson - Kind Hearted Woman Blues

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More Blue Notes

More blue notes through time -

Claudio Monteverdi - Lamento della ninfa

Lamento di Ninfa (The Nymph's Lament), Part II

from Monteverdi's 8th Book of Madrigals
Madrigali dei guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)

John Dowland - Flow My Tears

Henry Purcell - When I am laid in earth ( Didos Lament & End)

Charley Patton - Revenue Man Blues

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Poems Of The Week

The Sparrow
by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906







A little bird, with plumage brown,
Beside my window flutters down,
A moment chirps its little strain,
Ten taps upon my window–pane,
And chirps again, and hops along,
To call my notice to its song;
But I work on, nor heed its lay,
Till, in neglect, it flies away.

So birds of peace and hope and love
Come fluttering earthward from above,
To settle on life’s window–sills,
And ease our load of earthly ills;
But we, in traffic’s rush and din
Too deep engaged to let them in,
With deadened heart and sense plod on,
Nor know our loss till they are gone.



Flying
by Sarah Arvio

One said to me tonight or was it day
or was it the passage between the two,
"It's hard to remember, crossing time zones,

the structure of the hours you left behind.
Are they sleeping or are they eating sweets,
and are they wanting me to phone them now?"

"In the face of technological fact,
even the most seasoned traveler feels
the baffled sense that nowhere else exists."

"It's the moving resistance of the air
as you hurtle too fast against the hours
that stuns the cells and tissues of the brain."

"The dry cabin air, the cramped rows of seats,
the steward passing pillows, pouring drinks,
and the sudden ridges of turbulence. . ."

"Oh yes, the crossing is always a trial,
despite precautions: drink water, don't smoke,
and take measured doses of midday sun,

whether an ordinary business flight
or a prayer at a pleasure altar. . .
for moments or hours the earth out of sight,

the white cumuli dreaming there below,
warm fronts and cold fronts streaming through the sky,
the mesmerizing rose-and-purple glow."

"So did you leave your home à contrecoeur?
Did you leave a life? Did you leave a love?
Are you out here looking for another?

Some want so much to cross, to go away,
somewhere anywhere & begin again,
others can't endure the separation. . ."

One night, the skyline as I left New York
was a garden of neon flowerbursts--
the celebration of a history.

When ....