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"Music is an adventure, for both its creators and its listeners. I'd like to think of 'Jazz Up Late' as a musical adventure - and like any adventure, it might range from the sublime to the hair-raising. I'll be exploring contemporary jazz at home and from around the world as well as looking at emerging trends and how the music of other cultures and genres are currently influencing jazz.
The A to Z of jazz fascinates me, no matter which period in its history it comes from...Louis Armstrong's clarion trumpet from the '20s still gives me goose bumps...and then there's the exhilarating rush that John Zorn's confronting and ferocious 'Painkiller' induces, with so much in between!
'Jazz Up Late' has been created to complement Mal Stanley's 'Jazztrack', to appeal to avid fans of the music and the 'jazz curious' alike and to explore the world of jazz beyond 'Jazztrack'.
It's been said that jazz is 'the sound of surprise', I'm certainly still finding it so...and I hope that you will too, on 'Jazz Up Late'."
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This week we'll hear another selection from the Complete On The Corner Sessions from Miles Davis and pay tribute to the recently departed Prince Lasha.
Recent releases from shakuhachi specialist Brian Tairaku Ritchie and trumpeter Arve Henricksen will also be featured, and more...
This week we'll be dipping into the recently released collection of Miles Davis' complete "On The Corner" sessions - a quite substantial six CD set of electric jazz funk.
Bob Downes returns with more music from his South American travels inpsired, previously unissued recording, "Crossing Borders" from the late '70s, and we'll also hear more music from Keith Tippett - this time from his Tapestry Orchestra, recorded in concert in Les Mans, France in 1998 and only just now released.
And more...
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Music played on Jazz Up Late on January 2 | December 26 | 19 | 12 | For earlier dates, start at the index of Archived Music Details.
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