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| Art Blakey, Jazz Messenger | ...JEZ NELSON explores the musical journey of drummer and bandleader, Art Blakey.... |
| Big Bang | ...JEZ NELSON returns with the six-part series that takes a walk on the wilder side of science.... |
| Bob Belden's Bitches Brew | ...JEZ NELSON presents music from saxophonist Bob Belden and his group Animation (Tim Hagans, Scott Kinsey, Matt Garrison and Guy Licata) as they 'resynthesize' selections from Miles Davis's classic 'Bitches Brew' album.... |
| Chameleon - The Herbie Hancock Story | ...JEZ NELSON presents a 4-part series profiling one of Jazz's greatest living superstars, pianist and composer, Herbie Hancock.... |
| Don Cherry - Old And New Dreams | ...Marking ten years since his death, JEZ NELSON revisits the work of avant-garde leader, mullti-instrumentalist and trumpeter Don Cherry. Renowned as the first great free jazz trumpeter, Cherry's lineage stretches from Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker right up through Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and the moderns like Dave Douglas and Wynton Marsalis.... |
| Final Frontier, The | Cast and Crew |
| Final Frontier | ...JEZ NELSON journeys beyond our solar system into interstellar space to explo-... |
| Frontiers | ...`End of the World'. How will the world end? Will we roast ourselves inside a shroud of greenhouse gases? Will we be cut down by a plague of super bugs? JEZ NELSON asks the experts.... |
| Hotlinks | ...JEZ NELSON explores the latest in technological innovation.... |
| Hype Or Hypothesis | ...JEZ NELSON chairs four lively discussions on science and society.... |
| Jazz File | ...Jazz File is the documentary strand of Radio 3's jazz programming. It covers aspects of jazz in-depth, presented by voices familiar to the network including JEZ NELSON, Alyn Shipton and Brian Morton.... |
| Jazz On 3 - Derek Bailey | ...JEZ NELSON presents a special tribute to a true great of British contemporary music, guitarist Derek Bailey, who died on Christmas Day.... |
| Jazz On 3 - John Zorn | ...JEZ NELSON presents maverick saxophonist, composer, improviser and producer John Zorn recorded in concert at the 2008 Willisau Festival in Switzerland. Since the early 1980s, Zorn has created music that consistently defies categorisation, from work with hardcore jazz-punk band Naked City to his highly prolific quartet Masada, which explores his Jewish heritage. Zorn has also written several independent film scores and runs record label Tzadik, dedicated to promoting underground experimental music.... |
| Jazz On 3 - London Jazz Festival 2006 | ...JEZ NELSON presents live music from Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded at the London Jazz Festival and talks to the master improvising saxophonist.... |
| Jazz On 3 - Tribute To Derek Bailey | ...JEZ NELSON presents a tribute to British improv guitarist Derek Bailey convened by saxophonist John Zorn and recorded at London's Barbican Centre. Musicians include drummer Milford Graves, electric bassist Bill Laswell, trombonist George Lewis and Zorn himself, together with the two other members of Bailey's seminal improvising outfit Joseph Holbrooke; Gavin Bryars (double bass) and Tony Oxley (drums).... |
| Jazz On 3 | ...JEZ NELSON presents a gig by renowned New Orleans trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, recorded this July at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London. Playing a set made up of tracks from his 2008 Grammy award-winning album A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) as well as new material, he is joined by Fabian Almazon on piano, saxophonist Brice Winston, bassist Derrick Hodge and Kendrick Scott on drums.... |
| Let Freedom Ring | ...JEZ NELSON presents a series about the remarkable albums the late jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded for the Blue Note label in the 1960s. The series of classic albums that McLean recorded for Blue Note between 1959 and 1967 (including the landmark LP, Let Freedom Ring) are his crowning achievement, and chart his move from a position as a journeyman to a key creator of the modern sound of jazz.... |
| London Jazz Festival Extra | ...JEZ NELSON presents a performance by Oregon given last week during the London Jazz Festival.... |
| Love Supreme, A | ...Marking forty years since it was released, JEZ NELSON profiles John Coltrane's legendary album a Love Supreme, looking at it from the perspective of the players, fans and those for whom the spiritual message of the album remains a profound influence in their daily lives.... |
| Mercury Prize [6 Music] | ...JEZ NELSON on why Antony and The Johnson's I Am A Bird Now is his favourite Mercury winner.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Presented by JEZ NELSON ... |
| Q & A | ...JEZ NELSON investigates.... |
| Shape Of Jazz Today, The | ...The programme seeks answers to some of modern jazz's most perplexing questions, ones that animate jazz fans in clubs the world over. What is the state of jazz music today? Where are its top practitioners heading, musically and philosophically? And - perhaps most importantly - are they getting it right? Each week, JEZ NELSON introduces one heavyweight jazz thinker, and invites them to put forth their expert - and often controversial - opinions on such matters, elucidating a unique perspective on the shape of jazz today.... |
| Significant Others | ...Occassional programmes where JEZ NELSON profiles the lesser known and under appreciated players.... |
| Songs From Saturn | ...In the first of four programmes telling the story of big band leader Sun Ra, JEZ NELSON remembers Ra's early days as a sideman in Fletcher Henderson's band. Including the first recordings of Ra's `Outer Space Arkestra'.... |
| Words And Music | ...... |
| World Is Falling Down - The Abbey Lincoln Story, The | ...JEZ NELSON presents the story one of the most formidable jazz vocalists of our age based around a rare and extensive interview with Abbey Lincoln.... |