Every week at 9:30 pm on Cosmic Jazz we let you know about music you can hear locally.  We have less time on the show now and so we’ll just announce the venue and the artist.  Remember – check the website for each venue to find out more.  We’ll show the first upcoming show at each venue.

If you’ve been to see jazz locally, write and tell us about it via the Comment facility below this list of venues and events.

Fleece Jazz at Stoke by Nayland Club
12 March – Nicholas Meier
Website: http://www.fleecejazz.co.uk
Phone: 01787 211865

Ipswich Jazz Club
21 March – Sue Richardson Quintet
Website: http://www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk
Phone: 01473 231552

Milestones Jazz Club, Lowestoft
04 April – Tommaso Starace Quartet
Website: http://www.milestonesjazzclub.co.uk/
Phone: 01502 568684

Segue Productions @ Lakeside Theatre, Colchester
currently no jazz gigs
Website: http://www.segue.org.uk/
Phone: 01206 825600

Colchester Arts Centre
28 March – Marlene Verplanck
Website: http://www.colchesterartscentre.com
Phone: 01206 500900

Cambridge Modern Jazz Club
12 March – Toni Kofi Quartet
Website: http://www.cambridgejazz.org
Phone: 01223 362550

Tonight’s show features new music from New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott whose latest CD has been produced by Blue Note icon Rudy van Gelder.  Scott is clearly fascinated by the jazz musicians who “in the 60s were completely intent on using their music to change things.”  The recording is certainly in the Blue Note tradition – crystal clear separation, tonal clarity and an organic soundscape – even if the music is contemporary in style.

We’ll also play a penultimate track from our featured album, Weather Report’s seminal Mysterious Traveller.

1. Christian Scott – K.K.P.D
2. Colin Steele – Lament for Miles
3. Miles in India project- Ife (Slow)
4. Freddie Hubbard – True Colours
5. Ambrose Akinmusire – Stablemates
6. Roy Hargrove – Afrodisia
7. Irakere – Chekere Son
8. Joe Henderson – Foregone Conclusion
9. Weather Report – Cucumber Slumber
10. Hank Mobley – Remember
11. John Coltrane – Welcome
12. Rodney Kendrick – We Need Mercy
13. Oliver Nelson – Stolen Moments (live)
14. Gerardo Frisina – Bluesanova

Welcome to this week’s show – now on Listen Again for a week as usual.  Sorry for the 6 second silence at 7:15 into the show – a little glitch we sorted out easily by pressing play again….

New music this week from Jose James and Gil Scott Heron, a rarity from Japan, the return of Andrew Hill and another track from our Weather Report classic Mysterious Traveller.

1. Lonnie Liston Smith – In Search of Truth
2. The Rhythmatic Orchestra – Tururatu
3. Jose James – Promise in Love
4. Motohiko Hino Quartet + 1 – Ryuhyo (Sailing Ice)
5. Charles Lloyd – Come Sunday
6. Gil Scott-Heron – I’ll Take Care of You
7. Donald Byrd – Slow Drag
8. Weather Report – Jungle Book
9. Andrew Hill – Passing Ships
10. Robert Glasper – Rise and Shine
11. Rodney Kendrick – Slide the World into Place
12. Miles Davis – Four
13. The Mike Westbrook Concert Band – Waltz (for Joanna)
14. Gary Burton and Chick Corea – Falling Grace

It was a special show tonight with our guest, musician and jazz fan Namorik (Roman Wagrodzki) who played an eclectic range of contemporary sounds – from Nils Petter Molvaer to Bugge Wesseltoft and Led Bib to Jimi Tenor.  We opened the show with the title track from our featured album, Weather Report’s seminal Mysterious Traveller and we closed with a nod back to our latin special last year.

But the rest of the programme was devoted to the musical choices of alto saxophonist Namorik who inspired us with a selection of tracks.  These covered a whole range of contemporary jazz styles from the improvising piano trio of Bartlomiej and Marcin Oles with Kenny Werner to the dance jazz of Bugge Wesseltoft.  It’s always exciting when we are introduced to new sounds and we look forward to a return visit from Namorik later in the year.

1. Weather Report – Mysterious Traveller
2. Oles/Werner/Oles – Good News
3. Michal Urbaniak – Urban Express
4. Urbanator – Cats
5. Yazzbot Mazut – Grube sciezki
6. Led Bib – Early Morning
7. Jari Perkiomaki – Voc Jazz
8. Jimi Tenor – Take the ‘S’ Train
9. Bugge Wesseltoft – Lone Live in Paris
10. Nils Petter Molvaer – Soft Moon Shine
11. Wolfgang Haffner – The Space in Between
12. Orlando Cachaito Lopez – Tumbao No. 5

Our featured video clip this week is from Poland’s Tomasz Stanko, recorded in 1976 with Finnish drummer Edward Vesala.  Contrast this with Stanko’s current, more lyrical style as featured in recent albums we’ve played on Cosmic Jazz.

In honour of the ongoing WGBH/BBC4 series Latin Music USA -  tonight is Our Latin Thing. If you missed the first two programmes in this four-part series, they are still available on BBC iPlayer for you to view and download.  You can then keep them for a month.

We celebrated the influence of latin music in jazz – from Machito to McGhee, Puente to Parker and Santana to Sabu Martinez.  The result was a mix of the kind of jazz we perhaps don’t play often enough.

We began the show with the briefest of tributes to the late John Dankworth who died earlier this week and we will play more music from this ambassador of the best of British jazz over coming weeks.

Next week, we welcome listener and musician Namorik into the studio to play and talk about some of his favourite jazz, we’ll play another track from Weather Report’s Mysterious Traveller and we will have new music from two great singers – Jose James and Gil Scott Heron.  Both have long-awaited new albums with Scott Heron’s return to the recording studio after a 15 year hiatus and James’s more adventurous sophomore CD both well worth your time.  Check them out on Cosmic Jazz!

1. John Dankworth – Tomorrow’s World theme
2. Bobby Matos and John Santos – Mambo Mona (mix X)
3. Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band – Earth Dance
4. Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers – Milestones
5. The Latinaires – Camel Walk
6. Tito Puente – Cuban Nightmare
7. Howard McGhee – Cubop City
8. Mario Bauza – Ganga (Palo en Ganga)
9. Santana – Savor (live)
10. Patato – Dicelo Patato
11. Charlie Parker – No Noise (Parts 1 and 2)
12. Johnny Blas – Picadillo
13. Sabu Martinez – Hotel Alyssa Souisse
14. Cuban Roots – Malanga
15. Gato Barbieri – Introduccion, Llamerito y Tango/Bolivia

For our videoclip this week, check out timbales master Tito Puente here in his last video performance, performing Ran Kan Kan.  He was in his late 70s when this was filmed.

Lots of interesting music tonight – but we started with an old favourite from Branford Marsalis, featuring a Fela Kuti sample and the vocals of acclaimed author Maya Angelou.

We commemorated the death of of Oscar Peterson’s drummer Ed Thigpen and enjoyed a classic slice of Blue Note magic from Hank Mobley but we also brought jazz up to date with music from Nils Petter Molvaer and Indigo Jam Unit.

1. Branford Marsalis – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2. Corey Wilkes – Sonata in the Key of Jack Daniels
3. Francisco Mora Catlett – Baba (Yoruba traditional pd)
4. Oscar Peterson Trio – Moten Swing
5. Hank Mobley – Soul Station
6. Weather Report – Scarlet Woman
7. David Sanchez – Sketches of Dreams
8. Henry Lowther – Introduction
9. Orlando & Henry Fiol 6/8 Modal Latin Jazz
10. Floating Points – Peroration V (feat. Fatima)/Lonnie Liston Smith – Let Us Go into the House of the Lord
11. Quasimode – Little B’s Poem (feat. Valerie Etienne)
12. Nils Petter Molvaer – Tlon
13. Indigo Jam Unit – Arctic Circle
14. United Future Organization – Loud Minority (club mix)

As always, the show will be available to Listen Again on the Cosmic Jazz website later this weekend.

Two videoclips this week to make up for their absence over the last few weeks.  First up is the Oscar Peterson Trio live in Amsterdam followed by singer Jose James talking about his new album Blackmagic.  Enjoy!

A solo show from Derek this week – Neil has some pressing demands from the Inland Revenue!

1. Kenny Barron – Anywhere
2. Rodney Kendrick – Slide the World into Place
3. Sun Ra – The Satellites are Spinning
4. Takeo Moriyama – Sun Rise
5. Trio of Bamboo – Castle of Islam
6. Wayne Shorter – The Soothsayer
7. Build an Ark – Celebrate
8. Tribe – Deneka’s Chant
9. The Voices of Time – Solstice
10. Roy Haynes – Dorian
11. Gerardo Frisina – Gica’s Dance
12. Michael White – The Blessing Song
13. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Africaine

Just for the sheer pleasure of watching one of our favourite drummers, here’s an 84 year old Roy Haynes playing Autumn Leaves in duet with French guitarist Birelli Lagrene.

Tracks on the show tonight featured more from Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s new ECM album, Quincy Jones the jazzman stretching out in 1969 and another classic from our featured Weather Report release Mysterious Traveller.  Enjoy!

1. Arve Henriksen – Poverty and its Opposite
2. The Fiction Trio – Haitian Fight Song
3. The Monterey Quartet – Veil of Tears
4. The Mike Westbrook Concert Band – Transition
5. Zoe and Idris Rahman – Invitation Missed
6. Terumasa Hino – Be and Know
7. Miles Davis – Gondwana (part 1)
8. Tribe – 13th and Senate
9. Weather Report – Nubian Sundance
10. Gerardo Frisina – Gica’s Dance
11. Quincy Jones – Walking in Space
12. Pharoah Sanders – After the Rain
13. Tomasz Stanko Quintet – So Nice

We’ve now made it easier for you to see what’s on at jazz venues around East Anglia.  Only the most recent What’s on will now be available to view so there’s no confusion.  Each week we will update and re-number so you can check out the latest events to enjoy.  We’ll try and locate the new What’s on at the top of the new entries, but you can always check it out under the What’s on drop down menu section.

Remember – if you see live jazz, why not write a review for Cosmic Jazz and tell us about your experience?  We’d like to share your thoughts with our worldwide audience.

And it’s time to wish you all a happy new year – in the UK, USA, Germany, Slovakia, China, Spain, Denmark, Australia, France, Ukraine, Netherlands, Brazil, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Libya, Greece, Canada, Puerto Rico, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Argentina, Israel and the Philippines.

Thanks to all of you.  Keep listening – and spread the word!