MORNING JOY on CJSW Radio (90.9 fm in Calgary & www.cjsw.com)

MORNING JOY, the jazz show that aims to inform as it entertains, can be heard from 5.30am to 7.00am on Tuesdays and Thursdays on CJSW Radio. Its host is Philip Barker.

The Tuesday Schedule for March 2013 has been revised:

The following special features replace the advertised programs after the BBC News 6am. There will be broadcasts devoted to the following jazz musicians:

5th March: Benny Carter, Part 1
12th March: Interview with Fraser Calhoun
19th March: Benny Carter, Part 2
26th March: Pee Wee Russell

Please Note that the Fraser Calhoun Quartet, with Pianist Mulgrew Miller will perform at the River Park Church at 8pm this Saturday 16th March.
(Additional information attached.)

Thursday Features

On Thursdays in March 2013, we will continue the in-depth review of the Commodore jazz recordings.

Philip Barker can be contacted during the shows on: 403-220-3991;

and at other times at: pabarker2000@yahoo.com.

MORNING JOY, the jazz show that aims to inform as it entertains, can be heard from 5.30am to 7.00am on Tuesdays and Thursdays on CJSW Radio.

Its host is Philip Barker.

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS WEEK SHOWS

Christmas Day (Tuesday, 25 December)

On Christmas Day the entire MORNING JOY show will be devoted to Christmas and faith-based music, interrupted only by the 6am BBC World News bulletin. The main featured group will be the Soweto Gospel Choir.

Thursday 27 December

JAZZ and SPIRITUALITY: A Journey from the early days of jazz to the present day.

When the late Avery “Kid” Howard, trumpet player from New Orleans, sang Lord, Lord, You Sure Been Good to Me; or when he played Just a Closer Walk with Me on his trumpet, he was ably demonstrating the spiritual depths of so much early jazz. But the spiritual underpinnings of the music have persisted ever since. In the 1960s, they were evident in the music of Albert Ayler, as they are today in the playing of saxophonist Charles Gayle.

Tuesday Features For the first 3 Tuesdays in December)

Between 6.06 and 7.00am on the 4th, 11th, and 18th December, “live” recordings of the Count Basie Orchestra playing On for dancing in Sweden in will be featured.

Thursday Features

The shows on 6th, 13th, and 20th December will be the start of an in-depth review of the Commodore jazz recordings, from their inception in 1938.

The first segment of each broadcast, from 5.30am to the 6 o’clock BBC news is usually devoted to music from CDs recently received at the radio station, plus one classic recording from the early days of jazz. During July the new recordings will include tracks from the 4-CD set “Ten Freedom Summers” by Wadado Leo Smith.

The period from the end of the BBC news (about 6.06am) until 7.00am is devoted to a specific feature. For July 2012 the following features are planned:

3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st July : Further recordings on the Verve and Clef record labels by Count Basie’s 1950s Orchestra. This star-studded orchestra played music from many of the best arrangers of the day. These are timeless recordings with which every jazz lover should be familiar.

On Thursdays in July MORNING JOY will feature jazz from Poland, recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. The dates are 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th July. Included among the musicians you will hear are Krysztof Komeda, Brent Rosengren, Tomasz Stańko, Zbigniew Namyslowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Ted Curson and Andrzej Trzaskowski.

The MORNING JOY SCHEDULE FOR JUNE 2012

Tuesday Features

5th, 12th, 19th and 26th June: Recordings on the Verve and Clef record labels by Count Basie’s 1950s Orchestra. The Basie orchestra recorded for these labels from January 1952 to April 1957. This was a star-studded orchestra playing music from many of the best arrangers of the day.

Thursday Features

On Thursdays MORNING JOY will this month feature jazz from Scotland, much of it played by musicians based in Glasgow, most notably saxophonist Raymond MacDonald.

7 June: Stepping Between The Shadows: Music by Australian pianist, Alister Spence, and Scottish Saxophonist, Raymond MacDonald.

14 June: Delphinius and Lyra: Music by Raymond MacDonald and German Drummer, Günter “Baby” Sommer.

21 June: Some further music from the CD “One Bloke” by the George Burt/Raymond MacDonald Quartet, with guest saxophonist Lol Coxhill. (Some tracks from this CD were featured in our 5th April broadcast.)

28 June: Boohoo Fever, a recording by The George Burt/ Raymond MacDonald Sextet, featuring pianist Keith Tippett. Recorded in Tobermory on the Island of Mull, Scotland, in March 2006. (A Leo Records Release.) (Originally scheduled for broadcast on 31 May, but now re-scheduled.)

[The above programme is subject to change without notice.]

The first segment of each broadcast, from 5.30am to the 6 o’clock BBC news is usually devoted to music from CDs recently received at the radio station, plus one classic recording from the early days of jazz.

The period from the end of the BBC news (about 6.06am) until 7.00am is devoted to a specific feature. For May 2012 the following features are planned:

Tuesday Features

1 May: The 1950s Studio Recordings by the Chet Baker Quartet with Russ Freeman, Part 4.

8 May: The 1950s Studio Recordings by the Chet Baker Quartet with Russ Freeman, Part 5.

15 to 29 May: Recordings by Count Basie’s “New Testament” Orchestra. Formed by Basie in the early 1950s, this orchestra recorded for the Verve and Clef record labels from January 1952 to April 1957. It was a star-studded orchestra playing music from many of the best arrangers of the day.

Thursday Features

3 May: Part Two of an Interview by Philip Barker with Raymond MacDonald, an important figure in the Glasgow Jazz Scene and a member of the Faculty of Glasgow Caledonian University.

10 May: The third and final Section of the above interview.

17 May: BUDDY. The Raymond MacDonald International Big Band, recorded at the Live House Buddy, Tokyo, Japan, August 2008.

24 May: The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, with Lol Coxhill and Evan Parker, playing Improcherto (for HB) by George Burt. Recorded at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival in March 2011.

31 May: Boohoo Fever, a recording by The George Burt/ Raymond MacDonald Sextet, featuring Keith Tippett. Recorded in Tobermory on the Island of Mull, Scotland, in March 2006. (A Leo Records Release.)