Jackie Kay Takeover - Jazz, Poetry and Prose
Novelist, poet and former Scots Makar Jackie Kay shares her passion for jazz music in an extended interview with Seonaid Aitken exploring the connections between jazz and poetry.
Novelist, poet and former Scots Makar Jackie Kay shares her passion for jazz music in an extended interview with Seonaid Aitken exploring the connections between jazz and poetry. Growing up in Glasgow, Jackie discovered blues singer Bessie Smith, an artist she closely identified with, and who is now the subject matter of her latest book 鈥楤essie Smith鈥� which mixes biography with fiction, poetry and prose. Plus staying with the world of writers, Richard Michael looks at the influence of William Shakespeare on jazz artists including Duke Ellington, Cleo Laine and Count Basie. Plus music from John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Joseph Malik & Gil Scott-Heron.
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Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
Charlie Parker
- Poetry For The Beat Generation.
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Joseph Malik
Tavistock
- Diverse Part 3.
- Ramrock Red Records.
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Ravi Coltrane & Julie Patton
At Night
- Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked.
- Impulse Records.
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John Coltrane
Naima
- The Very Best Of John Coltrane.
- Rhino / Atlantic.
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Dave Milligan
Parcel Of Rogues
- Momento.
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Ivor Cutler
I'm Happy
- Ludo.
- Rev-Ola.
- 10.
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Joe Temperley
My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
- Nightingale.
- Hep.
- 10.
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Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- Sweet Mistreater.
- Blue Orchid.
- 16.
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Nina Simone
Mississippi Goddam
- The Best Of Nina Simone.
- RCA.
- 2.
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Bessie Smith
Young Woman's Blues
- Sweet Mistreater.
- Blue Orchid.
- 1.
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Janis Joplin
Summertime
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Pearl Bailey
She Had To Go And Loose It At The Astor
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Cassandra Wilson
Sankofa
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Stan Tracey Quartet
Starless And Bible Black
- Jazz Suite: Inspired by Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.
- Trio.
Broadcasts
- Sun 1 Aug 2021 21:00大象传媒 Radio Scotland
- Sun 17 Oct 2021 21:00大象传媒 Radio Scotland
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