Susan Sharpe's selection includes a concert in tribute to Pablo Casals. 
Clips
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Henry Threadgill - Interview with Jez Nelson Duration: 18:24 Henry Threadgill and Zooid at the London Jazz Festival
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Steve Swallow - Interview with Jez Nelson Duration: 16:53 London Jazz Festival: Steve Swallow Quintet
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Jez gets a lesson in how to play jazz kazoo for Comic Relief Duration: 03:03 Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House
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Jazz on 3: London Jazz Festival 2010 - Geri Allen Duration: 03:51 London Jazz Festival 2010, Geri Allen
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Jazz on 3: London Jazz Festival 2010 - Geri Allen Duration: 03:13 London Jazz Festival 2010, Geri Allen
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Jazz on 3: London Jazz Festival 2010 - Geri Allen Duration: 03:14 London Jazz Festival 2010, Geri Allen
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About Jazz on 3
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Jez Nelson presents the pick of today’s jazz recorded live in concert, talks to the leading players, reviews new CDs, and revisits the tradition through in-depth features. From week to week you can hear free jazz to fusion, post-bop to electronica. We don’t really care how it’s labeled as long as it’s good. Above all Jazz on 3 celebrates the music as a living and developing art form.
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We’re inviting bands who are either unsigned, undiscovered or under the radar to submit demos, home-made recordings or CD tracks via the BBC Introducing Uploader. If you're making music and you'd like greater exposure, upload your tracks at bbc.co.uk/introducing and let us hear what you've got to offer. Your music will go direct to your local Introducing show, but you can also send it direct to us by choosing the Jazz on 3 option when you register your profile.
BBC Introducing
In the run-up to the 2012 Manchester Jazz Festival, we'll be drawing up a long-list of musicians who’ve submitted their music. The list will be reviewed by a team of BBC DJs including Jez Nelson (Radio 3) and Gilles Peterson (Radio 6 Music), who will choose four bands to perform at the festival at an event recorded by Jazz on 3. -
Jazz on 3 Newsletter: May 28
Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers Trio
Monday 28 May at 11pm on BBC Radio 3
This week’s show features one of our all-time favourite jazz guitarist – Bill Frisell - recorded at one of our favourite jazz festivals – Cheltenham. A couple of weeks ago we gave you a taster, and this week we’re serving a full portion of his Beautiful Dreamers Trio in concert – with Eyvind Kang on viola, Rudy Royston on drums.
Any Frisell band is going to put the exploration of texture fairly high up its to-do list, and this is no different. The impressionistic opening to Lennon & McCartney's In My Life is a prime example – delicate drum washes and faintly Eastern-sounding viola lines, over which Frisell judiciously dabs colour, before the tune subtly reveals itself. There's clearly a lot of scope for freedom and spontaneous interplay, which makes all the precision of timing and sound-production all the more remarkable. But don't think it's all going to be a gentle ride – Frisell's bluesy, almost grungy and even psychedelic side comes out at times, and get ready for a blow-out climax to the performance!
Frisell's love of strings has been increasingly apparent in recent years and, before we hear his gig, journalist Brian Morton tells us why he thinks it's a golden era for strings in jazz more widely, with contributions from viola player Mat Maneri and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm among others. And to end the programme, the last of our international jazz selections – which, appropriately for this week, comes from an American guitarist – proof that, even in the USA, there are hidden jazz gems to be found.
Join us on Monday 28 May from 11pm to hear all this, or listen online for seven days after broadcast.
The Jazz on 3 team
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Coming up:
4 June – US pianist Robert Glasper and his electric Experiment band in concert
11 June – Pianist Vijay Iyer and his trio perform music from their new album
18 June – A gig by Belgian big band Flat Earth Society
25 June – A performance by UK-based trio Phronesis
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