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Music from the Leeds Improvising Scene

Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Monday 08 October 2012

Jez Nelson presents music from the Leeds improvising scene including a set from Shatner's Bassoon, a sextet led by recent Leeds College of Music graduates, keyboardist Johnny Richards and bass player Mick Bardon.

Recorded in front of an enthusiastic home-town audience at the city centre's Fusebox night, their music veers from math-rock to sounds of the circus, with irreverent humour never far away.

The programme also includes a visit to The Shed in Brawby, north Yorkshire's hub of improvised happenings now celebrating its twentieth season. Trombonist Gail Brand explores how the venue has maintained both a strong audience and a challenging agenda - past exploits have included Lol Coxhill playing in a skip and Mrs Boyes' Bingo (a duet for bingo caller and percussion) - and takes part in a specially-created event, Shed Builder, improvising in a workshop with a welder.

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producers: Peggy Sutton & Phil Smith.

Music and featured items

16 items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • BBC Piano Season – Jez’s track of choice

  • Home of the Brave recorded at the Fox & Newt, Leeds on 6 September 2012

    • Line up: Richard Ormrod (baritone saxophone), Jonny Flockton (guitar), Rus Pearson (bass), Paul Hession (drums)

    • 00:13

      Home of the Brave Fresh Horses

      Composer: Richard Ormrod

  • Shatner’s Bassoon recorded at the Fox & Newt, Leeds on 6 September 2012

    • Line up: Johnny Richards (keyboards), Mick Bardon (bass & electronics), Ollie Dover (tenor sax and clarinet),

    • Craig Scott (fretless guitar and circuit bent tape player), Andrew Lisle (drums), Joost Hendrickx (drums)

    • 00:19
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      Shatner's Bassoon Breakfast With Boghead

      Composer: Mick Bardon / Shatner’s Bassoon
    • 00:35
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      Shatner's Bassoon Altered Beast

      Composer: Johnny Richards / Shatner's Bassoon

  • The Shed at 20

    • 00:56
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      Sebastian Rochford Sebastian Rochford’s VAN GIG

      Produced and presented by The Shed and recorded in Leeds, York, Malton, Pickering, Kirkbymoorside and Helmlsley on 24 September 2010
    • 01:01
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      Erika Stucky The Ballroom Blitz

      Composer: Nicky Chinn / Mike Chapman

      Stucky Live, Traumton Records
    • 01:02

      Bob Cobbing / Paul Hession / Alan Wilkinson / Simon Fell Bob Cobbing – live at the Shed

      Recorded: at The Shed, Brawby, North Yorkshire in 1999
    • 01:03

      Mark Sanders / Eileen Boyes Mrs Boyes’ Bingo featuring Mark Sanders

      Recorded: at The Shed, Brawby, North Yorkshire in 1999
    • 01:05
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      Billy Jenkins I Took A Walk

      Composer: Billy Jenkins

      Born Again (And the Religion Is the Blues), VOTP
    • 01:06
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      Lol Coxhill Lol Coxhill in a skip

      Produced and presented by The Shed and recorded in Brawby on 2 November 2004

  • Shed Builder, recorded at Rye Valley Works, Brawby, North Yorkshire on 7 September 2012

    • Line-up: Gail Brand (trombone), John Walpole (welding and drilling), Simon Thackray (concept)

    • 01:08

      Gail Brand / John Walpole Together Alone

      Composer: Gail Brand
  • 01:22

    Trish Clowes’ Tangent On/Off

    Composer: Trish Clowes Recorded: at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on 1 May 2011 Line-up: Trish Clowes (tenor saxophone), Alex Munk (guitar), Calum Gourlay (bass), James Maddren (drums), Heidi Parsons (cello)

  • Shatner's Bassoon

    Shatner's Bassoon

  • Gail Brand & John Walpole

    Gail Brand & John Walpole

    Photo: Kippa Matthews

  • Gail Brand & John Walpole

    Gail Brand & John Walpole

    Photo: Kippa Matthews

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