Brian Morton reviews recent releases by pianist Myra Melford and drummer Bobby Previte , and a six-CD retrospective of pianist and composer Chick Corea. Alyn Shipton talks to keyboard player Roger Dean , who now works mainly in Australia, and he introduces a specially recorded session by Dean's group Australysis, with Sandy Evans (saxophone) and Greg White (sound generator).
12.30am First Bass
The second of six programmes in which bassist Ray Brown talks to
Alyn Shipton about his distinguished career. In the late forties, he was a regular in Dizzy Gillespie's groups and composed One-Bass Hit and Ray's Idea. He went on to work with Milt Jackson , Kenny Clarke and John Lewis in a group that was the forerunner of the Modern Jazz
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Impressions producer Derek Drescher