[Dixielandjazz] Jazz FM

[Mike Durham]

For non-UK readers, this station started out with all-jazz programming, got 
into serious financial problems and now plays "jazz and jazz-related music". 
Jazz-related seems to take in everything from muzak to rock & roll, and what 
jazz does get played is usually pretty bland, to put it mildly. Traditional 
scarcely gets a look-in. The presenters now are mainly "youth-orientated" 
and don't know much about the subject. This has led to some great on-air 
remarks such as the young woman who referred to the cornettist Big Spider 
Beck, a young man who played Bix's 'Clarinet Marmalade' and remarked 'Great 
clarinet there, Bix!', and my favourite, which was a record by the Oscar 
Peterson trio: at the end of it the presenter, presumably reading from a 
script prepared for him by the producer, said: "That was the Oscar Peterson 
Trio, with Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums (puzzled pause) - 
sorry, but it doesn't say who was on piano"

Ho hum.....

Mike D.

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