From the London Jazz Festival
Saturday 19 November 2005 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)
Ian McMillan presents a special edition of the show from the London Jazz Festival. Guests include pianist Gareth Williams and acclaimed jazz vocalist Norma Winstone. Plus Verb regulars Peter Blegvad and Salena Godden.
Programme Details
This week on The Verb, Ian McMillan presents a special edition of the programme from the London Jazz Festival - with a jazz theme and star names from the world of writing and music. Joining Ian and his audience at the Purcell Room will be one of the UK's most inventive and dynamic performers on the piano, Gareth Williams, who will perform alongside the critically acclaimed and intensely creative jazz vocalist Norma Winstone. For The Verb, the two masters of improvisation will be joined in a duet, performing music set to Sylvia Plath's hauntingly beautiful poem, Morning Song. There'll also be spellbinding performance from Verb regular, spoken word artist Salena Godden, and a lament for lost love from award-winning eartoonist Peter Blegvad, who'll be playing alongside the legendary John Paul Jones. Journalist and critic John Walters pays homage to great jazz writers of the past, and crime novelist John Harvey gives a mesmerising reading from his book In A True Light accompanied on piano by the rising star of the jazz world, Gwilym Simcock and by the great saxophonist Stan Sulzmann.
Join Ian and his guests for a star-studded jamboree from the London Jazz Festival at 9.30pm, here on BBC Radio 3.
