Jazz Library (BBC Radio 3) – Tim Berne

I like jazz. I really do. Whenever I listen to any, I think how good it was, and how I’m going to listen to it much more often. And then it’s another 3 months before the next time. (I don’t count putting on The Jazz radio station as background music in the kitchen.*) I suppose the answer is that I like jazz but I don’t prioritise it. If I listened to it more, I would acquire more of an ear for it, not to mention a vocabulary for talking about it.

I really did enjoy this. It was a Radio 3 podcast set around an interview with the saxophonist Tim Berne (I am not putting in a link because I expect this programme has been superseded by a later edition of Jazz Library). The interview was very interesting, though I would have appreciated more music and perhaps less speech. The wilder and freer the music was the more I enjoyed it – less so, the fusion-type stuff, like the track from the “Miniatures” album. I would like to seek out more of Berne’s music. But will I get around to it?

And I’ve still got La Boulette Russe echoing in my head...

* After posting this I discovered that The Jazz, which I only listened to occasionally, has closed down. Sad, but not very sad.