Evan Parker, John Tchicai, Louis Moholo, Tony Marsh

The following videos of this gig are publicly available from 14 October 2011

EVAN PARKER and LOUIS MOHOLO

https://vimeo.com/52289315

JOHN TCHICAI, TONY MARSH, EVAN PARKER and LOUIS MOHOLO

https://vimeo.com/52289316

Also, other clips from that night are at

JOHN TCHICAI and TONY MARSH (full clip)

https://vimeo.com/30606969

JOHN TCHICAI and TONY MARSH (last 20 minutes)

https://vimeo.com/52275185

Babel Babble 30 October

Unfortunately, no George to help me on John Tchicai.

But here is what I came up with for the show:

Thelonious Monk - Abide With Me (from Monk's Music)
Lucien Dubuis - HPC1ere
Johnny Dyani (including John Tchicai) - Witchdoctor's Son (from Mbizo)
June Tabor - The Cloud Factory (from At The Wood's Heart)
Dan Messore - Missing (from Talk on the Step)
Teco Cardoso - Promessas De Um Verão (Mozar Terra)
Blink - Crunch (from Twice)
Soothsayers - The Streets of London (Radio Edit)
The Whammies - The Wire (to Albert Ayler) (from Play the Music of Steve Lacy)
Bach - Es ist Vollbracht (from St John Passion)
Johnny Dankworth 7 - Marmaduke (featuring Eddie Harvey RIP
Enrico Pieranunzi with Paul Motian - The Inch Worm (from Flux & Change)
Loose Tubes - Rowing Boat Delineation Egg

LINK TO SHOW FOLLOWS SOON.

Babel Babble with Hanspeter Kuenzler, 23 October

Focus on (German-speaking) Switzerland with Hanspeter Kuenzler

http://ntslive.co.uk/?p=4690

Johnny Rondo Trio - Frog Dance

brotherhood of Breath - Mra

Irène Schweizer/ Co Streif - So oder so (From Twin Lines)

Stimmhorn - Ausland (from Inland)

Appenzeller Zaüerli - Zom Talerschwinge

Ronin

Circus McGurkus - Our Bog is Dood

Biondini Godard Niggli - What's there what is not 

Wydler - On the mat and off

Hanspeter's web site: www.hanspeterkuenzler.com

Schaffhausen Jazz Festival focusses on Swiss jazz: http://www.jazzfestival.ch/

Intakt label: www.intakt.ch

Willisau festival: http://www.jazzwillisau.ch/

Cully Jazz Festival: http://www.cullyjazz.ch/

He didn't cover much from the Suisse Romande because of the Röstigraben: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Röstigraben

Rory Simmons on Babel Babble

Here are the artists on Rory's Babel Babble on 2 October.

Chris Batchelor - Life As We Know It
Kenny Wheeler - Around 6
Herb Robertson - Tim Berne
Jim Hart with Ralph Alessi - Cloudmakers Trio
Booker Ervine

http://ntslive.co.uk/?p=2590

Babel Babble, 16 October

This show had as my guest Paul Bradshaw, founder of Straight No Chaser, and what I would now call a cultural commentator.

Enlightenment (White Label)
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser
Charles Mingus - Hog Calling Blues
Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five - Consequences
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Fem de Yoyo
Dudu Pukwana - Baloyi
Cedric Brooks - Unite Africa
Kate Tempest - Mouse In The Lion's Lair
Sivuka - Ain't No Sunshine

Paul's blog is on http://ancienttofuture.wordpress.com

Dudu Pukwana's Zila Big Band can be heard on http://thespace.org/items/p0000ksw

John Tchicai and Tony Marsh in 2008. RIP both



Gina Southgate, who "was there" with Brad, Gilles Peterson and co in the late 80s, has a nice write-up on the BBC web site. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8596597.stm

Kate Tempest can be seen here.