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Jackie Kay Takeover - Jazz, Poetry and Prose

Novelist, poet and former Scots Makar Jackie Kay shares her passion for jazz music in an extended interview with Seonaid Aitken exploring the connections between jazz and poetry.

Novelist, poet and former Scots Makar Jackie Kay shares her passion for jazz music in an extended interview with Seonaid Aitken exploring the connections between jazz and poetry. Growing up in Glasgow, Jackie discovered blues singer Bessie Smith, an artist she closely identified with, and who is now the subject matter of her latest book β€˜Bessie Smith’ which mixes biography with fiction, poetry and prose. Plus staying with the world of writers, Richard Michael looks at the influence of William Shakespeare on jazz artists including Duke Ellington, Cleo Laine and Count Basie. Plus music from John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Joseph Malik & Gil Scott-Heron.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 17 Oct 2021 21:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen

    Charlie Parker

    • Poetry For The Beat Generation.

  • Joseph Malik

    Tavistock

    • Diverse Part 3.
    • Ramrock Red Records.

  • Ravi Coltrane & Julie Patton

    At Night

    • Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked.
    • Impulse Records.
    • 11.

  • John Coltrane

    Naima

    • The Very Best Of John Coltrane.
    • Rhino / Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Dave Milligan

    Parcel Of Rogues

    • Momento.

  • Ivor Cutler

    I'm Happy

    • Ludo.
    • Rev-Ola.
    • 10.

  • Joe Temperley

    My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose

    • Nightingale.
    • Hep.
    • 10.

  • Bessie Smith

    Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

    • Sweet Mistreater.
    • Blue Orchid.
    • 16.

  • Nina Simone

    Mississippi Goddam

    • The Best Of Nina Simone.
    • RCA.
    • 2.

  • Bessie Smith

    Young Woman's Blues

    • Sweet Mistreater.
    • Blue Orchid.
    • 1.

  • Janis Joplin

    Summertime

  • Pearl Bailey

    She Had To Go And Loose It At The Astor

  • Cassandra Wilson

    Sankofa

  • Stan Tracey Quartet

    Starless And Bible Black

    • Jazz Suite: Inspired by Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.
    • Trio.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Aug 2021 21:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland
  • Sun 17 Oct 2021 21:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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