Time signatures and scales with Zara McFarlane and Ollie Howell
Singer Zara McFarlane and composer Ollie Howell take us from scat to scales as they add the next five tracks to the playlist, with the help of composer Nitin Sawhney.
Singer and composer Zara McFarlane and jazz drummer and composer Ollie Howell take us on a musical adventure with the help of composer and musician Nitin Sawhney, as they join Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye to add the next five tracks.
Tune in for a scat singing lesson and a 50,000-year history lesson in the origin of musical scales.
Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald
The five tracks in this week's playlist:
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington
Hey Ya! By Outkast
Lost It To Trying by Son Lux
Songs of Fun and Nonsense by Julie Andrews, Moondog and Martyn Green
Do-Re-Mi by Julie Andrews, from The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Other music in this episode:
Fisherman by Zara McFarlane
Basin Street Blues by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Purple Haze by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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- Fri 11 Nov 2022 19:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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