Jazz Up Late with Gerry Koster

10.30pm Friday - 12.30am

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Jazz Up Late has moved to ABC Jazz but you can still hear it on on ABC Classic FM with analogue radio only.

At this program time on ABC Classic FM - on digital radio and online - is New Music Up Late - Friday Edition.

"Music is an adventure, for both its creators and its listeners. I'd like to think of 'Jazz Up Late' as a musical adventure - and like any adventure, it might range from the sublime to the hair-raising. I'll be exploring contemporary jazz at home and from around the world as well as looking at emerging trends and how the music of other cultures and genres are currently influencing jazz.

The A to Z of jazz fascinates me, no matter which period in its history it comes from...Louis Armstrong's clarion trumpet from the '20s still gives me goose bumps...and then there's the exhilarating rush that John Zorn's confronting and ferocious 'Painkiller' induces, with so much in between!

'Jazz Up Late' has been created to complement Mal Stanley's 'Jazztrack', to appeal to avid fans of the music and the 'jazz curious' alike and to explore the world of jazz beyond 'Jazztrack'.

It's been said that jazz is 'the sound of surprise', I'm certainly still finding it so...and I hope that you will too, on 'Jazz Up Late'."

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This week

Friday 19 March, 10.30pm

Charles Lloyd, headliner at this year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival returns to Jazz Up Late this week with a group that includes another – guitarist John Abercrombie – in a program that has a potent exotic theme...

On board is pianist Anthony Coleman’s Sephardic Tinge trio, Brazilian harpist Cristina Braga, trumpeter Frank London’s Shekhina Big Band, the trio Air, Satoko Fujii’s Orchestra Tokyo, Swedish double-bassist Dan Berglund’s Tonbrucket – and going back to the 1965 album Fire Music, saxophonist Archie Shepp takes a ravaging, bustin’-the-pops approach to Tom Jobim’s classic "Girl From Ipanema"...

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Friday 12 March 2010

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Featuring Giorgio Gaslini live at the 2002 Parma Frontiere Jazz Festival in northern Italy and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet at New York’s 13th annual Vision Festival in 2008. Plus pianist Angelica Sanchez, the ROIL trio, the Dave Holland Big Band, Sydney’s Kim Lawson Trio, pianist Matthew Shipp and his trio, Barney McAll’s album "Mother Of Dreams And Secrets" – and from the archives, a 1979 recording from drummer Paul Motian called "Le Voyage", with double-bassist Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark and the all too rarely heard saxophonist Charles Brackeen.

(Audio usually updates by 1.30am Saturday Sydney/Melbourne time. Windows Media audio requires Windows Media Player vers.9 or later, with a 56k modem or better. Visit the ABC Streaming Media Players page for advice and links to find the software you need.)

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Music played on Jazz Up Late on March 12 | 5 | February 26 | 19 | For earlier dates, start at the index of Archived Music Details.

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