This Week's Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your exclusive listening/watching guide … thanks to compiler Mike Ollier:


Radio For Grown-Ups

Mon BBCR2 19.00 ~ 20.00
Paul Jones Blues Show
Catfish Keith drops by to play some slide guitar.

Mon BBCR2 22.30 ~ 23.30
Jools Holland
Try to put up with him, for tonight his guest is Edwyn Collins.

Weds BBCR3 19.00 ~ 20.45
Performance On 3: We All Love Ella - A tribute to Ella Fitzgerald (mentioned on these pages last week by our esteemed editor). Claire Martin, Juliet Roberts, Lizz Wright and, er, Jamelia. Eh? All recorded with The BBC Concert Orchestra.

Weds BBCR2 22.00 ~23.00
* Charles Hazlewood (2 of 6)
Jazz pianist Zoe Rahman visits Charles in Glastonbury.

Weds BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Hep To The Jive: The Cab Calloway Story (2 0f 3)
The bandleader’s star rises.

Fri BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Thanksgiving
Bob carves the turkey with Fats Waller and Cisco Houston.

Fri BBC3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library
Sonny Rollins (1 of 2)

Fri BBC3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3
More from the London Jazz Festival with The Charles Tolliver Big Band in concert at The Queen Elizabeth Hall.


TV For Grown-Ups

Fri BBC4 20.30 ~ 21.00
* Cambridge Folk Festival 2007
World Music tonight ~ Toumani Diabate, Fanfare Ciocarlia, CJ Chenier and The Waterboys with Sharon Shannon and Steve Earle on a joyous reading of Woody Guthrie's This Land Is Your Land.

Fri BBC4 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Brasil, Brasil
Samba, Hip Hop and Baile ~ all explored in this first part of three looking at the music of Brazil. A history lesson and great music.

Fri BBC2 23.35
* Later with Jools Holland
Worldy stuff with Orchestra Baobab and Kano (with Damon Albarn) and then Dion ~ no details, but Dion's new blues album is said to be brilliant, so I'm gonna use my FFF.

Sat ITV2 22.55 ~ 00.10
The Music Of Parkinson (1 of 3)
No, no ... don't go! Though The Parky Effect has given us Jamie Cullum and other easy listening fare, there is also a long history of great acts on his show ~ we're promised Duke Ellington, Bing, Sammy Davis Jnr, Stephane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin, among others.