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

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


Radio For Grown-Ups

Fri BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time With Bob Dylan: Colour
Charles Mingus, Ella Mae Morse, Joni Mitchell and Screamin Jay Hawkins

Fri BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library: Eric Dolphy
The man who matched Mingus and Coltrane is profiled

Fri BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3
The Gannets, the jazz offshoot from rock band The Guillemots

Sat BBCR2 20.00 ~ 21.00
* Mark Lamarr's Redneck Music (4/4)
Texas soul and Western Swing in the last of Mark's entertaining series.


TV For Grown-Ups
Fri BBC4 19.30 ~ 20.00
* Transatlantic Sessions
Repeat for the sessions recorded at Strathgarry House

Fri BBC4 21.00 ~ 22.00
* What's Going On?
The life and tragic death of Marvin Gaye

Fri BBC4 22.00 ~ 23.00
* Motor City's Burning
Detroit's impact on music ~ from John Lee Hooker to Tamla and on through to Iggy and The Stooges and lots of interesting points in between.

Fri BBC4 23.00 ~ 23.45
* John Lee Hooker and Friends

Fri/Sat BBC4 00.45 ~01.35
* Iggy Pop & the Stooges At Glastonbury
This year's incendiary live set which featured some great garage/punk rock and a stage invasion. Unmissable if you missed it first time round.

Sat BBC4 20.30 ~ 21.30
* Soul Deep ~ The Story of Black Popular Music
Looking at Motown and its legacy, a repeat of the acclaimed series, but the real prize is on at midnight…

Sat BBC4 00.00 ~ 01.45
* Standing In The Shadows of Motown
Absolutely superb doc looking at the work of the in-house band at Tamla, The Funk Brothers. They've played on a huge amount of records, able to play any style and, with James Jamerson, virtually inventing modern bass playing.