Sat 20 March
5pm - J to Z
A special programme of recordings of live music to mark one year since the first UK lockdown. Also in the programme, Puerto Rican saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón, who draws from Latin American folkloric music and jazz, shares music that inspires him. Zenón is also a celebrated educator, most notably for his Caravana Cultural project, which he founded in 2011 to present free-of-charge jazz concerts in rural areas of Puerto Rico.
12 midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with the cream of new jazz and adventurous, improvised music, here featuring music by Leeds-based piano trio Treppenwitz, who recorded their third album Sister in Kith in a living room; simple melodies are used as a point of departure for explorations of sonic texture, harmonic sonority and spontaneous interaction. Plus further fluctuations in rhythm in the form of Lauren Sarah Hayes's electronic experimentation.
If you're at your witz end, why not try treppen?
Sun 21 March
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton remembers the American pianist Chick Corea, who died last month, aged 79. Listeners' requests include recordings he made with vibraphonist Gary Burton, saxophonist Stan Getz and his own group Return to Forever.
Not jazz, but sympathisers might feel partial towards the following programme on Radio 3:
Tues 23 March
10pm - Free Thinking
Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
Matthew Sweet re-reads Black Skin, White Masks, the 1952 book by Martinique psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-61) that explores the way black people have been affected by colonial subjugation. He's joined by Tariq Ali and Alexandra Reza to assess the influence of Fanon's thinking.
Zenón nearly rhymes with Fanon: how about that for "sympathetic resonance"?
There is a further link in the write-up to another interview with Tariq Ali elsewhere.
5pm - J to Z
A special programme of recordings of live music to mark one year since the first UK lockdown. Also in the programme, Puerto Rican saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón, who draws from Latin American folkloric music and jazz, shares music that inspires him. Zenón is also a celebrated educator, most notably for his Caravana Cultural project, which he founded in 2011 to present free-of-charge jazz concerts in rural areas of Puerto Rico.
12 midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with the cream of new jazz and adventurous, improvised music, here featuring music by Leeds-based piano trio Treppenwitz, who recorded their third album Sister in Kith in a living room; simple melodies are used as a point of departure for explorations of sonic texture, harmonic sonority and spontaneous interaction. Plus further fluctuations in rhythm in the form of Lauren Sarah Hayes's electronic experimentation.
If you're at your witz end, why not try treppen?
Sun 21 March
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton remembers the American pianist Chick Corea, who died last month, aged 79. Listeners' requests include recordings he made with vibraphonist Gary Burton, saxophonist Stan Getz and his own group Return to Forever.
Not jazz, but sympathisers might feel partial towards the following programme on Radio 3:
Tues 23 March
10pm - Free Thinking
Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
Matthew Sweet re-reads Black Skin, White Masks, the 1952 book by Martinique psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-61) that explores the way black people have been affected by colonial subjugation. He's joined by Tariq Ali and Alexandra Reza to assess the influence of Fanon's thinking.
Zenón nearly rhymes with Fanon: how about that for "sympathetic resonance"?
There is a further link in the write-up to another interview with Tariq Ali elsewhere.
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