Sat 27 May
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola presents highlights of a concert in which dynamic alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin plays music from her album Phoenix, recorded in late March at the Jazz Café in Camden Town, London. And keys player Surya Botofasina, a new voice on the spiritual jazz scene, shares some of the music that inspires him, along with stories of his time growing up on Alice Coltrane's ashram.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with category-defying improvised music, from oddball material by the eccentric quartet Galut led by Alan Sondheim, to bodily performances unfolding within within the ruins of an Azerbaijani monastery courtesy of musicians Darja Kazimira and Zura Makharadze. Plus a collaboration from tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall and double bass player Oli Brice as featured in the new album The Laughing Stone, Recently released music from Kodian, and the latest work of improvising Cincinnati trio Vaster than Empires (Allen Otte, Erica Dicker, and Paul Schuette). Plus a quartet composed of Charlotte Keeffe (trumpet, flugelhorn), Andrew Lisle (drums), Dirk Serries (electric guitar), Martina Verhoeven (piano) and Colin Webster* (alto saxophone).
*Lisle, Serries and Webster are all in preceding listed Kodian, which is neither a GCHQ employee, nor a newly announced language.
Sunday 28 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
For Fusion followers:
Friday 2 June: Sky Arts
9pm - Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux 2004
Carlos Santana and his band are joined by guests including Steve Winwood and Nile Rodgers to perform a concert of songs about peace and understanding.
5pm - J to Z
Jumoké Fashola presents highlights of a concert in which dynamic alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin plays music from her album Phoenix, recorded in late March at the Jazz Café in Camden Town, London. And keys player Surya Botofasina, a new voice on the spiritual jazz scene, shares some of the music that inspires him, along with stories of his time growing up on Alice Coltrane's ashram.
12midnight - Freeness
Corey Mwamba with category-defying improvised music, from oddball material by the eccentric quartet Galut led by Alan Sondheim, to bodily performances unfolding within within the ruins of an Azerbaijani monastery courtesy of musicians Darja Kazimira and Zura Makharadze. Plus a collaboration from tenor saxophonist Paul Dunmall and double bass player Oli Brice as featured in the new album The Laughing Stone, Recently released music from Kodian, and the latest work of improvising Cincinnati trio Vaster than Empires (Allen Otte, Erica Dicker, and Paul Schuette). Plus a quartet composed of Charlotte Keeffe (trumpet, flugelhorn), Andrew Lisle (drums), Dirk Serries (electric guitar), Martina Verhoeven (piano) and Colin Webster* (alto saxophone).
*Lisle, Serries and Webster are all in preceding listed Kodian, which is neither a GCHQ employee, nor a newly announced language.
Sunday 28 May
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
For Fusion followers:
Friday 2 June: Sky Arts
9pm - Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux 2004
Carlos Santana and his band are joined by guests including Steve Winwood and Nile Rodgers to perform a concert of songs about peace and understanding.
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