After an extended Mozart holiday season, Jazz on 3 returns to the airwaves fully rested with a one off collaboration between US alt-jazz group The Bad Plus and eccentric Englishman Django Bates.
During the Plus' recent residency at the London Jazz Festival celebrating 10 years together as a trio, the group invited Django, a childhood hero of theirs, to play a one off set of freely improvised music. With Dave King on drums, Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano and Django covering Eb horn, vocals and keys the resulting music moves from 80s synth electro to a totally unexpected gospel freak-out and a sweet little duo between Ethan and Django on Eb horn.
Before the gig Django gets his chance to grill The Bad Plus on how they found their sound as teenagers in mid-West America and discovers Reid's excitement about fulfilling one of his earliest dreams as a musician to play with Django himself.
Then at 12.30am, Ethan switches into interviewer mode as we hear the second instalment of his chat with saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill. The Chicago legend describes his unconventional writing style, covering his radical approach to orchestrating two drummers within a sextet and how essentially it's the mistakes and developments you make when reading music from a score that progress the music most.
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During the Plus' recent residency at the London Jazz Festival celebrating 10 years together as a trio, the group invited Django, a childhood hero of theirs, to play a one off set of freely improvised music. With Dave King on drums, Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano and Django covering Eb horn, vocals and keys the resulting music moves from 80s synth electro to a totally unexpected gospel freak-out and a sweet little duo between Ethan and Django on Eb horn.
Before the gig Django gets his chance to grill The Bad Plus on how they found their sound as teenagers in mid-West America and discovers Reid's excitement about fulfilling one of his earliest dreams as a musician to play with Django himself.
Then at 12.30am, Ethan switches into interviewer mode as we hear the second instalment of his chat with saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill. The Chicago legend describes his unconventional writing style, covering his radical approach to orchestrating two drummers within a sextet and how essentially it's the mistakes and developments you make when reading music from a score that progress the music most.
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