BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Pat Thomas plays Duke Ellington

Corey Mwamba plays tracks by artists performing at Newcastle Jazz and Improvised Music Festival including pianist Pat Thomas’s tribute to the music of Duke Ellington.

A visionary and virtuoso pianist, Thomas pulls Ellington’s melodies apart like a thread before knitting them together into a joyful patchwork of familiarity and adventure. Plus free-flowing melodies from the bassist and Newcastle resident Andy Champion with his long-standing collaborator saxophonist Graeme Wilson.

Produced by Tej Adeleye A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

1 Run Logan Run – Wise Man Eames

2 Caroline Davis – Respite

3 Andy Champion & Graeme Wilson – Sinking Below The Horizon

4 trio SonCe – Autumn: Wedding

5 On Our Own Clock – Ngikhethile

6 Jessica Ackerley & Daniel Carter – Lucid Dreamer

7 Australian Art Orchestra, Daniel Wilfred & David Wilfred – Old People Song

8 Catherine Graindorge – Lockdown

9 Duke Ellington – Money Jungle

10 Pat Thomas – Set 1

11 Shiver – Night School