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