BBC Radio 3 Freeness – Mesmerising riffs … anhören …
Heavy guitar distortion and explosive drumming create a restless energy from a new group called Body Meta, a nod to Ornette Coleman’s 1978 album. There’s a twenty-year-old recording of four…
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BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Pushing into new territory … anhören! …
The Mexican vibraphonist Patricia Brennan has been frustrated by the limited repertoire for her instrument in both contemporary music and jazz since she was a student. Now based in New…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Marching music … anhören …
Trumpeter Dave Douglas provides a soundtrack to marching in protest of any and all social injustice on his new album Marching Music. Keith Tippett’s percussive piano meets Louis Moholo Moholo’s…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Remembering John Russell
Corey pays tribute to the late British guitarist John Russell, whose kind and welcoming nature was at the heart of his Mopomoso live concert series, the longest-running improvised music night…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Mary Halvorson
This week features a selection from the New York guitarist Mary Halvorson’s latest album with her group Code Girl that combines halting rhythms, artful pitch bends and crystalline folk vocals.…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Restraint and Release
Control, moderation and explosive freedom on display in a meeting of organ and saxophone taken from a new anthology of work by British musician Theo Travis and composer Laura Toxværd…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Open Improvisation
Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell explore the principles of open improvisation: bring your own experience; focus on what’s at hand and be ready to come up with…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Sax and Drums
Corey Mwamba presents adventurous improvised music. This week features a series of tracks born out of a partnership between saxophone and drums. The group Alula grew out of several performances…
BBC Radio 3 – Freeness: Driving Acoustic Bass
Corey Mwamba provides a guided listen to the best new improvised music. This week features a rich and dexterous exploration of the acoustic bass from Neil Charles; the saxophonist Matana…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: jazz re:freshed
Corey and Adam Moses from jazz re:freshed share tracks with each other. jazz re:freshed is a movement that began in 2003 as a weekly live music residency in west London…
BCC Radio 3 – Freeness: A Revelation of Light
Corey Mwamba presents music that brings light in times of darkness. Night turns into day with a ritualistic awakening from Mexican group Produtziones Aldabar and Peruvian artist Miguel Flores explores…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Music of the Internet Age
Music that explores the problems of the internet age from Craig Scott. The album I Am Revolting explores issues like the over saturation of information and memetics, where simple themes…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Solo Guitar Experiments
Italian guitarist Francesca Naibo talks about her debut solo album Namatoulee. Francesca’s music is a unique and colourful sonic experience that explores the instrument’s acoustic and electric possibilities from roaring…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: „Honking Horns“
Corey Mwamba presents a guided listen to the best adventurous improvised music from around the world. This week features screaming saxophone lines from the Swedish player Anna Högberg’s group Attack…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: South African Soul Music
Catchy hooks and chaotic group interplay captured live from Louis Moholo-Moholo’s Unit. As the last surviving member of the beloved South African group the Blue Notes, drummer Moholo-Moholo leads an…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Discus Music
Celebrating the 100th release on the wide-ranging creative label Discus Music run by Martin Archer. Beginning 30-years ago as an output for Martin’s own music, Discus has since branched out…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Sonic Explorations from Thailand
A Bangkok-based duo called Yama create music inspired by yoga philosophy. Paponpat Weerawit and Don Pengboon are two unsung heroes of Thailand’s underground experimental music scene. Together they make music…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Joyful, Joyful
Corey Mwamba presents music that ignites joy and happiness. Featuring trumpeter Dave Holsworth’s rollicking interplay with his group New Brew and a playfully inquisitive saxophone duo from Dee Byrne on…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Stretched Atmospheric Songs
Fourth Page, a quartet who make quietly intense music that combines fragments of jazz with experimental English folk, introduce their recent commission by Jazz South. Plus, there’s music from the…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Stretched Atmospheric Songs
Fourth Page, a quartet who make quietly intense music that combines fragments of jazz with experimental English folk, introduce their recent commission by Jazz South. Plus, there’s music from the…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Mariam Rezaei and Stephen Bishop in session
Corey Mwamba presents more music from the socially distanced Lateness sessions recorded in Newcastle for Late Junction and Freeness in association with TUSK festival. Tonight’s highlights include the first live…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Lateness at TUSK Festival
Freeness has teamed up with Late Junction, our sibling show for adventurous music on Radio 3 to curate a stage at this year’s TUSK festival. A revered annual festival for…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Remembering Gary Peacock
Corey Mwamba reflects on the exploratory bass playing of the late Gary Peacock. The anchor to many great ensembles including 30 years with Keith Jarrett’s standards trio, he was an…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: George Burt and Clíona Cassidy
Guitarist George Burt and singer Clíona Cassidy introduce their new record Rain Shadow, a mixture of folk-inspired songs and operatic improvised dreamscapes. Corey presents a track from the pianist Sylvie…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness „Cooper-Moore & Stephen Gauci“
A conversational duo between two idiosyncratic voices of American avant-garde, pianist Cooper-Moore and saxophonist Stephen Gauci. Their relaxed and colloquial sound was developed while performing weekly during a seven-month residency…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Finnish Blues
Saxophonist Jorma Tapio connects the traditions of shamanic songs and free jazz on his reinterpretation of the traditional songs from East Karelia. Originally a region of Finland, but now part…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Deep listening and explosive energy
…From a long-running duo featuring Shane Parish’s finger-style acoustic guitar and avant-garde percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani. Presented by Corey Mwamba. France’s Orchestre National de Jazz perform a storming set live at…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness – Steve Lehmann
The saxophonist introduces a series of solo vignettes recorded in the front seat of his car during lockdown. Plus Joëlle Léandre’s Tentet recorded at Tampere Jazz Festival 2019. After realising…
BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Lara Jones
The saxophonist and composer introduces her new solo album and there’s new music from the guitarist Chris Montague. Presented by Corey Mwamba. The saxophonist and composer introduces her new solo…
BBC 3 Freeness: Isolation Creations
Corey Mwamba presents saxophonist Caroline Kraabel’s response to social distancing and there’s a live recording of gyil player Bex Burch’s band Vula Viel at London’s Cafe Oto. Corey Mwamba presents…