Tonight, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler joins the BBC Big Band in a concert recorded at the Gardener Arts
Centre, University of Sussex,
Brighton. The concert includes the premiere of Ian McDougall 's new suite No Passport Required, commissioned by the Canadian Council of Arts. Canadians
McDougall and Wheeler were fellow members of the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra in the early sixties, and, while Ian McDougall returned to
Canada, Kenny Wheeler remained in Britain, working with Joe Harriott and Ronnie Scott and increasingly on the free scene with the likes of Mike
Gibbs and John Stevens. Norma
Winstone, another long-term Wheeler associate, performs as guest vocalist. Also tonight, Jez Nelson rounds up November's best jazz releases, and on the eve of the re-release of one of Miles Davis 's most notorious recordings, the programme revists Bitches Brew 29 years on. Producers Lyn Champion and Steve Shepherd