Last year, the Creative Jazz Orchestra toured for the Contemporary Music Network, giving performances of compositions by Nikki lies, including The Printmakers, a suite paying tribute to the music and lives of five women in jazz. Alyn Shipton introduces the concert this eight-piece orchestra gave in the Purcell Room,
London, last February, and during the interval talks to Nikki lies about her career as a pianist, accordionist, clarinettist and composer. Producer Derek Drescher