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Jazz on 3: Les Diaboliques

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30/04/2012

Les Diaboliques

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Jez Nelson presents a concert given by European improvising trio Les Diaboliques.

Jez Nelson presents a concert given by European improvising trio Les Diaboliques, featuring British vocalist Maggie Nicols, pianist Irene Schweizer and bassist Joelle Leandre.

Jez Nelson presents European improvising trio Les Diaboliques, featuring British vocalist Maggie Nicols, pianist Irene Schweizer and bassist Joelle Leandre. The group has performed and recorded together since the early 1990s. Blurring the lines between free improvisation, satire and cabaret, they draw on their individual work in theatre as well as over three decades spent at the heart of the European free-improv scene, playing with everyone from Derek Bailey to Han Bennink. Also on the programme, trombonist Gail Brand interviews Nicols, shedding light on a career that stretches back to membership of John Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the late 1960s, and includes co-founding the Feminist Improvising Group, the first all-female ensemble of its kind, ten years later. 

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Studio guests: Geoffrey Smith & Gail Brand
Producers: Chris Elcombe & Peggy Sutton.

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