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Music: Jazz & Blues

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Celebrating the best contemporary jazz, with exclusive concert recordings and features

From free jazz to fusion, post-bop to electronica – Jazz on 3 celebrates the music as a living and developing art form, with exclusive concert recordings and in-depth features

Jazz on 3: The ICP Orchestra

The ICP Orchestra

01/04/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz on 3, The ICP Orchestra

Music from the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, with Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg.

Jez Nelson presents music from improvising ensemble the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, featuring co-founders Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg.

Pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink have been instantly composing together for half a century in the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, one of the world's longest-running improvisation projects. The ten-piece ensemble that they co-founded draws on the jaunty swing of Blue Note-era musicians such as Herbie Nichols and Thelonious Monk within avant-garde parameters: the pieces often have no pre-ordained structure, and the players can inject 'viruses', or themes known by the group, at any point in proceedings. The music veers from the arthouse to the circus, with a sense of surprise never far away. 

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producers: Peggy Sutton & Chris Elcombe.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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