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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: John Surman

John Surman

29/07/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz on 3, John Surman

A solo performance given by virtuoso reeds player John Surman.

A solo performance given by one of the statesmen of British jazz, virtuoso reeds player John Surman.

Reeds player John Surman has been key to the story of British jazz for 40 years and more. This solo performance, featuring music from his most recent album Saltash Bells, sums up why. Surman's musical pathways have taken him into free jazz and folk, South African township music and the blues - and many of those sounds are filtered into this set, in which he uses his trademark virtuosity, allied to an array of pedals and loops, to build rich soundworlds.

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