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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: BBC Introducing at the 2013 Manchester Jazz Festival

BBC Introducing at the 2013 Manchester Jazz Festival

05/08/2013

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Jez Nelson with music from the BBC Introducing stage at the 2013 Manchester Jazz Festival.

Music from the BBC Introducing stage at the 2013 Manchester Jazz Festival: Laura Cole's Metamorphic, Moonlight Saving Time, Dominic J Marshall's piano trio and Twelveheads.

Some of the UK's brightest emerging jazz musicians converge on the BBC Introducing stage at this year's Manchester Jazz Festival. Hosted by Jez Nelson at the Band on the Wall club, the night features four bands from around the country. Leeds-based piano player Laura Cole and her ensemble, Metamorphic, bring together jazz and folk in multi-layered grooves, interspersed with freer explorations of texture. Bristol quintet Moonlight Saving Time re-interpret music by some of the great jazz composers with a sound that harks back to 1970s Latin jazz-fusion, but brought up to date with contemporary hip-hop and Afro-Cuban influences. There are also hip-hop tinges to Dominic J Marshall's piano trio, while the music of London quartet Twelveheads, led by drummer Peter Ibbetson, has an angularity reminiscent of the New York downtown scene.

BBC Introducing gives unsigned, undiscovered or under-the-radar bands the chance to upload their music and get it played on BBC radio. The bands featured in this programme were selected to appear at the Manchester Jazz Festival by Jez Nelson, Gilles Peterson and Jamie Cullum.

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

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