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Music: Jazz & Blues

Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz

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: Brass Mask

Brass Mask

07/10/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz on 3, Brass Mask

Kevin LeGendre presents music from saxophonist Tom Challenger and his Brass Mask octet.

Kevin LeGendre presents British saxophonist Tom Challenger and his Brass Mask octet performing music from their new album.

Kevin Le Gendre presents British reeds player Tom Challenger and his Brass Mask octet performing music from their new album. With a line-up of 3 woodwind, 4 brass and percussion, they're tailor-made for the bluesy New Orleans street-band sound that filters through the music. But the avant-garde ensemble writing of Henry Threadgill is also an acknowledged influence on the group, reflected in the pinpoint ensemble writing, some abstracted grooves and plenty of surprising harmonic twists and turns.

Presenter: Kevin Le Gendre
Producers: Peggy Sutton and 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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