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Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz

Corey Mwamba presents the best new jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit.

Freeness: to be exempt or released from something that controls, restrains or burdens. Corey Mwamba presents the best new jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit.

Freeness: Improvisation for large ensembles

Improvisation for large ensembles

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With tracks from Sweden’s Fire! Orchestra and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Fire! Orchestra and the Art Ensemble of Chicago explore how to balance improvisation and composition in a large ensemble. Presented by Corey Mwamba.

Under the direction of Mats Gustafsson, the Fire! Orchestra takes on Krzysztof Penderecki´s piece Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra written in 1971. There’s live music from the 50th anniversary homecoming gig by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Millennium Park, Chicago last summer; and absorbing tonal improvisation in a collaboration between the French group Ikui Doki and vocalist Sofia Jernberg. Presented by Corey Mwamba. 

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
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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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