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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: Mariam Rezaei and Stephen Bishop in session

Mariam Rezaei and Stephen Bishop in session

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Highlights from turntablist Mariam Rezaei and electronic artist Stephen Bishop’s session.

More music from the socially distanced Lateness session from the turntablist Mariam Rezaei and electronic artist Stephen Bishop.

Corey Mwamba presents more music from the socially distanced Lateness sessions recorded in Newcastle for Late Junction and Freeness in association with TUSK festival. Tonight’s highlights include the first live performance between turntablist Mariam Rezaei and electronic artist Stephen Bishop and some short improvisations from ad hoc collaborations that happened on the day. 

Also in the show, pianist Cecil Taylor and percussionist Tony Oxley perform at Birdland in Neuburg in 2011 and a meeting in Chicago between the reeds player Ken Vandermark, saxophonist Joe McPhee and bassist Kent Kessler.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.

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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