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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Echoes

Echoes

BBC Radio 3 - Freeness, Echoes

Corey Mwamba presents new music exploring echoes of liberation struggles and aquatic life.

Corey Mwamba presents new music exploring echoes of liberation struggles, aquatic life and friendship.

Twenty years after meeting up in Oxford for a tea, guitarist Dominic Lash and pianist Pat Thomas share their first project as a duo - a rich exchange filled with vaporous, unpredictable turns and riffs that slack loose and snap taut. 

We hear new music from the New York-based group WeFreeStrings, led by viola player Melanie Dyer. This second offering from the group pulses with the album's title: ‘love in the form of sacred rage’. Here, dedications to activists including Fred Hampton and Fannie Lou Hamer find life through glitching, tectonic orchestrations.

Elsewhere Barcelona-based Tomomi Kubo collaborates with saxophonist Ferran Besalduch. Kubo creates subterranean sound waves on the ondes Martenot. Together, they create unsettling, shadowy pieces drawing on aquatic life.

Produced by Tej Adeleye
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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