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Corey Mwamba shines a light on the world of free jazz and improvised music, picking out pieces of profound artistic synergy.

Brought together by an instinctive sonic connection, soprano saxophonist Paul Dunmall and drummer Tony Orrell first met in Bristol in 1979 and found a powerful musical cohesion; and ten years later, they reunited for a breathtaking live performance, joined by double bass player Paul Rogers. Corey shares a track from this improvised encounter which is to be released for the first time in January. Italian improviser Francesca Naibo, meanwhile, uses the guitar to re-discover and explore memories of her childhood, counterposing cassette tape fragments recorded when she was eight years old with new musical responses in a surreal and timeless conversation with her younger self.

Elsewhere in the show, we head to St Louis, Missouri in 1982 where the collective energy of saxophonist Maurice Malik King, Qaiyim Shabazz on congas and Zimbabwe Nkenya on bass created the bluesy spiritual infusion of Malik's Emerging Force Art Trio. Plus a fiery track from American drummer Tyshawn Sorey’s latest album The Off​-​Off Broadway Guide to Synergism as well as a poetic stream of consciousness from another new release, Brahja’s Watermelancholia.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for Â鶹Éç Radio 3