Within improvised music, there are (at least) two very different traditions. In one tradition (exemplified by groupings such as Company and Relay) musicians who are relatively unknown to each other ...

This quartet has been together for a long time, and its music has been documented on CD before. All of this is abundantly obvious in the single 45-minute piece on this disc. Within the first two ...

This evening of key UK improvisers began with a set of solo piano from Keith Tippett. His creations displayed intense playing which was rewarded with close listening from the audience, excepting seat ...

Altoist Dunmall has been a part of a British jazz scene centred around Keith Tippett's Mujician. The Great Divide is the Octet's second release, and it personifies the best of swingin' free ...

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The International Bagpipe Conference 2016 goes ahead at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow this weekend [February 26-28], the first time the event has been hosted in Scotland. As well as papers ...

This week's Jazz on 3 was to be entirely dedicated to the music of the pianist Keith Tippett but then came the sad news of the death of another British jazz great Ian Carr who passed on Wednesday 25 ...

UK quartet Mujician have been going strong for almost two decades; they remain one of the most distinctive and user-friendly of free-jazz groups, specialising in flowing, energetic large-scale improv ...