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Experimental Explorations with Charles Mingus

To celebrate the jazz titan's centenary, Stuart explores his 1972 album Let My Children Hear Music. Plus, ambient organ, TV themes & folk songs about Benjamin Britten's cleaner.

To celebrate the jazz titan's centenary, Stuart explores his 1972 album 'Let My Children Hear Music'. Described by Mingus as "the best album I have ever made" among his discography of almost sixty, Let My Children Hear Music fuses together classical music and free jazz to playful and fiery effect. Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist, bandleader and composer who died in 1979 at the age of 56 and is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in jazz history.

Plus soothing ambient organ, dramatic orchestral TV theme tunes, avant garde sample-based electronics and folk songs about Benjamin Britten's cleaner from the likes of Kali Malone, John Barry, Mira Calix and Fowl.

2 hours

Last on

Sun 24 Apr 2022 20:00

Music Played

  • John Barry

    Theme from 'Romance For Guitar & Orchestra

  • Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz

    WONDERING, WAITING

  • Mildlife

    Vapour

  • Charles Mingus

    Adagio Ma Non Troppo

  • Mira Calix

    there is always a girl with a secret

  • Kali Malone

    Sacrificial Code I

  • Tonto鈥檚 Expanding Head Band

    Cybernaut

  • Charles Mingus

    Hobo Ho

  • Robert Wyatt

    The British Road

  • Fowl

    Parrot Men

  • Greenslade

    Sunkissed You're Not

  • Phillip Jeck

    Unveiled

  • Inre Kretsen Grupp

    Raoul

  • Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales

    Contain (In Key)

  • John Barry

    The Adventurer

  • Charles Mingus

    Don't Be Afraid, The Clown's Afraid Too

  • Grund

    The Way Out

  • Anthony Pirog

    Adonna The Painter

  • Ozric Tentacles

    Saucers

Broadcast

  • Sun 24 Apr 2022 20:00