Given all life leads to jazz we might as well take the scenic route. An uncanny hour of words and music from producer Phil Smith. Carefully formulated but never formulaic, an inclusive hour of the straight-ahead and the experimental.
''In the Western world, improvisation is a failure; you do it when something goes wrong. But when black people improvise it's a form of mastery.''
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Art by Christopher Fodera