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London Jazz Festival: Michel Portal

Jez Nelson presents French clarinettist and saxophonist Michel Portal performing with his Bailador band at the 2011 London Jazz Festival.

Jez Nelson presents French clarinettist and saxophonist Michel Portal with his Bailador band at the 2011 London Jazz Festival. Now 75, Portal has had a wide-ranging musical career that began in the European free jazz movement and has also taken in the classical avant-garde, award-winning film scores and, in recent years, a more mainstream duo project with accordionist Richard Galliano. His new ensemble performs music influenced by Latin and Eastern European folk sounds and reflecting the cutting-edge line-up of the band: Serbian pianist Bojan Z and Americans Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Scott Colley (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums).

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 23 Jan 2012 23:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Michel Portal's Bailador, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 14 November 2011

    • Untitled

      Line-up: Michel Portal (soprano & alto saxophones, bass clarinet), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Bojan Z (piano & Fender Rhodes), Scott Colley (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)

    • Michel Portal's Bailador

      Dolce

      Composer: Michel Portal

    • Michel Portal's Bailador

      Bailador

      Composer: Michel Portal

  • Untitled

    Kevin Le Gendre speaks to Michel Portal

  • Michel Portal's Bailador, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 14 November 2011

    • Untitled

      Line-up: Michel Portal (soprano & alto saxophones, bass clarinet), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Bojan Z (piano & Fender Rhodes), Scott Colley (bass), Nasheet Waits (drums)

    • Michel Portal's Bailador

      Alto Blues

      Composer: Michel Portal

    • Michel Portal's Bailador

      Citrus Juice

      Composer: Eddy Louiss

  • Jez talks to journalist Daniel Spicer about improvisation in Lebanon and Turkey

    • Ayse TΓΌtΓΌncΓΌ Trio

      Yine De

      Composer: Ayse TΓΌtΓΌncΓΌ

    • KonstruKt feat. Marshall Allen, HΓΌseyin ErtunΓ§ & Barlas Tan Γ–zemek

      Milky Way

      • Vibrations Of The Day.
      • re:konstruKt.

    • β€œA” Trio

      Untitled

      track recorded at STEIM studios in 2007

Broadcast

  • Mon 23 Jan 2012 23:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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