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A victory dance for Ezra Collective

Jumok茅 Fashola celebrates Ezra Collective鈥檚 Mercury Prize win with highlights from their Glastonbury set. Plus surrealist blues poet aja monet shares her inspirations.

Jumok茅 Fashola celebrates Ezra Collective鈥檚 Mercury Prize win with highlights from their Glastonbury set.

Elsewhere in the show, Jumok茅 looks ahead to National Poetry Day, sharing an interview with surrealist blues poet and activist aja monet. aja's poetry is deeply reflective, rooted in love, joy, community and the fight against social injustice. Her stunning debut album 'when the poems do what they do' blends jazz and spoken word and features several leading lights, among them trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, pianist and vocalist Samora Pinderhughes, flautist Elena Pinderhughes and drummer Marcus Gilmore. Here aja discusses some of her inspirations, including a Gary Bartz track that reworks a poem by Langston Hughes to dazzling effect.

Produced by Thomas Rees for Somethin鈥� Else

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sat 30 Sep 2023 17:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ezra Collective

    Welcome to My World (Live at Glastonbury 2023)

    • Live at Glastonbury 2023.

  • Sean Mason

    Closure

    • Southern Suite.
    • Southern Suite.

  • Endea Owens

    Where The Nubians Grow

    • Feel Good Music.
    • BassBae Music.

  • Enemy, James Maddren, Kit Downes & Petter Eldh

    Croydon Smash

    • The Betrayal.
    • We Jazz.

  • Eddie Jefferson

    Body and Soul

    • Body And Soul.
    • Prestige.

  • Gil Scott鈥怘eron

    Is That Jazz?

    • Reflections.
    • Arista.

  • Irreversible Entanglements

    Free Love

    • Protect Your Light.
    • Impulse!.

  • Pharoah Sanders

    Love Will Find A Way

    • Pharoah.
    • India Navigation.

  • Ezra Collective

    Water No Got Enemy /Lady/S茫o Paulo/Pure Shade (Live at Glastonbury 2023) (feat. Kinetica Bloco)

    • Live at Glastonbury 2023.

  • Fats Navarro

    Nostalgia

    • Nostalgia.
    • Savoy Records.

  • aja monet

    why my love?

    • when the poems do what they do.
    • drink sum wtr.

  • Camille Yarbrough

    Ain't It A Lonely Feeling

    • The Iron Pot Cooker.
    • Vanguard.

  • Arthur Prysock

    I Need Your Love

    • This Is My Beloved.
    • Verve.

  • Sekou Sundiata

    Shout Out

    • single.
    • nfi.

  • aja monet

    Weathering

    • when the poems do what they do.
    • drink sum wtr.

  • Gary Bartz

    I've Known Rivers

    • I鈥檝e Known Rivers And Other Bodies.
    • Prestige.

  • Ezra Collective

    You Can't Steal My Joy / Victory Dance (Live at Glastonbury 2023)

    • Live at Glastonbury 2023.

Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Sep 2023 17:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3