This week’s Cosmic Jazz was the last pre-recorded show from Derek
before his return from the Caribbean island of Grenada. It featured 
favourites old and new – including two Norwich-based artists, Mammal Hands and pianist Kit Downes. Cal Massey’s often recorded Assunta was here performed by flautist Krzystof Popek, in a group including US jazz stalwarts Kirk Lightsey, David Friesen and John Betsch. Compare with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s version of the tune from his Blue Note album Here To Stay.
The always excellent Trish Clowes was featured in a track from
her acclaimed album Pocket Compass, and the show ended with two Far Out label favourites that we often return to at CJ – the excellent track Montag’s Dream from the Brazilian Otis Trio and fellow countryman Marcos Valle’s perennial Freio Aerodynamico from his comeback album Nova Bossa Nova.
- Mammal Hands – Kudu from Floa
- Kit Downes – Waira from Tricko
- Kit Downes – Tricko from Tricko
- Krzystof Popek – Assunta from Fresh Air Project
- Mateus Gaweda Trio – Timmy 3000 from Overnight Tales
- Trish Clowes – Question Mark from Pocket Compass
- Guilio Romano Malaisi – Looking Up from Unexpected Ride
- Otis Trio – Montag’s Dream from 74 Club
- Marcos Valle – Freio Aerodynamico from Nova Bossa Nova
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Neil is listening to…
- Kamasi Washington – Truth
- Christian Scott – The Reckoning
- Herbie Hancock – People Music
- Bugge Wesseltoft – Change
- Sonny Rollins – God Bless the Child