Alexander Hawkins presents: Break A Vase - Episode 43 (30 July 2025)

Break A Vase began in 2023 as the efforts of a busy touring musician to reacquaint himself when at home with various corners of his physical music collection. Each episode finds Hawkins free-associating his way around his shelves, resulting in a genre-blind trip which takes in jazz, improvised, classical, traditional and pop musics from across the planet and the ages, and much else besides.

Playlist:
Hamid Drake & Bindu - Hymn of Solidarity
Amina Claudine Myers - Jumping’ In The Sugar Bowl
Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni - BaBala
Louis Armstrong - Blue Turning Grey Over You
Olivier Messaien - Louange à l’Eternité de Jésus
Eric Dolphy - Ode To Charlie Parker
Girija Devi - Raga Desh Tappa
Sly and the Family Stone - Only One Way Out Of This Mess