Alexander Hawkins presents: Break A Vase - Episode 53 (6 May 2026)

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:
Tomeka Reid Quartet - Sauntering With Mr. Brown
Nick Dunston - Vicuña
Gladys Knight & the Pips - Help Me Make It Through the Night
Chris Nightcap’s Bigmouth - Platform
Lina Allemano - Buchfink
Hafez Modirzadeh - Facet 32 Black Pearl
Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – Variatio 25 a 2 Clav. Adagio
Israel 'Cachao' López - Juana La Coja
Sonny Rollins - You Are My Lucky Star
Ohio Players - Together