Mike Gavin presents: Jazz Progression (13 October 2026)

Mike Gavin, label manager at Cadillac and Ogun Records, looks at the growth of community music in the 1970s – the DIY ethic forced on musicians by the social, economic and cultural changes at the beginning of the decade (sound familiar?), and plays music gems which maybe aren’t getting played so much elsewhere.

A Ritual For Coltrane:

Jeff Clyne talks about the progressive scene Aymeric Leroy
Lol Coxhill/Steve Miller - Oh, Do I Like To Be Beside the Seaside {The Story So Far... / ...Oh
Really?}
John Coltrane - I Want To Talk About You {Live at Birdland}
Tubby Hayes - Trane’s Blues {Free Flight}
John Surman, Mike Osborne, Alan Skidmore - Country Dance {SOS}
Elton Dean Quartet - Naima {They All Be On This Old Road}