Mike Gavin presents: Jazz Progression (25 November 2025)

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.

Ep.8 - Black Progression

Playlist:
Noir - Rain (We Had to Let You Have It Dawn 1971)
Assagai - Akasa (Assagai Vertigo 1971)
Osibisa - Music for Gong Gong (Osibisa MCA 1971)
Dudu Pukwana & Spear - Flute Music (Flute Music Virgin 1974)
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath - MRA (Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath RCA/Neon 1971)
Dudu Pukwana/Johnny Dyani (unissued track 7.27)
Afrocult Foundation - The Quest (Black Goddess 1978)
Cymande - Them & Us (Second Time Around 1973)
Akido - Confusion (Akido Mercury 1972)