Mike Gavin presents: Jazz Progression (3 June 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.

Playlist:
Joy - Martini Sweet
Jackie Tracey speaks…BBC1 documentary, ‘Original’ in their Omnibus series, 1977
Stan Tracey Eighty - Eight plus One [Alone & Together]
Mike Osborne/Stan Tracey - Air on a Shoestring [Tandem]
Keith Tippett/Stan Tracey - Dance 2 [TNT]
Stan Tracey speaks…BBC1 documentary, ‘Original’ in their Omnibus series, 1977
John Surman/Stan Tracey - Murphy’s Dream [Sonatinas]
Stan Tracey - Outtake [Jazz Suite inspired by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood a new recordings narrated by Donald Houston, Steam Records]
Splinters - Grass Roots Phase 1 [Inclusivity]