Mike Gavin presents: Jazz Progression (5 August 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:
Azimuth - The Tunnel (ECM 1977) - Edit
Joe Gallivan & Charles Austin - Medley: The Sphinx/The Lynx (Compendium Records 1976)
Elton Dean / Joe Gallivan / Kenny Wheeler - Ragadagger (Ogun 1977)
Lol Coxhill - Synalto (Caroline Records 1975)
Evan Parker - In Real Time #1 (Ictus Records 1977)
SOS - Wherever I Am (Ogun Records 1975)
Karin Krog/John Surman - Eyeless In Movement (Polydor 1979)
Soft head - 7 Drones (Ogun Records 1978) 4.00
Soft Heap - Circle Line (Charly Records 1979) 6.54
Ian Carr with Nucleus - Elements 1 & 2 (Vertigo 1971)