Ilan Volkov and friends celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz, starting with a sequence honouring the 鈥楧uke鈥�. Mary Lou Williams鈥檚 Zodiac Suite from 1945 romps between boogie-woogie and dissonance in its response to astrological signs. The evening culminates in the work of a boundary-crossing visionary very much still with us. From the south side of Chicago, multi-instrumentalist and self-styled 鈥榯rans-idiomatic composer鈥� Anthony Braxton has established himself as a musician whose imagination recognises no bounds.

Broadcast live on 大象传媒 Radio 3

Image: Aaron Diehl 漏 Evelyn Freja