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AACM at 60

Celebrating the visionary Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians 60th year.

鈥楻ound Midnight is presented by award-winning saxophonist Soweto Kinch. This weekday late-night show celebrates the thriving UK jazz scene and spotlights the best new music alongside incredible acts from past decades.

Tonight, Soweto pays homage to the pioneering Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, also known as the AACM, who turn 60 this month.

The organisation was founded in 1965, by pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, with pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall, and trumpeter Phil Cohran. Over the past six decades, the ACCM has been at the forefront of avant-garde and improvised music. It has nurtured, supported, and recorded some of jazz鈥檚 leading innovators, including Henry Threadgill, Nicole Mitchell, Isaiah Collier, and Tomeka Reid.

Joining Soweto are two AACM appreciators and forward-facing jazz artists; cornetist, multi-instrumentalist, and AACM member Ben LaMar Gay, and clarinettist, multi-instrumentalist, and key part of Chicago鈥檚 music community Angel Bat Dawid.

Ben LaMar Gay and Angel Bat Dawid will each be sharing a mini-mixtape, featuring some of the AACM artists that have influenced them and sharing their reflections on the AACM鈥檚 impact and legacy.

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Music Played

  • Duval Timothy

    big flex

    • wishful thinking.
    • Carrying Colour.

  • Ben Lamar Gay

    yowzers

    • John, John Henry.
    • International Anthem.

  • Joseph Jarman

    Little Fox Run

    • Song For.
    • Delmark Records.

  • George Lewis & Marina Rosenfeld

    We Gig Or Else

    • Sour Mash.
    • Innova.

  • Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble

    Time For Change

    • HOPE, FUTURE AND DESTINY.
    • Dreamtime Records Inc.

  • Douglas Ewart

    Constant Springs

    • Constant Springs.
    • Innova.

  • Henry Threadgill

    Paper Toilet

    • Too Much Sugar for A Dime.
    • Axiom.

  • Amina Claudine Myers

    Ain't Nobody Ever Gonna Hear Us?

    • Sama Rou.
    • Amina Claudine Myers.

  • David Boykin Expanse

    Jacuzzi

    • 47th Street Ghost.
    • Dreamtime Records.

  • Jeff Parker

    Omega Sci Fi

    • Like-Coping.
    • Delmark.

  • Anthony Braxton

    22-M (Opus 58)

    • Creative Orchestra Music.
    • Arista/Legacy.

  • Reuben James

    Big People Music (feat. Theo Croker & Joe Armon鈥怞ones)

    • Big People Music.
    • Rufio Records.

  • Rebecca Vasmant

    Becoming

    • Who Are We, Becoming.
    • New Soil.

  • Angel Bat Dawid & Naima Nefertari

    Bishmillah

    • Journey to Nabta Playa.
    • Spiritmuse Records.

  • Muhal Richard Abrams

    Afrisong

    • Afrisong.
    • Candid.

  • Alexis Lombre

    Boundaries

    • Boundaries.
    • Alexis Lombre.

  • Jovia Armstrong, Yaw Agyeman & TehRay 'Phenom ' Hale

    Zebra (feat. Yaw Agyeman & TehRay 'Phenom ' Hale)

  • Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

    Humility in the Light of the Creator

    • Humility in the Light of the Creator.
    • Delmark Records.

  • Ebi Soda

    feely

    • feely.
    • Tru Thoughts.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 23:30
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3