Soweto Kinch to present BBC radio shows
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Next month alto saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch presents Where Musical Worlds Collide a set of two programmes where Kinch discusses spoken word in the context of both hip hop and jazz and investigates the spoken word in jazz, scat and jive talk, improvisation with language, protest and beat poetry, the links between spoken word, personality and performance, working with samples and cutting contests in both jazz and hip-hop.
Interviewees include Jason Moran and Branford Marsalis. The programmes will be aired on Radio 3 in the Jazz File slot on 8 and 15 October at 6pm.