Chatting with Faye MacCalman, indie & avant-garde composer and free-jazz saxophonist
Chris is joined by jazz musician and composer, Faye MacCalman.Faye shares her journey into jazz, explores free improvisation, explains her new compositions for BBC Sounds, rates the Lancaster Jazz Festival, chooses her 3 favourite albums of all time, and replaces a member of our house band! Wow!Faye’s album listing includes:Clouds by Joni Mitchell (1969) on Reprise Records.Outward Bound by Eric Dolphy (196o) on New Jazz records.12 Little Spells by Esperanza Spalding (2018) on Concord records.SupportYou can help support the podcast and keep us ad free. Especially useful if you’d like to support the podcast and want to keep it ad free. Plus it makes Chris feel very happy indeed! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewsteadShow infoPresenter: Chris NewsteadTheme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.Photo of Faye by Victoria Wai.Music: 'The Only One' and 'Music Is A Safe Place' by Faye MacCalman and both produced,mixed and mastered by Graham Dowdall. Available on BBC Sounds later in 2021.Recorded January 2021.