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Listen: Shabaka Hutchings - Propaganda
Change the way you see the world, expand your reality and alter your perception. Curated by Shabaka Hutchings.
Barbican Sessions: Shabaka Hutchings
For our latest Barbican Session, one of the central figures of the London jazz scene, Shabaka Hutchings performs an improvised piece on bass clarinet.
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Long read: the British Jazz explosion
Francis Gooding explores the birth of the British jazz scene and introduces the faces of a new wave.