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The Red Bull Music Academy tour brings the intriguing Cosmic Expansions event to Bristol Planetarium on April 6, starring soul-jazz legend Lonnie Liston Smith and Gilles Peterson featuring Terri Walker and the Cosmic Echoes.

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Free jazz hero Joe McPhee was featured artist at Counterflows 2014 and he returns to Cafe Oto on April 16 to play with Dutch-American trio Universal Indians. Then on April 6th to 7th, Carter undertakes a short residency at Cafe Oto with guests including John Edwards and Thurston Moore.ДЄ festival of international underground music, Counterflows also features jazz guitarist Raymond Boni's tribute to Donald Ayler and Evan Parker and Sten Standell's improvisations for saxophone and church organ). He appears at Glasgow's Counterflows festival between April 2nd and 5th in a duo with Edinburgh electronic artist Owen Green and in a trio with local legend George Lyle on bass and Dada percussionist Fritz Welch. An under-sung hero of free jazz's loft era, Carter is an inspirational force, his style ranging from soulful and questing alto sax fire to acrobatic piano torrents. This fiery, tender and ingenious group were responsible for two of tQ's favourite jazz albums of 2014 it's hugely exciting to have them on these shores.ДЄpril sees multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter return to the UK following his staggering duo show with William Parker at Glasgow's Arika Episode 4 in 2013. Oh, for a Tardis and unlimited funds! March 30 brings the brilliant Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and his Motion Trio to London's Cafe Oto, with special guest Peter Evans on trumpet. The coming weeks boast a frenzy of live action. We also discuss a splendid piece of free improv hum and clang from Roger Turner and Otomo Yoshihide, the latest from Seb Rochford's jazz-groove-electronica outfit Polar Bear, and the debut LP from Sunn O))) and Sun Ra fans Free Nelson ManDoomJazz. Spring's Complete Communion brings you avant-garde Ellingtonia from Matthew Shipp, fiery free jazz and top notch Sinatra puns from Death Shanties, pianistic brilliance from Alexander Hawkins, and a bass masterclass from Barry Guy.

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