Alexander Hawkins

Thanks for listening, Mark!

Really appreciate that - thank you!

Oh - no, but I *love* that moment (and remember being completely knocked out by it when I first heard it)...it was in fact a Derek Walcott reference! Hope all well with you, Clifford.

Episode 21 - Sonny Rollins, Péter Eötvös, Sergio Mendes, etc...

...and the latest...https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-20/

Episode 19 now out there:

@Rabshakeh - so sorry - I missed this! I believe you can download from Mixcloud...although I have to confess - I just don't know whether or not you need to subscribe to the channel to do that! @Dub Modal thanks so much for checking it out! p.s. Episode 18 now available as of this morning:

Next one now up! https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-16/

Latest one here: Joe Henderson, Count Ossie, Christian Marclay, Francesca Remigi, and more...https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-15/

Thanks so much for checking it out!

Latest episode now available...https://www.mixcloud.com/AlexanderHawkinsMusic/break-a-vase-episode-14/

I just wanted to give a quick mention to a project I've started recently - a series of roughly 45-50 minute podcasts called 'Break A Vase'. Essentially, the episodes are me free-associating my way around my record collection in a hopefully interesting way...so for sure it's not 'new releases' radio in any way (many of course already doing this in brilliant ways)...more something which began with me reflecting on the amount of physical media I'd lovingly collected, but wasn't listening to as much any more, due to the requirements of being on the road for concerts the whole time. Not all jazz, although this naturally plays a very large part...but do check out the track listings to get a sense! I've been releasing episodes weekly, and 13 are already available at: ...and if you enjoy the show, please do consider subscribing and sharing!

I was on tour so forgot to post about my own newest one on Intakt when it came out last month, so hopefully it's ok to mention this one here: https://alexanderhawkinsintakt.bandcamp.com/album/carnival-celestial ...and here's the album page over at the Intakt website. It's my latest trio music...I hope you enjoy it!

The gigs were a total joy...and super excited to have the chance to play again with Nicole at the end of the month - this time playing compositions, and in a sextet, so hugely looking forward to it also for this different perspective. She's an absolute magician!

Wow - what a collection. I read this some time ago...he seemed to have been an absolutely remarkable person...

Percy is a truly phenomenal musician. As mentioned, a brilliant bass player too, and he currently holds a trumpet chair in one of the German radio big bands. He also plays on two of my records - the large ensemble disc from the Unit[e] set, and Togetherness Music (you can actually hear him on one of the preview track - 'Sea No Shore'). But anyway...an amazing musician.

Yes, I think AvS, and indeed, Paul Lovens

Oh haha...you saw the picture! My cynical plans to manipulate the algorithm - jumping on the wild popularity of creative music as a way to draw attention to cat pictures Really happy you are enjoying the music.

Thank you! Oh wow - much appreciated!

Really appreciate this, and hope you enjoy it!

Just to leave this here...I have a new one out today: 'Break A Vase' on Intakt Records... There are a couple of sound samples over at the Intakt Bandcamp - would be really happy if anyone was curious to check it out..!

Nice story! For anyone even remotely interested, I'd strongly recommend this biography of Mitropoulos, who was clearly a very special person as well as musician.

One bit of trivia which none of us realised at the time, but which I discovered a couple of days after this gig...and beautifully fitting considering Anthony's love of Brubeck etc: I believe it's Eugene Wright and Joe Morello on the studio recording of the tune with Simon & Garfunkel!

Perhaps because of my age, and because I'm not aware the Carol Burnett show was 'exported' over here, I was completely unaware of this tune, and it totally knocked me out...absolutely beautiful. Similarly with 'Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)' from elsewhere in the set - a total gem of a song which I have to confess I just didn't know...

I *think* there are two separate things, here. With the Heliocentrics, he was a guest soloist (although playing his own tunes) with that band. Primavera in the mid teens was Mulatu leading his own band (I played the Barcelona gig, but not the Glastonbury one, for instance). [Unless Mulatu also played Primavera with the Heliocentrics? Possible, I guess, although I'd imagine that the bookers might space out his appearances a little more...] Actually - the setlist of the two bands at one point were pretty similar (I subbed on a couple of the Heliocentrics shows), but the sounds of the bands were pretty different - the Helios were/are the more 'electric' of the two (e.g. Mulatu's band uses 'cello instead of electric guitar).