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Cath Roberts’ work explores free improvisation, composition and the music at their meeting point. Her primary outlet as a composer and improviser on baritone saxophone is the quintet Sloth Racket, which has toured widely and released several albums. She leads ten piece improvising ensemble Favourite Animals, and has a long-standing duo with guitarist Anton Hunter, Ripsaw Catfish. As bandmate, Cath is a member of Madwort Sax Quartet, Vole, Article XI and Alex Ward’s Item 10 amongst other groups. She co-runs LUME with Dee Byrne, producing concerts, tours and festivals since 2013 and releasing music on an offshoot label, Luminous

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jonny Mansfield, Nisha Ramayya, Jonathan Crossley, And More

by Colin Muirhead
October 3, 2026

Featuring new improvised music, with tracks by Jonny Mansfield, the Pete Roth Trio, Nisha Ramayya, Sia Ahmed & Raymond MacDonald, Jonathan Crossley, and more. Playlist John Pope Quintet “Rain for the Moment" from The Changing Sky (New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings) 0:00 Pete Roth Trio “Improvisation on the Largo from Dvořák's Symphony #9" ...

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New Music From Harry Skoler, Joe Syrian, Emie R Roussel, Ava Mendoza And More

by Bob Osborne
May 28, 2026

This selection offers a sophisticated journey through the contemporary jazz landscape, balancing melodic tradition with rigorous avant-garde exploration. The sequence moves seamlessly from the elegant, Goodman-inspired tones of Harry Skoler and the rhythmic drive of the Motor City Jazz Octet into the more abstract, adventurous territories of Ava Mendoza and Joel Futterman. Featuring a rich blend ...

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Pierre Favre, Micah Thomas & Columbia Icefield

by Maurice Hogue
May 18, 2026

This episode of One Man's Jazz is loaded with music from new releases. Highly regarded pianist Micah Thomas drops a teaser of his upcoming Lucid , while trumpeter Nate Wooley & Columbia Icefield may have released their last album. A Silence Opens pays tribute to steel guitar virtuoso Susan Alcorn, a key member of the band, ...

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Johnny Hunter / Mark Hanslip / Olie Brice: Divisions

Read "Divisions" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 5, 2024

Divisions might seem a strange choice of title for such a cohesive set. It is the name of a four-part suite written by drummer Johnny Hunter for this all British trio completed by bassist Olie Brice and tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip. As well as his own dates, such as Pale Blue Dot (Northern Contemporary, 2020) for ...

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Conduits

By Cath Roberts

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pipework; Peering; Buoyancy Chamber.

Album

Conduit

By Cath Roberts

Label: Relative Pitch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Pipework; Peering; Buoyancy Chamber.

Article: Album Review

Cath Roberts & Olie Brice: Conduit

by Mark Corroto
June 8, 2022

Do not let the length fool you. Clocking in at just under thirty minutes Conduits by the UK duo of Cath Roberts and Olie Brice is a full meal. During the Covid lockdown, the two musicians recorded the music in two separate locations, but also in real time. Utilizing special software called JackTrip, which eliminates the ...

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Cath Roberts & Olie Brice: Conduits

by John Sharpe
June 2, 2022

In some ways one could liken Conduits to a telephone call between two friends, given that it was recorded simultaneously over the internet at the homes of baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts and bassist Olie Brice who live some 60 miles apart in England. But, while the vibe is conversational, this being an instrumental exchange, it is ...

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Live at Hundred Years Gallery

By Tom Ward

Label: Efpi Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: After Joshua Maps Birds Creeping Commercialism Shard On the Opening of a Dwarf Sunflower Chesmonancy Mad Giant Bee Sieve of Eratosthenes Islands in the Green Handbuilt by Robots