Thursday, November 3, 2011

Jerry Dammers / The Spatial AKA Orchestra (BBC 6 Music)

30/10/11

Songwriter/keyboardist Jerry Dammers founded, and designed the logo for, 2 Tone Records, and formed The Specials writing Ghost Town and many of the Specials other hits. Dammers has been a working D.J. for over 15 years and formed the Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra in 2008.

He will be chatting to Cerys ahead of his show Cosmic Engineering: A tribute to Sun Ra and other mystic mavericks. Featuring some of the UK's finest jazz musicians and his 18-piece orchestra he pays tribute to the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane by mingling their sounds with those of dub innovator Coxsone Dodd, Exotica pioneer Martin Denny and many more.

Cerys and Jerry Dammers

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016k3dz