Alina Bzhezhinska Photo credit: Steven Cropper/ Transient Life

London-based Ukrainian/ Polish harpist ALINA BZHEZHINSKA has a new project, based around an important album recorded 50 years ago this year, Dorothy Ashby’s Afro-Harping. As she looks forward to two live dates (details below) she explains the background to Sebastian: 

PODCAST:

Alina Bzhezhinska Interview by LondonJazz
MUSIC EXTRACTS, ALL FROM AFRO-HARPING (1968)

1) 00:00 Come Live with Me

2) 04:59 Afro-Harping (title track)

3) 10:58 Life has its Trials

4) 16:45 Come Live with Me

5) 22:46 Soul Vibrations

LIVE DATES for AFRO-HARPING: 

30 October: Played Twice at Brilliant Corners WEBSITE
18 November: Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, EFG London Jazz Festival BOOKINGS

Band: Alina Bzhezhinska (harp), Christian Vaughan (keyboard/arranger), Gareth Lockrane (flutes), Julie Walkington (bass), Joel Prime (drums)

LINK: Alina Bzhezhinska’s website