Orphy Robinson MBE highlights the immense influence of the Caribbean on jazz globally, a programme originally aired during Notting Hill Carnival weekend 2024 but will be re-broadcast on One Jazz at 2pm Sunday 22nd June, official Windrush Day 2025, commemorating the docking of the ship Empire Windrush at London’d Tilbury docks on this very day in 1948.
Aboard the Windrush were over 1000 folks from the Caribbean, invited by Britain to help re-build the country after the destruction and devastation of World War II. We salute their immense contribution and the wonderful cutural impressions up and down the entire UK.
Jon Hendricks – Some Stopped On De Way
Kenny Kirkland – Steepian Faith
Don Byron – War Dance for Wooden Indians
Jacques Schwarz-Bart – Ron Jack
Tivon Pennicott – Tell Me Again
Russell Hall – They Hope (feat. The Ladybugs)
Harry Beckett – The Forgotten Man
Cleveland Watkiss – The River
Etienne Charles & Badjohn Republic – Picong
Leon Foster Thomas – Enchantment
Soweto Kinch – Riot Music
Herlin Riley – Tootie Ma
Jean Paul Bourelly – Sack and Motors
Casey Benjamin – Dig
Shake Keane Quintet – Bossa Negra.
Randy Weston – Blues to Africa
Daniel Ponce – Midnight Mambo.
Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Philly Joe Jones – Pot Luck
Randy Weston – Blues to Africa
Marcus Miller – Detroit
Rohan Reid – Rifle Road
Blue Mitchell – Avars