Her duo, with award-winning jazz vocalist Niki King, has supported Gregory Porter.Īlina’s critically acclaimed Quartet led the 80th Birthday celebrations for Alice Coltrane around the UK in 2017. She has performed with leading classical and jazz musicians such as Shabaka Hutchings, Django Bates, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the Glasgow String Quartet. Originally from Ukraine/Poland and now based in London, Alina Bzhezhinska is an internationally renowned harpist. In this unique programme Alina Bzhezhinska and a crack team of UK jazz musicians recreate Coltrane’s spiritual recordings, Journey in Satchidananda and Eternity, alongside Ashby’s innovative album, Afro-Harping. They followed different paths in life and in music, but both made a lasting contribution to the development of contemporary jazz and continue to inspire musicians today. The legendary Alice Coltrane was born in Detroit, as was fellow jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby. Due to popular demand this event has been moved to Hall One.
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