On the Edge: Improvisation in Music

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  • Premiered: Feb 1992
  • Episodes: 4
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  • Ended
  • Channel 4
  • Unknown
  • Documentary Mini-series Musical

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Season 1
1x1
Passing It On
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 02, 1992
Douglas Ewart at Haynes School in Chinatown, Chicago. Improvisation in Mozart with Robert Levin, piano and the Acadamy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood. John Zorn and Cobra. .. show full overview
1x2
Movements in Time
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 09, 1992
Tracing the effects of migration on improvising links across continents and the production of new styles from the combinations: Qawwali from the Sufis in New Delhi, Northern .. show full overview
1x3
A Liberating Thing
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 16, 1992
Concentrating on jazz based and free improvisation. With Max Roach at the Harlam School of the Arts; Butch Morris conducting (with, among others, Shelley Hirsch); Sang-Won Park and .. show full overview
1x4 Show finale
Nothin' Premeditated
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 23, 1992
With Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead. Buddy Guy. George Lewis and computers (and in quartet with Douglas Ewart and sound and video generation). Mbira music from Zimbabwe. Music of .. show full overview

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