Far and Wide with Rowan Flack - S2E5

Far and Wide with Rowan Flack

Series 2 Episode 5

A new music podcast series exploring music from the past and present with a focus on jazz + alt-folk.

Rowan is a vocalist, composer and bandleader from South London. As a jazz graduate of both Trinity Laban Conservatoire (Greenwich) and The Edvard Grieg Academy (Bergen, Norway) and a former student of The Brit School; her music style weaves between the genres of jazz, pop/soul and alt-folk.

Inspired by a broad range of singers and instrumentalists; she listens to Astrud Gilberto, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Norah Jones, and Gretchen Parlato although early influences also include more downtempo dance and indie-folk bands such as Bonobo, Zero-7, Fleet Foxes, and Villagers. Her current influences are heart-warming, soulful tracks from contemporaries such as Kokoroko, Eloise and Cleo Sol.

This music podcast is a place to re-discover old jazz and folk records, share exciting contemporary crossover songs of the present and to search for unfamiliar, obscure tracks, far and wide.

Tracklist:

Berimbau – Astrud Gilberto

Brigas Nunca Mais – Elis Regina, Antonio Carlos Jobim

Beatrice – Ingrid Laubrock

Memento – Gil Melle

Portuguese Washerwoman – Astrud Gilberto

A Day in the Life – Milton Nascimento, Esperanza Spalding

Ponteio – Edu Lobo

Rio Bahia – Joyce Moreno, Dori Caymmi

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars – Nancy Wilson

Bossa Per Due – Nicola Conte

Flyin Away – Mo’ Horizons