The Mystery Lesson

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The Mystery Lesson part 357 7^th January 2026

1. Charles Tyler Ensemble / Voyage from Jericho / Frederiksberg

2. Bobby Naughton Trio / Nauxtagram / NoBusiness

3. Arkady Gotesman / Quartet 1 / NoBusiness

4. José Lencastre/João Hasselberg/Kresten Osgood / Showing the Way / FSR

5. John Butcher / After Chihuahuan (for Joe McPhee) / Relative Pitch

6. Derek Bailey / Undated Letter Cassette / ScatterArchive

7. Ziv Taubenfeld/Helena Espvall/João Sousa / Where the River is More Blue / NoBusiness

8. Oliver Lake / Six Beats Out / NoBusiness

9. Andreas Røysum Ensemble with Marvin Tate / Monkey Bars / Motvind

10. Microplastique / Gwere / Irritable Mystic

Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster, improviser and poet based in Brighton, UK. He writes about music for The Wire, Jazzwise, Songlines, WeJazz, New Internationalist and The Quietus. He is the author of The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych (1965–1980) and Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation.

Since October 2006, he has presented The Mystery Lesson, playing new releases and fresh reissues in deep jazz, free jazz and avant-garde improvised music. The show has appeared on a number of FM stations and online platforms over the years. It can currently be heard at www.onejazz.net.

Between September 2020 and December 2022, he presented The Golden Road, playing new releases, reissues and archival sounds from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, South America and beyond. It is not currently being broadcast.

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