Upbeat for Thursday 30 November 2017

1:20 PM.US pianist Steve Barta is hoping to interest a New Zealand orchestra in his arrangement of Claude Bolling's 1975 orchestral crossover hit: Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano. Barta is a composer and… Read more Audio

Lucy Lawless is outspoken. She talks art, activism, sexual misconduct in Hollywood, the Hobbit Law and what she wants her legacy to be, with RNZ Concert's Zoe George.

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9:23 AM.With a sound ranging from sensual to sleazy and a volume range from mind-melting to gentle, improvisational duo Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh have a charismatic and striking dynamic of polarities… Read more Video, Audio