26.01.2023 Test Match Special

Richie Vegas
More about this show
  • AFRO JAZZ
  • AFROBEAT
  • JAZZ
  • SPIRITUAL JAZZ
  • UK JAZZ
Episode

Richie Vegas cut his DJing teeth in his late teens - messing about with hip hop and breaks - before plundering his family’s record collections and forging a sound that includes soul, funk, jazz, afrobeat and reggae.

An integral member of the Jiggery Pokery collective running eclectic hip hop nights in Liverpool and beyond - Rich’s distinctive style has found him playing countless gigs over the intervening 15 years: holding residences at some of the finest bars and clubs, and supporting visiting dignitaries such as Lee Scratch Perry, Hot 8 Brass Band, Don Letts, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80.

Test Match Special is an opportunity to showcase a selection of tunes that doesn't quite fit with live DJ sets, explore less-travelled paths and distill 20 years of musical musings. Expect lost monsters, obscure reworkings, stubborn earworms and wickets galore.

Tracklist

Shabaka - Black Meditation
Doom Cannon - Times
Leland Whitty - Windows
Eddie Chacon - Step By Step
Binker Golding - Til my Heart Stops
Astrud Gilberto - Touching You
The Grooms - I Deserve A Little Bit More
Elayne Starr - Must Have Had Company
Jeb Loy Nichols - I Am Just A Visitor
Fuchsia - Shoes and Ships
Greg Foat - The Mage
Jazz Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe
Mysteries of the Revolution - Joe
Dizzy Gillespie - Diddy Wah Diddy (Mozambique)
Horace Silver Quintet - Song for my Father
Pharaoh Sanders - Speak Low
Sean Khan - Moments Notice
Gyedu Bley Ambolley - A Love Supreme
Dexter Story - Buna Be Chow
Good Samaritans - Aikemienaru-Nanorunomwan
Dur Dur Band - Yabaal
CK Mann & His Carousel 7 - Yeaba
Thony Shorbi Nyenwi - No Wrong Show
Gabor Szabo - 24 Carat
Young Fathers - Rice