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The writer Tej Adeleye meets the new generation of British musicians shaking up the jazz establishment. This community of musicians grew up in London, practicing together and learning the blues. Now they’re collaborators, playing alongside each other in dozens of bands.

Their collective story takes us to venues across town, from the back of a Jamaican restaurant in Deptford to the Royal Albert Hall. Tej joins drummer and bandleader Moses Boyd in Peckham to retrace his pilgrimage that inspired breakthrough track Rye Lane Shuffle. He recalls sitting on the top deck of the 171 bus on Sunday mornings, watching crowds going to church and emerging from nightclubs.

Saxophonist Nubya Garcia and trumpeter Sheila Maurice Grey met at Tomorrow’s Warriors, a music charity at the Southbank Centre. Its founders, Gary Crosby and Janine Irons, approach it as a jazz boot camp, giving free workshops and masterclasses to young people with a particular emphasis on developing black and female talent.

Composer and saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi’s ten-piece Seed Ensemble explores what it’s like to be a black woman in the UK and Shabaka Hutchings, leader of three bands including Mercury-nominated Sons of Kemet, offers a bold rallying cry for political change through his music.

A Just Radio Ltd production for 主播大秀 Radio 4.

• Producer: Paul Smith

Publicity contact: Radio 4 Publicity