Jazz Bastard Podcast

Nov 19 2024 314 ep. 83 mins 211
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Two strikingly handsome middle-aged men get together every other week to discuss jazz in depth. Irreverent, irascible, engaged.

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Jazz Bastard Podcast 303 - Jazzed in the Mouse House

Nov 19 2024 80 mins  
Jazz has gone some pretty wacky places - Russia, South America, the White House - but believe it or not, sometimes it even invades that princess-industrial complex we know and love as the Disney corporation. Listen and learn as Mike leads us deep into this heart of darkness and we see how a rainbow of different jazz artists come to terms with the musical productions of that most pr

Jazz Bastard Podcast 302 - Big Feet and Nu Blues

Nov 05 2024 71 mins  
Halloween's in the rear view mirror but the boys still have a mixed bag of treats on offer, including an album whose cover boasts the best costumes of the year. A piano playing Duke makes his appearance on the 'cast for the first time in roughly 300 episodes and we dig deep into a percussionist's tricky second album from 2006. Like a trick or treater, this episode is short and swee

Jazz Bastard Podcast 301 - Revenge of the Son of Rule of 3

Oct 22 2024 85 mins  
Podcast 301 picks up where 300 left off, looking at albums from 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023. Jazz trends get a little harder to pick out once the new millennium begins, but at least our 1990's selection is REALLY 1990's, right down to the haircut and clothes colors. In Pop Matters, Pat discusses seeing Ben Wendel live at the Jazz Kitchen. Look out - that saxophonist has effects peda

Jazz Bastard Podcast 300 - Rule of Three

Oct 08 2024 73 mins  
Three hundred podcasts is the kind of milestone worth of an echo chamber at the very least and a themed episode at the very, er, leaster. Pat had the bright idea (he thought) of reviewing albums from 1953, 1963. 1973, and 1983. Mike explained that was in fact a stupid idea and so they might as well make this celebration a two-parter with 301 covering 1993, 2003, 2013, 2023. The rul

Jazz Bastard Podcast 299 - Wake Up! It's Twenty-Twenty Four

Sep 24 2024 74 mins  
Back in the saddle again, the boys look at three recent releases and one cute little two-year-old. Two of the recordings are lead by bassists and two by drummers, so you could say all four were led by a member of the rhythm section - if you liked saying things like that. They are mostly fairly easy-going albums as well, but, spoilers, Mike doesn't like them all equally. No further

Jazz Bastard Podcast 298 - The Boys are Back! (On the Same Continent)

Sep 10 2024 85 mins  
Never mind what your podcast feed may seem to imply - the bastards haven't recorded a podcast together in two months, and this one got completed by the skin of their teeth. In this episode we look at two alto sax players from two very different generations (and degrees of reverence for the "tradition") and a piano player few have heard of and fewer still can understand. Pop matters

Jazz Bastard Podcast 297 - My Summer with Sonny - The Podcast

Aug 27 2024 73 mins  
Summer's winding down. How'd you spend yours? Pat spent his immersed in the music and life of Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest improvisers to grace the story of jazz. In this podcast, which is kind of an upcoming article in summary (and audio) form, Pat looks at the massive new biography of Sonny as well as four recent reissues of some of his best loved music, most of which invol

Classic Episode Flashback - Jazz Bastard Podcast 81 - The Saxophone Solo in Pop

Aug 13 2024 120 mins  
Those crazy hazy lazy days of summer got us in their thrall and scheduling's been tough, so please enjoy this flashback to episode 81: Mike and Pat discuss Walk on the Wild Side; Shine On You Crazy Diamond; Aja; Waiting on a Friend; Baker Street; Just the Way You Are; Logical Song; Old and Wise; Still Crazy After All These Years; Man Eater; Modern Love; Your Latest Trick; Brass Mon

Jazz Bastard Podcast 296 - Author James Kaplan Discusses 3 Shades of Blue

Jul 30 2024 67 mins  
What's the most famous jazz album in the world? Don't say Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins unless you have a really good excuse, like you work for Disney. And please don't name some album by Kenny G even if that's sort of true. No, of course the most famous jazz album is Kind of Blue, and our special guest this episode wrote a book on the three geniuses who brought it into being.

Jazz Bastard Podcast 295 - Curation Vs. Creation

Jul 16 2024 90 mins  
A lot of listeners worry that jazz has ossified in the last, say, fifty years or so, but Mike decides to do something about it, terminological speaking, anyway. So this fortnight's episode explores the difference between curating a tradition and trying to create something new within it. Our test subjects comprise three brand-new releases (two instrumental, one vocal) and a vocal al