This was a weekly jazz chat exploring the personal stories and creative junctions of fabulous and funny musical guests. We produced 54 episodes from 2020-2022 that remain available. We continue to produce the Watford Jazz Junction festival that runs across the penultimate weekend of May each year.
Watford Jazz Junction
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This was a weekly jazz chat exploring the personal stories and creative junctions of fabulous and funny musical guests. We produced 54 episodes from 2020-2022 that remain available. We continue to produce the Watford Jazz Junction festival that runs across the penultimate weekend of May each year.
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Recent Episodes
March 20, 2022
Chatting with fabulous Alice Zawadzki - composer, singer and violinist
<p>This week we're talking with creative musical supremo Alice Zawadzki - an astonishing singer, violinist and composer.</p><p>We explore her journey into music via the influences of New Orleans and music colleges, her approach to creativity and reflections on the natural world, and her unbridled and broad appetite for music in all its forms and types.</p><p>Obviously, there's an extra special quiz, additions to the fantasy house band, and some cracking musical recommendations.</p><p>Alice's album recommendations included:</p><p>Faint by Taylor Deupree (2012) on Norman Records</p><p>JS Bach: ThreeOrOne by Fred Thomas, Aisha Orazbayeva & Lucy Railton (2021) on ECM</p><p>El Hal/The Feeling by Electric Jalaba (2021) on Strut Records</p><p><strong>Support the show & buy us a coffee!</strong></p><p>You can help support the podcast and keep us ad free. Especially useful if you’d like to support the podcast and want to keep it ad free. Plus it makes Chris feel very happy indeed!</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead</a></strong></p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p>Keep up to date with Alice here: <strong><a href="https://www.alicezmusic.com/">www.alicezmusic.com</a></strong></p><p>Keep up to date with the Watford Jazz Junction here (and to buy tickets for our festival 19-22 May 2022): <strong><a href="https://www.watfordjazzjunction.com/">www.watfordjazzjunction.com</a></strong></p><p><strong>Credits</strong></p><p>Presenter: Chris Newstead</p><p>Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.</p><p>Recorded March 2022.</p>
February 6, 2022
Chatting with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter & artistic director of NYJO
<p>This week we're talking with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter, composer, arranger and artistic director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.</p><p>We discover all sorts from tales, from dusty old trumpet shops in to dodgy student band names, from fabulous young NYJO musicians to awesome players in the world's greatest bands - it's a musical big band treat!</p><p>Mark's album recommendations included:</p><p>Cookin' and Relaxin' (double disc) by Miles Davis (1958) on Prestige</p><p>Coming About by Maria Schneider (1996) on Enja</p><p>Plugged In and Live by Earth, Wind & Fire (1996) on Pyramid</p><p><strong>Support the show!</strong></p><p>You can help support the podcast and keep us ad free. Especially useful if you’d like to support the podcast and want to keep it ad free. Plus it makes Chris feel very happy indeed!</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead</a></strong></p><p><strong>Next episode</strong></p><p>And just a reminder that our next episode won't come out now until March 2022. Plenty of time to catch-up with the back catalogue... :-)</p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.nyjo.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Keep up to date with NYJO here</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.markarmstrongmusic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Keep up with Mark here</a>.</p><p><strong>Credits</strong></p><p>Presenter: Chris Newstead</p><p>Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.</p><p>Recorded February 2022.</p>
January 30, 2022
Chatting with pianist, composer & collaborator Alex Webb
<p>This week we're joined by the super talented and very interesting Alex Webb - pianist, composer, arranger and serial collaborator.</p><p>We chat about his fabulous new album British Standard Time featuring Jo Harrop, Carroll Thompson, Luca Manning and Tony Momrelle, reflect on the jazz scene in the UK in some depth and explore all the motivations behind continuing to write and create.</p><p>It's a beaut!</p><ul><li><p>Alex's album recommendations, include:</p></li><li><p>Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder (1976) released on Tamla</p></li><li><p>Miles Ahead by Miles Davis (1957) released on Columbia</p></li><li><p>The Audience with Betty Carter (1980) released on Betcar; Verve</p></li></ul><p><strong>Support the show!</strong></p><p>You can help support the podcast and keep us ad free. Especially useful if you’d like to support the podcast and want to keep it ad free. Plus it makes Chris feel very happy indeed!</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead</a></strong></p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><p>Keep up to date with Alex via <a href="https://alexwebbsongwriter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">his website here</a>.</p><p><strong>Credits</strong></p><p>Presenter: Chris Newstead</p><p>Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.</p><p>Recorded January 2022.</p>
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