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.
Chatting with fabulous Alice Zawadzki - composer, singer and violinist
This week we're talking with creative musical supremo Alice Zawadzki - an astonishing singer, violinist and composer.
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.
Obviously, there's an extra special quiz, additions to the fantasy house band, and some cracking musical recommendations.
Alice's album recommendations included:
Faint by Taylor Deupree (2012) on Norman Records
JS Bach: ThreeOrOne by Fred Thomas, Aisha Orazbayeva & Lucy Railton (2021) on ECM
El Hal/The Feeling by Electric Jalaba (2021) on Strut Records
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Links
Keep up to date with Alice here: www.alicezmusic.com (https://www.alicezmusic.com/)
Keep up to date with the Watford Jazz Junction here (and to buy tickets for our festival 19-22 May 2022): www.watfordjazzjunction.com (https://www.watfordjazzjunction.com/)
Credits
Presenter: Chris Newstead
Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.
Recorded March 2022.
6 Feb 2022
Chatting with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter & artistic director of NYJO
This week we're talking with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter, composer, arranger and artistic director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
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!
Mark's album recommendations included:
Cookin' and Relaxin' (double disc) by Miles Davis (1958) on Prestige
Coming About by Maria Schneider (1996) on Enja
Plugged In and Live by Earth, Wind & Fire (1996) on Pyramid
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Next episode
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... :-)
Links
Keep up to date with NYJO here (https://www.nyjo.org.uk/).
Keep up with Mark here (http://www.markarmstrongmusic.com/).
Credits
Presenter: Chris Newstead
Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.
Recorded February 2022.
30 Jan 2022
Chatting with pianist, composer & collaborator Alex Webb
This week we're joined by the super talented and very interesting Alex Webb - pianist, composer, arranger and serial collaborator.
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.
It's a beaut!
Alex's album recommendations, include:
Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder (1976) released on Tamla
Miles Ahead by Miles Davis (1957) released on Columbia
The Audience with Betty Carter (1980) released on Betcar; Verve
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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!
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ChrisNewstead)
Links
Keep up to date with Alex via his website here (https://alexwebbsongwriter.com/).
Credits
Presenter: Chris Newstead
Theme: by SoundWorkLab, licensed through AudioJungle.
Recorded January 2022.
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