Jazz Bastard Podcast
Jazz Bastard Podcast
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Jazz Bastard Podcast 339 - More Sugar on the Frosted Flakes, Please
The boys take a peek at four releases from 2025 sprawling all over the map. If you ever wondered what would happen if Dave Brubeck met an African percussion ensemble, you're about to find out. You'll also find out why evocations of the "young l...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 338 - Take the Smoove with the Rough
Every now and then the boys bring vocal albums into the mix, but vocal group albums - now those are rarities. This time they take on two, at as opposite ends of the soul spectrum as it's possible to get. There's still room for releases led by i...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 337 - From New Age to Nuclear
We try to cover a wide gamut of improvised music in the podcast, buttoday's episode must surely have the widest spread of any recent offering. We've got spiritual jazz from the late sixties, a quartet featuring clarinet from a few weeks ago, an...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 336 - Four Quartets
Have no fear - the boys are not discussing just any four quartets. No, there's a couple of matching sets. An influential album from a certain "European Quartet" confronts its doppelganger from fifty years later; a recent leader date from a guit...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 335 - The Final Four
It's too early for March Madness, but just in time for the bastards to wrap up their survey of the New York Times' Top Ten list of 2025 jazz albums. Some of the choices give the boys mixed emotions and some barely any emotions at all, but at th...
