Jazz Bastard Podcast
Jazz Bastard Podcast
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Jazz Bastard Podcast 341 - EC UMMMM
A common canard about jazz is that the acoustic variety was unsaleable during the 1970s, and while there's a germ of truth in it, lots of exceptions prove that particular rule. This podcast looks at three releases from the early seventies and a...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 340 - What Shall We Play from Record Store Day?
As this Spring’s Record Store Day flood of releases floats past our wondering eyes on the stream of time, Pat and Mike discusses four selections you might want to pluck out of the metaphoric water to add to your own collections. Let’s hope we d...
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...