Podcast Episodes

Mark Turner, Henry Hey, Miki Yamanaka, Legraux Tobrogoï, Bobby Kapp & More

Episode 260

Mark Turner is here, is there, is everywhere--both on the East Coast where he was once based and on the West Coast where he moved to. And this playlist features some of his recent recordings as leade…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Hiromi, Mike Reed, Weave4, Astghik Martirosyan, Todd Clouser & More

Episode 260

Putting together an episode of Mondo Jazz feels like an experiment, requiring research and analysis leading to a synthesis of the most interesting specimens from the current world jazz flora. Here so…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Carla Bley - A View from her Hill - Part 2

Episode 259

Artistically ambitious, a rare woman in a male dominated scene, taking the road less travelled, or even the road never travelled, and with her feet well on the ground business-wise side to ensure her…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Carla Bley - A View from her Hill - Part 1

Episode 259

We could spend hours talking about the many things that made Carla Bley unique, and made her passing a huge loss for the world of jazz. This week we decided to focus on her songbook, as interpreted b…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Per "Texas" Johansson, Marius Neset, Enemy, Suzanne, Aruan Ortiz & More

Episode 258

Swedish saxophonists Per "Texas" Johansson and Marius Neset both have two new albums out; Swedish bassist Petter Eldh is on--at least--three new albums, including some by Johansson and Neset. This an…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Why Can't We Live Together?

Episode 258

We look at the music we love not only as source of sonic delight, but also as a metaphor of how societies could work, in harmony and respect regardless of place of origin and without boundaries, to c…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Tina Raymond, Geri Allen, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Church Chords, Arch & More

Episode 257

A mysterious new producer, Church Chords; the unearthing of a gem; jazz divinations; blood diamonds and bloody belly comb jellies... here for you a playlist that reads like a thriller story, and is a…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Aaron Diehl, Federica Michisanti, Caroline Davis, Xavi Torres & More

Episode 257

Welcome back for yet another edition of Mondo Jazz bursting at the seams with gorgeous new and upcoming albums and music about the lockdown, incarceration, reincarnation, multi-tasking, astral projec…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Kavita Shah, Alabaster Deplume, Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid, Savannah Harris & More

Episode 256

A cosmopolitan edition of Mondo Jazz, which brings India, Cape Verde, Canada, Haiti, England, Sicily, Sardinia, the Great American Rivers, California and Germany to your headphones, wherever you migh…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Darcy James Argue, Miho Hazama, Steve Lehman, Pascal Le Boeuf & More

Episode 256

Large ensembles, big bands, orchestras... A playlist replete of successful experiments in the art of more is more...

The playlist features Chuck Owen, WDR Big Band; Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago