Podcast Episodes

The Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 4

This episode of Mondo Jazz isn’t about rankings or best-of lists. It’s about memory. Over the past six months, certain pieces of music kept calling u…

5 months, 1 week ago

The Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 3

In a year that often felt overwhelming, music remained a place of focus and meaning. This episode of Mondo Jazz brings together the songs from the pa…

5 months, 1 week ago

The Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 2

The past six months have delivered more music than anyone could possibly absorb in real time. So this week, instead of trying to keep up, we slow thi…

5 months, 1 week ago

The Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 1

Rather than looking back at the year as a whole, here we concentrate on the second half. What you’ll hear are the songs that stayed close, long after…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Bill Ware, The Jazz Passengers, Csaba Palotai, Rosa Brunello & More

Here is another dip into the river of new albums, focusing releases (and re-releases) worth holding on to.

The playlist features The Jazz Passengers,…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Dayna Stephens, Emiliano D'Auria, Charles Lloyd, Jérémie Lucchese, James Newton

Here's a playlist featuring musicians paying tribute to where they come from, geographically or artistically...

The playlist features Emiliano D'Auri…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nicolas Genest, Raphaël Pannier, Dhafer Youssef, Clément Janinet & More

Enjoy an episode that revolves around projects that forge compelling bridges between jazz and African music, from Benin to Madagascar, Mali, Senegal…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Lakecia Benjamin, Patrick Zimmerli, SFJAZZ Collective & Horace Silver

Enjoy a selection featuring A-listers who know how to collaborate and set their egos aside, plus an unearthed live gem from Horace Silver.

The playli…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Amirtha Kidambi, KNOBIL, Mattias Risbergs, Maria Pia de Vito & Henri Texier

Mighty albums documenting live performances of ambitious creativity, and artists that turned their interest in different, often faraway cultures are…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Rufus Wainwright, Theo Bleckmann, Anne Mette Iversen, Terry Callier & More

Here is your weekly antidote to background music, where we lean in, listen close, and find what’s truly worth hearing. And there's plenty of gems wor…

6 months, 1 week ago