Podcast Episodes

Enrico Rava: Five Decades of Jazz [The co-leader and sideman]

Episode 91

After focusing on Enrico Rava's discography as leader, this week we explore his more than five decades of work as co-leader & sideman.

The statuture o…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Enrico Rava: Around the Jazz World in 80 Years [The leader]

Episode 90

Enrico Rava turned 80 this year and has had a five-decade long artistic path that paralleled and often intersected that of the label founded by Manfr…

6 years, 10 months ago

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Tomeka Reid, Ghost Horse, Gerald Cleaver, David Sánchez & Other New Releases

Episode 89

Another remembrance, this week of a musician with a magic touch which has left us too early, Larry Willis, followed by the perusal of a pile of excit…

6 years, 11 months ago

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Ginger Baker + Youn Sun Nah, Brahja, Junius Paul, Piero Bittolo Bon and Other New Releases

Episode 88

A remembrance of Ginger Baker, the jazziest drummer rock music ever had, and a stack of new releases for this week's edition of Mondo Jazz, featuring…

6 years, 11 months ago

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Do the Jazz Shuffle

Episode 87

This week we have have decided to do the jazz shuffle, and by shuffle we don't mean the jazz rhythm, but the randomized play. A perfect approach to r…

6 years, 11 months ago

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Jaimie Branch, Kris Davis, Kneebody, The Bad Plus & More New Releases

Episode 86

September, what a month! The summer is over... so are the summer festivals. But that's also when record labels start churning out some of their best …

6 years, 11 months ago

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The (Jazz) Police

Episode 85

September 2019 will mark the 40th anniversary of "Message in a Bottle", an auspicious opportunity to look back at the seminal work of The Police. Wit…

6 years, 11 months ago

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Michael Mwenso, Uri Caine, Nérija, Tenor Triage & Other New Releases

Episode 84

Two hours of genre-defying, global, music, with a special focus on socially engaged projects, Finnish bands, and charismatic artists whose music has …

6 years, 11 months ago

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Dave Holland, Louis Moholo, Ben Van Gelder, Emma Frank & Other New Releases

Episode 83

After three weeks of thematic episodes, we have to get back to checking what's new and what's coming up... The piles of new and upcoming releases hav…

6 years, 11 months ago

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All-Female Bands Are a Riot!

Episode 82

As much as we favor a complete integration of the jazz sexes, this week we feature twenty-four bands or projects with not a single man in sight, actu…

6 years, 11 months ago

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