Podcast Episodes

Jazz Bastard Podcast 132.5 - Suite!

Season 6 Episode 132

Mike's laid up sick, so Pat whips up a "bonus" episode on Duke Ellington's suites. Did Ellington write a twenty-minute, six-movement suite just to g…

8 years, 9 months ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 132 - Charles McPherson Interview

Season 6 Episode 132

We depart from our usual format to offer an interview with saxophone player and composer Charles McPherson. Charles discusses an early encounter wit…

8 years, 9 months ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 131 - Banned

Season 6 Episode 131

It's a podcast first - Pat votes to ban a jazz musician from further discussion. Who's the lucky winner? Plus, if you're patient enough, Mike talks…

8 years, 10 months ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 130 - Say it With Wood

Season 5 Episode 130

It's the podcasts' fifth anniversary so the albums discussed feature quintets. Laughs, insights, and just a few sentimental moments as the boys cont…

8 years, 10 months ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 129 - Thelonious Business

Season 5 Episode 129

Thelonious Sphere Monk turns one-hundred this year, which is approximately the number of albums based on his music released each year. Mike and Pat …

8 years, 11 months ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 128 - Make it Big

Season 5 Episode 128

Mike and Pat welcome special guest Eric Allen, co-author of 50 Years at the Village Vanguard – Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra,…

8 years, 11 months ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 127 - Geri Allen

Season 5 Episode 127

In this banger, Ethan Iverson's "Do the Math" blog inspires Mike and Pat to explore the early years of pianist Geri Allen's career. Pat keeps confu…

9 years ago

Jazz Bastard 126 - Mid-Century Madness

Season 5 Episode 126

Mike leads us back, back, back into the wilds of pre-LP jazz as we discuss Bud Powell, Mary Lou Williams, and Tadd Dameron. Then Pat goes and ruins …

9 years ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 125 - Soulbox and the Winelight Kid

Season 5 Episode 125

In this follow-up to the epic "lite jazz" explorations of episode 63, the boys look at three whistle-stops on the Soul train line, and check out a fo…

9 years, 1 month ago

Jazz Bastard Podcast 124 - Space Twangers

Two avante garde guitars two generations apart are the focus this time, as Mike and Pat look at releases from Sonny Sharrock and Mary Halvorson. Plu…

9 years, 1 month ago