Jazz Bastard Podcast

Two strikingly handsome middle-aged men get together every other week to discuss jazz in depth. Irreverent, irascible, engaged.

http://www.jazzbastard.com

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 1h24m. Bisher sind 297 Folge(n) erschienen. Dies ist ein zweiwöchentlich erscheinender Podcast.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 17 days 7 hours 21 minutes

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episode 14: "Classic" Jazz Bastard Podcast - 14 Palimpsestastic


It's been a crazy few weeks with an extra order of cray cray on the side coming up, so we're running our first "classic" episode, this one a throw-back to 2013!  Come for the insights you missed, stay to appreciate the slightly more sophisticated editing you've been enjoying the last few years.  Covers are the order of the day as the bastards look at three albums that hew closely to earlier inspirations, with a special focus on Coltrane...


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 November 8, 2023  1h43m
 
 

episode 277: Jazz Bastard Podcast 277 - Polished, Not "Smooth"


We all know "smooth jazz" is a forbidden genre among hard-core jazzbos, but sometimes you run across albums that have no interest in pandering to the listener, but also don't display any rough edges or dirty elbows.  Call it "polished," "refined," "plush," or "mellow" - but don't file it next to Kenny G - or Albert Ayler, for that matter...


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 October 25, 2023  1h20m
 
 

episode 276: Jazz Bastard Podcast 276 - Gillespie in the Fifties


Most jazz fans know Dizzy Gillespie's crucial role in the creation of bebop and every good collection should have at least a few tracks from his glory days of the forties...


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 October 11, 2023  1h59m
 
 

episode 275: Jazz Bastard Podcast 275 - Live? from the Village Vanguard


There are many storied jazz venues, but for a great recorded legacy, none quite matches the Village Vanguard.  So many epochal improvised moments put to tape!  So many clinking wine glasses captured for eternity!  Such a matchless, smoky atmosphere of creation in the heat of the moment!  (Insert record scratch here...


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 September 27, 2023  1h26m
 
 

episode 274: Jazz Bastard Podcast 274 - Big Label Bangers


The boys love chasing after the esoteric, the brand new, the little known.  But sometime, we also like to talk about the, well, big label bangers.  That is, big labels in jazz terms, which really means small subsidiary branches of huge media conglomerates, but let's not get into that now.  Some famous names are back this episode and we talk about their latest releases - sometimes a great deal later than their date of death...


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 September 13, 2023  1h22m
 
 

episode 273: Jazz Bastard Podcast 273 - Big M's Grab Bag


The theme this episode is  - got ya! - there isn't a theme.  What we do have are two mildly historical piano-led recordings by musicians who couldn't be more different if they tried, and two new releases by musicians also pulling in different directions.  Get a large group together and go for eclecticism?  Or just multi-track yourself and add a duet partner to the mix?  You, dear listeners, can pick the approach you like...


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 August 30, 2023  1h18m
 
 

episode 272: Jazz Bastard Podcast 272 - String Along with Dorothy!


A music with as complicated and rich a history as jazz is always going to be subject to rediscoveries and reappraisals and we wouldn't want it any other way.  This fortnight's episode focuses on a pioneering practitioner on that truly rare avis, the jazz harp.  Yes, we're diving into the early work of Dorothy Ashby in honor of a new box set celebrating her first six albums...


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 August 17, 2023  1h15m
 
 

episode 271: Jazz Bastard Podcast 271.5 - Box It Up!


Summertime, and the livin' is sweaty - at least for us in the Midwest right now.  Along with being the most perspiration-friendly season, Summer is also consecrated to travel, which can make it difficult to align two bastard's schedules.  Hence this solo podcast looking at jazz box sets.  Yes, the vinyl revival is all grown up enough to get its own self-indulgent shelf-benders and Pat is hear to talk about several of them...


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 August 2, 2023  1h3m
 
 

episode 271: Jazz Bastard Podcast 271 - Off Da Hook, or, You Got Rock in My Jazz


We all know about fusion - the (sometime unholy) union of jazz and rock that tried to find a new audience for instrumentalists in the 1970s.  But there have always been, well, odder experiments with electricity in jazz, more like intrusions of the rock world than integrations, and we look at four rather varied examples in this here podcast.  Running the gamut from harmolodic blues-slinger to fusion axe-hero to . . ...


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 July 19, 2023  1h16m
 
 

episode 270: Jazz Bastard Podcast 270 - 'E's Got a Big Band, Landlord


After an all-female vocalist episode, let's shift gears at look at some big band albums, shall we?   We look at a brand new release with material from the thirties, fresh from somebody's closet, a retro-style outfit having the most fun they can while the pandemic closes in, an Indiana ensemble celebrating an influential Indiana record label, and an arranger for hire let out in the green fields of inspiration.  Then in pop matters, quick detours to prison and cover bands...


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 July 5, 2023  1h9m