Jazz Bastard Podcast

Or for white girls who've considered cabaret when the rainbow is enuf. Mike and Pat visit the altars of four pale goddesses of song – but which ones get the sacrificial goats? June Christy – SOMETHING COOL; Keely Smith – SPOTLIGHT ON KEELY SMITH; Doris Day and Andre Previn – DUET; Lee Wiley – NIGHT IN MANHATTAN.

Join the Avante-Garde Brothers as they discuss Sam Rivers and Dave Holland. There could be a movie in this . . . Dave Holland – CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS; Sam Rivers / Dave Holland – SAM RIVERS / DAVE HOLLAND VOLUMES 1 & 2; Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul – REUNION.

The boys analyze music and over-analyze text in this very various episode. Ben Allison – THINK FREE; Jaki Byard – THE JAKI BYARD EXPERIENCE; Brandford Marsalis - FOUR MF'S PLAYING TUNES; Ike Quebec – BOSSA NOVA SOUL SAMBA.

Standards? We don't need your steenking standards! The focus is on jazz albums tackling the new, the exotic, even the Dan. Herbie Hancock – THE NEW STANDARD; Ez-Pour Spout – DON'T SHAVE THE FEELING; Jacky Terrasson – GOUACHE; Mark Masters Ensemble – EVERYTHING YOU DID

The boys wax nostalgic as they discuss a few of the albums that introduced them to jazz, then pick their top three (each) from the past year. Here's making a career of evil . . . Dave Pell Octet – I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM; Ornette Coleman – THIS IS OUR MUSIC; Paul Desmond – SUMMERTIME; World Saxophone Quartet – W. S. Q.

Songbirds and Songdudes populate this episode, as the boys discuss three vocalists new to the show and one returning for a second round. Mike says no go on the chapeau; Pat can't resist a cool Canadian. Elizabeth Shepherd – REWIND; Cecile McLorin Salvant – WOMANCHILD; Andy Bey -THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ANDY BEY; Gregory Porter – WATER.

Two artists with French connections and a big band leader who sounds like a refugee from a Jane Austen novel - whatever happened to jazz as an American art form? Thank heavens for Red (White & Blue) Rodney! Red Rodney – QUINTETS; Jacky Terrasson – JACKY TERRASSON; Anour Brahem – KHOMSA; Darcy James Argue – BROOKLYN BABYLON

New standards of filth are contemplated when Mike and Pat ponder the inventor of jazz - and possibly bling - Jelly Roll Morton. It's uphill from there, morally speaking at least. Cab Calloway – CRUSIN' WITH CAB; Lionel Hampton -HOT MALLETS, DISC 2; Jelly Roll Morton – ANAMULE DANCE; Bud Freeman – THE COMPLEAT BUD FREEMAN

Mike and Pat discuss four of Jazz Times' top ten albums of 2012 and like what they hear. Also, Mike has a man-crush on Brad Mehldau you wouldn't believe. Ravi Coltrane - SPIRIT FICTION; Tim Berne - SNAKE OIL; Vijay Iyer - ACCELERANDO; Brad Mehldau - ODE.

The boys take it easy this time out with an all jazz police episode. Pat is revealed to be a beet-hating blasphemer, while Mike explains that Gordon Sumner isn't as bad as all that. King Crimson – RED; Sting – THE DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES; The Sea and Cake – EVERYBODY; Norah Jones – LITTLE BROKEN HEARTS; Gregory Porter – BE GOOD (Mike's bad). Oh yeah - it is ON, Norah Jones.