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Routes: A Jazz Impressions Podcast – Episode 11 (A Mildly Festive Special)

Grab your winter coat and koto, we’re back with a slightly seasonal special! In this episode, we chart floral and festive paths from the library music-inspired serenity of Sven Wunder’s ‘Snowdrops’, to Roland Kirk’s honktacular rendering of ‘We Free Kings’. En route we take in hip-hop, Japanese jazz and even some Christmas music, plus a brief rundown of some of our favourite albums of the year. Stay tuned as we get cooking again in 2024.

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Routes: A Jazz Impressions Podcast – Episode 8

We’re back! After a busy period of new jobs, new musical projects and new strains of Covid, we reconnect and rejoin the dots between two more of our favourite tracks. In this episode, we pay tribute to the late, great MF Doom, the metal-faced enigma we lost on Halloween 2020. But what connects the supervillain to ‘70s funk supremos the Ohio Players? What’s Cole Porter got to do with Giorgio Moroder? And where does an Anglo-Trakehner stallion fit into all this? Get your Gazzillion Ears round episode 8 to find out.

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Routes: A Jazz Impressions Podcast – Episode 5

This time we break free of our jazz shackles, tracing a path between the psychedelic folk rock of Crosby, Stills and Nash’s ‘Wooden Ships’ and the ’90s bossa-infused hip-hop of ‘Runnin’ by The Pharcyde. We dive into West Coast rock and rap, the genius of J Dilla and a certain cartoon bird…

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Bill Evans – Love Theme From Spartacus

I’m doing Spartacus! Specifically the 1963 version by the pianist Bill Evans – not to be confused with the pianist Gil Evans. Top tip: if you want your kid to be a great jazz pianist, name him Phil Evans.