Martin Kohlstedt - Kluft
Martin Kohlstedt talks with Tara Minton about his forthcoming album, Kluft Support the show
May 12, 2026•49 min
The Jazz Podcast
Rob Cope brings you The Jazz Podcast, in conversation with musicians from around the world. We love stories of how people get into playing music and what keeps them going. We hope you enjoy our collection. Hosted by Rob Cope and Tara Minton. We are proudly sponsored by Crown Lane Studio.
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Olivia Murphy - Fateful Birds and Fledgling Stories
Olivia Murphy has quickly established herself as an innovative, creative and colourful artist working in large ensemble composition and has developed her own distinct and personal voice. Her music fuses contemporary composition and song-writing with elements of free improvisation, while always keeping story-telling at its core, hailed as “some of the most exciting large ensemble jazz emerging from the London scene today” (UK Jazz News).Since being awarded the prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz D...
May 08, 2026•36 min
Judith Owen - Suit Yourself
Acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Judith Owen returns with her captivating new album, Suit Yourself, released today, April 24th, 2026 via Twanky Records. Recorded at Esplanade Studios in New Orleans, Suit Yourself showcases Owen’s continued evolution into jazz, blues, and big band, blending the vibrant energy of her previous releases with her signature storytelling and rich musical arrangements. Our feature track today, “To Your Door” stands out as a heartfelt and playful original, inspired by t...
Apr 24, 2026•30 min
Dave Adewumi - The Flame Beneath The Silence
A graduate of the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School, Adewumi became the first jazz trumpeter to receive the prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship in 2017. He went on to win 1st place at the 2019 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition, the 2024 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award and Gregory Morris Composing Fellowship, and in 2025 received the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Adewumi has been voted a “Rising Star” in the DownBeat Critics Poll. The Flame Beneath Th...
Apr 10, 2026•40 min
Tim Garland - Mezzo - 300th Episode
The Jazz Podcast releases its 300th episode and we celebrate with Tim Garland, chatting about his new album. Mezzo is a 2026 duo album by Tim and American pianist Geoffrey Keezer, celebrating a 25-year collaboration. The album prominently features a rare mezzo-soprano saxophone—one of only 20 in the world—played by Garland, blending classical, folk, and jazz influences. Recorded in New York, the album includes originals and a unique cover of Chick Corea's "La Fiesta", which we feature as the fir...
Mar 26, 2026•40 min
Shai Maestro - The Guesthouse
Shae Maestro chats to Tara Minton about his new album, The Guesthouse. Support the show
Mar 14, 2026•38 min
Maria Schneider - American Crow - 9th Anniversary Special Part 2
Visionary composer/bandleader Maria Schneider knows firsthand that deep listening is the key to understanding. “Every time I hear my band play, I witness the magic of listening ,” she explains. “A true jazz improvisor thrives on listening.... Jazz shines a light on what we are allowing to slip away in our brittle and fractured world, making our art form more relevant today than ever before.” Schneider’s new EP American Crow is out February 3, 2026, via ArtistShare ® , along with a visual narrati...
Feb 13, 2026•42 min
Kris Davis - The Solastalgia Suite - 9th Anniversary Special Part 1
Kris Davis is a Grammy award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz [in New York] on a given night.” Davis has released 24 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Esperanza Spalding. She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazi...
Feb 05, 2026•44 min
Niklas Lukassen - Still Waters
Niklas Lukassen’s internationally renowned quartet with saxophonist Ben van Gelder , pianist Kit Downes and drummer Francesco Ciniglio , fuses captivating individualists of the jazz scenes of Amsterdam, London, Paris and Berlin into one symbiotic musical organism. With natural improvisational flow, this unit's interplay runs like water through sonic river forks into unexpected directions. Unafraid of intentional, suspenseful collision, it produces pounding waves of raw energy. Enriched by artist...
Jan 20, 2026•41 min
Sarah Wilson - Incandescence
Community spirit has been a constant in the work of composer and trumpet player Sarah Wilson , whose experiences and inspirations have ranged from socially conscious puppet theater to brass band and New Orleans traditions to her own illuminating style of jazz. When musicians are truly inspired and connected with one another, Wilson describes, time seems to stand still for artist and listener alike. “Time just evaporates,” Wilson says, “and you’re completely immersed in feeling the euphoria and j...
Dec 14, 2025•43 min
Ribbons: Volume 1 - Sara Colman and Rebecca Nash
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Nov 09, 2025•37 min
Harben Kay - The World I Live In
Harben Kay joins the show to chat about the release of their highly anticipated new album, The World I Live In (Sulis Records, October 3rd 2025). This album represents a deeply personal exploration of identity, transformation, and the way change influences creativity. Written over the past three years, during a time of frequent moves between London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, The World I Live In reflects the shifts in Harben’s life and the profound impact they had on the music. Inspired by the work...
Nov 07, 2025•35 min
Huw V Williams
Long time friend of the show Huw joins the show to tell us about his incredible new music. His new single 05/05/21 with his band Di-Cysgodion is out today and we celebrate by listening to the track and diving into all the musical details. He's also promoting and performing at concerts at the London Jazz Festival at the London Welsh centre and we hear about all his exciting plans and ideas for the festival. Support the show
Oct 17, 2025•39 min
Spike Mason
Spike has played saxophone for over 40 years, with many musicians, in Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada, Ireland, Greece, Singapore, Italy, The Czech Republic, Holland, Turkiye, and New Zealand. He's performed at countless festivals and clubs, from stadium stages to people's kitchens, with both famous and unknown musicians, in front of very large and very small crowds. He's also been a recording session musician for many diverse artists, helping them make their music a reality, by performing, c...
Oct 09, 2025•28 min
Hannah Brine - Blue Sky Now
Hannah Brine talks to Tara Minton about her new album, 'Blue Sky Now.' Support the show
Sep 09, 2025•32 min
Lorna Reid - I Will Tell Your Story
Tara Minton speaks with Lorna Reid about her new album, songwriting and more. Support the show
Aug 13, 2025•30 min
Fini Bearman - Last Night of the World
Fini joins Rob Cope to chat about her 5th studio album, Last Night of the World. Fini Bearman is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist & composer who has built an impressive profile on the UK Jazz scene as both an imaginative and expressive soloist and as a side-woman. She tours regularly across Europe and notable performances include Ronnie Scotts, The Sage Gateshead, The Barbican, The A-Trane (Berlin), Cafe Mercedes Jazz (Valencia), Manzioli (Izola, Slovenia) and Dizzys (Jazz at the Li...
Jul 21, 2025•29 min
Daniel Vildosola & John Waugh
Daniel Vildosola and John Waugh may come from opposite sides of the Atlantic—one from the sun-scorched deserts of Arizona, the other from the rolling hills of Northumberland, UK—but together, their music finds an effortless middle ground. Drawing from their vastly different environments, they’ve created a sound that feels natural, fusing Americana and jazz with a sense of place and history that’s both personal and expansive. Individually, they’ve cut their teeth on the world stage in pop music—V...
Jun 19, 2025•40 min
Sofia Hoffmann - (In) Love Muito Mais Sobre Mim
(In) Love explores the different aspects and essences of love, through a simple yet sophisticated musical language, reflecting the singer and song-writer’s experience gathered during the last years. The original songs which compose this collection include jazz, world music, bossa nova, and also a jazz ballad composed by the music veteran Ivan Lins, with lyrics written by Sofia Hoffmann. Enjoy! Support the show
May 09, 2025•33 min
Emma Rawicz & Gwilym Simcock - Big Visit
Gwilym and Emma have teamed up to record a new album Big Visit on ACT, which is out now. They sit down with Tara Minton to share their thoughts on the new music. Support the show
Apr 25, 2025•50 min
Omar Thomas - Griot Songs
Out February 7, 2025, Griot Songs marks the return of the Omar Thomas Large Ensemble after more than a decade, featuring soloists Jason Palmer, Mark Zaleski, Alex Brown, Mark Cocheo and others “Griot Songs firmly plants Omar Thomas in the pantheon of distinguished and exceptional writers. He blurs the lines stylistically in the best of ways with a texturally compelling 'heart and soul' sonic story all his own.” – Grammy-winning drummer/composer Terri Lyne Carrington “Omar Thomas… proves himself ...
Apr 11, 2025•46 min
Isabelle Oliver - Impressions
The French Impressionists revolutionized the art world by privileging the emotional and spiritual perception of the natural world over its literal reproduction. Hailing from France, harpist Isabelle Olivier has always felt an innate affinity for Impressionism and discovered its echoes within her other artistic passions, primarily the parallel worlds of jazz and classical music. On her vibrant new album, Impressions , Olivier conjures a bold musical landscape from the lush and stirring hues of he...
Apr 04, 2025•34 min
Brian Shaw and Nick Smart - Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler
Trumpeter and composer Kenny Wheeler (1930–2014) was one of the most enigmatic and influential musicians in recent memory. His instantly recognisable sound was a driving force within every major innovation in modern European jazz during the last half of the 20th century. More importantly, his life provides us with a profound example of the way music can manifest itself in the most unlikely of vessels. As a lonely and shy teenager in Canada, he sought refuge from his difficult home life in the fr...
Mar 28, 2025•34 min
Interaction | Anat Cohen, Avishai Cohen, Yoval Cohen, Oded Lev-Ari & WDR Big Band
The members of all-star family jazz band The 3 Cohens — featuring Anat Cohen (clarinet), Avishai Cohen (trumpet) and Yuval Cohen (soprano saxophone) — have always taken time out from their ever-burgeoning careers as soloists and bandleaders to reconvene for music-making together. The siblings developed a deep musical bond growing up in Tel Aviv, with improvising together becoming second nature for them. The 3 Cohens recorded four studio albums over a decade: 2003’s One, 2007’s Braid, 2011’s Fami...
Mar 21, 2025•40 min
Jon Irabagon - Server Farm
Jon Irabagon is a Filipino-American saxophonist, composer, and founder of Irabbagast Records. [1] Winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition [1] and one of Time Out ' s "25 essential New York City jazz icons", [2] Irabagon is known for the breadth of his work on a jazz continuum ranging "from postbop to free improvisation, avant country to doom metal". [3] His "extraordinary eclecticism" [4] has led to performances with such diverse artists as Wynton Marsalis , [5] Lou Reed , Evan Parke...
Mar 14, 2025•41 min
Claire Cope - Every Journey
An oft-repeated Chinese proverb states, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Looking back from a vantage point several steps along her own proverbial journey, British composer and pianist Claire Cope came to discover that no matter how daunting a venture may become, it’s always taking that first step that requires the most courage. That realization provided the inspiration behind Every Journey , the gorgeous second album by Cope’s Ensemble C . Every Journey will be released...
Mar 07, 2025•32 min
Nisha Smith & Tom Harris : Live in Manchester
When Nishla & Tom met in Manchester in 2019, they quickly realised they had made a rare musical connection. Over the years, the pair’s work has blossomed sideways into an array of creative projects, but at the core of their partnership is a deep respect for the history and culture of the music they play, and a preoccupation with drawing out the characters and stories they find there. Last winter, Nishla & Tom played a two-night residency at Manchester’s Low Four Studios in front of a liv...
Feb 28, 2025•38 min
Laura Anglade - Get Out of Town
French and American singer Laura Anglade is a promising storyteller hailing from the idyllic town of Brousse-le-Château, France. She draws inspiration from Carmen McRae, Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Billie Holiday, Michel Legrand and Barbra Streisand, among others. Laura has made a mark in the music scenes of New York, Paris, London, Toronto and Montreal, collaborating with some of the world's finest musicians, including Peter Bernstein, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ben P...
Feb 21, 2025•40 min
Ingrid Laubrock - Purposing The Air
Hailed as a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary” by The New Yorker , Ingrid Laubrock has evolved a distinctive, fascinatingly complex and richly layered sonic vocabulary that spans her efforts as an improviser, as leader of her own diverse ensembles or, as in the case of her captivating new album Purposing The Air , as composer and conceptualist for other musicians.Out April 11, 2025 , Purposing The Air marks yet another adventurous exploration in a career marked by bold innovations. The ...
Feb 14, 2025•36 min
Mary Halvorson & Sylvie Courvoisier - Bone Bells - 8th Anniversary Spectacular
Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and American guitarist Mary Halvorson show how virtuosity and joy of playing can be beautifully combined in a duo. Their snapping, over-snapping runs sparkle with the neighboring genres of jazz in particle form. Is this now flamenco, blues, country, noise? Unison voices in a rhythm that has more of Stravinsky or progressive rock than Louis Armstrong or John Coltrane. If there were anyone left who harbored prejudices against female jazz musicians (about which fema...
Feb 07, 2025•35 min
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