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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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Max Roach – Effi

The previous post focussed on ‘Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting’ from Charles Mingus’ political and earthy album Blues & Roots. Today, I look at the album Members, Don’t Git Weary, released on Atlantic in 1968 by a musical contemporary of Mingus, the great Max Roach, one of the most influential drummers in the history of jazz. Roach was a bebop pioneer and changed the way drummers played jazz, elevating the drummer from accompanist to major player.