Blind Mango Chutney keeps the winter chills at bay with strong doses of jazz reggae, jazz rock and jazz fusion, and in-studio guest music entrepreneur John Baker plays an immune-boosting selection of rare early NZ jazz, rock and exotica recordings.
Dr Mark - Features tracks by recent Jazz visitors - & players from Herbie Hancock's band - Guitarist Lionel Loueke (featuring Gretchen Parlato), & Trumpeter Terrence Blanchard. Then Mark Surprises us with some Ska Jazz selections - goes a little Latin-baby - with a great version of Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps - & also plays a great track - from a new EP release from the head of the Jazz School at Auckland University - Keith Price - & his group LaLuc.
Miss Dom - Gets excited about the newly awarded winner of the Best Jazz Composition Prize (Aotearoa) - Winner Lucien Johnson - & also - plays a bunch of new releases from Aotearoa.
In our Podcast only feature - Dom keeps things homegrown - with music from Callum Allardice, & Joe Kaptein - & Dom - ends on a lovely note - playing the track - Drifting - by one of the recent Best Jazz Composition finalists - Anita Schwabe.
Cheers to Nathan Haines, & Everyday Coffee.
First up on today’s Wire, Oscar speaks with Max Tweedie from the young greens about his petition to ban gay conversion therapy in New Zealand. Neutral corner returns, looking at the Trump Putin meeting. Lachlan speaks with Andrew Little, discussing the human rights commissioners appointment panel and youth being remanded to police cells. Finally, this day in history looks at the assassination of Aung San.
This week on the Monday Wire for our regular Green Party segment Jemima speaks to co-leader Marama Davidson about the success of COP24, the #wastefreeholidays campaign and what the Green Party has in store for 2019. Lillian spoke to Malvindar Singh-Bains, a research fellow at the University of Auckland centre for Brain Research, about Huntington's disease. We play a short extract from the Big Q's panel on climate change last year. Finally I speak to Wendy Allison from Know Your Stuff about safe drug testing over the festival season.
Mediaworks, the owners of TV Three, confirmed yesterday they’ve cancelled Guy Williams’ new comedy show New Zealand Today, and made major cutbacks to long-running panel show 7 Days. It’s also expected we’ve seen the end of Married at First Sight - meaning there’s not a lot of new programming expected for Three in the new year. So what happens now? Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke to journalist Philip Matthews, co-author of the book Funny As, and started by asking him if these cutbacks were a surprise.
On Dear Science with Marcus Jones we talk about mysterious blood clots, artificial chloroplasts, and solar panels sucking water from air to cool them down.
Lillian looks into the Covid19 Public Health Response Act that was debated urgently in parliament this morning.
Felix checks in with the various sectors that have been impacted by Covid.
We have our regular Epidemic Response Committee notes and today we hear discussions about finance and the economy, very pertinent with the Budget announcement coming tomorrow.
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