This week's guest on Your Gig Is Showing is Amy Cotter, the brain behind KBA's ongoing series D8NIGHT, taking place up and down our favourite street in Tāmaki Makaurau. On Demo Gods, Juno Is returns to play out her response, titled Swan Song, to Finn's prompt 'surf the wave, baby'. Whakarongo mai nei!
As 2025 ripens, the days are beginning to lengthen. The constant flow of high quality new releases in the world of Jazz is showing no sign of abating. Def Jim samples a few in today's Jazz Show, including discs from Mary Halvorson, James Brandon Lewis and Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp String Trio. As usual, these and others are interspersed with choice cuts from the dazzling array of recordings visible in Jazz's rear view mirror, the whole cooking up to a highly satisfying Gumbo in which new and old rub together, enhancing the flavour of each. Don't miss it!
Tonight it's all about the breaks - we have special guest P-Money coming thru to tell us about his new website opendrumsonly.com - the place to go to find a catalogue of all the world's breakbeats in one place. We are treated to P's first vinyl set in around twenty years, mashing it up. He will be lugging a couple of boxes of records to The Other Crate record fair 20th September 2025 - along with some serious heavyweight collectors and DJs. Pop thru!
Karyn says hei konā rā for the winter season of The Saturday Spring, and is joined by Finn Johansson for a special recap episode of Demo Gods. Karyn (and Finn) will be back the month after next with more tunes, insightful interviews, and demos from your favourite artists.
Gareth Shute is in the studio to discuss his new book Songs from the Shaky Isles. Leo Koziol and Craig Fasi join Karyn on Your Gig Is Showing to discuss their roles as the co-curators of this year's short film screening Ngā Whanaunga at the NZIFF. Later, Finn challenges Juno Is to create a brand new track from the prompt 'surf the wave, baby' on Demo Gods.
Today's 95bFM Jazz Show, hosted by Def Jim, was an absolute corker. Featuring a core of five-star tracks from post-2020 releases in the modern jazz idiom by such stellar artists as Thumbscrew, Tyshawn Sorey and Ava Mendoza, the Show also reached back to the 80's and 90's to revisit important work by the likes of Arthur Blythe and Chico Freeman, which is to mention by name well under 50% of the Great Jazz to be heard in this podcast. Unmissable.
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