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.
Def Jim's Jazz Show this week features three personal favourites from the back catalogue of the tower of jazz drumming excellence that was the late Jack DeJohnette, a brand new release from the ever-interesting guitarist Nels Cline (think Wilco) and the latest find from his ongoing project to explore the 70s/80s work of saxophonist Chico Freeman. Plus, of course, a bunch of other quality album tracks from the past 50 years of recorded jazz, a couple of them very recent indeed. Play it, love it.
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