Music

Listen along to Matt and Dan making conversation with the ever so highly commended, London born, Australian raised Mark Isaacs. Be sure to catch a glimpse of the extensive collection of records Isaacs has produced, focussing on three of his latest six Songs Without Words, a set of variations on the English folksong The Snow It Melts [...] Read More... from Blow: In Conversation With Mark Isaacs

Over the past decade the face of jazz in Australia has been changing, slowly but surely. While we are used to seeing women singers fronting bands, there have been few women playing the instruments we associate with jazz-trumpets, saxophones, pianos, basses. There have been even fewer women leading jazz ensembles. That is now changing. This [...] Read More... from Changing The Face of Jazz

Tessie Overmyer is a saxophonist primarily playing the alto sax. She has been making a huge impact on the Sydney and Australian jazz scenes in the past couple years.  In this profile she describes taking up the alto at school (though she might have been an oboe player if one had been available) .  She [...] Read More... from Alto player Tessie Overmyer: starting at the top with Charlie Parker

In the latest Episode of Found Sounds Lost Horizons, Blues and Soul singer Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges visits our Studio at the Bondi Pavilion. Together with Trevor and Ben, Eugene talks about his upcoming concerts in Sydney and in Australia. Eugene also plays some of his songs live on his guitar. [...] Read More... from Blues and Soul singer Eugene “Hideaway” Bridges at Foun...

In this Episode of The Philosophy of Jazz, Phil James interviews Jazz musician and banjo player Bela Fleck about his tour together with his life partner, clawhammer banjo player and singer Abigail Washburn. Their tour starts on the 7th of March and goes until September. They play 5 shows in Australia, 2 in New Zealand [...] Read More... from Interview with Jazz Musician Bela Fleck for Philosophy o...

Presented by Kathryn Yang TikTalk with Kathryn discusses the impacts of Tik Tok on the Music industry, revealing the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s a Kathryn-one-time-production and throughout the Podcasts she delves into the ups and downs of virality and Gen-Z’s behaviour on TikTok, as well as dropping a few recent top hits! [...] Read More... from Tik TALK with Kathryn

Presented by Sumaya Sultana Gossip About the Grammys is a one-time production in light of the recent reveal of the 2023 Grammys nominees. Sumaya delves into past controversies about the Grammys and also covers this years Grammys and specific categories to look out for. Throughout the program she drops in different songs from these events [...] Read More... from Gossip About the Grammys

Changing the Face of Jazz, is a series of profiles of  women, jazz instrumentalists.  The featured musician in this edition is saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist Loretta Palmeiro. Loretta has been a member of and soloist in a wide range of ensembles which have made an important impact on Australian music, including the Sirens, the Divergence [...] Read More... from Changing the face of Jazz wit...

Chloe Kim is a drummer.  In this profile she beings by telling us why she describes herself as a drum kit specialist rather than  a percussionist.  Chloe started playing music when she was very young.  She switched to the drums as much, as she tells us, for the look of the kit as for the [...] Read More... from Chloe Kim’s Korean drumming Changing the Face of Jazz

Nadje Noordhuis is a trumpeter, flugel horn player and educator.  In this profile we hear her describing how she started playing music at a very early age but was introduced to jazz much later.  Her ears were opened to the music by the legendary Kenny Wheeler.  Moving from Australia to New York she talks about [...] Read More... from Changing the Face of Jazz -the inspiration of Nadje Noordhuis ,...

2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship Award winner Emma Stephenson has been living and working in New York for the past eight months. She was briefly back in Sydney in April to attend a couple of weddings which gave Mick Paddon, presenter of Time and Space a chance to catch up with her to ask about how [...] Read More... from Emma Stephenson from New York to Time and Space