Harmonious World

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I’ve just come back from a weekend at Love Supreme 2026 and it was great to catch so many artists. You can read my reviews on the website . Along the way, I had a second chat with pianist Sultan Stevenson, who I featured on Harmonious World in April 2025 . Than...

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Hilary Seabrook - writer, podcaster and musician. You can find out more at Hilary Seabrook.co.uk , plus there’s a link in the show notes. You will also find there lots of album and gig reviews. Season 24 was great and Season 25 promises more interviews with extraordinary musicians, some already recorded and more scheduled in for the next couple of months. I’...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Vocalist Heidi Vogel joins me ahead of her 23 July show upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s and talks about her forthcoming album (review to follow in due course!) Thanks to Heidi for allowing me to play extracts from her music alongside our conversation. Get in touch t...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I had the opportunity to interview Maestro Swafford in person and then attend a recording of his tone poem Late Autumn-First Snow at Abbey Road. The orchestra that day was formed from members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the marvellous Mich...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Peter Manning Robinson has become a regular piece of my life online, as we’ve connected on social media since our original chat in January 2021 . Peter is a fabulous pianist, Emmy Award–winning and multi–BMI Award–winning composer and inventor of the Refractor...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I’m joined for this episode by saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Jeff Lederer to discuss his latest album - There’s a Yearnin’ - this intensely interesting album is a historic first recording of long-buried works by Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Oliver...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This episode celebrates Harmonious World's sixth anniversary with award-winning violinist Ariana Kim, who has a brilliant album out. uncommon thread: Exploring improvisation from Mozart to Macedonia came out just a few days after our conversation. Ariana’s...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. It was a real pleasure to speak to such an informed musician about her work - Ntjam Rosie is a Cameroonian-Dutch artist who really seems to have discovered her purpose and her sound. Her self-titled album is actually her ninth studio recording and it was fascin...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I first spoke to Todd Mosby in April 2021 and I was delighted to hear his latest album - American Heartland when it was released a few weeks ago. Thanks to Todd for allowing me to play extracts from American Heartland alongside our conversation. Get in touch to...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This episode is unusual, in that Sara Karloff is not a musician. She is the only daughter of Boris Karloff, star of many films but famously the 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Sara will join composer Michael Shapiro in London on 25 October as hi...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This is the third episode featuring bassist Mark Wade - the first was in July 2020 and the second in person in April 2024 . It was great to talk in person again about Mark’s new album - New Stages - which I have also now reviewed. I also saw Mark live at The Co...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This episode is a special one for International Jazz Day , featuring a conversation with music business professional and agent AJ Haseley , who I bumped into a few months ago at Bill Laurence ’s gig at Cadogan Hall. AJ has a lot to share about contemporary Brit...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. While spending four days at jazzahead! In Bremen last week, I chatted with several musicians and you can hear extracts from those chats here. I have also started including transcripts, if you would prefer to read what we have talked about. This episode begins w...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This was a delightful conversation with Countermeasure ’s Aaron Jensen, on the recent release of their fifth studio album, Guest Sessions Vol II . This is our second episode, following our original chat in August 2024 . Thanks to Aaron for allowing me to play e...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Guitarist Tom Ollendorff joins me for a conversation as he is set to tour his 2025 album Where in the World around the world.  I’ve heard him play with a number of different ensembles, including with Germana Stella La Sorsa and Tina Mildmay and it’s always a de...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I was delighted to be joined by pianist and composer Eliane Correa , who is presenting Las Salseras: A Tribute to Celia Cruz at London’s Jazz Cafe, to celebrate the centenary of the legendary Cuban singer who inspired her. There are still tickets available for...

This year’s Harmonious World episodes are stacking up fast and I’m delighted that there are so many brilliant musicians creating music and talking to me about it. I was pleased to be recognised as one of the top 15 jazz podcasts by PodRanker.  Season 24 is already getting booked up with real musicians joining me for interviews.  I’m an independent podcaster and getting to gigs, spending time on in...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I have wanted to chat with Terry Shaughnessy, AKA Earth-o-Naut, for several months. It was great to have a chat with him, particularly as his album This is Nowhere. This is Everywhere comes out at the end of May. Earth-o-Naut is also in the running for one of t...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Vocalist Aynur is preparing to visit Bristol (27 March) Birmingham (28 March), Edinburgh (30 March) Dublin (31 March) and London (2 April) to present her acclaimed album, Rabe . Thanks to Aynur for allowing me to play extracts from Rabe alongside our conversati...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I last spoke to saxophonist, vocalist and composer Kim Cypher back in 2024 . Since then, she has issued LIVE and Smiling , an album recorded at Cheltenham Jazz Festival and Peggy’s Skylight . Kim is now preparing for an appearance at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 20...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I chatted with Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana : her new ballads album Filin presents songs drawn from Cuba’s Filin music tradition and has just been released on Blue Note Records. Thanks to Melissa for allowing me to play extracts from Filin alongside our c...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. It was a pleasure to chat just last week to singer songwriter and lyricist Rachel Sutton . Her new album - Realms - is out on 33 Jazz Records at the end of March. Thanks to Rachel for allowing me to play extracts from Realms alongside our conversation. Get in t...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. For this episode, I’ve chatted with jazz legend Alyn Shipton . Alyn is a UK journalist and broadcaster, with the regular Jazz Record Requests show on BBC Radio 3. He is also a musician and we discussed his new release with Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends - T...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Joakim Milder has been the artistic director of the Norrbotten Big Band since 2013 and I’m looking forward to hearing the band play live at the opening concert of the Jazzahead! music festival in April. It was good to chat with him about his own musical backgro...

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I first interviewed Sarah McKenzie for Harmonious World episode 21 in November 2020, when life was very different for us all. Now she has a new single out - City By the Bay - which is effectively the composer and singer’s love letter to San Francisco. Thanks to...