The Hot Jazz Network Podcast

Dublin, Ireland born Melanie O'Reilly has become one of Ireland’s internationally known jazz singers. Now based in Wexford, she has performed extensively throughout France, Britain, Ireland, Wales, Norway, and the USA, including representing Ireland at the Schoenburg Hall Los Angeles and again at the European Heritage Festival in Normandy in 2019. She was a Visiting S...

Lucky me! I had the honor to meet up with Emily Day for this episode of the Hot Jazz Network Podcast. A long time friend and musical collaborator, Emily is a talented arranger for her 6 piece band the Cosmo Alleycats, top notch performer, dynamic business person, and Bay Area's best female vocalist/jazz singer. About Emily Day:  Emily Day's voice carries the history of American music. On stag...

Great Podcast with my friend Johnny. For those who aren't familiar, Johnny Beane is a versatile guitarist, musician, talk show host, guitar gear reviewer, and IRL streamer known for his passion for music. As a podcaster, YouTuber, and Twitch gamer, Johnny combines his love for music and gaming, creating engaging content for fans of guitar, gear, and gaming alike. Whether he’s breaking down legenda...

David "Dawg" Grisman: Stéphane Grappelli told me that, when he and Django first met and started playing together in between sets at a big hotel in Paris, he said they were basically trying to imitate Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti. George Cole: Thank you. Thank you for saying that. Listeners out there in podcast land, that is a very important piece of information, because if you read the books, people...

Today on the Hot Jazz Network Podcast, Dave Lopez and George Cole announced an important benefit/fundraiser for the Jason Becker Creative Care Project. Jason Becker's story, if you haven't heard it, is one you'll never forget—a tale of brilliance, talent, determination, adversity, and ultimate triumph. A child prodigy on guitar, Jason rose to prominence as a teenager when he was one half of the le...

Today's Hot Jazz Network Podcast finds host George Cole delving into the intricate mastery of expert luthier, RYAN THORELL, of Thorell Guitars. ABOUT Ryan Thorell: Ryan Thorell is known for worldclass original guitars collected and coveted by some of the best musicians around the planet including Frank Vignola, John Pizzarelli, Tommy Emmanuel and many others. Thorell guitars are all built one at a...

Great balls of fire! On this VERY Hot Jazz Network Podcast, host George Cole talks with international Rockabilly star, Darrel Higham. Endorsed by Gretsch Guitars and Peavey Amps, Darrel Higham has worked with Jeff Beck, Robert Plant, Jools Holland, Imelda May, Billy Lee Riley, Rocky Burnett, and more. Listen to George and Darrel wind their way through the intersecting paths of musical interests an...

Interesting episode of the Hot Jazz Network Podcast with host George Cole picking the brains of a musically dynamic duo, Miss Maybell (Lauren Sansaricq) and Charlie Judkins. Currently engrossed in a fun project researching unrecorded songs from 1899-1929, working with the Library of Congress and sourcing sheet music from antique shops or relatives of songwriters. They'll be recording a selection o...

Great episode of the Hot Jazz Network Podcast with host George Cole taking time to converse with Kurt Ribak and learning a lot about him and his musical universe. ABOUT KURT RIBAK: Kurt describes his music as “Charles Mingus meets The Meters. They go to Duke Ellington’s house to jam, and Cachao and Thelonious Monk sit in.” Kurt has three albums as the Kurt Ribak Trio, and two more as Kurt Rib...

TEJA GERKEN  GUITAR WIZARD / ENTERPRENUER  In this most recent episode of the Hot Jazz Network podcast, I had the distinct pleasure of conversing with Teja Gerken. He is a fount of information and our talk is well worth the listen. Teja is, among other things, the co-founder, video producer, and host of the Advanced Fingerstyle Workshop at Peghead Nation  https://pegheadnation.com/s...

Charlie 'Roman' Castelluzzo is a hot jazz guitarist based in NYC. Specializing in Django Reinhardt's early playing style, he leads his own hot string quintet drawing out the percussive rhythm style and magic sounds of those years. Additionally, Charlie leads a 10 piece jazz orchestra playing popular music from the 1920-30's where he showcases his innate crooning style of early jazz pione...

Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller. Ron has been featured as a leader in jazz festivals all over th...

Welcome everybody to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. My name is George Cole and I'm your host. In this episode, I interview my guest, vocalist extraordinaire, Richard Herfeld. Here’s a little information about Richard and links to explore more... Richard Herfeld is a crooner from Germany specializing in the music of the 1920s - 1950s. For the last 15 years he's been performing with different bands a...

From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole. Welcome everyone to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. I'm your host George Cole. Today, our very special guest is the one and only Eric Schoenberg, proprietor of Schoenberg Guitars and the Dean of Acoustic Guitars in America. Eric is primarily a finger-style guitarist who started out 50 years ago as a folkie and has s...

From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole. Welcome, welcome everybody to the Hot Jazz Network podcast. My name is George Cole and I'm your host. Today, we're interviewing, or having a conversation with, the one and only, Don Neely, bandleader of the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. San Francisco jazz legend, Turk Murphy, discovered Don’s band and offered them...

From Sourced Network Productions, it’s the Hot Jazz Network, with host, George Cole. Today on our show, we have an incredible guitarist, but he's much more than that. He's a historian. He can help you get out of a parking ticket as well. And I personally feel that his left pinky should be enshrined in the Smithsonian. He's bringing, shining a light on guitarists like Alan Roos, Eddie Lang, Freddie...

From the Sourced Network Productions, it's the Hot Jazz Network Podcast with host George Cole . Here's a great story to get you started on the episode with Bruce Forman, recounting his early influences and how he found his life's path at the early age of 17 years old. From Bruce Forman My first jazz guitar player that I really remember loving was Kenny Burrell. Just the bluesy-ness and the eleganc...

Matt Munisteri: I had to steal a guitar back from airport employees who were stealing it from me, and I had to do that by sneaking out on the tarmac through a back door. It was just pre 9/11, coming back from a gig in Portugal. 9/11 really changed things.  Prior to that, guitars really would disappear. I know Frizzell lost guitars, at least one. I know Brian Setzer lost guitars. In the 90s, t...

Hi, this is Hot Jazz guitarist, vocalist,  and acoustic disc recording artist George Cole. I’m super excited to announce my new podcast “The Hot Jazz Network”. With my 40 years of experience in the music business, we are going to get to the bottom of what Hot Jazz is and just as important, what it is not.  Join me as we take an in person backstage look into all things Hot Jazz. I’ll be s...