The Music Mind Podcast

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is Rex Goh, a professional guitar player of some 50 years career experience based in Sydney Australia.  Rex has played on countless major recordings including number one hits and albums by artists such as Air Supply and Savage Garden. He has played internationally at major venues like the iconic Madison Square Gardens in New York City and...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a professional trombone player and long time Los Angeles based studio musician Alan Kaplan.  Alan has played on over 1000 movie soundtracks, countless television productions, live performances and recordings with some of the biggest names in the music industry. He toured with the famous Buddy Rich Big Band and with the Harry James Band...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is among other things a GRAMMY AWARD winner, a professional violinist, composer, arranger and performer from Perth Australia.  Emily Gelineau has done so much in her first 25 years on the planet that her story should prove inspiring to all who have an interest in the performing arts and in living a successful creative life. A graduate from...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a professional drummer of more than 40 years experience based in Sydney Australia.  Gordon Rytmeister has been a leading drummer working in a wide range of performance and recording situations including extended periods in the television bands on some of the highest profile shows on Australian national TV.  Gordon has further toured nat...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a professional trumpet player of more than 40 years experience based in Sydney Australia.  Ralph Pyl has been a leading commercial trumpet player working in a wide range of performance and recording situations including extended periods in the television bands on some of the highest profile shows on Australian national TV.   In this con...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a life long student of the trumpet, a qualified lawyer, and a current co-owner of one of the most famous custom brass instrument mouthpiece making businesses in the world based in Los Angeles, USA. John Snell has hosted the acclaimed Other Side of the Bell trumpet podcast for over 10 years during which time he has interviewed some of th...

In this episode of The Music Mind Podcast we take a look back at the first 10 episodes and in particular at the music collaborations between the host and the guests from each episode that make this podcast unique. Featured artists throughout the episode include:- Brian Hayes - sopranino and tenor saxophones, concert and alto flutes, dobro, pedal steel and 6 string bass guitar Mike Hayes - electric...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a multi-instrumentalist, touring and performing musician, a composer, producer, music educator and studio owner based in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee in the USA. Steve Dawson was born in Canada but has spent the last decade of a 25 year long professional career in music based in Nashville, one of the world's true centers of the...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a classical guitar virtuoso who was born in Germany but moved to Australia with her family at the age of 8 years. Karin Schaupp is the current head of the classical guitar program at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music based in Brisbane Australia. She has performed solo, in duets, quintets and with symphony orchestras internationally...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a veteran of the Nashville Recording Session industry, a producer, recording engineer, music educator and a modern day master of the Slide Dobro. Jimmy Heffernan is also a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and a recording and performing artist with significant international experience. Having appeared on The Tonight Show, Good M...

My special guest on this episode of The Music Mind Podcast is a #1 Billboard Jazz Chart topping saxophonist, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, recording and performing artist and record label owner. As if that wasn't enough she is also a world-class visual artist whose music related paintings capture the magic vibe of music and musicians in a way that is seldom achieved....

This Episode of The Music Mind Podcast features Germany based young lion of the UK jazz keyboard scene, pianist, organist, keyboardist, composer, touring and recording artist Simon Oslender. In this fascinating conversation we get to learn of Simon's introduction to music at the age of two. Initially attracted to the drums, Simon went on to become a specialist organ player in a contemporary b...

This Episode of The Music Mind Podcast features UK based Grammy Awards Nominee pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Robin A. Smith. Among so many outstanding achievements Robin composed the music for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, an event that was viewed by an estimated world wide audience in excess of 900 million people. He has composed and/or arranged for a diverse...

**** Update - Roger McLachlan passed away in April 2025 from a cancer related illness. This podcast episode serves as a wonderful tribute to Roger's extraordinary life in music.  He will be fondly remembered by family, friends and the many fans of his music. **** In Episode 4 of the Music Mind Podcast series my conversation is with one of Australia's most successful bass guitarists Roger...

**** Update - Roger McLachlan passed away in April 2025 from a cancer related illness. This podcast episode serves as a wonderful tribute to Roger's extraordinary life in music.  He will be fondly remembered by family, friends and the many fans of his music. **** In Episode 4 of the Music Mind Podcast series my conversation is with one of Australia's most successful bass guitarists Roger...

*** Update - Andrew Oh passed away in April 2023 from a heart related illness.  He is sadly missed by friends, family, colleagues and fans.  It is of some comfort that his life's story and music was in part captured in this podcast episode for all to enjoy in the years ahead.  RIP Andrew. *** Hosted by Brian Hayes, The Music Mind Podcast series aims to explore the creative lives of some of th...

Hosted by Brian Hayes, The Music Mind Podcast series aims to explore the creative lives of some of the very best musicians from all over the world. This second episode of the Podcast features an in depth conversation with the widely acclaimed American trumpeter Jim Manley.  Based in St Louis in the USA, Jim is well recognised within the brass world as a master player and teacher who specialises in...

In this Part 1 of a three part conversation with a 50 year professional career veteran of the Australian Music Industry we chat with Mike Hayes about his earliest memories of becoming interested in music, and the guitar which has been the focus of his life for half a century. Having run a successful performing, recording, composing, arranging, teaching and international publishing business Mike co...

This is the third and final part of a conversation with Mike Hayes, a 50 year career veteran of the music industry in Australia. Mike has taken his guitar playing and music talents to the world while being based in the small regional Australian city of his birth. A Master Guitarist who has played with and studied with the best musicians in his field in Australia, Mike was an early pioneer of onlin...

This is the second part of a three part conversation with Mike Hayes, a 50 year career veteran of the music industry in Australia. Mike has taken his guitar playing and music talents to the world while being based in the small regional Australian city of his birth. A Master Guitarist who has played with and studied with the best musicians in his field in Australia, Mike was an early pioneer of onl...