Taking the Temperature of Jazz In 2026
The boys are sticking to recent releases for the foreseeable future and this episode, inasmuch as it has a discernible theme, is about how d...
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Jazz Bastard Podcast
Two strikingly handsome middle-aged men get together every other week to discuss jazz in depth. Irreverent, irascible, engaged.
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Jazz Bastard Podcast 347 - Chef's K.I.S.S.
A nice, straight-forward jazz album caught Mike's ear, so he decided to do a podcast devoted to new releases that don't over egg the pudding...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 346.5 - Boxes: Mass Market, Boutique, and Odd
Mike is swamped in Spain (with homework, not water), so Pat does an intermediary episode that is .5 by name, .5 by nature. He takes a look a...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 346 - Blood it the Life
Those of a certain age remember the early eighties, and those with adventurous ears remember it wasn’t all about young lions and retro-cool...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 345 - Sonnymoon for Two Bastards - Part 2
In this installment, the boys look at some albums by the great Sonny Rollins after the second and best-known of his several sabbaticals, whe...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 344 - Sonnymoon for Two Bastards - Part 1
The great Sonny Rollins left this dimension on May 25, 2026, and the boys find it only fitting to devote two episodes to the jazz colossus....
Jazz Bastard Podcast 343 - Do You CTI What I CTI?
Back on Episode 247.5 Pat gave an overview of Creed Taylor's famous (infamous?) CTI label that bestrode the first half of the nineteen seven...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 342 - Frankly, Mr. Bastard
We've done vocalists before, but never devoted an episode to the Chairman of the Board. Now we have, so that's off the bucket list. Listen a...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 341 - EC UMMMM
A common canard about jazz is that the acoustic variety was unsaleable during the 1970s, and while there's a germ of truth in it, lots of ex...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 340 - What Shall We Play from Record Store Day?
As this Spring’s Record Store Day flood of releases floats past our wondering eyes on the stream of time, Pat and Mike discusses four select...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 339 - More Sugar on the Frosted Flakes, Please
The boys take a peek at four releases from 2025 sprawling all over the map. If you ever wondered what would happen if Dave Brubeck met an Af...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 338 - Take the Smoove with the Rough
Every now and then the boys bring vocal albums into the mix, but vocal group albums - now those are rarities. This time they take on two, at...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 337 - From New Age to Nuclear
We try to cover a wide gamut of improvised music in the podcast, buttoday's episode must surely have the widest spread of any recent of...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 336 - Four Quartets
Have no fear - the boys are not discussing just any four quartets. No, there's a couple of matching sets. An influential album from a c...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 335 - The Final Four
It's too early for March Madness, but just in time for the bastards to wrap up their survey of the New York Times' Top Ten list of...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 334 - Two from the Times, Two From the Bastards
It's episode two of three covering the New York Times list of Top Ten 2025 jazz albums, and since we generally cover 4 albums a show, a...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 333 - NYT Top 10 for 2025, Part 1
It's sort of nearly a yearly ritual - Pat and Mike pick an outlet's top 10 list for the previous year, work their way through it,...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 332 - Let There Be Lightsey
Welcome to 2026! As what will certainly prove to be an interesting year kicks off, the boys dive deeply into little-discussed keyboard maste...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 331 - Taming the Rivers?
For our last podcast of 2025 we delve into two very different big band projects, check out a recording by a brass band formed to cheer a guy...
Jazz Bastard Podcast 330 - Revenge of the Son of Holiday Jazz: Koz and Effect
It's that time of year again, when Mike insists on a holiday music themed episode and Pat is too worried about upsetting Santa to say "...