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Two strikingly handsome middle-aged men get together every other week to discuss jazz in depth. Irreverent, irascible, engaged.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Welcome to 2026! As what will certainly prove to be an interesting year kicks off, the boys dive deeply into little-discussed keyboard maste...
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...
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 "...
Join us for a very special interview with Chicago jazz trio Twin Talk, who have made it over a decade without swapping any of the three - co...
There's a historical selection this podcast, with an alto player whose mid-eighties comeback comprised one of the great jazz narratives...
It's been a hot minute since the boys did a "pop" episode, but given this very special installment is devoted to jazz-rock gods of the...
Some indie labels find a happy home in the afterlife - think Prestige, Contemporary, et al who thrived for years under the Fantasy banner an...
"High Concept" is sometime used as a derogatory term for movies that are more about a saleable idea than a good script. This installment of...
Yep, it's one of those "what did Pat find at the record store?" episodes, with an emphasis on lesser known artists (unless the guitaris...
This fortnight, Mike's cued up four newish releases with very different approaches to modern jazz. We have a couple piano trios (one of...
The Bastards delve into the fecund fields of fusion once again, focusing on that most electric of decades, the 1970s. This excursion sticks...
For this particular fortnightly excursion, Mike suggested we look at four newish recordings by artists we've covered - or at least list...
The most recent Record Store Day episode is barely in the rear-view, but the boys decide to take on four more vault finds dug up by jazz det...
From time to time this august podcast discusses the jazz vocal arts and opinions are expressed. Heavy hitters like Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Vaug...
This fortnight's 'cast looks at four recent albums by up and coming artists - from the fairly well known to the outright obscure....
It's a well-known fact that Pat buys too much vinyl - just ask his long-suffering spouse. But at least some of it comes in handy '...
Mike's out, so Pat gets to interview publicist turned manager Matt Merewitz solo. Listen for lots of insights, opinions, and tales from...
RSD - or Record Store Day for you vinyl virgins- comes but once, er, or twice a year, and while the main focus is who will win the privilege...
The boys ponder a batch of 2025 releases on the search for memorable, hummable melodies. These being 2025 jazz albums, you can guess the res...
At Mike's suggestion, today's podcast explores the truncated career of hard bop trumpeter Carmell Jones. We listen to four albums...
The venerable bastards have made it to their twelfth anniversary, so time to dress us in silk and pearls (if you weren't already in you...
Normal service resumes with a podcast devoted to tributes celebrating the still-obscure pianist and composer Herbie Nichols. Nichols spent h...
As we noted so succinctly way back in 2014: Some trios play nicer together than others - Pat and Mike investigate. Duke Ellington – MONEY JU...
All lists come to an end at some point (often after ten entries) and this third and final podcast on the New York Times' selections for...
The boys are back to take on four more entries from the New York Times' Best of 2024 list and Mike especially is happy with these selec...
At the end of the year, media outlets make lots of lists, so many lists that there's even one for best jazz recordings. At the start of...
There's a new Record Store Day ritual in the jazz world - archival live releases from one of the many labels Zev Feldman has a hand in...
To start off what is certain to be an interesting new year, Mike and Pat look at leader dates by the deepest of the regularly-used saxophone...
Every musician, it seems, does a holiday album sooner or later, and visions of residuals dance in their heads. But given the flood of releas...
A couple releases exploring older repertorie, a out-ish excursion that goes all over the map, a young woman singer with our time on her hand...
Jazz has gone some pretty wacky places - Russia, South America, the White House - but believe it or not, sometimes it even invades that prin...
Halloween's in the rear view mirror but the boys still have a mixed bag of treats on offer, including an album whose cover boasts the b...
Podcast 301 picks up where 300 left off, looking at albums from 1993, 2003, 2013, and 2023. Jazz trends get a little harder to pick out once...
Three hundred podcasts is the kind of milestone worth of an echo chamber at the very least and a themed episode at the very, er, leaster. Pa...
Back in the saddle again, the boys look at three recent releases and one cute little two-year-old. Two of the recordings are lead by bassist...
Never mind what your podcast feed may seem to imply - the bastards haven't recorded a podcast together in two months, and this one got...
Summer's winding down. How'd you spend yours? Pat spent his immersed in the music and life of Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest i...
Those crazy hazy lazy days of summer got us in their thrall and scheduling's been tough, so please enjoy this flashback to episode 81:...
What's the most famous jazz album in the world? Don't say Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins unless you have a really good excuse,...
A lot of listeners worry that jazz has ossified in the last, say, fifty years or so, but Mike decides to do something about it, terminologic...
Jazz releases these days fight a game of inches. Almost everybody releasing music in the genre is technically accomplished and the rules hav...
The boys warned you things were going to get eclectic, but they may have outdone themselves this time, as the selections run the gamut from...