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Watford Jazz Junction

Chris Newstead

This was a weekly jazz chat exploring the personal stories and creative junctions of fabulous and funny musical guests. We produced 54 episodes from 2020-2022 that remain available. We conti...

Episodes

20 of 54 episodes

Chatting with fabulous Alice Zawadzki - composer, singer and violinist

This week we're talking with creative musical supremo Alice Zawadzki - an astonishing singer, violinist and composer. We explore her journey...

40:47Mar 20, 2022

Chatting with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter & artistic director of NYJO

This week we're talking with Mark Armstrong - trumpeter, composer, arranger and artistic director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. We d...

44:03Feb 6, 2022

Chatting with pianist, composer & collaborator Alex Webb

This week we're joined by the super talented and very interesting Alex Webb - pianist, composer, arranger and serial collaborator. We chat a...

37:38Jan 30, 2022

Chatting with Jess Gillam - saxophonist, presenter and all round musical star

This week we're in conversation with Jess Gillam MBE, presenter of the This Classical Life Podcast as well as being a hugely talented saxoph...

29:23Jan 23, 2022

Chatting with harp & bass duo Tara Minton & Ed Babar about their new fabulous album

This week we're joined by Tara Minton and Ed Babar to find out more about their new album, 'Two for the Road'. We chat about all sorts inclu...

33:12Jan 16, 2022

Chatting with Dave O'Higgins about playing sax, finding his niche and recording jazz

We launch 2022 and Series 9 of the WJJ Podcast in conversation with UK saxophonist Dave O'Higgins. We talk about his journey into music, the...

33:01Jan 9, 2022

Chatting with Ayanna Witter-Johnson - cellist, singer & composer

We round off 2021 with a hugely enjoyable conversation with celebrated cellist, singer & composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson. We talk about playi...

31:02Dec 26, 2021

Chatting with Barney Stevenson, artistic director of the Marsden Jazz Festival

In our penultimate episode of 2021 we chat with Barney Stevenson, who's the artistic director of the Marsden Jazz Festival based in Yorkshir...

41:44Dec 19, 2021

Holidays Special 2021 with Camilla George, Lotti Newstead, Ben Castle, Jim Newstead & special guests

A festive podcast journey aboard our star-packed Polar Jazz Express as we travel through the snow-capped highlands of Watford to a little pl...

45:38Dec 12, 2021

Chatting with vibes player Anthony Kerr about live performance, wellbeing and all things jazz

In this week's bumper episode we take the time out to talk with Anthony Kerr, professor of jazz vibraphone at the Royal College of Music, an...

65:18Dec 5, 2021

Chatting with Ohio-based jazz producers Unc D about remixes, Spotify & the London jazz scene

Unc D (musicians Dante Basista & Danny Svenson) are an Ohio-based remix and production team who've seen a huge growth of interest across the...

33:06Nov 28, 2021

Chatting with Jagadeesh Ramanujam Mudambi & Madhuri Jagadeesh from Indian fusion band MoonArra

In our first crossing to India, we have a fabulous conversation with the talented and entertaining musicians behind the Indian world/jazz fu...

27:06Nov 21, 2021

Chatting with tenor player & singer Ray Gelato about all things entertainment & jazz

As you'd expect in the company of Ray Gelato, this is an extremely entertaining episode to conclude the current series. We chat about rhythm...

29:51Nov 14, 2021

Chatting with MOBO-winning jazz musician and composer Zoe Rahman about jazz education, Jamie Cullum, mentoring and the EFG London Jazz Festival

We're still celebrating our first year anniversary as part of this fabulously entertaining and giggly conversation with pianist Zoe Rahman....

33:47Nov 7, 2021