The Jazz Interview Podcast

Fresh and archive interviews with the greatest improvisers, composers and thinkers on the planet.

The Jazz Interview Podcast is a music podcast hosted by tJiP, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Aaron Parks on Little Big, Brad Mehldau, Kenny Barron and returning to Blue Note Records for By All Means

  Dec 16, 20251h 4mS0

  <p>In this far-ranging interview, Aaron Parks talks being a “little smarty pants” who went to college at 14, dropping four albums as a piano wunderkind teen, getting tutored by Kenny Barron at the Manhattan School of Music, mentored on the road by Terence Blanchard, being signed by Blue Note Records, and releasing modern classic Invisible Cities (2008) – all by the age of 25 …</p><p>He also inspirationally shares about his early sense of imposter syndrome, subsequent mental health crisis, and being the “chaos agent" of his own career “self sabotage". And the subsequent rebirth of recording the wonderful trio record Find the Way (201...

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  Quincy Jones on Prince, Frank Sinatra, Herbie Hancock, and 60 years in music

  Nov 2, 202543 minS0

  <p>Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Oprah Winfrey, Prince, Buzz Aldrin, Nelson Mandela, Robert De Niro, Count Basie, Frank Gehry, David Bowie, Will Smith, Paul McCartney, Herbie Hancock, Lesley Gore, Mick Jagger, Duke Ellington, Martin Scorsese and, of course, Michael Jackson…</p><p>These are just a few of the names that came up in the 45 minutes I spent with Q, one magical afternoon. To celebrate a life lived to its fullest, one year after Jones’ death, I’m sharing the audio with the world for the first time.</p>

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  Gary Bartz on Miles Davis, Jazz is Dead, and why 'improvisation' is a banned word

  Sep 25, 20251h 3mS0

  <p>To celebrate the 85th birthday of Gary Bartz, we're sharing this freewheeling wide-ranging, previously unpublished interview for the first time. Hear the legend recount his career in his own words: from early sessions with Art Blakey to his charged Ntu Troupe records, working with McCoy Tyner and Donald Byrd, and of course, his years on the road with Miles Davis, immortalised on the sprawling masterpiece Live-Evil. We also chat about his recent collaborations with Maisha and Jazz is Dead.</p><p>Most fascinating however are Bartz's insights into the American art form he's devoted his life to, and why...

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  Sérgio Mendes on working with WIll.i.am, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Frank Sinatra, and the eternal bossa nova beat

  Sep 4, 202530 minS0

  <p>To celebrate the life of Sérgio Mendes – one year after his death aged 83, on September 5, 2024, from complications associated with long Covid – I’m sharing this archive interview with the world’s greatest populariser of Brazilian music. Every time you hear a bad bossa nova cover of a rock song in a hotel lobby, you probably have this guy to blame. Because while Antônio Carlos Jobim gave Brazilian music its songbook, Mendes’ Brasil '66 band brought bossa’s irresistibly breezy beat to the world.</p><p>I’ve made minor cuts for flow and focus, but otherwise this is just a fly-on...

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  Mary Halvorson on About Ghosts, Bill Frisell, freaky guitar pedals and her practise routine

  Aug 23, 202548 minS0

  <p>In the wake of winning more Downbeat awards than even the magazine can count*, we called Mary Halvorson at home in Brooklyn, at 8pm on a Saturday night, to discuss the new artistic heights reached on About Ghosts – her fourth fantastic Nonesuch Records release utilising the peerless Amaryllis sextet. We traced her formative experiences, from falling under the tutelage of Anthony Braxton, to her early Firehouse 12 albums recorded while she still had an office job, through to solo masterpiece Meltframe, the vocal-led Code Girl project, and pinch-me collaborations with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. </p><p>For the six-string ner...

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