Inside Out

Nick celebrates the 100^th anniversary of the birth of pianist Lennie Tristano, and plays tunes by Nancy Wilson and Kenny Garrett. Read more Audio

Nick celebrates 100 years since the birth of Nat King Cole, and plays tunes by Ruben Gonzalez, Buddy DeFranco, and Tessa Quayle. Read more Audio

Nick features pianist Herbie Nichols, as well as Sara Gazarek and Cory Henry. Read more Audio

Nick plays music from the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Chicago trio Twin Talk, and Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong. Read more Audio

Nick plays jazz standards with identical or near-identical names, including two ‘Moanin’s, two ‘Milestones’, a ‘Lazy Bird’ and ‘Lady Bird’, and ‘Sunday’ alongside ‘Come Sunday’. Read more Audio

Nick checks out classics from Melba Liston and Miles Davis, country music from John Scofield, and gypsy jazz from Swing 41. Read more Audio

Miles Davis' partnership with Gil Evans was a match made in jazz heaven. Evans' atmospheric arrangements perfectly suited Miles' fragile trumpet tone, and nowhere more so than on their take on the… Read more Audio

Nick checks out a new recording from Pat Bianchi, classics from Stacey Kent, and Tia Fuller’s Grammy-nominated album. Read more Audio

Nick heads to the Netherlands with the Koninklijk Conservatory Band, to Israel and the Congo with Yonathan Avishai, and back to NZ with Samsom Nacey Haines. Read more Audio

In honour of Blue Note Records’ 80^th birthday, Nick presents a highlights reel of the best in 1950s and 60s Blue Note jazz. This hour: Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Hank Mobley, Lee… Read more Audio

The second part of a best-of compilation from Blue Note Records. This hour: music from Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, Horace Silver, and Duke… Read more Audio

For Inside Out, Nick Tipping checks out tracks by Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Patricia Barber, and Cassandra Wilson. Read more Audio