Nick Tipping
All About the Blues
Nick Tipping plays 9 different tunes based on the 12-bar blues, including tracks by Count Basie, Oliver Nelson, and Charlie Parker. Audio
Tierney Sutton & Gregory Porter
Nick plays tracks from new albums by Tierney Sutton and Giovanni Guidi, as well as tracks from Gregory Porter, Errol Garner, and Horace Silver. Audio
The Sweets, Lisa Ekdahl, Nicholas Payton
Nick Tipping keeps it swinging, with music from Harry "The Sweets" Edison, Nicholas Payton, and Charlie Parker- plus a quick set from Swedish singer Lisa Ekdahl. Audio
Andrea Keller, James Muller, Herb Ellis
Nick features Australian jazz musicians Andrea Keller and James Muller, the trans-Tasman ensemble Antipodes, and hard bop from Herb Ellis, Art Pepper and Count Basie. Audio
Irene Kral, Herbie Hancock, Melody Gardot
Nick plays music by Melody Gardot, Herbie Hancock, and Irene Kral with Alan Broadbent. Audio
Lennie Tristano
Nick celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of pianist Lennie Tristano, and plays tunes by Nancy Wilson and Kenny Garrett. Audio
Nat King Cole turns 100
Nick celebrates 100 years since the birth of Nat King Cole, and plays tunes by Ruben Gonzalez, Buddy DeFranco, and Tessa Quayle. Audio
Herbie Nichols
Nick features pianist Herbie Nichols, as well as Sara Gazarek and Cory Henry. Audio
Twin Talk
Nick plays music from the Roy Hargrove Big Band, Chicago trio Twin Talk, and Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong. Audio
Twinset
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’. Audio
From a master of jazz piano, to up-and-coming stars for Wellington Jazz Festival
Herbie Hancock is among the artists on the just-announced lineup for the Wellington Jazz Festival 2019. RNZ Music jazz specialist Nick Tipping appraises the artists playing at this year's event. Video
Park Mews - looking to the 1970s to solve the housing crisis?
Anyone who has been to Hataitai in Wellington will have seen these famous apartments near the Mt Victoria tunnel - but how can they help with the housing crisis? Audio
Melba & Miles
Nick checks out classics from Melba Liston and Miles Davis, country music from John Scofield, and gypsy jazz from Swing 41. Audio
Porgy & Bess
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… Audio
Tia Fuller, Pat Bianchi, Stacey Kent
Nick checks out a new recording from Pat Bianchi, classics from Stacey Kent, and Tia Fuller’s Grammy-nominated album. Audio
Yonathan Avishai, Samsom Nacey Haines
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. Audio
Blue Note Records: part one
In honour of Blue Note Records’ 80th 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… Audio
Blue Note Records: part two
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… Audio
Oscar, Art, Patricia, Cassandra
For Inside Out, Nick Tipping checks out tracks by Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Patricia Barber, and Cassandra Wilson. Audio
Maggie Gould & Nanny Assis
Nick Tipping features NZ singer Maggie Gould and Brazilian musician Nanny Assis, who are currently touring in support of their new album, as well as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Monty Alexander… Audio
