Jazz

Funky grooves with tastes of afrobeat, hip-hop, psychedelia, world folklore and more. Recorded at 2019 Wellington Jazz Festival. Audio

Alicia Olatuja brings luscious tone, personal engagement and natural elegance to her Wellington performance. Audio

Journeys in Sound: New music from Aotearoa and the world. Video, Audio

This week Nick features the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, alongside trumpet players Wallace Roney, Wynton Marsalis, and Lee Morgan. Audio

More from the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, as well as Wallace Roney, Hank Jones, and a cameo from Joe Williams. Audio

Herbie Hancock opened the Wellington Jazz Festival last night with a demonstration of just about all the things jazz can be: traditional, experimental, cerebral, emotional, physical, intellectual -…

The 40 Watt Banana was a band who formed in Wellington in 1968 performing Indo-Afro psychedelic music. Trevor Reekie talks to band member Kevin Clark about an album that took 48 years to see the light… Audio

Music commentator Kirsten Johnstone walks us through what to expect from the Wellington Jazz Festival (June 5 - 9), including some unjazzy jazz tunes from Rafiq Bhatia and Ghost-Note Audio

Alicia Olatuja is a mezzo-soprano who covers songs by artists as diverse as Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman. And she's just as much at home singing gospel and opera. You might not know… Audio

Jazz Legend Herbie Hancock is in New Zealand this week to open the Wellington Jazz Festival. He talks to Jim Mora about what led him to music in the first place, what he's most proud of, and why some… Video, Audio

Nick gets swinging with singers Lena Horne and Michelle Nicolle, and tenor sax man Dexter Gordon.  Audio

Nick Tipping features the headline acts from the 2019 Wellington Jazz Festival, including Herbie Hancock, Alicia Olatuja, Lex French, and Ambrose Akinmusire in this episode of Inside Out. Audio

On tonight's show Mark plays birthday tunes for Don Williams and John Fogerty, spins classic country-soul from Larry Jon Wilson and Bobbie Gentry, a track from Delaney Davidson's Self Decapitation… Audio

The annual Cavell Leitch New Zealand International Jazz and Blues Festival starts today in Christchurch. Nick Tipping chats to jazz legend Billy Childs Audio