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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
Peter Manning Robinson has become a regular piece of my life online, as we’ve connected on social media since our original chat in January 2021. Peter is a fabulous pianist, Emmy Award–winning and multi–BMI Award–winning composer and inventor of the Refractor Piano™. With his latest music, he’s going back to solo acoustic piano and it’s great to chat with him.
Thanks to Peter for allowing me to play extracts from Pure Heartbreak and Bent Out of Shape alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I’m joined for this episode by saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Jeff Lederer to discuss his latest album - There’s a Yearnin’ - this intensely interesting album is a historic first recording of long-buried works by Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Oliver Nelson.
Thanks to Jeff for allowing me to play extracts from There’s a Yearnin’ alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
This episode celebrates Harmonious World's sixth anniversary with award-winning violinist Ariana Kim, who has a brilliant album out. uncommon thread: Exploring improvisation from Mozart to Macedonia came out just a few days after our conversation. Ariana’s work takes us from Western classical music and Americana, including world premiere recordings of compositions by Shane Shanahan.
Thanks to Ariana for allowing me to play extracts from uncommon thread alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
It was a real pleasure to speak to such an informed musician about her work - Ntjam Rosie is a Cameroonian-Dutch artist who really seems to have discovered her purpose and her sound. Her self-titled album is actually her ninth studio recording and it was fascinating to hear her thoughts on why now.
Thanks to Rosie for allowing me to play extracts from her self-titled album alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I first spoke to Todd Mosby in April 2021 and I was delighted to hear his latest album - American Heartland when it was released a few weeks ago.
Thanks to Todd for allowing me to play extracts from American Heartland alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
This episode is unusual, in that Sara Karloff is not a musician. She is the only daughter of Boris Karloff, star of many films but famously the 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Sara will join composer Michael Shapiro in London on 25 October as his original score is performed in London together with a screening of Frankenstein: commissioned in 2001, it has been presented in over 75 sold-out productions worldwide. I travelled to Milan in November 2021 and the experience of hearing Michael’s music while watching such a genre-defining and ground-breaking film from nearly a century ago was extraordinary.
I chatted with Michael in October 2020, April 2021 and October 2024.
The music I’m playing alongside my conversation with Sara Karloff is from Michael Shapiro’s In the Light of the Sun, performed by members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Stathis Karapanos (flute). I was fortunate in being in the studio when this was recorded.
Enjoy Frankenstein and Michael Shapiro’s score, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
This is the third episode featuring bassist Mark Wade - the first was in July 2020 and the second in person in April 2024.
It was great to talk in person again about Mark’s new album - New Stages - which I have also now reviewed. I also saw Mark live at The Cowshed a few days after our chat.
If you’d like to find out more about the courses and concerts at Benslow Music, click here.
Thanks to Mark for allowing me to play extracts from New Stages alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
This episode is a special one for International Jazz Day, featuring a conversation with music business professional and agent AJ Haseley, who I bumped into a few months ago at Bill Laurence’s gig at Cadogan Hall.
AJ has a lot to share about contemporary British jazz, so enjoy listening to our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
While spending four days at jazzahead! In Bremen last week, I chatted with several musicians and you can hear extracts from those chats here. I have also started including transcripts, if you would prefer to read what we have talked about.
This episode begins with a tiny clip of Sahad’s set, before our conversation begins. Sahad is from Senegal - a musician and an activist and it was so inspirational to chat with him.I spoke to Polish composer and singer Hania Derej in the conference centre itself, so I apologise for the background noise.Santa Sillere is a Latvian jazz vocalist and it was a pleasure to chat about her music, and especially her work with Latvian poets.Canadian trumpeter Rachel Therrien has a new album out called Mi Hogar and we chatted about her music in the conference centre.My chat with Martin Fabricius was another one where we caught up in the hustle and bustle of jazzahead! He’s a Danish vibraphone player and we had lots to talk about.I first came across another Danish musician, Kristoffer Rosing-Schow, when listening to the music of The Counterfictionals. I hadn’t realised that Kristoffer is responsible for the art behind that sextet and he shared some of that with me alongside our chat.My final guest took me back into the Radio Bremen recording studio to chat with Swedish vocalist Sara Alden, who has just released Force of Nature.Thanks to the team at jazzahead! for giving me such great access to amazing musicians, and a huge thank you to Radio Bremen (and especially engineer and producer Michael) for allowing me to use their recording facilities for three of these interviews.
In the background of Sara Alden’s interview and my conclusion, you can hear Jasmine Myra’s soundcheck.
You can also read my reviews of the four days I spent listening to music on my website.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
This was a delightful conversation with Countermeasure’s Aaron Jensen, on the recent release of their fifth studio album, Guest Sessions Vol II.
This is our second episode, following our original chat in August 2024.
Thanks to Aaron for allowing me to play extracts from Guest Sessions vol II alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
Guitarist Tom Ollendorff joins me for a conversation as he is set to tour his 2025 album Where in the World around the world. I’ve heard him play with a number of different ensembles, including with Germana Stella La Sorsa and Tina Mildmay and it’s always a delight. I can highly recommend checking out one of his tour dates when he comes anywhere near you.
This is our second episode, following our original chat in June 2023.
Thanks to Tom for allowing me to play extracts from Where in the World alongside our conversation
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I was delighted to be joined by pianist and composer Eliane Correa, who is presenting Las Salseras: A Tribute to Celia Cruz at London’s Jazz Cafe, to celebrate the centenary of the legendary Cuban singer who inspired her. There are still tickets available for this one-off gig on Saturday 25 April.
Thanks to Eliane for allowing me to play extracts from Signo de Fuego alongside our conversation. You can hear more of her music on Bandcamp.
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This year’s Harmonious World episodes are stacking up fast and I’m delighted that there are so many brilliant musicians creating music and talking to me about it.
I was pleased to be recognised as one of the top 15 jazz podcasts by PodRanker.
Season 24 is already getting booked up with real musicians joining me for interviews.
I’m an independent podcaster and getting to gigs, spending time on interviews, editing etc takes a lot of my resources. If you’re able to help with just the price of a cup of tea once a month, please check out my Patreon site: the link is in the show notes and there are lots of goodies available as a thank you.
Please keep listening to Harmonious World and share, rate and review wherever you find me. It really does help.
For now, thank you for listening - especially those of you who I meet in real life or send me messages - and I hope you stay happy, safe and well.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I have wanted to chat with Terry Shaughnessy, AKA Earth-o-Naut, for several months. It was great to have a chat with him, particularly as his album This is Nowhere. This is Everywhere comes out at the end of May.
Earth-o-Naut is also in the running for one of the prized Jazz FM awards. Nick Pitts, Jazz FM and Magic Classical Content Director: “The nominees for 2026 perfectly capture the breadth of today’s thriving jazz landscape. In the last year, jazz as an artform has really broken ground and not only continued to innovate in its own creative universe but has also heavily influenced the mainstream music world with the likes of Ezra Collective and RAYE. It’s brilliant that our esteemed judging panel have recognised their talents alongside some of the new and established jazz artists who are making a massive impact across the community. Good luck to them all!”
Thanks to Terry for allowing me to play extracts from This is Nowhere. This is Everywhere alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
Vocalist Aynur is preparing to visit Bristol (27 March) Birmingham (28 March), Edinburgh (30 March) Dublin (31 March) and London (2 April) to present her acclaimed album, Rabe.
Thanks to Aynur for allowing me to play extracts from Rabe alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I last spoke to saxophonist, vocalist and composer Kim Cypher back in 2024. Since then, she has issued LIVE and Smiling, an album recorded at Cheltenham Jazz Festival and Peggy’s Skylight.
Kim is now preparing for an appearance at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2026, which runs from 29 April to 4 May.
Thanks to Kim for allowing me to play extracts from LIVE and Smiling alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
I chatted with Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana: her new ballads album Filin presents songs drawn from Cuba’s Filin music tradition and has just been released on Blue Note Records.
Thanks to Melissa for allowing me to play extracts from Filin alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
It was a pleasure to chat just last week to singer songwriter and lyricist Rachel Sutton. Her new album - Realms - is out on 33 Jazz Records at the end of March.
Thanks to Rachel for allowing me to play extracts from Realms alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
For this episode, I’ve chatted with jazz legend Alyn Shipton. Alyn is a UK journalist and broadcaster, with the regular Jazz Record Requests show on BBC Radio 3. He is also a musician and we discussed his new release with Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends - The Oxford Concert - which is due for release on 6 March 2026.
We also discussed our mutual friends and influences, especially across British jazz, including Adrian Cox, who I interviewed in 2025.
Thanks to Alyn for allowing me to play extracts from The Oxford Concert alongside our conversation.
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Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, where I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious.
Joakim Milder has been the artistic director of the Norrbotten Big Band since 2013 and I’m looking forward to hearing the band play live at the opening concert of the Jazzahead! music festival in April. It was good to chat with him about his own musical background and also the collaborations that make the Norrbotten Big Band such an exciting ensemble.
For anyone intending to come along to Jazzahead!, you can get a sneak preview of the opening concert.
Thanks to Joakim for allowing me to play extracts from performances by the Norrbotten Big Band alongside our conversation.
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