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The 95bFM Jazz Show - drawing on the music that influenced jazz, the music that became jazz, and the music that jazz became. A must-listen for jazz enthusiasts and music lovers alike, with Blind Mango Chutney, Miss Dom, Def Jim, or Frances Chan.
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The latest 95bFM Jazz Show with Def Jim features the work of a number of notable contemporary guitarists, including Miles Okazaki, Julian Lage, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, Nels Cline and Terje Rypdal. Following the death of Country Joe McDonald in early March, tribute is paid in the form of a classic Country Joe & The Fish track from the late 60's which has Def Jim remembering that at one time there was a tradition of playing a not-jazz track almost every Jazz Show, a custom which has now lapsed. This Jazz Show finishes with a Michel Benebig Quartet piece recorded live at the ATO Jazz Club in New Lynn, Auckland - out now on Rattle Records.
Welcome be-boppers to the jazziest 2 hours on 95bFM.
Host Blind Mango digs into the (re)released 1976 Dr Tree album again to mark its 50th anniversary of the original release, plays a blast of 'pre-Prince,' and delivers a teaser for an upcoming show.
Thanks to show sponsors San Ray on Ponsonby Rd.
Frances Chan opens with an award-winning soundtrack and ends with an apt seasonal 50-year-old classic. In between she explores the work of Robert Glasper, digs Japanese jazz and celebrates the birthdays of George Benson and Dave Pike.
Playlist:
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Horses
Crystal Chen – Top Down
Thundercat – I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time
Robert Glasper – I Don’t Even Care – Live at Capitol Studios 2014
Robert Glasper ft Q-Tip, Esperanza Spalding – Why We Speak
Robert Glasper – Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
Masayoshi Takanaka – Breezin’
Yasei Collective ft Shun Ishikawa – Brilliants
Count Buffalo & The Jazz Rock Band – Mago-Uta
Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media – Breeze
Michel Benebig & the Le Grand B3 Big Band – Alenka’s Mood
Salin – Egungun
Wes Montgomery – A Day in the Life
Ahmad Jamal Trio – The Awakening
Shabaka – Dance in Praise
Brandee Younger – Breaking Point
George Benson – The Shape of Things to Come
Dave Pike – Walkin’ Down the Highway in a Red Raw Egg
Temporary Blessings – Fata Morgana
Ryo Fukui – Autumn Leaves
Welcome beboppers to the jazziest two hours on the station.
Host Blind Mango Chutney begins with Sperber Dan’s theme from last week with a visits to the Middle East, before a virtual world tour including Brazil, Melbourne, Wellington, Washington, New Caledonia, and (of course) New York.
Special guest Ben McNicoll from the Creative Jazz Club with some exciting news, and some tracks from upcoming visitor Thundercat.
Thanks as always to our special friends at San Ray on Ponsonby Rd.
Today’s show with host Sperber Dan goes beyond borders, including visits a bunch of countries -- including our good friends in the Middle East.
The 95bFM Jazz Show is brought to you by our friends at San Ray in Ponsonby Rd.
Your host Blind Mango Chutney takes you in all directions this afternoon, from classic Blue Note to South American and Dutch fusion, through to blues and acid jazz -- and Canadian alt-jazz band BadBadNotGood, playing tonight in Auckland. And news of a great live event at San Ray this coming Sunday.
A true celebration of sound!
Thanks to San Ray, your all-day eatery on Ponsonby Rd.
Another cracker of a Jazz Show from Def Jim, who only had access to a single functional studio CD player but nonetheless delivers selections from new releases by Tomeka Reid Quartet, Fred Hersch, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Joe Morris/Elliott Sharp (among others) plus a classic Oregon track from 1974 by way of tribute to the late guitarist Ralph Towner plus another instalment in his ongoing exploration of the 1970s-90s work of Chico Freeman and a bunch of other plusses besides. Essential listening for Jazz Heads of every stripe.
Blind Mango is back, playing a few groovy Valentine specials, and he catches us all up on last week's Somethin' Else Festival.
Thanks to our amazing sponsors - San Ray - the 'home of great eats' - find them at 118 Ponsonby Road.
Frances Chan extols exotic sounds from Brazil, Portugal and India, as well as Wellington and Christchurch, NZ. Plus some unlikely jazz covers and a double shot of Zappa.
This week Blind Mango Chutney is your host - & Miss Dom 'jumps on' as BMC's trusty 'side-kick' & Co-Host.
Blind Mango Kicks off the show with a classic piece from Idris Muhammad - then later BMC dives deep into a dusty crate - surfacing with a long-forgotten vintage piece by 'The Duke' (Ellington) - & while diggin in that same crate he also finds a perfecto 'slice of summer samba' - & a cover of a 'classy, & popular Brazilian classic' from Oscar Peterson's 'Soul Espanol' album -
Dom also hits a summery note - with a killer' Azymuth' 7 inch - delivered to her by the way cool ' Xmas Fairies. She also features a few 'lates, & greats' - Plus a bunch of new releases too.
The pair also pay tribute to recently passed 'rhythm twin' Drummer Sly Dunbar - via Herbie Hancock's 'Future Shock' album, on which Sly featured.
Thanks to our very amazing sponsors - San Ray - the 'home of great eats' - find them at 118 Ponsonby Road.
Cheers for your ears folks!
Frances Chan jampacks her show with current releases and a preview of Auckland's Somethin' Else Jazz Festival 6-7 Feb. Plus, we remember Ralph Towner and another 50th anniversary classic.
Rory covers the 95BFM Jazz Show, thanks to San Ray.
Some of my favourite recent NZ releases alongside tracks from some of Aotearoa's and the world's most notable Jazz musicians.
Hope you enjoy listening!
On his first Jazz Show for 2026, after opening with a classic mid-70's ECM opus from guitarist Ralph Towner, Def Jim offers a feast of Free Jazz and free-ish jazz to delight the auditory senses of those with open ears and perhaps a little courage. From seminal mid-80's works by legendary Detroit pioneers Griot Galaxy and friends (incidentally featured in the December 2025 edition of UK magazine The Wire) through drummer Gerry Hemingway's 90's European Quintet, an outstanding mid-noughties live cut from the second incarnation of David Liebman & Richie Beirach vehicle Quest to new and recent releases from veteran Chicago reedsman Henry Threadgill, Shaman-guitarist Tisziji Munoz and piano visionary Matthew Shipp, this Show has a tilt at freedom in all its guises. And then there's the tracks in between... all in all, true nourishment indeed for intrepid musical souls.
The ever eclectic hosts Lonely Buffalo (aka Chris F.) and Li'l Parsnip (aka DJ Sassy) go trip-hopping and acid-jazzing into 2026 with the final 95bFM Jazz Show on 95bFM.
Sassy's top picks for the week:
Barry Adamson - Jazz Devil ... so HOT it gave me all the good vibes...wink!
Air - Le Femme D' Argent ... oui oui!
Darkstar - Hold Me Down ... this got a hold of me and I never want to let go
Connan Mockasin - Momo's ... I want mo mo of this!
James Carter / Cyrus Chestnut / Ali Jackson / Reginald Veal - Summer Babe ... brings out the ultimate summer babe in Sassy
Mica Paris - Nothing Hits Your Heart Like Soul Music ... this hit my heart AND my soul!
Mojave 3 - Got My Sunshine - this also warmed me up!
We also raised a glass to ALL the jazz show hosts to say adios to 2025?!?!
Frances Chan chats to German electronic meister Burnt Friedman in his home studio in rural Portugal about his selection of experimental jazz, and his creative processes with Atom Heart and legendary Can drummer Jaki Leibezeit. Burnt also mentions a few local luminaries he met during his visits to NZ in the late 90s/early 00s. Plus some Portuguese vibes and Christmasy cheer.
Playlist:
Luis Miguel – Santa Claus Llego a la Ciudad
Flanger – Options in the Fire
Nuno Canavarro – Blu Terra
Bernardo Couto, Bernardo Moreira, Luis Figueiredo – Arabica
Flanger – Midnight Sound
Nik Bärtsch & Ronin – Modul 47
Burnt Friedman - Octrahedal Spherical Caffuffle
Bohren and the Club of Gore – Constant Fear
Roland P. Young – Clutch
Carmen Souza – Ariope!
The Embassadors – Big Amen
Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit – Gulli Vereisen
Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos – Circe
John Coltrane – Spiritual
Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit – 130-09
Yes – Soon
Ezra Collective – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Blind Mango Chutney is in the chair for HIS last show of the year. The O.G. takes the opportunity to hit you with some of the the festive jazz cuts lurking in his tote bag.
It's their last show for the year, so your hosts Miss Dom + Dr Mark Baynes review their favourite tracks and a few of their favourite shows from 2025.
Tune in for fine jazz and good korero.
Blind Mango Chutney takes you an another jazz journey taking in big band, big guitar, and a big, big gig at the Powerstation with London afro-funk septet Kokoroko.
Def Jim's Jazz Show this week features three personal favourites from the back catalogue of the tower of jazz drumming excellence that was the late Jack DeJohnette, a brand new release from the ever-interesting guitarist Nels Cline (think Wilco) and the latest find from his ongoing project to explore the 70s/80s work of saxophonist Chico Freeman. Plus, of course, a bunch of other quality album tracks from the past 50 years of recorded jazz, a couple of them very recent indeed. Play it, love it.
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends & enemies, welcome to the 95bFM Jazz Show with your host, Blind Mango Chutney.
This Sunday, Blind Mango features Kokoroko, London/Nigerian band playing at the Powerstation on 26 November.
And a testimonial to long-serving former co-presenter of bFM Show The Audible World, Pim Gorter.
Brought to you by San Ray bistro in Ponsonby Rd.
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