Playtime Podcast - New Adventures in Music

Episode 8:Sorry for the long gap. In this episode we explain "Where have we been?",We talk about the Jazz Bar Closing in edinburgh and what that means, Tom remembers Bill Kyle, we talk about The 'Daves' on Facebook, and then we see the interview with the wonderful Anoushka Nanguy.

In this episode we hear about the podcast's new sponsor - Paul Towndrow - saxophonist, composer, educator, musicians, international jazz life coach. Tom and Mario discuss hat etiquette, dancing cockatoos, and other stuff. We hear an audio narrated double drum duet between Tom & Stu Brown (nb you can see the video version here and the video version with audio narration v1 here v2 here v3 here). Then Tom interviews the absolutely lovely Ben MacDonald who talks about how he got i...

In this drum-tastic episode Tom gets you up to date with the latest messages and news and stuff and then gets into the interview with fellow drummer Stu Brown who is joining Playtime for a double drum extravaganza known as - Drum-a-mi.They talk about drumming, double drumming, drum heroes, both of them having a lesson with great drummer Joey Baron, listen to an excerpt from the great drum duo between Joey Baron and Robin Schulkowsky, the Scottish Jazz Scene in the 90's, the different ex...

This episode features the review of the year by 4 out of 5 of the Playtime team discussing and then giving awards in nearly all the following categories - Gig of the Year, Solo of the Year, Guest of the Year , Audience Member of the Year and Least Impactful Social Media Presence. We hear/see the audience reaction at the last gig when some of these awards are announced especially the winner of Least Impactful Social Media Presence. Then we have the full interview with Mario Caribé ...

This is a very long podcast episode…. But when we listened to it... it is all great, so we thought “Let’s keep it all in”. We think the people who like this podcast… will like it all… The mistake that was made was that Tom invited Mario to join him on the usual 5-7 min intro section - during which we set up what is coming and go through the messages, hoping it would then be 12-15 minutes long. But it took 39 minutes to get through it…. Of course it did! It was Tom & Mari...

In this episode there is an unplanned Sonny Rollins thread running through both interviews - the first one with the wonderful saxophonist Helena Kay - where we talk about how they got into jazz and saxophone, the role of Sonny Rollins in making them the saxophonist they are today, plus reasons for moving back to Scotland, awards and how much they want to win, plus how to regain top spot on the Scottish Jazz Power Couple Chart. and the second with Rob Cope from The Jazz Podcast telling us How ...

Tom, Matt & Mario debrief last week s first ever Playtime Livestream from the Outhouse with the amazing Fergus McCreadie on piano, and have a Listening Party where we listen to the final track of the gig and talk about it kinda like a directors cut on a DVD but with music and audio. Then there is a great interview with the amazing George Burt, this feature a pinao solo by Marlyn Crispell from George's new album. Tom shows off his new hat, and tries out the new My Enormous D......

This is our first go at a podcast. The first half is a discussion between 4 out of 5 Playtime Collective members _ Martin Kershaw, Mario Caribé, Matt Elliott , about our big news : ie our plans for this year. The second half is an interview with the wonderful Fergus McCreadie who is joining us live for our next concert this Thursday November 2nd. That will also be our first live-streamed gig this year so we talk about that as well. The conversation includes finding out what Fergus's name is b...