Harmonious World

It was a great pleasure to have a conversation with classical pianist Burkard Schliessmann: his album Live & Encores is out now.

If you love classical solo piano, this is the album for you. If you hav…

I really enjoy these live chats and the background noise adds some atmosphere - this time it's a chat with sax player, composer and band leader Mark Lockheart in London's Barbican Centre.

Mark's lates…

Pianist Jim Clayton has unleashed his vocals on the latest album Look Out!  and in this conversation he explains why.

This conversation was a joy and - once again - I was reminded why I decided to sta…

Pianist and composer Joey Alexander has recently released his seventh album - Continuance - and he joined me to discuss it.

We chatted just hours after he finished a five show run at New York's Birdla…

I met arranger, orchestrator and composer Jeff Atmajian at Abbey Road studios in November, while visiting past guests on the show Michael Shapiro and Danae Zanthe Vlasse. He kindly agreed to be inter…

Pianist and composer David Lopato has interesting stories to tell together with his diverse, fascinating collection of tracks on Short Stories.

Thanks to David for sparing time to join me in the conve…

This was a delightful conversation and I'm glad to be able to share it with you at the very start of 2024 and season 15 of Harmonious World.

Singer Lucy-Anne Daniels is very much one to watch and I ca…

Welcome to a brief trailer for season 15 of Harmonious World. It's really just an excuse to wish you - listeners and guests - a very happy and healthy 2024.

Thanks to pianist and composer Joe English …

As a fitting end to 2023 and an amazing Season 14 of Harmonious World, I was delighted to be joined by Colorado-based sax player Drew Zaremba. Two of my closest (albeit most distant geographically) f…

I was joined in conversation by Ben Brown and Dominic Conway from Malleus Trio: their new album On/Off is out now and if you like some of the jazz crossover acts like Keith Jarrett and Sons of Kemet,…

Violinist Benet McLean has released Green Park on Sea Mammal Records and he joins me to chat about his music, the album and life in general.

Benet has appeared alongside many great names as a pianist …

Having met saxophonist Soweto Kinch at Ladbroke Hall a few weeks ago, I was delighted that he agreed to join me in conversation.

Soweto is more than a great musician, as evidenced by his album White J…

It was a delight to interview bassist Christian McBride for the latest episode. A real delight. You can probably tell.

Christian has worked with so many great musicians and we discuss his work with ju…

In the latest episode, I am joined by Canadian singer songwriter David Deacon, to discuss his fifth album - Good Day Good Night.

A collection of original tracks, this album also features David's versi…

This is a long episode, because Bill Harrison and I had so much to discuss - his former career as a bass player, his book and his work as a psychotherapist. If you're a musician, there are some insig…

With a focus on grief, and how we survive it, Paramorph Collective have released All we're made of is borrowed. My discussion with the musicians responsible - An Laurence and Kim Farris-Manning - foc…

Completely by chance, the episode follows nicely from last week's. Instead of American compositions, though, this time it's French music performed by award-winning Vietnamese American pianist Quynh N…

For this week's episode of Harmonious World, composer, organist and percussionist Joseph Bertolozzi joins me to discuss his album Tower Music (Musique de la Tour), which samples the sounds of the Eif…

This is a very special episode of Harmonious World.

I am joined by pianist Gadi Stern, who is one third of the Shalosh Trio. Gadi was speaking to me from Jerusalem, just hours after the start of a par…

This episode of Harmonious World features pianist Matthew Whitaker, who is set to perform at his alma mater - The Filomen M D'Agostino Greenberg (FMDG) Music School. This is his way of giving back to…