Inside Out

Nick goes back to the early days of jazz with Kid Ory, checks out classics from Nancy Wilson and Pepper Adams, and plays a track called 'Rhubarb Crumble' from Mark Lockett's recent album Swings and… Read more Audio

Nick goes back 60 years in time, and checks out albums from 1963. Read more Audio

Modern jazz from The Jac and Christchurch's All Girl Big Band, and classics from Muggsy Spanier, Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan, and Lena Horne. Read more Audio

Nick checks out jazz standards which have their origins in French chansons.  Read more Audio

Nick checks out music by NZ legends Phil Broadhurst, Julie Mason, and Dog, and some Italian-American standards from Joe DeFrancesco's Goodfellas. Read more Audio

Nick checks out jazz remakes of great movie tunes. Dave Brubeck plays Disney, Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer play songs from 'Alfie', and three artists take on tunes from 'Mary Poppins'. Read more Audio

Tracks from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, NZ pianists Mike Nock and Jonathan Crayford, and Benny Golson plays "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing". Read more Audio

Nick checks out a re-release by the Ford Tipping Wise Trio of an album which originally came out in the early 2000s, and a set by local legend Nathan Haines. Read more Audio

Swingers from the Marsalis Family and Cannonball Adderley, contemporary sounds from Kristin Berardi and Drew Gress, and magic from the Auckland band Dog. Read more Audio

With the coronation in the air, Nick checks out some of the jazz musicians with royal titles - from Count Basie and Duke Ellington to Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues. Read more Audio

NZ jazz from The Jac, Fiona Pears, and the Boptet; and classics from Errol Garner and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Read more Audio

One place jazz musicians have often turned to for inspiration is the women in their lives. Read more Audio