Inside Out

The South African jazz scene is incredibly exciting and diverse, as its younger musicians explore ways of fusing the urban roots of jazz with traditional music.  Read more Audio

Nick Tipping takes a jazz journey through the colours of the rainbow - from Gerry Mulligan's 'Red Door' to Billie Holiday singing 'Violets for your Furs'. Read more Audio

Uri Caine plays an updated version of 'Honeysuckle Rose'; Ben Wilcock has fun with 'Ben's Bounce'; and Jutta Hipp teams up with Zoot Sims. Read more Audio

Ella Fitzgerald sings Rodgers & Hart; Dexter Gordon gets moody; and Wellington 8-piece The Jac brings the thunder. Read more Audio

Nat Adderley plays 'Sack of Woe'; Errol Garner swings hard; and Ike Quebec plays Dvorak. Read more Audio

Before he passed away in late May, Rodger Fox recorded one final album with his big band. Fittingly, it's called "Alive in New York". Read more Audio

Nick Tipping checks out sultry ballads from Kurt Elling, Kenny Burrell, and Phil Woods; Benny Green and Red Garland swing hard; and the SFJazz Collective takes on Horace Silver. Read more Audio

Nick Tipping checks out some pioneering large ensembles in jazz. Read more Audio

Herbie Mann gets groovy, Regina Carter goes to Cuba, and Nick Tipping checks out quartet and quintet tracks by Phil Broadhurst Read more Audio

Nick Tipping checks out the wide variety of jazz from the year 1964. This hour: albums from Shirley Scott, Ben Webster, and Eric Dolphy. Read more Audio

Nick Tipping checks out the wide variety of jazz from the year 1964. In Part 2: albums by Herbie Hancock, Lee Morgan, and John Coltrane. Read more Audio

Nick takes a look at some of the leading lights of jazz's rainbow community, including drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Bill Stewart, singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, pianists Fred Hersch and… Read more Audio