Playtime Podcast - New Adventures in Music
A podcast by the Playtime Collective hosted by Tom Bancroft about jazz and improvised music based in Scotland, interviewing guest musicians, and sharing views and experiences of improvising musicians as well as just general nonsense. This podcast is supported by Creative Scotland. We live in Scotland... there is some swearing.
Podcasting since 2023 • 11 episodes
Playtime Podcast - New Adventures in Music
Latest Episodes
EPISODE 11: STEPHEN HENDERSON AND BRIAN KELLOCK TRIBUTE
Tom interviews Stephen Henderson about living in a jazz community, being a drumming composer, and the incredible story of the Fergus McCreadie trio being asked to play on the score of a Spike Lee movie and how the whole thing panned out with a ...
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Episode 10: End of Year Awards & Calum Gourlay Interview
The fab four reflect on another epic year and decide awards for: Best Gig, Best Guest, Audience Member of the Year, Best Crustacean Based Solo, and Outstanding Soloing Throughout Year Award. There are vigorous discussions for all these categori...
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Episode 9: Islay Jazz Festival Special Pt 1
This is a special edition podcast about the very special Islay Jazz Festival - now in its 26th year. Tom is playing there by accident and explains why the festival is so special and talks about some of the gigs he sees and plays in, and intervi...
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Episode 8 - Where Were We?, Jazz Bar Closed, Remembering Bill Kyle, the Daves, & Anoushka Nanguy
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...
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Episode 7: Mario, Drum Duo, Ben MacDonald and Denys Baptiste
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...
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