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.
Episodes
11 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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1:23:09
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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Season 1
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Episode 10
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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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1:16:56
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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1:12:08
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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1:04:14
Episode 6: Stu Brown
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.T...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:20:38
Episode 5: Review of 2023 and Mario Caribé Interview
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:27
Episode 4: Messages with Mario and Seonaid Aitken
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:27:32
Episode 3: Helena Kay & Rob Cope
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:10:06
Episode 2: Livestream Listen Party 1 and George Burt
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:17:25
Episode 1: Big News & Fergus McCreadie
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 wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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