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.
Playtime Podcast - New Adventures in Music
13: State of the Scene Part 1: Tom's review of 2025 and the 'Now's The Time ' interview with Nod Knowles
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The first in a series of podcasts looking at the current state of the Scottish Jazz and Improvised music scenes and where they might be heading. Tom gives his personal view on three important exits from the scene in 2025 and looks at the wider implications of one of them. Then Tom interviews Nod Knowles about his Creative Scotland commissioned review of the Scottish Jazz and Improvised Music scenes called 'Now's The Time'.
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As part of the discussion Tom discusses three reports: 121 Stories by Una Monaghan available here and the BIT Collective report on Women Musicians’ Experiences of Sexual Violence and Harassment in Scottish Folk Music which is here. Sarah Raine & Haftor Medboe Full Research Report from 2018-21 is here. Sarah Raine gives evidence to parliament on why gender imbalance in Scottish Jazz here
Please go and read them!