BMC Podcast Network

Doug speaks with Boston-based jazz composer/pianist Chase Morrin. Features tracks from Ize Trio's Global Suites album,one of Morrin's many projects. Topics range from Morrin's different musical projects, his human rights advocacy, Chick Corea, neurobiology, and more.

Science for the Public: The Brain-Computer Interface Paradox 05/2025. Brain computer-interface (BCI) devices are among the most promising medical innovations today. Individuals who are paralyzed or speechless due to injury or disease are able to learn to control motion and/or speech by means of a brain-computer-interface device. This can enable significant independence. However, brain chip devices might also be developed that would enable programs for mind control. Lukas Meier, Ph.D. (Fellow-in-Residence, Harvard University Center for Ethics) offers a comprehensive perspective –including technology, history and ethics—for ethical controls on BCI innovations

Cancer Research And Why It's Crucial Today. Guest: Gerald Denis, Ph.D., Shipley Prostate Cancer Research Professor; Co-Director, BU-BMC Cancer Center, Boston University. Dr. Denis explains how cancer research works, the international influence of American cancer research, and how the recent federal (NIH) defunding sets back the progress in cancer treatment at a time when cancers are increasing.

Host Doug Hall speaks with guitarist/composer Jay Danley about his new album "Great Googly Moogly! Music Inspired By Frank Zappa"

Addressing the Global Water Shortage.Due mainly to climate change and wasteful agricultural practices, the supply of freshwater is rapidly diminishing across the globe. To provide water for the world’s huge population, governments must quickly develop advanced conservation and sustainability policies. How can this be achieved? Dr. Jay Famiglietti, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on hydrology, the Earth’s water system.

Latest podcast episode of Talk About Jazz with Doug Hall features composer and horn player extraordinaire Milena Casado. Includes cuts from her debut album Reflections of Another Self.

Video version - https://bit.ly/talk_about_JAZZ_MilenaCasado_061725

Lynette Benton, writing instructor at the Belmont Council on Aging interviews Karla O'Brien about growing up in England and living in Belmont, Massachusetts.

2/25/16

Special guest saxophonist, avant-garde composer, bandleader and educator Jon Irabagon discusses his career, inspirations, and two new releases for February of 2024: "Recharge the Blade" and "Survivalism.”

Gabriel Jonas is a jazz guitarist from the city of Bordeaux, France.

He is currently enrolled in the Berklee College of Music, as a double major in both Film & Media Scoring and Performance.

He has already played in some large venues in Boston including the House of Blues, and at MGM Fenway Hall as lead guitar player for the Singers Showcase “Girl On Fire-The Music of Alicia Keys” where he got to play alongside the Berklee Alumni and Alto Sax star Grace Kelly.

As part of a Snarky Puppy Berklee ensemble, he has also been mentored by Marty Walsh (formerly a session guitarist player for Donna Summer, Supertramp, Christopher Cross, Randy Crawford amongst others).

As a performance major at Berklee, he is actively a part of a variety of student bands playing on a weekly basis, sharing the stage at Berklee campus studios.

He is in the process of composing his first selections of original music and continuing to perform live in and around the Boston area.

Pavle Zvekic is a classically trained, Serbian jazz pianist and composer.

He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston with a bachelor's degree in music performance, and is now currently enrolled in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. In November of 2023 he released an album entitled Small Hours.

He is also Managing Director of the Youth Jazz & Rock Festival in Serbia.