FAQs about The Billy Jenkins Listening Club:How many episodes does The Billy Jenkins Listening Club have?The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.
March 12, 2020Series Four, Episode Six: Playing Billy with Chris BatchelorBeowulf Mayfield meets up with trumpet player Chris Batchelor to hear the musician's memories of recording with the Voice of God Collective on the 1988 album Motorway At Night, his use of Billy's music in his teaching work and with his own 21st Century Avant Trad band Pigfoot....more18minPlay
February 20, 2020Series Four, Episode Five: Ghost MusicOur presenter returns to Equator Studios in search of the spiritual energy of sessions past and encounters 'William' - the ghost who communicates by tapping Morse code on the piano keys......more14minPlay
January 14, 2020Series Four, Episode Four: Another Cup of Tea with Charlie HartMulti-instrumentalist turned record producer Charlie Hart explains the philosophy of Equator Studios, his personal approach to recording and describes the making of Jazz Gives Me The Blues by Billy Jenkins with Blues Trio Suburbia....more9minPlay
December 11, 2019Series Four, Episode Three: Strange Meeting In SuburbiaListening Club presenter Beowulf Mayfield casts his mind back to early 1994 and the day he witnessed Billy recording the East/West album with the Voice of God Collective and the Fun Horns of Berlin....more13minPlay
November 13, 2019Series Four, Episode Two: Forty Albums Of MadnessRecord producer Tony Messenger returns to Billy's shed to recall his first meeting with Billy and the genesis of their recording collaboration....more8minPlay
October 09, 2019Series Four, Episode One: Musical MilesBilly Jenkins and Beowulf Mayfield ponder the back-breaking travelling undertaken by Martin France and his drum kit during the course of 1993......more9minPlay
October 23, 2018Series Three, Episode Six: In Defence Of MusicBeing a creative musician can lead to trouble. Disgruntled concert-goers demand their money back, critics frostily dismiss performances and recordings that fail to conform to their expert definitions of "Jazz", others may complain that the music isn't being treated with the gravitas that the "serious" listener is surely entitled to expect. Some sort of apology might be in order, wouldn't you think?...more11minPlay
September 26, 2018Series Three, Episode Five: Navigating A Sea Of TurmoilBilly Jenkins' 2005 album When The Crowds Have Gone was described by music critic John Bungey, writing for The Times, as the guitarist's "darkest record yet...". Set against a backdrop of change in domestic circumstances and alterations to the UK licensing laws on musical performance, life for the musician - and life as a musician - was passing through turbulent times......more8minPlay
August 22, 2018Series Three, Episode Four: Teenage Bill Cleans UpBilly Jenkins takes Beowulf Mayfield back in time to the days when he worked as a part time cleaner and later guitar tutor at Wing Music in Bromley, run by the late Barry Mitchell......more9minPlay
July 25, 2018Series Three, Episode Three: A stick in the wheelBeowulf Mayfield asks drummer Mike Pickering how he approached - and whether he enjoyed - playing alongside another drummer in the Blues Collective with Billy Jenkins......more11minPlay
FAQs about The Billy Jenkins Listening Club:How many episodes does The Billy Jenkins Listening Club have?The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.