The Billy Jenkins Listening Club

Beowulf 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.

Our 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...

Multi-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.

Listening 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.

Record producer Tony Messenger returns to Billy's shed to recall his first meeting with Billy and the genesis of their recording collaboration.

Billy Jenkins and Beowulf Mayfield ponder the back-breaking travelling undertaken by Martin France and his drum kit during the course of 1993...

Being 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?

Billy 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...

Billy 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...

Beowulf Mayfield asks drummer Mike Pickering how he approached - and whether he enjoyed - playing alongside another drummer in the Blues Collective with Billy Jenkins...