The Hot Box

The Hot Box

By Donald HelmeMusic
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The Hot Box episodes

  • The Hot Box #096 - The Maybeck Recitals
    The 96th edition of The Hot Box!
    This an all-piano affair that marks the re-release (on Spotify) of all 42 albums recorded in the 90’s, of the solo piano recitals branded as The Maybeck Recitals. Recorded by the independent Concord Jazz label, they present a who’s who of jazz pianists of the last decade of the last century. The real biggies aren’t there - the Herbie Hancocks, the Oscar Petersons - perhaps Concord couldn’t afford their fees - but taken overall the recordings represent a diversity of brilliance. From stride to modernism.
    In this edition we sample 9 of the players, from JoAnne Brackeen to Jim McNeely, and have cause to celebrate the amazing acoustics of the hall itself - lined with rosewood panels and an audience of only 50 - and the Yamaha grand piano at its centre. If the very best piano music is your bag, tune in to The Hot Box.
    1 hr 2 min
  • The Hot Box #095 – New Material XIV
    The Hot Box 95: What’s in it?
    Some great new music that’s what. Two from America, one from Belgium, and two from Ireland.
    The album Tim Fitzgerald’s Full House was awarded to Daniel Cervigni who emailed [email protected], and now you can contact Donald to “win” the copy of Chick Corea’s Acoustic Band double album “Live”, which marks the second anniversary of Chick’s death.
    1 hr 36 min
  • The Hot Box 094 - Jazz in Italy
    The Box goes abroad this time, heading south east to Italy, where some exceptional and distinctive jazz can be found. In this edition we highlight the marked attention to lyricism which informs so much Italian jazz, as though perhaps the traditions of Italy’s great classical tradition and opera lie beneath much of the contemporary jazz scene. We start however at the inception of jazz in Italy, banned as it was by the Fascist regime in the 1930s.
    1 hr
  • The Hot Box #092 - Guitar All The Way
    The 92nd Hot Box is hot with guitars all the way. And there’s a reason. The new album from Chicago-based guitarist Tim Fitzgerald. Better still, you could become the lucky owner of a copy. An album that has been Album of the Month in Downbeat with a four and a half star review! So check in to the Box and see how you could get lucky!
    1 hr 1 min

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The Hot Box covers the best in Irish recorded jazz, set it in the wider context of the international language that is jazz.