The Hot Box

The Hot Box

By Donald HelmeMusic
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The Hot Box episodes

  • The Hot Box #110

    The clarinet has been an endangered species for most of the last 50 years, and despite much admiration for modern-day exponents such as Anat Cohen, it remains on the outer fringes of jazz. Hot Box takes a look at clarinet from the heyday of Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone through to today’s most admired exponent, Anat Cohen. Some critics have suggested its decline is due to the difficulty of playing it: “It was invented by three people who never met each other” was the comment of Basie band sax player Frank Wess!

    1 hr 4 min
  • The Hot Box #109 – Big Bands 2

    After the great reaction to Hot Box 108’s focus on big bands, we felt that a second dip into this big reservoir of music was advisable, if not inevitable. Some of the best ever herein!

    1 hr 5 min
  • The Hot Box #107

    Stimulated by the upcoming release of John Donegan’s album Light Streams featuring his Irish Sextet, Hot Box 107 checks out some new releases, and a couple of returns to recent albums for a second look.

    1 hr

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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.