Podcasts by Jazz Beat
Jazz Beat is a jazz and blues podcast from New England Public Media's Tom Reney. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.
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Max Roach Interview, 1979 from 2023-06-15T09:24:52
Tom Reney's very first interview was with famed jazz drummer, Max Roach.
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Houston Person from 2022-11-21T10:41:05
Jazz Beat from New England Public Media features host Tom Reney's research and love for the music, one artist at a time. In this outing, he spends some time with the work of Houston Person.
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Jazz Beat #59 - Jazz critic Gary Giddins on Sonny Rollins from 2022-05-09T10:44:20
Jazz critic Gary Giddins talks to Tom Reney about Sonny Rollins.
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Jazz Beat 58 - Billy Boy Arnold Part Two from 2022-02-01T12:35:56
For Jazz Beat 57 and 58, Tom Reney spoke with Billy Boy Arnold about his autobiography, THE BLUES DREAM OF BILLY BOY ARNOLD.
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Jazz Beat 57 - Billy Boy Arnold Part One from 2022-02-01T12:19:34
For Jazz Beat 57 and 58, Tom Reney spoke with Billy Boy Arnold about his autobiography, THE BLUES DREAM OF BILLY BOY ARNOLD.
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Jazz Beat 56 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Three from 2021-02-23T13:19:26
In Part 3 of Tom Reney's interview with Ricky Riccardi, author of Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong, they discuss Armstrong's tour of England in 1932, and his European soj...
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Jazz Beat 55 - Peter Guralnick Interview, Part Two from 2021-01-27T10:03:39
In part two of Tom Reney's interview with Peter Guralnick, they discuss three of the subjects of Guralnick's book, Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing: Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, an...
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Jazz Beat 54 - Peter Guralnick from 2021-01-27T09:53:21
In 2015, Tom Reney spoke with Peter Guralnick about his biography, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll. And now in a two-part Jazz Beat, he’s interviewed Peter about six of the American ...
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Jazz Beat 53 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Two from 2020-11-23T10:49:36
In Part Two of Tom Reney's conversation with Ricky Riccardi about his new book, Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong, Riccardi discusses Armstrong's skirmishes with Prohibiti...
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Jazz Beat 52 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney Discuss Louis Armstrong, Part One from 2020-11-02T09:28:23
Tom Reney spoke with Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi about his new book, Heart Full of Rhythm, The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. In the first of a multi-part interview, they discuss ...
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Jazz Beat 51 - Interview with Joe Farnsworth from 2020-10-02T12:51:58
Tom Reney spoke with drummer Joe Farnsworth about his new album, TIME TO SWING. In his liner note essay for the album, veteran drummer Billy Hart describes Farnsworth as "one of the rhythm philosop...
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Jazz Beat 50 – An Interview with Sonny Rollins from 2020-09-03T16:18:30
Tom Reney interviewed Sonny Rollins in August 2020 for a project honoring Yusef Lateef’s centennial. Sonny enjoyed a long friendship with Yusef, and he considers the late saxophonist a mentor and s...
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Jazz Beat 49 - An Interview with Paul Arslanian from 2020-05-26T10:17:22
Tom Reney spoke with Paul Arslanian on May 6 about his career in jazz. Paul is a veteran pianist who's been a highly visible figure in jazz in Western Massachusetts since 1984. In 2010, he was a co...
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JazzBeat 48 - Lee Konitz from 2020-04-17T13:45:31
Jazz a la Mode host Tom Reney interviewed Lee Konitz in 2004 before concerts he was playing in Northampton and Cambridge. Konitz died from Covid-19 related pneumonia on April 15 at age 92. He was s...
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Jazz Beat 47 - Champian Fulton from 2020-01-15T13:32:18
Champian Fulton was hailed by Francis Davis in the Village Voice in 2007, the year of her debut recording, as "the best new singer I've heard this year-- make that several years." Mark Stryker in t...
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Jazz Beat 46 - Bennie Wallace from 2019-10-21T16:36:06
Tom Reney spoke with Bennie Wallace for Jazz Beat a few days before concerts that the veteran tenor saxophonist was scheduled to play in Connecticut in October 2019.
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Jazz Beat 45 - Tom Reney on Open Source from 2019-08-26T15:53:31
Jazz Beat host Tom Reney appeared on Open Source with Christopher Lydon on WBUR. They discuss jazz and r&b and classical music and Tom Reney reveals eight essential recordings and one book that he ...
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Jazz Beat 44 - T-Bone Walker from 2018-12-18T12:07:01
Jazz Beat 44 is devoted to Tom Reney's appreciation of the blues singer and guitarist T-Bone Walker.
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Jazz Beat 43 - Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018, R.I.P from 2018-08-21T09:12:52
As with many of you, my Aretha Franklin vigil began with the news of August 13 that she'd entered hospice, and for the next two days I posted some reflections on Lady Soul on Facebook. Then on what...
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Jazz Beat 42 - Charles Neville from 2018-05-25T17:04:45
Tom Reney pays memorial tribute to Charles Neville on this edition of Jazz Beat.
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Jazz Beat 41 - Anat Cohen from 2018-03-16T16:11:32
This edition of Jazz Beat features an interview that Tom Reney conducted with Anat Cohen in 2008 when she was the Billy Taylor Artist in Residence at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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Jazz Beat - Ruby Braff from 2018-02-02T16:45:08
In his latest edition of JazzBeat, NEPR’s Tom Reney turns the spotlight on Boston-born trumpeter Ruby Braff. Braff’s biography and his influences illuminate the period of jazz history that he inhab...
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Jazz Beat - Max Roach from 2018-01-11T17:39:29
In the latest episode of Jazz Beat, Tom Reney celebrates the legacy of the jazz great Max Roach, and recalls the personal influence the drummer had on his life. Our podcast includes excerpts from M...
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Jazz Beat - Fats Domino from 2017-11-14T10:07:34
Tom Reney's memorial tribute to Fats Domino credits the great pianist as a founder of rock 'n' roll and an exemplar of New Orleans rhythm and blues, and addresses a schism between jazz and r&b.
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Jazz Beat – Randy Newman And Sonny Boy Williamson from 2017-10-11T16:01:27
Tom Reney looked into the legends of the two bluesmen known as Sonny Boy Williamson for this Jazz Beat podcast refuting some of what Randy Newman asserts in his new song, "Sonny Boy." Hear deep bac...
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