Improv Exchange Podcast

Improv Exchange Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode #109: Brent Vaartstra
March 26, 2023

Brent Vaartstra is a professional jazz musician, author, podcaster, and jazz coach living in New York City. He is the director of the internationally renowned jazz education company Learn Jazz Standar

Episode #108: Jason Marshall
March 19, 2023

Jason Marshalls 2003 arrival in New York City signified the continuation of hard-swinging, forward-thinking baritone saxophone playing. With early encouragement to appreciate all types of music, Jaso

Episode #107: Nicole Henry
March 12, 2023

Growing up in a musical family in Bucks County, PA, Ms. Henry immersed herself in the arts early on, singing in school and church, and studying cello and ballet. After graduating from the University o

Episode #106: Sharon Marie Cline
March 05, 2023

With a voice that can make you cry, laugh, or fall in love with her all over again, Sharon Marie and her band have quickly become a favorite in the realm of Los Angeles jazz musicians and performed in

Episode #105: Jeremy Pelt
February 26, 2023

Jeremy Pelt has become one of the preeminent young trumpeters within the world of jazz. Forging a bond with the Mingus Big Band very early on, as his career progressed, Pelt built upon these relations

Episode #104: Delfeayo Marsalis
February 19, 2023

As an acclaimed trombonist, composer, and producer, Delfeayo Marsalis has also dedicated his prolific career to music theatre and education. Along with the Marsalis family of musicians including his f

Episode #103: JD Walter
February 12, 2023

A native of eastern Pennsylvania, JD Walters past, present, and future has always embodied music. From church Boy choirs at the age of six to the American Boy choir school in Princeton to the Univers

Episode #102: Oddity
February 05, 2023

Hailing from the East Bay, Oddity is a sonic storyteller seeking refuge in the intersections of jazz, hip-hop, and neo-soul. With influences ranging from Billy Strayhorn to D'angelo, Oddity can be fou

Episode #101: John Bailey
January 29, 2023

Known as one of the most eclectic trumpet players in New York City, Bailey is an in-demand musician and teaching artist on call for everything from traditional jazz to R&B and Pop, to classical. He be

Episode #100: Nate Wooley
January 22, 2023

Nate Wooley was born in 1974 in Clatskanie, Oregon, a town of 2,000 people in the timber country of the Pacific Northwestern corner of the U.S. He began playing trumpet professionally with his father,