Improv Exchange Podcast

Improv Exchange Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode #99: SeaJun Kwon
January 09, 2023

SeaJun Kwon is a composer and bassist who focuses on exploring boundaries. His music draws from the jazz and avant-garde music traditions of Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill as well as contemporar

Episode #98: Satoko Fujii
December 25, 2022

Pianist and composer SATOKO FUJII, an improviser of rumbling intensity and generous restraint (Giovanni Russonello, New York Times), is one of the most original voices in jazz today. For more than 2

Episode #97: Matthew Alec
December 04, 2022

Matthew Alec is a jazz and popular music saxophonist, founder and Executive Producer atCleveland Time Records, and bandleader for the high-energy jazz fusion group Matthew Alec and The Soul Electric.

Episode #96: Jussi Reijonen
November 20, 2022

Born in Rovaniemi, a small town on the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland, fretted/fretless guitarist and oud player Jussi Reijonen is truly the product of a life lived transcending boundaries. Having

Episode #95: Marcus Click
October 17, 2022

As a native of Louisville, Kentucky, Marcus grew up with aspirations of becoming a pro football player, but his goals changed after having committed over 13 years of his young life to the U.S. Navy ho

Episode #94: Jeff Denson
September 26, 2022

Jeff Denson has released 16 albums as a leader or co-leader and toured extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe with both his own groups and others at some of the worlds most prestigious v

Episode #93: Nicole Johänntgen
September 18, 2022

Nicole Johnntgen, jazz saxophonist, composer, and coach, tours Europe-wide with her band "Henry" and her solo program. Her second solo album was released in June 2022 on her label "Selmabird Records"

Episode #92: John Yao
July 10, 2022

For over fifteen years, John Yao has been honing his talents as a trombonist, a composer and arranger, and has cemented his place on the New York City jazz scene. Yaos lyrical soloing and expressive

Episode #91: Jonas Timm
June 19, 2022

Jonas Timm is a Leipzig-based pianist, composer und improviser. He grew up in Berlin in within his parental background of Choir music. Trained in classical Piano and Voice starting in the age of 5, he

Episode #90: Joel A. Martin
June 05, 2022

Joel A. Martin is a Norwalk CT-based pianist, producer, composer, and arranger who has collaborated with, and/or written music for, Grammy Award-winners Alan Menken, Kathleen Battle, Fergie of the Bl