In this edition we head into the Guitar Files once again, focussing on the letter D. Its a sparse file, so weve looked back and found a couple of fine players omitted from the C file, and looked for

In the 69th episode of The Hot Box we follow the trail of the Jazz Worms, only to find it leads back to The Fox Inn at Ashbourne, County Meath, via Denver, Colorado. The Worms have just released their

In this series of glimpses into the world of jazz guitar, Hot Box 68 finds perhaps the most important guitarist of them all - Charlie Christian. He was born in 1916 and sadly died of tuberculosis when

After the last edition of Hot Box Xtra, remembering the great Chick Corea (1941 - 2021), Donald Helme returns to some New Stuff with a varied programme from jazz-funk to lush vocals, from the valedi

Chick Corea 1941-2021 A Hot Box Xtra checks out the music of one of the most important musicians in jazz. Sadly, he passed away in February this year aged 79. A pianist, composer and bandleader who vi