Inside Out

Nick checks out classics from Melba Liston and Miles Davis, country music from John Scofield, and gypsy jazz from Swing 41. Read more Audio

Miles Davis' partnership with Gil Evans was a match made in jazz heaven. Evans' atmospheric arrangements perfectly suited Miles' fragile trumpet tone, and nowhere more so than on their take on the… Read more Audio

Nick checks out a new recording from Pat Bianchi, classics from Stacey Kent, and Tia Fuller’s Grammy-nominated album. Read more Audio

Nick heads to the Netherlands with the Koninklijk Conservatory Band, to Israel and the Congo with Yonathan Avishai, and back to NZ with Samsom Nacey Haines. Read more Audio

In honour of Blue Note Records’ 80^th birthday, Nick presents a highlights reel of the best in 1950s and 60s Blue Note jazz. This hour: Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Hank Mobley, Lee… Read more Audio

The second part of a best-of compilation from Blue Note Records. This hour: music from Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, Horace Silver, and Duke… Read more Audio

For Inside Out, Nick Tipping checks out tracks by Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Patricia Barber, and Cassandra Wilson. Read more Audio

Nick Tipping features NZ singer Maggie Gould and Brazilian musician Nanny Assis, who are currently touring in support of their new album, as well as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Monty Alexander… Read more Audio

In the last of his Summer Songbook Series, Nick features the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. Read more

This week Nick explores the Jerome Kern songbook. Read more

Harold Arlen deserves to be better known. The composer of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Blues in the Night", and "That Old Black Magic" is Nick's featured composer this week.  Read more

Nick's Summer Songbook series continues, with music from the pen of Irving Berlin. Read more