Music Music Jazz albums with Chris Searle: March 22, 2024 Reviews of Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Trevor Tomkins' Sextant, and Caroline Kraabel and Pat Thomas
Interview Arts | Tuesday 23rd Jan 2024 Interview ‘I couldn't play publicly with black musicians, only in their homes’
Poetry Tuesday 12th Dec 2023 Poetry Birdy CHRIS SEARLE takes wing with Leeds-born poet of mixed Sri Lankan and English heritage, Seni Seneviratne
Interview Wednesday 22nd Nov 2023 Interview A proud and modest jazz revolutionary Chris Searle speaks to saxophonist PHIL HARGREAVES about his new album PI, and his long-standing support for the WMA
Interview Wednesday 06th Sep 2023 Interview Horns locked CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Denys Baptiste, saxophonist, after his tribute session to the great US saxophonist Wayne Shorter
Interview Thursday 31st Aug 2023 Interview “We need to safeguard those who every day struggle with the right to imagination” CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
Monday 19th Jun 2023 ‘Conch is the first trumpet’ CHRIS SEARLE interviews trumpeter Byron Wallen about his album Portrait
Interview Tuesday 30th May 2023 Interview Listening to the machines made him want to conduct them! CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist, composer and orchestrator JULIAN SIEGEL
Thursday 22nd Dec 2022 'I was intrigued by Bitches Brew rawness, abruptness, tightness and looseness’ CHRIS SEARLE speaks with trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe
Jazz Monday 28th Nov 2022 Jazz Album reviews with Chris Searle: November 28, 2022 New releases from Ches Smith, Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey and John Taylor Sextet
Music Review Tuesday 22nd Nov 2022 Music Review A celebration of the steel pan VortexLeon Foster-Thomas Quartet
Jazz Interview Tuesday 15th Nov 2022 Jazz Interview ‘I am a jazz musician who happened to be born in Venezuela’ Chris Searle speaks with Venezuelan pianist LUIS PERDOMO