Patrick Burnette
249 episodes listed below
Jazz criticism with the sanding marks showing.
Jazz Bastard Podcast follows Pat and Mike through new releases, historic records, seasonal oddities, and critic-list assignments. The appeal is in the close listening: personnel checks, label notes, arrangement details, and blunt arguments over what actually holds up.
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Jazz Bastard Podcast is a long-running jazz discussion show where Pat and Mike treat records as evidence, provocation, and sometimes mild personal inconvenience. Episodes commonly gather several albums into a single listening session, with recent examples covering new releases, historic catalog choices, holiday jazz, and multi-part runs through the New York Times top-ten jazz albums for 2025. The show is not a lecture. It is two listeners thinking aloud, checking personnel, untangling release details, correcting themselves, and deciding whether the music deserves its reputation. That looseness is part of the texture. A search for composer credits can become a joke, but the listening remains concrete. When the conversation turns to Andy Bay and the Bay Sisters, the point is not just that the singing is good; it is the unsettling harmony, the ripe vibrato, and the way the blend recalls Ellington-style section color without sounding sweet or tidy. The same appetite for detail runs through discussions of Dave Holland and Norma Winstone, Warren Wolf, Mario Pavone, Billy Hart, Jacob Garchick, Casa Overall, Joe Farnsworth, Marcus Gilmore, Chicago Underground Duo, Marshall Allen, Brandy Younger, Amina Claudine Myers, and Bloom. The show has room for admiration. It also has room for skepticism about consensus picks, respectable journeyman dates, and albums that land squarely in the middle. Pat and Mike are comfortable saying something is fine, not great. They are also willing to be surprised by odd choices, old records, and unexpected pairings. Jazz Bastard Podcast suits listeners who already enjoy jazz conversation and want the grain of actual listening rather than clean promotional summary. It is knowledgeable, cranky, amused, and often more useful because it lets uncertainty stay visible.
Made for: For jazz listeners who like album talk with personnel notes, label context, historical cross-references, and frank taste judgments. It especially suits record collectors and criticism readers who enjoy hearing knowledgeable people argue their way toward a verdict.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the research desk, listening room, and banter table in the same frame. Instead of clean consensus, it offers live judgment: misread credits, sharp corrections, dry jokes, and close attention to what the music is doing.
Two strikingly handsome middle-aged men get together every other week to discuss jazz in depth. Irreverent, irascible, engaged.
Steely Dan's long shadow lands beside Sam Rivers' flute, and your jazz opinions get useful resistance.
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A loose, attentive jazz conversation that pays close attention to harmony, vibrato, and blend.
Jazz Bastard Podcast 338 puts two vocal records beside two instrumental sets: Mario Pavone's Toulon Days, Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters' Round Midnight, Warren Wolf's Smooth Vibes, and Dave Holland and Norma Winstone's Vital Spark.
Musicians, memory, and the living bandstand.
WHPC chaos with trivia reflexes.
Jazz first, lounge after dark.
Portland music, remembered in real time.
Jazz conversation with room to breathe.
Soulful selections with club-scene memory.
Jazz Bastard episode 338 features hosts Pat and Mike reviewing four albums spanning 1965 to 2026, opening with Mario Pavone's 1992 New World Records septet date Toulon Days, which features Joshua Redman's debut recording alongside the late Thomas Chapin and trombonist Steve Davis.
The host discusses the Four Quartets album, expressing confusion while researching personnel and compositions, particularly focusing on Nels' work and tributes.
The hosts discuss two jazz albums from the New York Times' top 10 list of 2025, focusing on Marcus Gilmore's live album and the Chicago Underground Duo's release.
Jazz Bastard Podcast 333 has Pat and Mike review four albums from the New York Times top 10 jazz albums of 2025: Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons Live in Philadelphia, Brandy Younger's Get About Season, Amina Claudine Myers's Solace of the Mind, and Trio of Bloom.
Jazz Bastard Podcast 331 compares Odeon Pope’s 1982 album Almost Like Me with 2025 releases by Wild Iris Brass Band, Mark Masters, and John Yao.
Two hosts discuss holiday-related jazz releases, including albums by Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, April Varner, and Dave Cause.
Two hosts discuss four jazz albums, including new 2025 releases and a historic 1989 album by Frank Morgan.
Jazz Bastard Podcast examines Steely Dan’s jazz-rock identity through Gaucho, Marian McPartland’s 2002 Piano Jazz interview, and several jazz-oriented cover projects.
This episode of the Jazz Bastard Podcast features a discussion of new jazz albums by artists named Jason, highlighting the hosts' selection process and the variety of Jasons in the music scene.
Two hosts discuss jazz albums from the 1970s and a recent release, starting with vinyl selections.
Two hosts discuss recent jazz reissues from the 1970s, sharing their finds from a record-buying trip and analyzing specific albums.
The hosts introduce a special guest, Matt Marowitz, a jazz publicist and manager, who discusses his background and his Substack newsletter.
Two hosts discuss and review jazz albums from the New York Times top 10 list for 2024.
This solo episode of the Jazz Bastard Podcast features Pat discussing his plans to write an article about Sonny Rollins for All About Jazz, titled 'My Summer with Sonny', while sharing personal reflections on the jazz legend.
Two hosts introduce and discuss a selection of jazz albums, including recent releases and a historic vocal jazz record.
The hosts discuss four new 2024 jazz releases, including Eric Friedlander's 'Dirty Boxing', in an eclectic episode of the Jazz Bastard Podcast.
Two hosts discuss four albums by bassist and composer Ben Allison, analyzing his work on the Sonic Camera label.