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The Hot Box #117
Your latest edition of The Hot Box with Donald Helme. Put the kettle on, sit back and relax with #117!
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The Hot Box #116
Keeping you all in suspense as to what happened Hot Box #115, heres episode #116!
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The Hot Box #114
John Pizzarelli, Bobby Short and Mose Allison. All will be revealed on The Hot Box #114!
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The Hot Box #113 – New Releases
Our delve into new releases for our first edition of 2024.
Happy New Year!
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The Hot Box #112 – Christmas 2023
Donald Helme brings you a festive Hot Box.
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year.
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The Hot Box #111
The latest edition of the ever popular “Hot Box”.
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The Hot Box #110
The clarinet has been an endangered species for most of the last 50 years, and despite much admiration for modern-day exponents such as Anat Cohen, it remains on the outer fringes of jazz. Hot Box takes a look at clarinet from the heyday of Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone through to today’s most admired exponent, Anat Cohen. Some critics have suggested its decline is due to the difficulty of playing it: “It was invented by three people who never met each other” was the comment of Basie band sax player Frank Wess!
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The Hot Box #109 – Big Bands 2
After the great reaction to Hot Box 108’s focus on big bands, we felt that a second dip into this big reservoir of music was advisable, if not inevitable. Some of the best ever herein!
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The Hot Box #108
Big Bands! A selection of recordings of big bands modern and not-so modern.
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