23 Episodes

  1. Max Roach Interview, 1979

    Published: 6/15/2023
  2. Houston Person

    Published: 11/21/2022
  3. Jazz Beat #59 - Jazz critic Gary Giddins on Sonny Rollins

    Published: 5/9/2022
  4. Jazz Beat 58 - Billy Boy Arnold Part Two

    Published: 2/1/2022
  5. Jazz Beat 57 - Billy Boy Arnold Part One

    Published: 2/1/2022
  6. Jazz Beat 56 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Three

    Published: 2/23/2021
  7. Jazz Beat 55 - Peter Guralnick Interview, Part Two

    Published: 1/27/2021
  8. Jazz Beat 54 - Peter Guralnick

    Published: 1/27/2021
  9. Jazz Beat 53 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney, Part Two

    Published: 11/23/2020
  10. Jazz Beat 52 - Ricky Riccardi and Tom Reney Discuss Louis Armstrong, Part One

    Published: 11/2/2020
  11. Jazz Beat 51 - Interview with Joe Farnsworth

    Published: 10/2/2020
  12. Jazz Beat 50 – An Interview with Sonny Rollins

    Published: 9/3/2020
  13. Jazz Beat 49 - An Interview with Paul Arslanian

    Published: 5/26/2020
  14. JazzBeat 48 - Lee Konitz

    Published: 4/17/2020
  15. Jazz Beat 47 - Champian Fulton

    Published: 1/15/2020
  16. Jazz Beat 46 - Bennie Wallace

    Published: 10/21/2019
  17. Jazz Beat 45 - Tom Reney on Open Source

    Published: 8/26/2019
  18. Jazz Beat 44 - T-Bone Walker

    Published: 12/18/2018
  19. Jazz Beat 43 - Aretha Franklin, 1942-2018, R.I.P

    Published: 8/21/2018
  20. Jazz Beat 42 - Charles Neville

    Published: 5/25/2018

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Jazz Beat is a jazz and blues podcast from New England Public Media's Tom Reney. Tom was honored by the Jazz Journalists Association with the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award for Career Excellence in Broadcasting in 2019. In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tom holds a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he majored in English and African American Studies.