Wandsworth’s Jazz Buzz

Presenter: Rita Ray Jazz stories and music from Wandsworth Music Academy including CEO, Dan White; Olly Blackman, Senior Jazz Orchestra Tutor; and players from the Senior Jazz Orchestra, Cicely (Saxophone), Aiden (Trumpet) and Tom (Guitar). Hear from acclaimed jazz pianist and Wandsworth resident, Julian Joseph, founder of Julian Joseph Jazz Academy, Wandsworth born and patron of World Hearbeat Music Academy; Nathan Dawkins, bass and clarinet player, student at World Heart Beat Music Academy from the age of 8, interviewed at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich, where he is studying; and Soweto Kinch, Jazz sax and hip hop supremo, composer, bandleader and BBC Radio 3 presenter, who reflects on his upbringing in Wandsworth and his early music lessons at Allfarthing Primary school. Podcast Music Playlist Gordon Stretton’s Orchestre Syncopated Six - Way Down Yonder in New Orleans feat. Sadie Crawford (1923) Julian Joseph - The Other Side of Town (1991) The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O (1969) Oscar Peterson - Night Train (1964) Erroll Garner - I Get a Kick Out of You (Live in Brussels) (1964) Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Tony Williams - Cantaloupe Island (1985) Live at New York Harry Beckett's Joy Unlimited - Got It Made (1977) Courtney Pine - Miss-Interpret (1986) Shake Keane - Fidel (1961) Joe Harriott - Calypso Sketches (1961) Dizzy Reece - I’ll Close My Eyes (1960) Courtney Pine - I Believe (1986) The John Dankworth Big Band - Eleven Plus (1972) Julian Joseph - Jazz with Julian Joseph Theme (1999) Live in Studio 1 Southampton Jazz In Wandsworth Orchestra - Pandemonium (2025) John Coltrane - Blue Train (1957) The Fearless Flyers - Patrouille de France (2025) Herbie Hancock - Chameleon (1973) Ezra Collective - God Gave Me Feet For Dancing (Live at Glastonbury Festival 2025) Camilla George - Abasi Isang (Blue Lab Beats Remix) (2024) Nubya Garcia - Triumphance (2024) Joe Pass- Original Blues in G (1974) Nathan Dawkins (2025) Nathan Dawkins & Trinity/Laban students - A Night In Tunisia (2025) BIG MASSIVE Collective@jazzrefreshed (Feat. Nathan Dawkins) - Present: Form & Formless by Giants Are Real ( 2025) Quinn Oulton - Heavy Breathing (2024) Soweto Kinch - White Juju feat. London Symphony Orchestra X. Clarity (Live) (2022) Soweto Kinch - Good Nyooz (feat. Eska Mtungwazi) (2003) Soweto Kinch - When Worlds Collide freestyle (live at TEDxBrixton) (2015) Soweto Kinch - Degeneration, Pt. I - Gateway to Armageddon (2019) Soweto Kinch - White Juju, X. Clarity (Live) (2022)