The Billy Jenkins Listening Club

Beowulf Mayfield
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The Billy Jenkins Listening Club

The Billy Jenkins Listening Club explores the music and philosophy of south east London guitarist and composer Billy Jenkins. Each show Beowulf Mayfield talks with Billy or one of his collaborators about his music and creative ideas.

  1. 12/03/2020

    Series Four, Episode Six: Playing Billy with Chris Batchelor

    Beowulf Mayfield meets up with trumpet player Chris Batchelor to hear the musician's memories of recording with the Voice of God Collective on the 1988 album Motorway At Night, his use of Billy's music in his teaching work and with his own 21st Century Avant Trad band Pigfoot.

    18 min

  2. 20/02/2020

    Series Four, Episode Five: Ghost Music

    Our presenter returns to Equator Studios in search of the spiritual energy of sessions past and encounters 'William' - the ghost who communicates by tapping Morse code on the piano keys...

    13 min

  3. 14/01/2020

    Series Four, Episode Four: Another Cup of Tea with Charlie Hart

    Multi-instrumentalist turned record producer Charlie Hart explains the philosophy of Equator Studios, his personal approach to recording and describes the making of Jazz Gives Me The Blues by Billy Jenkins with Blues Trio Suburbia.

    8 min

  4. 11/12/2019

    Series Four, Episode Three: Strange Meeting In Suburbia

    Listening Club presenter Beowulf Mayfield casts his mind back to early 1994 and the day he witnessed Billy recording the East/West album with the Voice of God Collective and the Fun Horns of Berlin.

    12 min

  5. 13/11/2019

    Series Four, Episode Two: Forty Albums Of Madness

    Record producer Tony Messenger returns to Billy's shed to recall his first meeting with Billy and the genesis of their recording collaboration.

    8 min

  6. 09/10/2019

    Series Four, Episode One: Musical Miles

    Billy Jenkins and Beowulf Mayfield ponder the back-breaking travelling undertaken by Martin France and his drum kit during the course of 1993...

    8 min

  7. 23/10/2018

    Series Three, Episode Six: In Defence Of Music

    Being a creative musician can lead to trouble. Disgruntled concert-goers demand their money back, critics frostily dismiss performances and recordings that fail to conform to their expert definitions of "Jazz", others may complain that the music isn't being treated with the gravitas that the "serious" listener is surely entitled to expect. Some sort of apology might be in order, wouldn't you think?

    11 min

  8. 26/09/2018

    Series Three, Episode Five: Navigating A Sea Of Turmoil

    Billy Jenkins' 2005 album When The Crowds Have Gone was described by music critic John Bungey, writing for The Times, as the guitarist's "darkest record yet...". Set against a backdrop of change in domestic circumstances and alterations to the UK licensing laws on musical performance, life for the musician - and life as a musician - was passing through turbulent times...

    8 min
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The Billy Jenkins Listening Club explores the music and philosophy of south east London guitarist and composer Billy Jenkins. Each show Beowulf Mayfield talks with Billy or one of his collaborators about his music and creative ideas.

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