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Harmonious World

Hilary Seabrook

Find new music you’re going to love on Harmonious World and hear interviews with great musicians, composers and producers across all genres, from jazz to classical, from folk to rock and everything in between.Hilary Seabrook is a writer and musician: at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown she found inspiration from Quincy Jones: “Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at."Thanks for listening.

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26:14

Pianist James Pearson: celebrating 100 years of Oscar...

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2025/08/01

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This episode features a conversation with pianist James Pearson about his work to help celebrate the centenary of the birth of Oscar Peterson. James's live shows are extraordinary and I highly recommend you track down one of his appearances, whether in his guise as house pianist at London's iconic Ronnie Scott's or elsewhere. Thanks to James for ...

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21:40

My third conversation with soprano saxophonist Jane...

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2025/07/21

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. It was a great pleasure to chat for the third time with Jane Ira Bloom, who has just been named Soprano Saxophonist of the Year by Downbeat magazine. Her latest album is Songs in Space and you can listen to our other conversations here (January 2021) and here with Allison Miller (December 2021). Thanks to Jane for allowing me to use tracks from Songs i...

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24:01

Discussing 'Return to Electric' with Phil Haynes

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2025/07/18

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Return to Electric is the new album from drummer Phil Haynes, and he joins me to discuss it, as well as the path that has led him here. Thanks to Phil for allowing me to use tracks from Return to Electric alongside our conversation. Get in touch to let me know what you think! Thank you for listening to Harmonious World. Please rate, review and share: c...

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20:27

Chatting with drummer Ofri Nehemya

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2025/07/14

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Drummer and composer Ofri Nehemya joins me for an interesting chat around his solo debut album - Time Traveler, out now on Adhyaropa Records. Thanks to Ofri for allowing me to use tracks from Time Traveler alongside our conversation. Get in touch to let me know what you think! Thank you for listening to Harmonious World. Please rate, review and share: ...

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24:14

In conversation with Mark Gordon from Scarborough...

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2025/07/09

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. For this latest episode, I am joined by pianist Mark Gordon, who runs the Scarborough Jazz Festival. Not only is the 2025 Festival running from 26-28 September, but there's also a Live Compilation CD available with recordings from 2024. Thanks to Mark for allowing me to use tracks from that CD alongside our conversation. Get in touch to let me know wha...

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15:17

Starting season 21 with a live episode from Love...

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2025/07/07

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I've just returned from Love Supreme 2025 and I had the delight of interviewing Fergus Quill, Pete Roth and Mike Pratt as well as Daniel Casimir. I'll let them do the talking, but you can find out about their music as well as hear discussion of Ferg's Imaginary Big Band (read my review of them at Ronnie's here) Dan Coulthurst, Nico Widdowson (who I als...

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34:47

Chatting with NYC composer, violinist and club owner...

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2025/06/29

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. For this episode, you can hear my conversation with David Handler, who is a composer, violinist and club owner in New York City. His debut album - Life Like Violence - is out now on Cantaloupe Music. It's a fascinating collection of acoustic and electronic music that, as we discuss, is not for background listening. Thanks to David for allowing me to sh...

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25:08

A live conversation in the sunshine with vocalist...

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2025/06/17

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. The sun was shining and children were playing as I interviewed vocalist Becca Wilkins in London's Finsbury Park just a few days before the launch of her album Reverie. It was a delight to bump into Becca (and her drummer Billy Pod, who I interviewed in 2022) last night at the Barbican, and we followed up this live chat about her album and all thi...

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31:22

Chatting with saxophonist and composer Cecilie Strange

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2025/06/09

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. Enjoy listening to my chat with saxophonist and composer Cecilie Strange. Her album, Beech is the fourth in a collection that really exposes her quasi-classical compositions through storytelling. Cecilie has two upcoming gigs in the UK with Sounds of Denmark - at London's Pizza Express on 25 September and the following day at Turner Sims in Southampton...

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49:32

A live chat with Iain Farrington

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2025/06/02

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. It was a huge delight to be joined live in my local coffee shop by pianist and composer Iain Farrington. As you will hear through our conversation, Iain has composed for and performed at some highly prestigious events. We were chatting primarily about the forthcoming world premiere of Talk of the Town, which Iain has composed for Hitchin Chamber Orches...

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24:25

In conversation with composer Vonn Vanier

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2025/05/26

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. For this episode, I was joined by Vonn Vanier, ahead of the release of his fascinating debut album Dawn. Thanks to Vonn for allowing me to share clips from Dawn, which has a fascinating selection of styles and creativity. Get in touch to let me know what you think! Thank you for listening to Harmonious World. Please rate, review and share:...

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33:45

Ute Lemper joins me to chat about 'Pirate Jenny'

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2025/05/19

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. It was a real delight to chat with Ute Lemper: I was assistant to the Producer of The Wall: Berlin 1990 and Ute sang on stage for that performance. Her latest album is Pirate Jenny, a celebration of revolutionary composer Kurt Weill's 125th birthday this year. If you get a chance to hear Ute sing live, please do take it - if you're in the UK, she'...

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42:19

A live conversation with Dave Keech ahead of his new...

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2025/05/13

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I have known trombonist Dave Keech for several years and it's exciting to hear some of his own new music - his EP Tokyo comes out in October. In our live conversation, Dave and I discuss the tracks and musicians on Tokyo and I hope you enjoy listening in. Thanks to Dave for allowing me to share the single Americanology from the EP, which was released i...

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32:50

Nicole Zuraitis shares her thoughts in advance of the...

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2025/05/06

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. As soon as I met Nicole Zuraitis last year, I knew she'd make a great guest and she proved me correct. There was so much to discuss and I hope you enjoy listening in to our conversation about music, her work with the marvellous Christian McBride and mutual friend Nigel Williams from JazzFM. Thanks to Nicole for allowing me to play tracks from the...

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28:51

A special episode for International Jazz Day 2025...

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2025/04/30

Welcome to International Jazz Day 2025 and a special episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. While at Claire Cope's album launch, I bumped into harpist and singer Tara Minton, who kindly agreed to be my guest on this very special day. Tara is a great singer and harpist and she tells me in this episode about her composing in Mexico, for a new album which is set for release on 31 October 2025. Thanks to Tara for al...

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18:55

Chatting with bassist and composer Quinn Sternberg

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2025/04/28

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. I was delighted that Quinn Sternberg got in touch with me directly to introduce his music. I was delighted to discover his new album Pleasant Returns and then to have the chance to chat to him about it. We also discussed his work with Oscar Rossignoli, who I interviewed in 2021. Thanks to Quinn for allowing me to play tracks from Pleasant Returns along...

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23:25

Fotina Naumenko joins me to discuss 'Bespoke Songs'

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2025/04/21

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. For this episode, I discuss Bespoke Songs with soprano Fotina Naumenko. This new album features four works for soprano and mixed instrumental ensembles. The compositions were commissioned by the singer and feature the works for four composers, each based on lurics by female authors. Thanks to Fotina for allowing me to play tracks from Bespoke Songs alo...

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35:03

A conversation with pianist and composer Sultan...

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2025/04/14

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. It was a great pleasure to chat with pianist and composer Sultan Stevenson, discussing his engrossing new album, El Roi, as well as his nomination as Breakthrough Act of the Year in this year's Jazz FM Awards. Sultan is out on tour, so do try to catch him when you can. And we're all keeping our fingers crossed for the announcement of the 2025 Jazz FM A...

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26:43

In conversation with pianist Chris Gall

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2025/04/07

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. For the first episode in season 20, I am joined in conversation by pianist Chris Gall. We discuss his brand new album Impressionists Improvised, a solo piano exploration of works by Debussy, Ravel and Satie alongside some original tracks. This is a beautiful combination of classical music that many of us are familiar with, interpreted with improvisions...

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19:17

Chatting with Mette Juul about 'Thank You & Other...

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2025/03/31

Welcome to the latest episode of Harmonious World, in which I interview musicians about how their music helps make the world more harmonious. This episode features the highly talented jazz singer and songwriter Mette Juul. I interviewed her in September 2023 for episode 174, discussing her previous album Celeste. Her new album - Thank You & Other Stories - is essentially about luck. It´s also about how we are all connected and the significant impact we can have on each others' lives. She...

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