HOW NOT POD ARCHIVES #2 : Xhosa Cole

Hello darling troublemakers! We are back!

Welcome to this special archive episode featuring a chat Luca had back in Jan 2021 with the wonderful Xhosa Cole. Xhosa Cole is somewhat of a treasure on the young UK Jazz Scene. As well as being an incredible saxophone player, he is a kind, intelligent and genuine person who is well loved by many of his peers. Xhosa won BBC young jazz musician of the year in 2018 and has since gone on to win both a parliamentary jazz and Jazz FM award. Xhosa leads his own quartet and has appeared in various ensembles performing throughout the UK. When Xhosa talks about jazz I get excited, he has such an honest relationship to this music and we share a lot of common interests, we most recently discovered our shared love of cuban heel boots…here’s our chat ! . We’ll be sharing a couple of these cute lil archive episodes to ease us into our grand return.. more on that soon!

One last thing.. Please excuse the awful sound quality, this was recorded early lockdown days before we’d all figured out how to be home studio professionals… ok! enjoy!