Women in Jazz Media: The Podcasts

In Conversation with Anjali Perin

Welcome to the latest episode of ‘In Conversation With’ with host and producer Hannah Horton, with our theme tune Surfing Thermals from our host, Hannah too! In this episode, host Hannah Horton welcomes Anjali Perin Our podcasts have been featured at number 7 on the Top 10 Women In Media Podcasts on the web by Feedspot and you can also find our podcasts at number 9 in the top 60Best Jazz Podcasts in FeedSpot! Anjali Perin is a vocalist, pianist, songwriter and arranger-producer specialising in jazz, funk and soul working as a full time musician since graduating from the Jazz Mastersprogramme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama after leaving her previous career as a corporate lawyer to pursue her musical path. . Her first jazz album was signed to Jazzizit records and featured some of the best jazz musicians inthe UK.She works as a performer, songwriter with a variety of freelance musicians across the British jazz and soul scene, and is a University lecturer on songwriting degree and Masters programmes in London.  In 2016, she establisheda community choir for Mums in her local area of St Albans, Mamas With Voices,  and has also worked a deputychoir-leader with the NHS choir Breathe Harmony featuring staff from St Thomas’ and Guys’ Hospitals in London as a Breathe Arts Health Research Artist. She has also lectured inhigher music education for a number of years and is currently a Senior Lecturer on the Master in Songwriting and Bachelor of Songwriting programmes at the Institute of Contemporary Music Ltd in London. Where she teaches a variety of writing and perfomance-focussed Modules.Anjali’s performing highlights performing with her own bands at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Pizza Express Jazz Club (Dean Street), the Spice of Life, Smollensky’s on the Strandand both the Royal Festival Hall and National Theatre as part of their jazz events programme. She has also performed at the Love Supreme festival and for Quincy Jones at The Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland.Anjali also was commissioned as lead composer to write the majority of songs for a work-in progress musical theatre work “The Coloured Valentino” with script by BeverlyAndrews, which is in production under She’s Diverse and Circles Productions which has received funding for development by The Arts Council.Hannah Horton is a British Female Jazz Saxophonist whose music is rooted in jazz, folk and funk. She has performed with many great jazz artists including Ian Shaw, Amy Winehouse, John Etheridge, Tina May, Georgia Mancio, Polly Gibbons, Natalie Williams, Esther Bennett and Irene Serra; and at venues including Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Dean St, The 606, The Pheasantry, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican. She has also toured in Europe and USA with her own and other groups. Her latest album hasbeen going down a storm across the world. “Hannah makes the big beast of a baritone sax sound like an angel” – Ian Shaw. Hannah Horton website 

The Notes Between with Fabienne Ambuehl

Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series’ The Notes Between’ with Lara Eidi. Conversations exploring everything behind and about the world of songwriting! Our theme music ‘Breathe Love’ is from Lara Eidi herself available here In this episode, Lara talks to pianist, singer and composer Fabienne AmbuehlFabienne Ambuehl is a London-based pianist, singer and composer born in Switzerland. Her new album ‘Thrive‘ was released in January 2025 on the progressive label UbuntuMusic. The band successfully showcased the album at a sold-out show at the Vortex Jazz Club in London. ‘Thrive‘ has received glowing reviews from the international jazz press. Jazzwise Magazine rewarded it four stars and it has received regular radio play in the UK, including BBC Radio 3 Jazz Record Requests, ‘Round Midnight and Night Tracks. On the Catalan public radio 3cat, there is an hour-long programme about Fabienne’s music and the single “New Ones” was featured track and on the JazzFM C playlist for several weeks. The album was also presented on Deutschlandfunkkultur and ARD Jazz - Das Magazin and wasselected “Album of the Week” on both Presto Music and the German Rondo - Magazin für Klassik und Jazz. Her band is a dynamic ensemble of brilliant musicians – Matt Ridley on bass (The Antidote, The Darius Brubeck Quartet) and Jon Scott on drums (Mulatu Astatke, GoGo Penguin, Sons of Kemet XL), with special guest guitarists Tom Ollendorff and Ant Law. Ambuehl has a strong sense of ensemble interplay and balance between individual expression and collective cohesion. Ambuehl’s music is inspired by her surroundings, from the sounds and silence of the mountains, where she finds a deep connection with nature, to the rhythms and soundscapes of the big city. Her melodic ideas and detailed arrangements are rooted in jazz, playing with a folk-tinge and showcase her expressive and supple piano playing. Her vocals “are crystal clear, distinct and refreshingly free of jazz clichés” and as a writer she “has a poetic sensibility and uses expertly a range of poetic techniques in her lyrics”. In addition to leading her trio and quartet and performing solo, Fabienne has collaborated with the Noga Ritter band and worked in Senegal as an Arts Council England-supported residency.She has conducted choirs herself for many years and was the soloist for Jazz Choir Freiburg who she toured in Germany and Austria and was their improvising soloist at the Eurovision Song Contest for Choirs in Riga, Latvia (2017). Fabienne Ambuehl website click hereAthens born to Lebanese Canadian parents, Lara Eidi isan artist that thrives on being different. As an independent artist, singer and multi- instrumentalist, she has carved a path for herself that continuously aimed at reshaping and developing her voice as a storyteller. An accomplishedand reputable singer-songwriter, pianist, recording artist and jazz- folk vocalist of her own accord based in London and Athens. Her music has gained her critical acclaim as a genre bending artist (BBC Artist, 2020), described as “a singer with true gift of a voice, a kind soul, and a captivating presence.” (Jazz UK). At the heart of her being as a multi-disciplinary artist, she is sought after as a composer for vocal film scores, writes as a freelance music journalist, and is in demand as a creative workshop leader. Her music seeks to elevate and heal, and as a result, she creates genre- defying songs with a great emphasis on story telling. Her latest album ‘Sun’, her long awaited debut album, is all about pulling the threads of her folk, acoustic rock and jazz-classical upbringing to her message of hope, empowerment, and freedom. As a soloist, her recent debut performance at the infamous Royal Albert Hall, singing select pieces from Greece and Lebanon formthe Medieval Byzantine Traditions sees Lara engaging on a series of select and innovative performances with the SAUDHA Indian Classical Music Association.  Lara Eidi website

The Notes Between with Fiona Bevan

Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series’ The Notes Between’ with Lara Eidi. Conversations exploring everything behind and about the world of songwriting! Our theme music ‘Breathe Love’ is from Lara Eidi herself available here In this episode, Lara talks to Canadian-British singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fiona BevanFiona has just released her self-produced ‘Girl With Telescope’ EP, including her dazzling exploration of post-heartbreak ecstasy ‘Faultlines’, and her acapella clarion call of female freedom and pleasure, ‘Peaches’. She is now startingto release singles from her forthcoming self-produced EP ‘First Woman On The Moon’, a set of brand new songs exploring hope, love and female desire against a political backdrop, with otherworldly melodies on piano and unique guitar tunings.Written, performed and produced by Fiona, these two sister EPs form an emotional, organic, uplifting, psychedelic journey. Her previous EP, ‘Wild Angels Sweet Demons’,was produced by Grammy award-winning engineer Robin Baynton (Laura Marling, Isaac Gracie), released independently, and went straight to number 2 in France,and number 7 in both the UK and Canada iTunes singer-songwriter charts. The EP was an eagerly awaited follow up to Fiona’s debut studio album, 'Talk To Strangers', which was one of iTunes “best of 2014” and was released in UK, Europe, Australia and Japan in 2014 and in USA and Canada in 2015 with Conveyor/Universal Canada.Playing live, Fiona has toured Canada with Hawksley Workman and Whitehorse, Australia with BusbyMarou, and in the UK with Ruston Kelly and The Wandering Hearts, after they met onstage playing at The Bluebird in Nashville; Fiona has also toured with Ed Sheeran, Nick Mulvey, Ingrid Michaelson, Adam Ant, and has played onstage accompanying Anoushka Shankar and Nitin Sawhney.In between releases Fiona has been working as a multi-platinum songwriter, writing hit songs for Billie Marten, Aurora, Lewis Capaldi, Tom Walker, Kylie, Ed Sheeran, Matthew E. White and many more.Fiona is currently the face of the Credits Due Campaign working with Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA tohelp songwriters in the music industry. She fights for songwriter rights as a Director of the Ivors Academy.Fiona Bevan website click hereAthens born to Lebanese Canadian parents, Lara Eidi is an artist that thrives on being different. As an independent artist, singer and multi- instrumentalist, she has carved a path for herself that continuously aimed at reshaping and developing her voice as a storyteller. An accomplished andreputable singer-songwriter, pianist, recording artist and jazz- folk vocalist of her own accord based in London and Athens. Her music has gained her critical acclaim as agenre bending artist (BBC Artist, 2020), described as “a singer with true gift of a voice, a kind soul, and a captivating presence.” (Jazz UK). At the heart of her being as a multi-disciplinary artist, she is sought after as a composer for vocal film scores, writes as a freelance music journalist, and isin demand as a creative workshop leader. Her music seeks to elevate and heal, and as a result, she creates genre- defying songs with a great emphasis on story telling. Her latest album‘Sun’, her long awaited debut album, is all about pulling the threads of her folk, acoustic rock and jazz-classical upbringing to her message of hope, empowerment, and freedom. As a soloist, her recent debut performance at theinfamous Royal Albert Hall, singing select pieces from Greece and Lebanon form the Medieval Byzantine Traditions sees Lara engaging on a series of select and innovative performances with the SAUDHA Indian Classical Music Association.  Lara Eidi website

In Conversation with Klara Devlin

Welcome to the latest episode of ‘In Conversation With’ with host and producer Hannah Horton, with our theme tune Surfing Thermals from our host, Hannah too! In this episode, host Hannah Horton welcomes Klara DevlinOur podcasts have been featured at number 7 on the Top 10 Women In Media Podcasts on the web by Feedspot and you can also find our podcasts at number 9 in the top 60Best Jazz Podcasts in FeedSpot! Those in the know are already excited about the rise of trumpeter Klara Devlin on the Birtish jazz scene.A finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2024, Klara’s material draws inspiration mainly from the Bebop and Hard Bop eras, mixed with a soupcon of Funk and improv, while her influences span Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, EllaFitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Chick Corea, and Wayne Shorter.“Klara Devlin, remember her name, she is in my opinion one of the most amazing and unique new trumpet voices to emerge onto the UK jazz scene. To coin the famous quote ‘ifya ain’t got it in ya, ya can’t blow it out’. Klara Devlin definitely has it, and definitely blows it out of her horn! I’m about 2-3 jazz generations in front of her and I’ve never been this excited about a young musician in a while, definitely a stylist who’ll be making new waves for the next generation.” Tony Kofi, saxophonistKlara Devlin instagramHannah Horton is a British Female Jazz Saxophonist whose music is rooted in jazz, folk and funk. She has performed with many great jazz artists including Ian Shaw, Amy Winehouse, John Etheridge, Tina May, Georgia Mancio, Polly Gibbons, Natalie Williams, Esther Bennett and Irene Serra; and at venues including Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Dean St, The 606, The Pheasantry, Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Royal Festival Hall and The Barbican. She has also toured in Europe and USA with her own and other groups. Her latest album hasbeen going down a storm across the world. “Hannah makes the big beast of a baritone sax sound like an angel” – Ian Shaw. Hannah Horton website

The Notes Between with Naadia Sheriff

Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series ’The Notes Between’ with Lara Eidi. Conversationsexploring everything behind and about the world of songwriting! Our theme music ‘Breathe Love’ is from Lara Eidi herself available here In this episode, Lara talks to Singer, songwriter and producer Naadia SheriffNaadia Sheriff is a UK Jazz Pianist, Composer, Musical Director Arranger, and educator. She is a founder member of Yazz Ahmed’s Hafla band with whom she appears on the Jazz FM award winning album ‘Polyhymnia’ and in tribute to Chick Corea on the recent Bluenote “Re-imagined volume II’ and on Yazz’s latest release ‘A Paradise in the Hold’ Naadia has been collaborating with Kate Dimbleby for over ten years, and their duo album of Dory Previn songs was an iTunes number 1 album on its release in 2015. She also appears on two other of Kate’s albums including 2024’s ‘Deep Waters’ (where the track ‘Endings’ is from). Over the last few years she has also worked with Lara Eidi, with whom the track ‘Anon’ was recorded, remotely during lockdown. Naadia was a member of the band ISQ for three years until PhD studies took over! The track ‘Where Beauty Lives’ is from the album Requiem for the Faithful—the Remixes, in which a different musician reimagined a track from the original album of the same name. As an educator, Naadia teaches at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Merchant Taylors Boys’ School and is an ABRSM examiner.  She also has three arrangements of jazz standards in the current Trinity exam board piano syllabus.Naadia is currently a doctoral student at the University of Kent researching ‘Women in Contemporary UK Jazz’ Athens born to Lebanese Canadian parents, Lara Eidi is an artist that thrives on being different. As an independent artist, singer and multi-instrumentalist, she has carved a path for herself that continuously aimed at reshaping and developing her voice as a storyteller. An accomplished andreputable singer-songwriter, pianist, recording artist and jazz- folk vocalist of her own accord based in London and Athens. Her music has gained her critical acclaim as agenre bending artist (BBC Artist, 2020), described as “a singer with true gift of a voice, a kind soul, and a captivating presence.” (Jazz UK). At the heart of her being as a multi-disciplinary artist, she is sought after as a composer for vocal film scores, writes as a freelance music journalist, and isin demand as a creative workshop leader. Her music seeks to elevate and heal, and as a result, she creates genre- defying songs with a great emphasis on story telling. Her latest album‘Sun’, her long awaited debut album, is all about pulling the threads of her folk, acoustic rock and jazz-classical upbringing to her message of hope, empowerment, and freedom. As a soloist, her recent debut performance at theinfamous Royal Albert Hall, singing select pieces from Greece and Lebanon form the Medieval Byzantine Traditions sees Lara engaging on a series of select and innovative performances with the SAUDHA Indian Classical Music Association.  Lara Eidi website