We are delighted to release the first episode of season 2! In this episode, Maya and Holly chat with Deschanel Gordon – BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020. We look at the importance of music education and access to creative opportunities at school, as well as topics of jazz appropriation and the hierarchy of “Western classical art music”.

Deschanel Gordon: https://www.ycat.co.uk/deschanel-gordon-#:~:text=Twenty%2Dtwo%2Dyear%2Dold,the%20Julian%20Joseph%20Jazz%20Academy.&text=This%20sparked%20his%20love%20of,classical%20to%20jazz%20piano%20training.

Hackney Creative Jazz Ensemble: http://www.hackneymusic.co.uk/hackney-creative-jazz-ensemble-online/

We have been given permission to play a performance of Deschanel’s own composition ‘Awaiting’, which is the music you can hear at the beginning of the podcast. You can also watch a video of this performance on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/17dfbRRtRt825dkDfHyPHwN/bbc-young-jazz-musician-2020

Audio transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CEXrGnFgCfKLqH5FAmFM-9x9YxUjuhJYVhD3LXwctjY/edit?usp=sharing

Large text transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EP7o4wvruFZa1W_c6NkmKgtl-CA7VFK_R2HSy0mEoNc/edit?usp=sharing