Colin Lazzerini's Radio Shows

Show Name: “JAZZ WITH LAZZ”- where the music comes first.

Show Host: Colin Lazzerini

About the Host

Writer * Lyricist * Jazz Singer Co-owner of ‘Hip Pocket Music’, and two small independent specialist labels – first the decidedly jazzoid ‘RoadHouse’ and later a little singer-songwriter imprint called ‘Root Cellar’. My own performing career began in ‘70s Vancouver – at the ‘Classical Joint’ – with later gigs also in Toronto, San Diego, New Haven, London, Dublin, Brixton, Köln and Berlin. Founder-Manager of ‘Loose Tubes’ – critically-acclaimed hooligan co-operative orchestra and epicenter of the ‘80s UK ‘jazz boom’ – the 25-strong touring company played every major European jazz festival, a couple in Asia, and even a few in North America. Programmer-Director for events – First Docklands Jazz Festival, ‘Jazz Lunacy’, Loose Tubes Anniversary Festival, Surrey Quays Summer Festival, Heineken ‘Elephant’ beer-launch, etc.

About the Show:  The kind of show I would listen to: with content robust enough to please and surprise the informed palate – neither too esoteric as to become marginalized, nor veering towards the inoffensive pablum of the ’smooth’ menu – yet still attractively accessible to the casual listener able to respond to beauty and vitality and only too ready to find some kind of unexpectedly welcoming home on the dial.

Visit: www.roadhouserecords.ca