Welcome to Six Count, bringing you the jazz and swing scene from the Capital Region of New York. This show is hosted and produced by Xara Wilde, the House Jazz Dancer for an Albany-based speakeasy. The podcast is internationally-syndicated via Giants of Jazz Radio, a station based in Lancashire, England. Episodes broadcast on Wednesdays and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. EST (4:30 p.m. UK time). Six Count is an independent, listener-supported initiative. The series launched in the fall of 2019 to help promote local music and preserve jazz history. Contribute to the project: https://donorbox.org/the-six-count-podcast
For a special episode of Six Count, the women of Jazz Voices reunite. Peg Delaney, a pianist, composer and arranger, is responsible for the vocal grou...
Rod Ferrone is a tap dancer and vaudevillian based in Upstate NY.After dropping out of college, Ferrone went on to lead a long-standing dance career i...
William Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist based in Averill Park, N.Y.As a reporter for Albany's Times Union, Kennedy intervi...
Six Count caught up with pianist Wayne Hawkins at the Halfmoon Diner in Clifton Park, N.Y. Originally from Kansas City, Hawkins now plays in a variety...
A Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden. A public concert by opera singer Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. The World’s Fair in New ...
Hudson Valley-based musician Rich Syracuse spoke with host Xara Wilde following a gig with the Chuck Lamb Trio at Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs, N.Y....
Drummer Jeff "Siege" Siegel and pianist Andre Peterson sat down with host Xara Wilde to chat briefly before a gig with bassist Ira Coleman at Grappa '...
Graeme Francis is a percussionist who began playing jazz around the Capital Region four years ago after moving from San Antonio, Texas. Originally fro...
Vocalist Colleen Pratt performs in her four-piece band, “Colleen Pratt & Friends,” as well as a host of other jazz groups around the Capital Region.Sh...
Drummer Tim Coakley performs with Skip Parsons’ Riverboat Jazz Band, a dixieland band (featured in our pilot episode!), as well as his own trio. He ha...