Journey of an Aesthete Podcasthttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/

In our eight season we continue our comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, across all art forms & how creativity connects us to what it means to be human. Through the intimate lens of the creative process of different artists, makers and creators, we deep dive into all things arts & humanities. Your host, Mitch Hampton, is a journalist, world renown pianist & composer for films who is neurodivergent. We explore the rich stories of these artists, what inspired them to become creators as we also witness Mitch's own creative journey as he connects to the world through his podcast.

Journey of an Aesthete Podcasthttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/ is a arts podcast hosted by Mitch Hampton, with 252 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #3

  Season 8: "Inside the Episode: A Conversation with Joann, Keith and Levi Freeburg of Freeburg Pianos on Pianos, Music and More"

  Aug 20, 20261h 2mS8

  #FreeburgPianos #podcast #MitchHampton #steinway “A Conversation with Joann, Keith and Levi Freeburg of Freeburg Pianos on Pianos, Music and More”Inside this Episode with your host, Mitch HamptonThe inspiration for this particular episode came in the form of the charismatic master piano tuner Keith Freeburg when he swaggered into my home like a Cowboy Piano whisperer, with nothing but a beautiful, smallest of wooden tools, the clothes on his back, and powerful ears. Originally when I had the idea to have an episode on this marvel of a music store in the area in which I live it was going to be a single guest, Joann Freeburg who I was told was the outgoing talker of the business. We began this episode with the whole family or most of them and this was the most pleasurable surprise. Special thanks to Levi Freeburg for joining us!What the Freeburg family does for music in many respects makes possible the best kind of musical life for anybody who cares for and loves music. *Special note- there is much to know and enjoy about Freeburg Pianos and their journey, live events. Many services and more- for the full scope please visit their website, here: www.freeburgpianos.comMore about Freeburg Pianos:Welcome to Freeburg Pianos“A Grand Experience.”It is our pleasure and privilege to serve you. Freeburg Pianos provides New and Pre-Owned pianos for sale and complete related Services. For over 40 years, Keith Freeburg (RPT – The Piano Technicians Guild) has been serving thousands of discerning pianists: concert artists, church and home musicians, teachers, and students. #music #classicalmusic #jazz #rock #gospel #pianolesson #pianotuning #tone #toneproduction #wood #steel #metal #transportation #yamaha #kawai #bosendorfer #steinway #baldwin #digital #mountains #south #midwest #minnesotta #minneapolis #northcarolina #beethovenfestiva #beethoven #choir #chorus #faith #newyorkcity #education #pianomover #concerthall #recitalhall #nightclub #church #temple #florida #southbeach #thehamptons #humidity #belly #engineer #technician #felt #acooustic #bass #doublebass #percussion #drums #strings

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  Season 8: "Book Lunch": "3 Shades Of Blue" by James Kaplan & "Why Jazz Happened" by Mark Meyers Part Two

  Aug 4, 202646 minS8

  #podcast #jazz #jazztube In the, the second and final Part of my discussion of two jazz books I go into more detail of the prose of both the authors and their reflections on the passage of time, changes of taste and the effects on America's art form.More on this stream ( part 2 of 2), here:For the second and final episode of my jazz book lunches I gave myself an impossible, maybe silly task: pick only one album for each of the three master musicians of Bill Evans John Coltrane and Miles Davis. One thing I will say notwithstanding it probably not having to be said is that all three albums here are great on their own merits but do not reflect the traditional or canonical view especially among the musicians themselves, never mind scholars or critics. For Miles Davis I did not pick Kind Of Blue, for example and for John Coltrane I did not pick A Love Supreme. Again those two albums may very well be greater than the ones I personally have chosen and prefer in some Platonic sense but my interest here is getting listeners interested in and excited about less famous but at least equally valuable releases.Bill Evans:Consecration: The Final Recordings (Note: not only is this album not one of the typical ones used to represent Evan's work; it didn't even come out until 1989 in Japan and then in the US in 2002)! For me it reflects Evan's triumph and is my favorite trio of his. This is Bill Evans at his most romantic, even wild, and I love the performances for that. (It is also from performances at the very end of his life). • Bill Evans Trio - Re: Person I Knew (Offic... John Coltrane: The 1961 Village Vanguard recordings • John Coltrane - Live At The Village Vangua... This selection is one with which so many musicians and critics alike would agree: an incredible document of Trane and his great quartet in performance at the greatest of jazz rooms. There is some additional Eric Dolphy on one selection too. You can also hear McCoy Tyner's harmonic and pianistic innovations in fullest display on this one.Miles Davis:Filles De Kilamanjaro (1969) • Frelon brun I so love this album of Miles: it is so many things. It has a lot of traditional jazz styles language in it from the great quartet of Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams and yet it is also funky, soulful sometimes like rock n roll at the same time. And then there are sections that are like classical or modern chamber music. A must.

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  Season 8: From the Netherlands to Boston and Beyond_ A Conversation with jazz vocalist and Singer-Songwriter

  Jul 23, 202657 minS8

  In many ways this episode is one I really loved because it was like a homecoming of sorts as she had a journey into Boston as did I many decades earlier. Here was a woman who really knows jazz and how to sing it and has the deepest connections with some of the greats in the music. Hearing her stories about her many accomplishments (did I say she is also a therapist and psychologist?) and, above all, seeing and hearing the great achievement of her album, a simply beautiful work of art that literally appears to singlehandedly bring back the record album era made for an episode that was joyous. This episode is what our podcast is all about.More about the magnificent Vivienne Aerts:Dutch New York-based vocalist, conductor, and composer with a focus on electronics, chocolate, and multi-sensory experience design, as well as a clinical psychologist and faculty at Berklee College of Music in Boston. ( Extended bio available on her beautiful website -www.vivienneaerts.com )Social Links to Ms. Aerts and her new album: www.vivienneaerts.nl/links The story of her new album Current The journey of this album started a couple of years ago. When the world ground to a halt in 2020, I bought a small 1951 mahogany sailboat to disappear into for a while. I renamed it 'De Vouw' which is Dutch for 'The Fold'; a nod to origami, but also to folding the water when it moves. During our early outings, I quickly found out that there is a stillness on the water that could be used as a living studio. There is a natural reverb that I found appealing - it gave a very vivid signature to a recording.In the summer of 2025, we set out to record this album on that same little sailboat. I grew up in this region of the Netherlands, and water has always been around us. My husband grew up on these waters and is an avid sailor, so he knows them like the back of his hand. During this two-week process, I got to use that natural reverb that started it all, but I also learned about the wind, the sun, reeds and all the different birds around me. I learned about my own country by returning to its root: the water. And, I got to know myself a little bit better in the process; who I am, what I need, how my creativity flows, and how much of it I can actually control. Just the two of us on a tiny boat in the middle of the lake, surrounded by nature, feeling both free and strangely stuck at the same time.We traveled from our hometown Leiden, to Lake Braassem, all the way up to Amsterdam and back. Along the way, we met up with saxophonist Susanne Alt on the side of Beatrix Park, and we recorded harmonica player Hermine Deurloo in a secret spot on the canals in the oldest part of Amsterdam. We carried Adinda Meertins’ double bass onto De Vouw and drifted into the middle of the lake, where it also ended up serving as a wind blocker. We met friends and family at the small water lock in Roelofarendsveen, the mysterious photographer John Brussel, who lives hidden away in a little cabin on the shores of De Kaag, and we even found a few original Amsterdammers as well.I set out to make an album on the water, but in the end, I made an album with the water, guided by the current. Because when life becomes difficult, sometimes the only thing you can do is move with it. This album is a journey through where my music is right now, a love letter to Dutch waters, and the beginning of a new chapter in my artistry. This is me. This is Current. #jazz #vocalist #singing #kennywerner #piano #effortlessmastery #berkleecollegeofmusic #meditation #selfcompassion #selfesteem #selfcare #selfhelp #lifelonglearning #psychology #improvisation #sound #engineering #choir #chorus #women #feminism #music #alcohn #zootsims #joecohn #billieholiday #boston #nyc #digital #analog #album #shirleyhorne #dominiqueeade #ocean #sea #water #experiemental #belgium #netherlands #chocolate #bakery #baking #food #cuisine

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  S8:"All About Aesthetics":A Conversation with Filmmaker Sasha Waters on Mary Oliver Documentary Film

  Jul 23, 202640 min

  #maryoliver #podcast #poetry #mitchhampton #film #documentary Inside this episode: An American Poet: A Conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters on Mary Oliver, Documentary Film and the ArtsWhen the subject of a film is no less a figure than Mary Oliver, not only one of the greatest of 20th Century American Poets but also one who wrote of and from the natural world as much as the human and cultural world, it might seem that the visual dimension is as important as the spoken or written word. Sasha Waters has, incredibly, accomplished this in her film Mary Oliver: Saved By The Beauty Of The World, a film that approaches in image some of what Oliver did in her words. I enjoyed speaking with Sasha about her process in making her film as its universality and particularity speaks to us now in 2026 in ways that feel most relevant. Sasha Waters Bio:Sasha Waters is an American documentary and experimental filmmaker, feminist and educator. She has produced and directed twenty films, most of which were shot on her 16mm Bolex. Her films have screened at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and DOC NYC. She is a Professor of Photography and Film at VCU School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. She has been a Fellow in residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, and at Millay Arts.Synopsis of Mary Oliver: Saved By The Beauty Of The World:If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly 50 years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world – issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation. Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her. #poetry #queer #nature #massachusetts #newengland #documentary #pbs #healing #spirituality #recovery #trauma #wilderness #botany #biology #family #conservation #literature #sharonolds #elizabethbishop #Emerson #thoreau #robertfrost #transcendentalism #religion #faith #boston #virginia #iowa #writer #garywinogrand #normanmailer #newyork #romanticism #robertlowell #biography #america #feminism #lesbian #gay #bookstore #johnwaters #stephencolbert #oprahwinfrey #bookclub #youth #education #pinkflamingos #multiplemaniacs #baltimore #maryland #ptown #provincetown #divine #drag #lucydacus #stevebuscemi #helenabonhamcarter #season #summer #winter #spring #fall #jessewelles #1950s #1960s #1870s #1980s #1990s #2000s #dogs #dogmom #animals #modernism #postmodernism #1800s #20thcentury #1700s #tseliot #annesexton #maysarton #sylviaplath #ornithology #birds #forest #woods #bear #sufriedrich #lynnesachs #fredwiseman More about us:Our podcast is a comprehensive examination of all matters aesthetic, all the arts and humanities, how they connect us, a celebration of the creative process across all of the arts and most of all, what it means to be human. Mitch Hampton is a neurodivergent journalist and pianist who composes for film, television, commercials, live concerts.

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  Season 8 Kickoff : "An Informal Talk on the Words Aesthetic and Aesthete "

  Jul 20, 20261h 5mS8

  In this inauguration of Season 8 (!) I reflect upon this work aesthetic and my nominal identity as an "aesthete", diving into some classic - and not so classic - texts on the subject.

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