Send us a text Pedro Jústiz was born in Banes, Holguín, on January 31, 1913 into a family of local musicians. Taught by his mother since 1923, he soon...

Send us a text The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos, published in 1989. It tells the story of two C...

Send us a text. To round off this series we talk about Outros and Endings - the way jazz players stop a tune. Thanks for listening and look out for s...

Send us a text In this episode Simon and Nick talk about the common conception and mis conceptions- of how jazz happens. We actually made this episod...

Send us a text This is one of our more technical episodes where we try to demystify the way jazz musicians make the music by the end of this episode y...

Send us a text Jazz has always taken popular tunes as a starting point. Some of the most famous jazz originals like Ornithology are new tunes on old ...

Send us a text Watch Terry Pollard with Terry Gibbs here Terry Pollard (August 15, 1931 – December 16, 2009) was an American jazz pianist and vibrapho...

Send us a text You can't steal a gift a book review You Can't Steal a Gift. Frederick Eugene John Lees (February 8, 1928 – April 22, 2010) was a Canad...

Send us a text Christian Jacob Jacob was born in Metz, Lorraine on 8 May 1958. A pianist by age four, he was immersed in studying the French classics...

Send us a text One of our book reviews - this time it's the novel (or is it?) Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje. Buy it here in print or l...

Send us a text This is a follow-on to episode 44. We go a bit further into the Beat poets reading their poetry with live jazz backing. We talk about ...

Send us a text We intended for this to be just one episode but felt that we had a lot more to say and ended up with enough for 2 five minute episodes ...