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 ...

Send us a text We are Back after our mid season break so we thought we would start with intros. We discuss what makes a good intro and what is the f...

In this episode we chat about the 'Christmas with the George Shearing Quintet' album.

Nick and Simon are taking a short break. The next 2-5-1- 5 minute podcast will go out on Feb 1st 2025.

Episode 40 of Series 2 to the 50 plus episodes from series 1 and our long form series on Sonny Clark and Kenny Drew. Busking a tune what does that mea...