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Friday, November 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E40-Busking a Tune

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 men...

Friday, November 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E39- When is a Band a Bigband?

What do we understand to be a big band? Nick and Simon discuss the ingredients that might go into to making a big band in terms of instruments style a...

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E38- Mole Jazz Record Shop

In this episode Nick and Simon talk about Mole Jazz a shop that closed 20 years ago now but is fondly remembered by Jazz aficionados of a certain age....

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E37- Jazz Cooks Book review

The connection between jazz and cooking is investigated through this book review of Jazz Cooks: Portraits and Recipes of the Greats by Rob Young and ...

Sunday, September 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E36- Jazz Pseudonyms

In this Episode Mink Coal Tin and This is Wine mode discuss the mercurial art of creating a Pseudonym to get around a contractual issue with ones reco...

Sunday, September 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E35- Sir Charles Thompson

One of our under the radar pianist episodes, we look at the piano stylings of Sir Charles Thompson.This is our website This is our InstagramThis is ou...

Thursday, August 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E34- Kind Of Blue Book

Nick and Simon present one of their jazz book reviews -Kind of Blue : The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (Granta 2001) is an in...

Thursday, August 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E33-Sven Klang

Sven Klang’s Kvintet 2-5-1- field trip notes. We went to the Barbican during the London Jazz Festival in November 2023 and watched a screening of this...

Monday, July 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E32- Didn't you used to be Tom Scott?

Didn't you used to be Tom Scott? In this episode we talk about the relationship between fame/commercial success and jazz. In May 2024 several jazz mu...

Monday, July 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E31-Bird film

Bird by Clint Eastwood Bird is a 1988 American biographical musical drama film about jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, directed and produced b...

Saturday, June 22, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E29a- Ray's Jazz Shop - bonus episode

Here is a bit more about Ray Smith of Ray's Jazz Shop fame. This is our website This is our Instagram This is our Facebook group

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E29- Ray's Jazz Shop

Ray's Jazz shop was originally Collet's Jazz and Folk Records. The shop moved to Shaftesbury Ave in 1974 and the following year Ray came to an agreeme...

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