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Our Recent Episodes

Saturday, February 1, 2025 2-5m-1-S2E42-Intros

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 the functi...

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 2-5-1-S1E4-Christmas Special 2024

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

Sunday, December 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E41-Mid Season Break

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

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...

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