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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?

Send us a text Didn't you used to be Tom Scott? In this episode we talk about the relationship of fame/commercial success and Jazz. During May 2024...

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-Rays Jazz Shop-bomus episode

Send us a text Here is a bit more about Ray Smith of Rays Jazz Shop fame This is our website This is our InstagramThis is our Facebook group

Saturday, June 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E29-Rays Jazz Shop

Send us a text Rays Jazz Shop Rays Jazz shop was originally Collets Jazz and Folk Records " The shop moved to Shaftesbury Ave in 1974 and the followi...

Saturday, June 1, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E28-But is it Jazz?

We discuss another philosophical question, and throw up a few questions for each other as to what we would class as 'jazz'. This episode could have go...

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 2-5m-1-S2E27-Can an AI Learn Jazz

Can an AI Learn Jazz?In this episode we discuss the above question. Neither of us are developers, but we both teach and so, in many ways the episode i...

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