Send us a text 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

What is comping? Who does it? What is it meant to achieve? We discuss this and more in this episode. Find a playlist on Apple Music that consists of m...

ECM records have a place in jazz rivaled only by the classic American labels like Blue Note and Prestige. There are clear comparisons with Blue Note,...