A picture that is well known to those in jazz and beyond was taken on August 12th 1958 for Esquire magazine by Art Kane.We discuss it in this episode....

The fame of Andy Warhol has lasted a lot longer than fifteen minutes, but perhaps his jazz album cover artwork is less well known than his soup tins, ...

Pat Moran was active as a jazz pianist in the 1950s-1960s and played with many notable artists particularly on the West Coast. Her trio album with Sc...

Nick and Simon talk about the artist Romare Bearden who was connected to the jazz scene in more than one way. His most well known works are collages, ...

Simon and Nick talk about the long running radio show hosted by Marion McPartland.Episodes are still available to stream from NPR, like this one with ...

This episode is based around the book " Blue Rhythm Fantasy" which is concerned , primarily, with the work of arranger Chappie Willet. A freelancer, ...

Nick and Simon discuss the short lived but influential London jazz club "Club Eleven", (named after the number of founder members) It began life just ...

Nick And Simon talk about the jazz novel Blow Up a Storm published in 1959 [a seminal year in Jazz history]This is a first novel by the director, prod...

Simon & Nick discuss the score to Mr Benn by Don Warren an alias for Duncan Lamont.Lamont worked for several decades as a freelance musician (on f...

Nick and Simon talk about the film Born to Be Blue a 2015 drama film directed, produced and written by Robert Budreau. The film stars Ethan Hawke an...

Inspired by a post on Instagram, and the standard stereotypical responses to the question " Dear 'people who don't like jazz' what don't you like abo...

Jam sessions have been, and continue to be at the heart of the jazz scene. In this episode Simon and Nick briefly discuss the history, culture and f...