This is our third interview with people who promote, facilitate and help proliferate jazz.Sebastian Scotney is the driving force behind London Jazz Ne...

Tete Montoliu was a Spanish pianist who had a long and successful career. As part of our "under-the-radar" pianists strand we discuss him and his play...

Riverside Records only ran from 1953 to 1964 but in that time captured some of the greats of the period. Orin Keepnews was the producer of a majority ...

In this Episode Nick and Simon discuss Stars of Jazz  which was an American television program that ran between 1956 and 1958 and featured performance...

Another in our series of music theory podcasts, this time we focus on the whole tone scale. In music, a whole-tone scale is a scale in which each note...

Nick and Simon talk about Birdland the  jazz club which  started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 16...

Horace Parlan is another of our 'under-the-radar' piainists, known for working in the hard bop and post-bop styles of jazz. In addition to his work a...

What is a fakebook, where can I get one and is a real book different? These questions are answered as Nick and Simon discuss the jazz player's tune bi...

In this episode Nick and Simon discuss classic holiday albums from the past, and also look at a couple of new Christmas releases.This year we also dea...

Norman Granz set up Jazz at the Philharmonic with little more than chutzpah and a handful of cash. JATP would go on to create careers and fortunes for...

Simon and Nick discuss an instrument less often heard in jazz - the harp.

Who was the Jazz Heavyweight? Nick and Simon discuss the biography of a jazz great who had a varied career.