The rent party was a phenomenon that occurred from 1920-1950's particularly in areas like Harlem, to raise the money needed to meet the cost of accomm...

What is quartal harmony? Who brought it into jazz and when?Nick and Simon discuss these questions.

Here are 2 examples of quartal harmony to support the previous podcast

When is a dominant chord not a dominant chord?When it's a tritone substitution!We try to demystify this term and talk about its use in jazz harmony.

The Flamingo ClubThe Flamingo Club (not to be confused with Club Flamingo of Police Squad!)was a London nightclub active from 1952-1969. It was initi...

Book ReviewTed Gioia has written 11 books on music, many of them on jazz. Simon wrongly said that the first book of Ted's he read was West Coast Jazz ...

Archer StreetWe discuss the role of a single Soho street in the lives of musicians looking for work in London from the 1920s until the 1960s Watch the...

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...