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Our Recent Episodes

Sunday, January 1, 2023 2-5m-1-S1E48-Jazz Oboe

A look at the Oboe in jazz.

Thursday, December 15, 2022 2-5-1-Christmas-2022

Nick and Simon discuss four newish (one Jewish) holiday offerings. 1. Snowbound- Emma Smith2. Louis Wishes you a Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong3. On Chri...

Thursday, December 15, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E47-Candid Records

Nick and Simon discuss a record label that started in the USA and continues now in the UK.A label which represented many jazz greats as well as new an...

Thursday, December 1, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E46-Enclosures

We discuss 'enclosures' one of the cornerstone concepts in making jazz sound like jazz - particularly post-bebop jazz. We talk about the idea of 'enc...

Saturday, October 15, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E43-Jazz Cello

Nick and Simon talk about Jazz Cello, like you do...

Saturday, October 8, 2022 Chris Hodgkins

Chris Hodgkins has been an integral part of the UK jazz scene since the early seventies. As a trumpet player he performed with the Icon Jazzmen and to...

Saturday, October 1, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E42-Andre Previn

Musician, composer, and conductor Andre Previn had a long and varied career career. Simon and Nick discuss his life and his work in the jazz, film an...

Thursday, September 15, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E41-Monk Biography

Nick and Simon discuss the biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Author Robin D. Kelley grew up in Harlem in a house...

Thursday, September 1, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E40-San Francisco Jazz

The Fillmore district of San Francisco was known as " The Harlem of the West" in the 1940s and there were many clubs that flourished there f...

Monday, August 15, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E39- Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

Nick and Simon discuss the well known book of jazz interviews 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It.'

Monday, August 1, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E38-Red Garland Block Chords

Red Garland was one of the big beasts of the 1950s New York jazz scene recording many albums as leader with his trio, he was also part of the first ...

Friday, July 15, 2022 2-5m-1-S1E37-Blue Notes in B&W

Simon and Nick discuss the book Blue Notes in Black and White a book about the relationship between jazz image and jazz music. Below is the blurb fro...

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