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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...