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Send us a text In this episode we discuss Philip Larkin [ the English Poet] and his love of jazz and his hate of other jazz This is our website This ...

Send us a text We talk about the some of the big figures in jazz education Dizzy Gillespie, Hal Crook, Jerry Coker, John Meghan, Jamey Aebersold, Mark...

Send us a text Jazz on screen is an annual tie-in with the London Jazz festival. recent years have seen 2023 The three films are: Imagine the Sound +...

Send us a text Another of our book reviews, this one is on a biography of Sonny Clark. This is our website This is our InstagramThis is our Facebook g...

Send us a text This is not about the inner voice that tells pianists to " Kill the Bass Player" this is about moving the middle of the chord around to...

Send us a text Jazz is a multi hour multi episode documentary about the genesis and progression of Jazz in America by Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren Burns i...

Send us a text One of our practical episodes, Simon and Nick discuss the Montuno. a rhythmic ostinato common in Mambo and Salsa. Check our website as ...

Send us a text Pedro Jústiz was born in Banes, Holguín, on January 31, 1913 into a family of local musicians. Taught by his mother since 1923, he soon...

Send us a text The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos, published in 1989. It tells the story of two C...

Send us a text. To round off this series we talk about Outros and Endings - the way jazz players stop a tune. Thanks for listening and look out for s...

Send us a text In this episode Simon and Nick talk about the common conception and mis conceptions- of how jazz happens. We actually made this episod...

Send us a text This is one of our more technical episodes where we try to demystify the way jazz musicians make the music by the end of this episode y...