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Send us a textNick and Simon are taking a break. The next 2-5-1- 5 Monte podcast will go out on Feb 1st 2025. We are about to record a Christmas speci...

Episode 40 of Series 2 to the 50 plus episodes from series 1 and our long form series on Sonny Clark and Kenny Drew. Busking a tune what does that men...

What do we understand to be a big band? Nick and Simon discuss the ingredients that might go into to making a big band in terms of instruments style a...

In this episode Nick and Simon talk about Mole Jazz a shop that closed 20 years ago now but is fondly remembered by Jazz aficionados of a certain age....

The connection between jazz and cooking is investigated through this book review of Jazz Cooks: Portraits and Recipes of the Greats by Rob Young and ...

In this Episode Mink Coal Tin and This is Wine mode discuss the mercurial art of creating a Pseudonym to get around a contractual issue with ones reco...

One of our under the radar pianist episodes, we look at the piano stylings of Sir Charles Thompson.This is our website This is our InstagramThis is ou...

Nick and Simon present one of their jazz book reviews -Kind of Blue : The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (Granta 2001) is an in...

Sven Klang’s Kvintet 2-5-1- field trip notes. We went to the Barbican during the London Jazz Festival in November 2023 and watched a screening of this...

Didn't you used to be Tom Scott? In this episode we talk about the relationship between fame/commercial success and jazz. In May 2024 several jazz mu...

Bird by Clint Eastwood Bird is a 1988 American biographical musical drama film about jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, directed and produced b...

Here is a bit more about Ray Smith of Ray's Jazz Shop fame. This is our website This is our Instagram This is our Facebook group