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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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

The fame of Andy Warhol has lasted a lot longer than fifteen minutes, but perhaps his jazz album cover artwork is less well known than his soup tins, ...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Nick And Simon talk about the jazz novel Blow Up a Storm published in 1959 [a seminal year in Jazz history]This is a first novel by the director, prod...