Season 1

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...

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...

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...

Send us a text 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 I...

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...

The rent party was a phenomenon that occurred from 1920-1950's particularly in areas like Harlem, to raise the money needed to meet the cost of accomm...

What is quartal harmony? Who brought it into jazz and when?Nick and Simon discuss these questions.

Send us a text Here are 2 examples of quartile harmony to support the previous podcast

Send us a text The Flamingo Club The Flamingo Club (not to be confused with Club Flamingo of Police Squad!) was a London nightclub active from 1952-...

Archer StreetWe discuss the role of a single Soho street in the lives of musicians looking for work in London from the 1920s until the 1960s Watch the...

Tete Montoliu was a Spanish pianist who had a long and successful career. As part of our "under-the-radar" pianists strand we discuss him and his play...

In this Episode Nick and Simon discuss Stars of Jazz  which was an American television program that ran between 1956 and 1958 and featured performance...