Season 3

Saturday, November 1, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E7-EFG-Jazz on Screen 2024-We Insist-Black Sun

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 were: Imagine the Sound ...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E6-Fragile Virtuoso-Sonny Clark by Derek Ansell

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

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E5-Inner Voices for Pianists

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...

Monday, September 15, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E4-Jazz Ken Burns

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

Monday, September 1, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E3-Montuno

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 ...

Friday, August 15, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E2-Peruchin

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...

Friday, August 1, 2025 2-5m-1-S3E1-Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

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...