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2-5m-1-S3E27-Mid Season Break
Mid Season Break Announcement…
S3E26 Whiplash Jazz On Film
Whiplash is a 2014 American independent psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, and Paul Rei…
2-5m-1-S3E25-Special-Humour in Jazz-is there a place for it?
A long time ago we did an episode on humour in jazz. you can hear it here This is a longer investigation into it.…
Untitled 2-5m-1-S3E24 But Beautiful TWLepisode
in another one of our tunes we love Nick and Simon discus But Beautiful But Beautiful" is a popular song with music written by Jimmy Van Heusen, the lyrics…
2-5m-1-S3E23 Johnny Towner Williams URP
one of our under the radar pianists episodes John Williams there Jazz pianist . Yes the Star Wars guy!…
2-5m-1-S3E22-Special-What Makes a Jazz singer?
Following on from our last episode this is a special longer examination of what makes a jazz singer …
2-5m-1-S3E21 Laufey [Is she a jazz singer?]
We ask is Laufey a jazz singer. what do you think?…
2-5m-1-S3E20 The Horn John Clellon Holmes -JBR
One of our jazz book reviews podcasts about the Novel The Horn by John Clellon Holmes-born 12th March 1926Studied at various places Columbia 1943 and post…
2-5m-1-S3E19 Jazz and Traditional notation
we discuss the issue of notating jazz in traditional western music notation in this episode…
2-5m-1-S3E18 Stella By Starlight TWL
We discusss "Stella by Starlight" a popular jazz standard with music by Victor Young that was drawn from thematic material composed for the main tit…
2-5m-1-S3E17-Eddie Costa-URP
in this episode we discus the pianist and vibraphonist Eddie Costa…
2-5m-1-S3E16 2-5-1-special The 21026 Jazz grammy awards
in this episode we discuss the winners of the jazz categories of the grammy awards 2026Large ensemble-christian McBrideBest Jazz Vocal Album-Portriat Samara Joy…
2-5m-1-S3E15-Alan Plater
In this episode we discuss the writer and dramatist Alan Plater and his connection to jazz.…
2-5m-1-S3E14-Tunes we love and why-Softly
We are starting a new strand to the ever expanding tapestry of 2-5-1 : Tunes we love and why. The first of these is on the song Softly as in a Morning Sunrise b…
2-5m-1-S3E13-Jazz Casual
Nick leads the discussion on the TV jazz show Jazz Casual. Most episodes are available on YouTube Wikipedia describes it thus"Jazz Casual was an occasional…
2-5m-1-S3E12-Mainstream Jazz
What is Mainstream Jazz? Is the term still relevant? Who coined the phrase?find out in this episode…
2-5-1-special-Film Noir and Jazz-
2-5m-1-S3E11-Jazz and Crime Fiction
In this episode we delve into the dark world of jazz and the detective. Jazz has become associated with the gumshoe detective e.g. Sam Spade and Philip Mar…
2-5m-1-S3E10-Christmas Gifts for Jazz Lovers
We have done Christmas specials before which are about Christmas jazz albums or specific Christmas jazz songs. This year we are offering suggestions for gifts f…
2-5m-1-S3E9-Philip Larkin Jazz Criticism
Send us a textIn this episode we discuss Philip Larkin [the English Poet] and his love of some jazz and his hatred of other jazz This is our website T…