<![CDATA[2-5-1]]> https://storage.buzzsprout.com/variants/n83e3isrr6d5m5rf4hszp8g570gq/60854458c4d1acdf4e1c2f79c4137142d85d78e379bdafbd69bd34c85f5819ad.jpg <![CDATA[2-5-1]]> https://2-5-1.onpodium.com OnPodium (https://onpodium.com) Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT en-gb Simon Whiteside and Nicholas Tomalin Nick Tomalin snd Simon Whiteside host a variety of podcasts about jazz .From the short vignettes of two pianist, five minutes, one podcast through to the Two pianist, Five Podcasts, One subject and in depth look at the life work and piano stylings of single pianists. So far Sonny Clark and Kenny Drew have been covered. episodic 251.podcast@gmail.com false jazz, piano, music, performing, <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E18 Stella By Starlight TWL]]> 18 18 2-5m-1-S3E18 Stella By Starlight TWL 4757213 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e18-stella-by-starlight-twl Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;We discusss &amp;nbsp;&quot;&lt;strong&gt;Stella by Starlight&lt;/strong&gt;&quot; &amp;nbsp;a popular &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_standard&quot;&gt;jazz standard&lt;/a&gt; with music by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Young&quot;&gt;Victor Young&lt;/a&gt; that was drawn from thematic material composed for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_title&quot;&gt;main title&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack&quot;&gt;soundtrack&lt;/a&gt; of the 1944 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures&quot;&gt;Paramount Pictures&lt;/a&gt; film &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uninvited_(1944_film)&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Uninvited&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Appearing in the film&#x27;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underscoring&quot;&gt;underscore&lt;/a&gt; as well as in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_music&quot;&gt;source music&lt;/a&gt; as an instrumental &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_song&quot;&gt;theme song&lt;/a&gt; without lyrics, it was turned over to &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Washington&quot;&gt;Ned Washington&lt;/a&gt;, who wrote the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrics&quot;&gt;lyrics&lt;/a&gt; for it in 1946.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At one point in the film, the main character, Rick (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Milland&quot;&gt;Ray Milland&lt;/a&gt;) tells Stella (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Russell&quot;&gt;Gail Russell&lt;/a&gt;) that he is playing a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenade&quot;&gt;serenade&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;To Stella by Starlight&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;an Apple Music playlist is &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/stella-by-starlight/pl.u-kvXlJIgLpGy&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E17-Eddie Costa-URP]]> 17 17 2-5m-1-S3E17-Eddie Costa-URP 4756685 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e17-eddie-costa-urp Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;in this episode we discus the pianist and vibraphonist Eddie Costa&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E16 2-5-1-special The 21026 Jazz grammy awards]]> 16 16 2-5m-1-S3E16 2-5-1-special The 21026 Jazz grammy awards 4756684 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e16-2-5-1-special-the-21026-jazz-grammy-awards Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT 2256 &lt;p&gt;in this episode we discuss the winners of the jazz categories of the grammy awards 2026&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Large ensemble-christian McBride&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best Jazz Vocal Album-Portriat Samara Joy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best Jazz instrumental album -Soouthern Nights Sullivan Fortner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best Alternative Jazz Album-LIVE-ACTION-Nate Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Best Latin Jazz -A Tribute to Benny Mor&#xE9; and Nat King Cole &#x2013; Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta &amp;amp; Joey Calveiro&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;best Live album Windows &#x2013; Live &#x2013; Chick Corea, Christian McBride &amp;amp; Brian Blade&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon&#x27;s Apple Music Playlist &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/jazz-grammy-winners-2026/pl.u-2aWqLFKaoYZ&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E15-Alan Plater]]> 15 15 2-5m-1-S3E15-Alan Plater 4754451 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e15-alan-plater Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;In this episode we discuss the writer and dramatist Alan Plater and his connection to jazz.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E14-Tunes we love and why-Softly]]> 14 14 2-5m-1-S3E14-Tunes we love and why-Softly 4754450 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e14-tunes-we-love-and-why-softly Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT &lt;p&gt;We are starting a new strand to the ever expanding tapestry of 2-5-1 : &lt;strong&gt;Tunes we love and why. &lt;/strong&gt;The first of these is on the song &lt;strong&gt;Softly&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;as in a Morning Sunrise&lt;/strong&gt; by Sigmund Romberg a 32 bar&amp;nbsp; AABA format tune, often in C minor, that has become a favourite amongst musicians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/softly-as-in-a-morning-sunrise/pl.u-2aWdbtKaoYZ&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is an Apple Music play list which is only the tip of the iceberg [or should that be Romburg?]&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E13-Jazz Casual]]> 13 13 2-5m-1-S3E13-Jazz Casual 4754449 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e13-jazz-casual Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;Nick leads the discussion on the TV jazz show Jazz Casual. Most episodes are available on YouTube&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wikipedia describes it thus&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jazz Casual&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt; was an occasional series on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_music&quot;&gt;jazz music&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Educational_Television&quot;&gt;National Educational Television&lt;/a&gt; (NET), the predecessor to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service&quot;&gt;Public Broadcasting Service&lt;/a&gt; (PBS). The show was produced by Richard Moore and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQED_(TV)&quot;&gt;KQED&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California&quot;&gt;San Francisco, California&lt;/a&gt;. Episodes ran for 30 minutes. It ran from 1961 to 1968 and was hosted by jazz critic &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Gleason&quot;&gt;Ralph Gleason&lt;/a&gt;. The series had a pilot program in 1960. That episode, however, has been destroyed. 31 episodes were broadcast; 28 episodes survive. Most episodes included short interviews with the group leaders&quot;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E12-Mainstream Jazz]]> 12 12 2-5m-1-S3E12-Mainstream Jazz 4754448 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e12-mainstream-jazz Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT &lt;p&gt;What is Mainstream Jazz? Is the term still relevant? Who coined the phrase?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;find out in this episode&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-special-Film Noir and Jazz-]]> 1 1 2-5-1-special-Film Noir and Jazz- 4754454 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/untitled-episode-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:46:56 GMT 4112 jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E11-Jazz and Crime Fiction]]> 11 11 2-5m-1-S3E11-Jazz and Crime Fiction 4754452 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e11-jazz-and-crime-fiction Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:27:39 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;In this episode we delve into the dark world of jazz and the detective.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazz has become associated with the gumshoe detective e.g. Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe and the whole world of film noir including seedy nightclubs and femme fatales.&amp;nbsp; We decided to investigate further &quot;so I drew my Smith and Wesson 9mm and Nick was soon singing like a canary&quot;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E10-Christmas Gifts for Jazz Lovers]]> 10 10 2-5m-1-S3E10-Christmas Gifts for Jazz Lovers 4753496 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e10-christmas-gifts-for-jazz-lovers Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:26:08 GMT 709 &lt;p&gt;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 for jazz lovers including among other things &quot;the smell of jazz&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amazon UK List&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/1KB4RC18Z7ULG?ref_=wl_share&quot;&gt; Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Previous Christmas episodes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2020 2021 2022 &amp;nbsp;2024&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast/?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr%20&quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our Facebook group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E9-Philip Larkin Jazz Criticism]]> 9 9 2-5m-1-S3E9-Philip Larkin Jazz Criticism 4751358 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e9-philip-larkin-jazz-criticism Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode we discuss Philip Larkin [the English Poet] and his love of some jazz and his hatred of other jazz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E8-Jazz Educators]]> 8 8 2-5m-1-S3E8-Jazz Educators 4747785 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e8-jazz-educators Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We talk about the some of the big figures in jazz education Dizzy Gillespie, Hal Crook, Jerry Coker, John Meghan, Jamey Aebersold, Mark Levine and Barry Harris.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are others we couldn&#x27;t fit into the 5 minutes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E7-EFG-Jazz on Screen 2024-We Insist-Black Sun]]> 7 7 2-5m-1-S3E7-EFG-Jazz on Screen 2024-We Insist-Black Sun 4743704 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e7-efg-jazz-on-screen-2024-we-insist-black-sun Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazz on screen is an annual tie-in with the London Jazz festival. recent years have seen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2023&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The three films were: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/jazz-on-screen-imagine-the-sound-introduction&quot;&gt;Imagine the Sound &#x2B; Introduction by Stewart Lee&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/jazz-on-screen-sven-klangs-combo-intro&quot;&gt;Sven Klang&#x2019;s Combo &#x2B; Introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/jazz-on-screen-the-stormy-man&quot;&gt;The Stormy Man&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/series/jazz-on-screen-2024&quot;&gt;2024&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Symphonies in Black : Duke Ellington Shorts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We Insist-Black Sun&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So Watt: Jazz and Improvisation on British TV&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Our episode on Sven Klang is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/973312/episodes/15163518&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2025&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Diaspora Suite by Ephraim Asili-Nov 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So Watt: Derek Bailey&#x27;s On the Edge &#x2013; Improvisation in Music Nov15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jazz In Exile &#x2013; Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe &amp;amp; Cecil Taylor &#xE0; Paris Nov 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Link to this years events &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/series/jazz-on-screen&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E6-Fragile Virtuoso-Sonny Clark by Derek Ansell]]> 6 6 2-5m-1-S3E6-Fragile Virtuoso-Sonny Clark by Derek Ansell 4738463 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e6-fragile-virtuoso-sonny-clark-by-derek-ansell Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another of our book reviews, this one is of a biography of Sonny Clark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E5-Inner Voices for Pianists]]> 5 5 2-5m-1-S3E5-Inner Voices for Pianists 4734348 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e5-inner-voices-for-pianists Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT 405 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not about the inner voice that tells pianists to &quot; kill the bass player&quot; this is about moving the middle of the chord around to create interest and tension then release.&amp;nbsp; There is a bonus recording at the end of some of a transcription Simon did of the Introduction to Stella from Standards Live Keith Jarrett Trio.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/september-in-the-rain/279893311?i=279893525&quot;&gt; link&lt;/a&gt; to the Apple Music version of September in the Rain Anita Wardell with Liam Noble&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E4-Jazz Ken Burns]]> 4 4 2-5m-1-S3E4-Jazz Ken Burns 4731810 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e4-jazz-ken-burns Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazz is a multi-hour multi-episode documentary about the genesis and progression of jazz in America by Ken Burns&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kenneth Lauren Burns is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture. His work is often produced in association with WETA-TV or the National Endowment for the Humanities and distributed by PBS&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E3-Montuno]]> 3 3 2-5m-1-S3E3-Montuno 4726225 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e3-montuno Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of our practical episodes, Simon and Nick discuss the Montuno. a rhythmic ostinato common in Mambo and Salsa. Check our website as we sometimes make blog Posts about the subjects we cover in episodes&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E2-Peruchin]]> 2 2 2-5m-1-S3E2-Peruchin 4722876 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e2-peruchin Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:00:00 GMT 344 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pedro J&#xFA;stiz was born in Banes, Holgu&#xED;n, on January 31, 1913 into a family of local musicians. Taught by his mother since 1923, he soon learned to play the piano and joined the family band La Rechiva del Son, directed by his uncles. In 1928 he moved to &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilla,_Cuba&#x27;&gt;Antilla&lt;/a&gt; to study piano and saxophone under the supervision of his grandfather, Emilio Rodr&#xED;guez.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Havana, Peruch&#xED;n worked occasionally with &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orquesta_Casino_de_la_Playa&#x27;&gt;Orquesta Casino de la Playa&lt;/a&gt; and Mariano Mercer&#xF3;n&amp;apos;s orchestra. In 1942 he joined Los Swing Boys, a big band directed by saxophonist Emilio Pe&#xF1;alver and featuring Jos&#xE9; &amp;quot;Chombo&amp;quot; Silva. He then became a member of the Conjunto Matamoros, an expanded version of the &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trio_Matamoros&#x27;&gt;Trio Matamoros&lt;/a&gt;. In 1943 he joined Armando Romeu&amp;apos;s &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropicana_Club&#x27;&gt;Tropicana Club&lt;/a&gt; orchestra. He rejected an offer by &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bauz%C3%A1&#x27;&gt;Mario Bauz&#xE1;&lt;/a&gt; to replace &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Loco&#x27;&gt;Joe Loco&lt;/a&gt; in his band, The Afrocubans, and instead recommended Ren&#xE9; Hern&#xE1;ndez&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S3E1-Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love]]> 1 1 2-5m-1-S3E1-Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 4722107 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s3e1-mambo-kings-play-songs-of-love Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love&amp;quot; is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos, published in 1989. It tells the story of two Cuban brothers, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, who immigrate to New York City in the 1950s and become successful musicians known as the Mambo Kings. The novel explores themes of family, love, loss, and the immigrant experience in America, focusing on the brothers&amp;apos; journey through fame, relationships, and ultimately, the passage of time.&#xA0;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The story follows the Castillo brothers&amp;apos; rise to fame in the mambo scene of New York City. By day, they work ordinary jobs, but by night, they pack dance halls and clubs with their sensuous, pulsing Latin music. Cesar, the charming womanizer, and Nestor, the quiet romantic, experience both the highs and lows of their musical career and personal lives. The story also delves into Cesar&amp;apos;s later life, filled with memories of his brother, past loves, and the music they created together.&#xA0;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The book is known for its evocative portrayal of the mambo era, its vibrant characters, and its exploration of the immigrant experience and a lot of steamy sex. It&amp;apos;s a story that resonates with readers through its themes of passion, loss, and the enduring power of music. The novel was later adapted into a 1992 film of the same name and a stage show in 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E52-Outros-Endings]]> 52 52 2-5m-1-S2E52-Outros-Endings 4718074 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e52-outros-endings Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To round off this series we talk about Outros and Endings - the way jazz players stop a tune.&amp;nbsp; Thanks for listening and look out for series 3!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps you will hear the ending and intro of our podcast in a new light.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E51-So you make it all up right?]]> 51 51 2-5m-1-S2E51-So you make it all up right? 4705086 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e51-so-you-make-it-all-up-right Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode Simon and Nick talk about common misconceptions around how jazz happens. &amp;nbsp;We actually made this episode up off-the-cuff....How very meta!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E50-What is a Chord Symbol?]]> 50 50 2-5m-1-S2E50-What is a Chord Symbol? 4678704 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e50-what-is-a-chord-symbol Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is one of our more technical episodes, where we try to demystify the way jazz musicians make the music. By the end of this episode you may even know what Cm7b5 means in musical terms.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E49-Jazz versions of pop tunes]]> 49 49 2-5m-1-S2E49-Jazz versions of pop tunes 4664859 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e49-jazz-versions-of-pop-tunes Thu, 15 May 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazz has always taken popular tunes as a starting point.&#xA0; Some of the most famous jazz originals like Ornithology are new tunes on old chords sometimes called contrafacts. In this episode Nick and Simon discuss the subject of modern songs done in a jazz way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jazz versions of Beatles tunes playlist &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/blue-note-plays-the-beatles/pl.u-8aLaef8jZ9y&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rock Swings &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/rock-swings-uk-version/1443317183&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Herbie Hancock The New Standard &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-new-standard/1444013083&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Love Breaks down Dominic Howles Septet &lt;a href=&#x27;https://dominichowles.bandcamp.com/track/when-love-breaks-down-mcaloon-published-by-emi-songs-ltd-used-by-permission-all-rights-reserved&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post Modern Jukebox &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/blue-mirror/1436653455&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All above are Apple Music Links you will find them on other streaming sever ices too&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E48-URP-Terry Pollard]]> 48 48 2-5m-1-S2E48-URP-Terry Pollard 4658405 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e48-urp-terry-pollard Thu, 01 May 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Watch Terry Pollard with Terry Gibbs &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8z6fwq4ZSE&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Terry Pollard&lt;/b&gt; (August 15, 1931 &#x2013; December 16, 2009) was an American jazz pianist and vibraphonist active in the &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit&#x27;&gt;Detroit&lt;/a&gt; jazz scene of the 1940s and 1950s. She has been described as a &amp;quot;major player who was inexplicably overlooked.&amp;quot;&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;listen to Terry Pollard on Apple Music &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/terry-pollard-2015-remaster/1436742931&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&#xA0; or Spotify &lt;a href=&#x27;https://open.spotify.com/album/3aumzp6rGmyfmF5CCP4A2A?si=P_QMLJmiTVSrFJcxUSqQ4Q&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to a Detroit Legend on Apple Music &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/a-detroit-jazz-legend/1521643812&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or Spotify &lt;a href=&#x27;https://open.spotify.com/album/7c18tJjIJLRa4IgaJ9wpeb?si=pIDZesKgROaqXehFEte1YA&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E47-Book Review-You Can't Steal a Gift]]> 47 47 2-5m-1-S2E47-Book Review-You Can&#x27;t Steal a Gift 4651213 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e47-book-review-you-cant-steal-a-gift Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;apos;t steal a gift a book review You Can&amp;apos;t Steal a Gift. &lt;b&gt;Frederick Eugene John Lees&lt;/b&gt; (February 8, 1928 &#x2013; April 22, 2010) was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music critic and lyricist. His lyrics for &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Carlos_Jobim&#x27;&gt;Antonio Carlos Jobim&lt;/a&gt;&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corcovado_(song)&#x27;&gt;Corcovado&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; (released as &amp;quot;Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars&amp;quot;), have been recorded by such singers as &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra&#x27;&gt;Frank Sinatra&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lee&#x27;&gt;Peggy Lee&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Latifah&#x27;&gt;Queen Latifah&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Krall&#x27;&gt;Diana Krall&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to arranging the score Series 1 episode 44 &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/973312/episodes/11449869-2-5m-1-s1e44-arranging-the-score&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Erratum Simon Apologises for getting his American Geography wrong Louisville is in in Kentucky!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E46-URP-Christian Jacob]]> 46 46 2-5m-1-S2E46-URP-Christian Jacob 4641146 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e46-urp-christian-jacob Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Christian Jacob&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jacob was born in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz&#x27;&gt;Metz&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_(region)&#x27;&gt;Lorraine&lt;/a&gt; on 8 May 1958. A pianist by age four, he was immersed in studying the French classics. Something of a child prodigy, Jacob had &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch&#x27;&gt;perfect pitch&lt;/a&gt; and natural talent. He did not discover jazz until age 10, but when he did, its improvised nature appealed to him immediately. Early influences were &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck&#x27;&gt;Dave Brubeck&lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson&#x27;&gt;Oscar Peterson&lt;/a&gt;. As a teen, Jacob studied under &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Sancan&#x27;&gt;Pierre Sancan&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatoire_National_Superieur_de_Musique&#x27;&gt;Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique&lt;/a&gt; in Paris.Later, he would teach piano at the Conservatoire National de Region in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz&#x27;&gt;Metz&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In January 1983, Jacob entered &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music&#x27;&gt;Berklee College of Music&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_Massachusetts&#x27;&gt;Boston, Massachusetts&lt;/a&gt;, and won many awards as a student, including the &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Zawinul&#x27;&gt;Joe Zawinul&lt;/a&gt; Jazz Masters Award, Oscar Peterson Jazz Masters Award, and &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Beat&#x27;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Down Beat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &amp;quot;Top Collegiate Jazz Soloist&amp;quot; before graduating &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_cum_laude&#x27;&gt;magna cum laude&lt;/a&gt; in 1985. Jacob then took a teaching position at Berklee.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E45-Book Review-Coming Through Slaughter]]> 45 45 2-5m-1-S2E45-Book Review-Coming Through Slaughter 4626684 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e45-book-review-coming-through-slaughter Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:00:00 GMT 344 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of our book reviews - this time it&#x27;s the novel (or is it?) Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Buy it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/440529/coming-through-slaughter-by-ondaatje-michael/9781784877828&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in print or listen to the audio book &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/440529/coming-through-slaughter-by-ondaatje-michael/9781529942385&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The work deals with the life of Buddy Bolden the legend of early jazz who never recorded and wasn&#x27;t documented much during his life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E44-Jazz and the Beat Writers Part 2]]> 44 44 2-5m-1-S2E44-Jazz and the Beat Writers Part 2 4595447 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e44-jazz-and-the-beat-writers-part-2 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a follow-on to episode 44. We go a bit further into the Beat poets reading their poetry with live jazz backing.&amp;nbsp; We talk about City Lights and Steve Allen and more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A couple of corrections&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Howl was first performed&amp;nbsp; by Ginsberg who read a draft of &quot;Howl&quot; at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Gallery_reading&quot;&gt;Six Gallery reading&lt;/a&gt; in San Francisco in 1955.&amp;nbsp; Fellow poet &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti&quot;&gt;Lawrence Ferlinghetti&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_Books&quot;&gt;City Lights Books&lt;/a&gt;, who attended the performance, published the work in 1956. Upon the poem&#x27;s release, Ferlinghetti and the bookstore&#x27;s manager, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeyoshi_Murao&quot;&gt;Shigeyoshi Murao&lt;/a&gt;, were charged with disseminating &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscene&quot;&gt;obscene&lt;/a&gt; literature, and both were arrested. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Al jazzbo Collins records were with Steve Allen, you can watch the records revolve and listen to his righteous Spiel &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6A441E86A5187DBF&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you haven&#x27;t already, check out our on podium blog on this subject&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E43-Jazz and the Beat Writers Part 1]]> 43 43 2-5m-1-S2E43-Jazz and the Beat Writers Part 1 4578693 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e43-jazz-and-the-beat-writers-part-1 Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We intended for this to be just one episode but felt that we had a lot more to say and ended up with enough for 2 five minute episodes the next will follow on March 1st 2025.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is the introduction to a blog on the Beats on our website links below&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Beat movement was a literary movement which emerged in the United States in the post war-era. &#x2018;Beat&#x2019; was slang for &#x2018;down and out or poor and exhausted&#x2019;. Jack Kerouac also spoke of the beat, especially the Jazz beat and also &lt;strong&gt;beat&lt;/strong&gt;itude in a spiritual sense.&amp;nbsp; Central elements of Beat culture were the rejection of standard moral and narrative values, the importance of spiritual quest,&amp;nbsp; rejection of materialism,&amp;nbsp; experimentation with psychedelic drugs and sexual liberation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pivotal works include Alan Ginsberg&#x2019;s Howl, William Burrough&#x2019;s Naked Lunch and jack Kerouac&#x2019;s&amp;nbsp; On The Road. The core group met in 1944 in and around Columbia University in NYC, although later writers settled on the West Coast.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The beat writers were attracted to jazz and especially bebop because of its underground, counter-cultural status. The writers were also influenced by the &#x2018;improvisational&#x2019; nature of jazz which many tried to replicate in their writing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is a good documentary called &quot; The Source&quot; a standard definition version is on You tube &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;amp;sca_esv=c811751b54c2593d&amp;amp;rls=en&amp;amp;sxsrf=AHTn8zoKxivRVQ6hc8jNBo629VpeKIPb7Q:1738163500688&amp;amp;q=the&#x2B;source&#x2B;beat&#x2B;generation&#x2B;documentary&amp;amp;udm=7&amp;amp;fbs=ABzOT_CWdhQLP1FcmU5B0fn3xuWp6IcynRBrzjy_vjxR0KoDMuRqhRxkdGgKzs52-1TZixdvdGWq8ByJf-ILEKCuPyfcnbq5XSdGFgSCp5rZRl9CeN2f8sfxIsCqBneVnRZ_BYqNKn9ha_POw6xFo6flNTYibtLg9_-9ecIJF7CCQ0X20X8O8ncF2NdIyP5IEfvJQ-wwGpGu&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ved=2ahUKEwjZk5TQm5uLAxX_WkEAHRsyPTYQtKgLegQIBhAB&amp;amp;biw=1080&amp;amp;bih=975&amp;amp;dpr=1#fpstate=ive&amp;amp;ip=1&amp;amp;vld=cid:30cbd4af,vid:S3_XN9LXpu0,st:0&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; but full fat versions are available to buy from apple&amp;nbsp; or Amazon Prime the imdb page is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181833/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E42-Intros]]> 42 42 2-5m-1-S2E42-Intros 4567536 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e42-intros Sat, 01 Feb 2025 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are Back after our mid season break so we thought we would start with intros. We discuss what makes a good intro and what is the function of such intros. With some audio examples&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E4-Christmas Special 2024]]> 4 4 2-5-1-S1E4-Christmas Special 2024 4524821 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e4-christmas-special-2024 Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT 3982 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode we chat about the &#x27;Christmas with the George Shearing Quintet&#x27;&amp;nbsp;album. It was recorded by George Shearing&#x27;s &#x27;new&#x27; quintet&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Vibraphone &#x2013; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.discogs.com/artist/792696-Don-Thompson-2&quot;&gt;Don Thompson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Guitar &#x2013; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.discogs.com/artist/2562524-Reg-Schwager&quot;&gt;Reg Schwager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Piano &#x2013; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.discogs.com/artist/59407-George-Shearing&quot;&gt;George Shearing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bass &#x2013; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.discogs.com/artist/1508049-Neil-Swainson&quot;&gt;Neil Swainson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drums &#x2013; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.discogs.com/artist/577649-Dennis-Mackrel&quot;&gt;Dennis Mackrel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;A mixture of classic jazz tunes, (many of which we looked at in detail in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/973312/episodes/6877835-2-5-1-two-pianists-five-christmas-tunes-one-podcast&quot;&gt;2020 &lt;/a&gt;Christmas special), and traditional carols. including a John Rutter carol who also helped GS with background for the liner notes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hear a couple of the tunes live at lunchtime Dec 9th 2024 at the Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus performed by Nick&#x27;s Shades of Shearing band. More info &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.spiceoflifesoho.com/events/jazz-club-a-tribute-to-george-shearing/&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Merry Christmas from us!&amp;nbsp; Hear previous Christmas editions on the links below&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Previous Christmas episodes&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/973312/episodes/6877835-2-5-1-two-pianists-five-christmas-tunes-one-podcast&quot;&gt;2020&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/973312/episodes/9725253-2-5-1-christmas-special-2021&quot;&gt;2021&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/973312/episodes/11878740-2-5-1-christmas-&quot;&gt;2022&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E41-Mid Season Break]]> 41 41 2-5m-1-S2E41-Mid Season Break 4523455 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e41-mid-season-break Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT 84 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon are taking a break. The next 2-5-1- 5 minute podcast will go out on Feb 1st 2025. We are about to record a Christmas special in a slightly longer format so that will appear in your feed if you subscribe, or find it on our website&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E40-Busking a Tune]]> 40 40 2-5m-1-S2E40-Busking a Tune 4509126 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e40-busking-a-tune Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;Episode 40 of Series 2 to the 50 plus episodes from series 1 and our long form series on Sonny Clark and Kenny Drew.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Busking a tune what does that mean? Sometimes when you hear a jazz band some of the players are playing a tune for the first time by ear with a few pointers from the person calling the tune.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Simon and Nick discuss the concept&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E39- When is a Band a Bigband?]]> 39 39 2-5m-1-S2E39- When is a Band a Bigband? 4499789 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e39-when-is-a-band-a-bigband Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;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 and techniques. &#xA0;Then put the template to the test by considering a few examples&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E38- Mole Jazz Record Shop]]> 38 38 2-5m-1-S2E38- Mole Jazz Record Shop 4487105 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e38-mole-jazz-record-shop Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:00:00 GMT 342 &lt;p&gt;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. &#xA0;They also had a small catalogue of releases on the Mole Jazz label.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E37- Jazz Cooks Book review]]> 37 37 2-5m-1-S2E37- Jazz Cooks Book review 4479118 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e37-jazz-cooks-book-review Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;The connection between jazz and cooking is investigated through this book review&#xA0; of Jazz Cooks: Portraits and Recipes of the Greats by Rob Young and Al Stances with photographs by Deborah Feingold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E36- Jazz Pseudonyms]]> 36 36 2-5m-1-S2E36- Jazz Pseudonyms 4465501 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e36-jazz-pseudonyms Sun, 15 Sep 2024 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;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 record company, &#xA0;so to find out who Kunst Bauer is and if he ever recorded with Sir Osbert Haberdasher listen to this episode of 2-5-1&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E35- Sir Charles Thompson]]> 35 35 2-5m-1-S2E35- Sir Charles Thompson 4459125 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e35-sir-charles-thompson Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;One of our under the radar pianist episodes, we look at the piano stylings of Sir Charles Thompson.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E34- Kind Of Blue Book]]> 2-5m-1-S2E34- Kind Of Blue Book 4452636 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e34-kind-of-blue-book Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:00:00 GMT 344 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon present one of their jazz book reviews.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kind of Blue : The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (Granta 200)1 is an in-depth look at the legendary album, its creation and its legacy.&amp;nbsp; Ashley Kahn has written other books about jazz including n A Love Supreme and Impulse Records : The House that Trane Built. [Simon got that title slightly wrong in the podcast]&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In December 1999 Kahn got to hear the master tapes of the sessions, including the false starts etc which the 50th anniversary release also contains&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkmOD6xMlaI&quot;&gt;Miles Davis-Kind of Blue-Celebrating a masterpiece&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Legacy edition is on &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/kind-of-blue-legacy-edition/300865074&quot;&gt;Apple Music&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;and other streaming platforms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Simon has written a blog post on this book and 2 other related books on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co/blog/kaplan-kahn-kaplan&quot;&gt;podcast website&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The book is available in Print and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kind-Blue-Miles-Making-Masterpiece-ebook/dp/B07J1MVDXQ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=&amp;amp;sr=&quot;&gt;E-Book format&lt;/a&gt; but not as an audio book.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E33-Sven Klang]]> 33 33 2-5m-1-S2E33-Sven Klang 4445535 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e33-sven-klang Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:00:00 GMT 344 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sven Klang&#x2019;s Kvintet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2-5-1- field trip notes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We went to the Barbican during the London Jazz Festival&amp;nbsp; in November 2023 and watched a screening of this film. There was an introductory talk and the Black and white movie was projected on a good sized screen.&amp;nbsp; In brief the plot is a function band lead by Sven Klang is joined by a really good Sax Player and his addition causes big changes in the band. It is about the human interactions within the group and both of us were very impressed with the way the live playing is captured&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot; &lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sven Klang&#x27;s Combo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language&quot;&gt;Swedish&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sven Klangs kvintett&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;) is a 1976 Swedish &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film&quot;&gt;musical&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film&quot;&gt;drama film&lt;/a&gt; directed by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellan_Olsson&quot;&gt;Stellan Olsson&lt;/a&gt;. The film was based on a 1974 play by &lt;i&gt;Musikteatergruppen Oktober&lt;/i&gt;, and was shot in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84ngelholm&quot;&gt;&#xC4;ngelholm&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6gan%C3%A4s&quot;&gt;H&#xF6;gan&#xE4;s&lt;/a&gt;. At the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Guldbagge_Awards&quot;&gt;13th Guldbagge Awards&lt;/a&gt; it won the Special Achievement award. In 2012 it was voted one of the 25 best Swedish films of all time&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;from wikipedia&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E32-Didn't you used to be Tom Scott?]]> 32 32 2-5m-1-S2E32-Didn&#x27;t you used to be Tom Scott? 4751535 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e32-didnt-you-used-to-be-tom-scott Mon, 15 Jul 2024 07:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Didn&amp;apos;t you used to be Tom Scott?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode we talk about&#xA0; the relationship of fame/commercial success and Jazz. During May 2024 several Jazz musicians have died&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&#xA0;David Sanborn, Bill Holman and Palle Danielsson.&#xA0; &lt;/b&gt;We start from the newsworthyness of these deaths. We chose the title &#x201C; Didn&#x2019;t you used to be Tom Scott&#x201D; based on a shared reminiscence of a comedian saying someone came up to them and Said &#x201C; Didn&#x2019;t you used to be&#x2026;&#x201D; illustrating the point that &#x201C; if a tree falls in the forest&#x2026;&#x201D;&#xA0; or if you have been in the public eye and are no longer in the public eye do you exist. How do Jazz musicians fit into this? Is it jazz if it&#x2019;s popular. &#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To be clear Ton Scott is [ at time of writing] very much alive.&#xA0; he was very well known&#xA0; in the 70&#x2019;s and arguably less so today and seemed like the type of musician some might not know if he is still about. He actually has a brilliant&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.tomscottmusic.com/podcast&#x27;&gt; podcast&lt;/a&gt; himself&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So Tom we hope we haven&#x2019;t offended you&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E31-Bird film]]> 31 31 2-5m-1-S2E31-Bird film 4432600 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e31-bird-film Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bird [ the Movie] Clint Eastwood&#xA0;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA0;&lt;br/&gt;&#xA0;Bird is a 1988 American &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical&#x27;&gt;biographical&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film&#x27;&gt;musical&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama&#x27;&gt;drama&lt;/a&gt; film about &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz&#x27;&gt;jazz&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone&#x27;&gt;saxophonist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker&#x27;&gt;Charlie &amp;quot;Bird&amp;quot; Parker&lt;/a&gt;, directed and produced by &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Eastwood&#x27;&gt;Clint Eastwood&lt;/a&gt; from a screenplay by &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Oliansky&#x27;&gt;Joel Oliansky&lt;/a&gt;. The film stars &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Whitaker&#x27;&gt;Forest Whitaker&lt;/a&gt; as Parker, and &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Venora&#x27;&gt;Diane Venora&lt;/a&gt; as Chan Parker. It is constructed as a &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_(filmmaking)&#x27;&gt;montage&lt;/a&gt; of scenes from Parker&amp;apos;s life, from his childhood in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri&#x27;&gt;Kansas City&lt;/a&gt;, through to his early death at the age of 34.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film moves back and forth through Parker&amp;apos;s history, blending moments to find some truth to his life. Much of the film revolves around his only grounding relationships with wife &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Parker&#x27;&gt;Chan Parker&lt;/a&gt; (Venora), &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop&#x27;&gt;Bebop&lt;/a&gt; pioneer trumpet player and band leader &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie&#x27;&gt;Dizzy Gillespie&lt;/a&gt; (Wright), and his influence (both musically and into the world of heroin addiction) on trumpet player &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rodney&#x27;&gt;Red Rodney&lt;/a&gt; (Zelniker).&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt; From &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_(1988_film)&#x27;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E30-Rays Jazz Shop-bomus episode]]> 30 30 2-5m-1-S2E30-Rays Jazz Shop-bomus episode 4751536 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e30-rays-jazz-shop-bomus-episode Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:00:00 GMT 190 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is a bit more about Ray Smith of Rays Jazz Shop fame&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E29-Rays Jazz Shop]]> 29 29 2-5m-1-S2E29-Rays Jazz Shop 4751537 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e29-rays-jazz-shop Sat, 15 Jun 2024 07:00:00 GMT 340 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rays Jazz Shop&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rays Jazz shop was originally Collets Jazz and Folk Records&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;The shop moved to Shaftesbury Ave in 1974 and the following year Ray came to an agreement with Chris Barber to store and sell a vast number of mint condition 78s which Chris had picked up from a warehouse in New Jersey. They were on the Savoy, DeeGee and Bop labels, still boxed in original packaging from the late 40s, by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Wardell Gray &amp;amp; others. The publicity raised the profile of the shop, television and radio publicity followed, and Peter Clayton interviewed Ray, with Matthew Wright, for a broadcast on the BBC World Service,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1983, Collets wanted to move the record shop but the jazz staff &#x2013; Ray, Matthew and Bob Glass - had no interest in going. Ray decided that as it had been his life for nearly thirty years, he had most to lose and was more committed to it, so he bought the lease from Collets.&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They closed for a few days, pulled down a wall, repositioned the counter and reopened it as Ray&amp;apos;s Jazz Shop, ready for trading. Ray&amp;apos;s wife, Wendy, a professional illustrator, designed the cat logo for the shop. It quickly established itself and live music sessions were held there. It was a meeting place for musicians and legendary hipster Slim Gaillard became a regular.&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2002, spiralling costs and ill health forced him to give up the lease, but thanks to the endeavours of Paul Pace, the name lives on at Foyle&#x2019;s in the Charing Cross Road and in the words of Georgie Fame&#x2019;s song &#x201C;Vinyl&#x201D;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In his final years he only occasionally moved out of his home area of Camden, but could be seen from time to time at gigs, usually accompanied by close friend and musician Paul Shearsmith. &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://cargocollective.com/raysjazz/The-Jazz-Shop&#x27;&gt;From &lt;/a&gt;Cargo Collective&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Look out for the bonus episode coming soon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E28-But is it Jazz?]]> 2-5m-1-S2E28-But is it Jazz? 4408780 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e28-but-is-it-jazz Sat, 01 Jun 2024 07:00:00 GMT 340 &lt;p&gt;But is it Jazz&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We discuss another philosophical question and throw up a few questions for each other as to what we consider jazz This episode could have gone on for much longer! If you have any questions or thoughts about this topic please get in touch via our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E27-Can an AI Learn Jazz]]> 27 27 2-5m-1-S2E27-Can an AI Learn Jazz 4388142 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e27-can-an-ai-learn-jazz Wed, 15 May 2024 07:00:00 GMT 340 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can an AI Learn Jazz?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this episode we discuss the above question. Neither of us are developers, but we both teach and so, in many ways the episode is more about what is required to learn jazz and whether Artificial Intelligence&amp;nbsp; could&amp;nbsp;achieve this&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E26-Comping]]> 26 26 2-5m-1-S2E26-Comping 4375891 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e26-comping Wed, 01 May 2024 07:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;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 multiple versions of the same tune with different comping styles&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/on-green-dolphin-street-with-different-pianists/pl.u-8aN7ef8jZ9y&quot;&gt; here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E25-ECM records]]> 25 25 2-5m-1-S2E25-ECM records 4360077 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e25-ecm-records Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;ECM records have a place in jazz rivaled only by the classic American labels like Blue Note and Prestige.&amp;nbsp; There are clear comparisons with Blue Note,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;A unique look&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A particular sound&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A roster of important musicians&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can see a Pinterest collection of ECM covers &lt;a href=&quot;https://pin.it/3KVE1FSP4&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; In this episode we discuss these and other points.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E24-A Great Day in Harlem]]> 24 24 2-5m-1-S2E24-A Great Day in Harlem 4327659 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e24-a-great-day-in-harlem Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;A picture that is well known to those in jazz and beyond was taken on August 12th&amp;nbsp;1958 for Esquire magazine by Art Kane.We discuss it in this episode. The documentary is available &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYZyNBpnGg&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E23-Andy Warhol Jazz record sleeves]]> 23 23 2-5m-1-S2E23-Andy Warhol Jazz record sleeves 4751538 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e23-andy-warhol-jazz-record-sleeves Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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, Marilyn Monroes or his Velvet underground Banana Cover. We discuss these in this episode&#xA0; many are collected&#xA0; in this blog by The Music Aficionado&lt;a href=&#x27;https://musicaficionado.blog/2020/05/06/andy-warhols-1950s-album-covers/&#x27;&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; with some thoughtful insights,&#xA0; more can be found on the discos site &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.discogs.com/lists/Covers-by-Andy-Warhol/167382&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E22-Pat Moran]]> 22 22 2-5m-1-S2E22-Pat Moran 4292108 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e22-pat-moran Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;Pat Moran was active as a jazz pianist in the 1950s-1960s&amp;nbsp;and played with many notable artists particularly on the West Coast.&amp;nbsp; Her trio album with Scott La Faro 1957 is a real gem in our opinion. Her classical training has furnished her with a great facility at the piano and her fast runs are crisp and well phrased.&amp;nbsp; The complete trio album released by&amp;nbsp; Fresh Sounds combines the Scott la Faro session with &lt;i&gt;The Pat Moran Quartet&lt;/i&gt; (1956), with Moran on piano John Doling on bass, John Whited on drums and Beverly Kelly &amp;nbsp;on vocals.&amp;nbsp; Scott la Faro actually said&amp;nbsp; &quot;I don&#x27;t even like any of my recordings except maybe the first one I did with Pat Moran on Audio Fidelity.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is also an interesting live album from Birdland with horns added. On this album the whole band sing 4 part harmony!&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is a link to an Apple Music &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/pat-moran-2-5m-1/pl.u-KVMyBs8VDqb&quot;&gt;playlist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is the link to a short &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDAG6TGpthc&quot;&gt;documentary&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E21-Romare Bearden]]> 21 21 2-5m-1-S2E21-Romare Bearden 4287926 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e21-romare-bearden Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT 339 &lt;p&gt;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, and often depict jazz subjects. He went to School with Billy Eckstine, and wrote Sea Breeze with him which featured on the Branford Marsalis album &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/romare-bearden-revealed/1442791121&quot;&gt;Romare Bearden Revealed&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A cultural figure whose &lt;a href=&quot;https://beardenfoundation.org/mission/&quot;&gt;foundation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;supports his&amp;nbsp;legacy and the artistic community&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E20-Piano Jazz]]> 20 20 2-5m-1-S2E20-Piano Jazz 4283964 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e20-piano-jazz Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;Simon and Nick talk about the long running radio show hosted by Marion McPartland.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Episodes are still available to stream from NPR, like this one with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.npr.org/2018/08/30/643301657/gene-harris-on-piano-jazz&quot;&gt;Gene Harris&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E19-Chappie Willet]]> 19 19 2-5m-1-S2E19-Chappie Willet 4269221 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e19-chappie-willet Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;This episode is based around the book &quot; Blue Rhythm Fantasy&quot; which is concerned , primarily,&amp;nbsp; with the work of arranger Chappie Willet. A freelancer, he set up an office in the Times Square district calling it The Broadway Music clinic. He was a successful African American entrepreneur and worked for some of the top acts of his day including Louis Armstrong.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E18-Club 11]]> 18 18 2-5m-1-S2E18-Club 11 4238917 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e18-club-11 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT 347 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss the short lived but influential London jazz club &quot;Club Eleven&quot;, (named after the number of founder members) It began life just before Christmas 1948 and was a co-operative arrangement designed to bring bebop to the attention of the jazz public at large. The musicians involved were Ronnie Scott, Hank Shaw, Leon Calvert, Johnny Rogers, Bernie Fenton, Tommy Pollard, Lennie Bush, Joe Muddel, Tony Crombie and Laurie Morgan plus manager Harry Morris. Johnny Dankworth and Denis Rose were regulars from the start. Some gave up steady work, Scott left Ted Heath, Fenton severed relations with Oscar Rabin, and Rose, Crombie, Muddel and Dankworth came from the now defunct Tito Burns orchestra.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;These were the first truly organised bebop sessions in Britain. With the star-studded assembly of musicians, Club Eleven became the focal point for the &#x27;new jazz&#x27; and an inspiration to many other young musicians throughout the country.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The house band was the Johnny Dankworth Quartet comprising Dankworth, Bernie Fenton (pno), Joe Muddel (bs), and Laurie Morgan (d) and a band led by Ronnie Scott with Hank Shaw (tpt), Johnny Rogers (alto), Tommy Pollard (pno), Lennie Bush (bs), and Tony Crombie (d). The Dankworth quartet became a quintet when trumpeter Leon Calvert was added.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mac&#x27;s Rehearsal Rooms, 44, Windmill Street, (where the Moffat Club had been), became the first venue operating on Thursday and Saturday nights. Entry was by descending a wooden staircase to a cramped low ceilinged room with a bandstand at one end. It was dimly lit with bare light bulbs and a few battered sofas. Only bebop was played - fierce and urgent music! The early months of the Eleven saw the highest peak of enthusiasm in the history of British modern jazz. The jazzmen continued to listen and study as many records by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis that they could get hold of. Broadcasts, recordings, and concerts came in quick succession and public acclaim was such as to force a move within a few months to much larger premises at 50, Carnaby Street, satisfying the legions of fans coming from all over the country to the by now famous Club 11. It was now operating six days a week in the evening and was open in the afternoon as a meeting point for musicians. At this point Johnny Dankworth left to form his Seven taking Joe Muddel with him, and Harry Morris also quit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E17-Blow up a storm]]> 17 17 2-5m-1-S2E17-Blow up a storm 4751539 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e17-blow-up-a-storm Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT 361 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick And Simon talk about the Jazz Novel Blow up a storm published in 1959 [ a seminal year in Jazz history]&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This is a first novel by the director, producer and dramatist, Garson Kanin, whose short stories have appeared in Esquire, Vogue and the Atlantic Monthly. Written in the first person and told in flashback this is a dramatist&amp;apos;s recollections of his early days in jazz -- during the depression and the close of prohibition. While in Chicago, on tour with his actress wife, the narrator receives a phone call from a forgotten Lee Woodruff which brings back a flood of impressions and memories of their small combo shaped and led by Woody. Through a haze of half remembered incidents he recalls the growth of their trio into a sextet, the men who gave the group impetus and the women who were tenuously involved with the band. Woodruff, now an emotional wreck, unable to play, in and out of hospitals, insists upon unburdening himself to the narrator and attempts to explain the eventual failure of their group.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Kanin&amp;apos;s best-remembered for his screenplays, however, which were written in collaboration with his wife, actress &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Gordon&#x27;&gt;Ruth Gordon&lt;/a&gt;, whom he married in 1942. Together, they wrote many screenplays, including six that were directed by &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cukor&#x27;&gt;George Cukor&lt;/a&gt;. These included the &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Tracy&#x27;&gt;Spencer Tracy&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn&#x27;&gt;Katharine Hepburn&lt;/a&gt; film comedies &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_Rib&#x27;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adam&amp;apos;s Rib&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1949) and &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_and_Mike&#x27;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pat and Mike&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1952), as well as &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Double_Life_(1947_film)&#x27;&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Double Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1947), starring &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Colman&#x27;&gt;Ronald Colman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E16-The Music of Mr Benn]]> 16 16 2-5m-1-S2E16-The Music of Mr Benn 4218429 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e16-the-music-of-mr-benn Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT 344 &lt;p&gt;Simon &amp;amp; Nick discuss the score to Mr Benn by Don Warren an alias for Duncan Lamont.&lt;br&gt;Lamont worked for several decades as a freelance musician (on flute and clarinet as well as saxophone), based around Archer Street in Soho, playing in the surrounding jazz clubs. He often performed with British bands accompanying American vocalists, including &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire&quot;&gt;Fred Astaire&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett&quot;&gt;Tony Bennett&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby&quot;&gt;Bing Crosby&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr.&quot;&gt;Sammy Davis Jr.&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich&quot;&gt;Marlene Dietrich&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lee&quot;&gt;Peggy Lee&lt;/a&gt; and (for 19 seasons) with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra&quot;&gt;Frank Sinatra&lt;/a&gt;. He also played with touring bandleaders such as &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie&quot;&gt;Count Basie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman&quot;&gt;Benny Goodman&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mancini&quot;&gt;Henry Mancini&lt;/a&gt;. Lamont led his own band for 11 years. He worked on recording and performing projects with &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Wheeler&quot;&gt;Kenny Wheeler&lt;/a&gt; for many decades.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For those who missed the original Mr Benn books and TV show (the former, published first In 1967, the latter aired between 1971 and 1972 before making several returns via reruns on the BBC), the plot is straightforward. Black suit and bowler hat-clad London professional Mr Benn leaves his house each episode, walks to a local fancy-dress shop, and chooses an outfit. An adventure then ensues, set in a world that reflects his outfit. Harking back to a glorious time in children&#x27;s television - one that has latterly been remembered for its psychedelic edges and surrealist tendencies - Duncan Lamont&#x27;s score was a perfect accompaniment to those mini odysseys. It&#x27;s woozy, blissful and dreamy one minute, then jaunty and upbeat the next, taking the form of brief but beautiful accidentals to set the scenes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E15-Born to be Blue]]> 15 15 2-5m-1-S2E15-Born to be Blue 4185487 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e15-born-to-be-blue Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT 337 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon talk about the film &lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Born to Be Blue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; a 2015&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_film&quot;&gt;drama film&lt;/a&gt; directed, produced and written by &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Budreau&quot;&gt;Robert Budreau&lt;/a&gt;. The film stars &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Hawke&quot;&gt;Ethan Hawke&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ejogo&quot;&gt;Carmen Ejogo&lt;/a&gt;. The film is about American jazz musician &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Baker&quot;&gt;Chet Baker&lt;/a&gt;, portrayed by Hawke.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Directed by&lt;/strong&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Budreau&quot;&gt;Robert Budreau&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Written by&lt;/strong&gt; | Robert Budreau&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Produced by&lt;/strong&gt; | Jennifer JonasRobert Budreau&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Farlinger&quot;&gt;Leonard Farlinger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Seal&quot;&gt;Jake Seal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_to_Be_Blue_(film)#cite_note-Telefilm-1&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starring&lt;/strong&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Hawke&quot;&gt;Ethan Hawke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ejogo&quot;&gt;Carmen Ejogo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cinematography&lt;/strong&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cosens&quot;&gt;Steve Cosens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Edited by&lt;/strong&gt; | David Freeman&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Music by&lt;/strong&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braid&quot;&gt;David Braid&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todor_Kobakov&quot;&gt;Todor Kobakov&lt;/a&gt; Steve London&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E214- So You Think You Hate Jazz?]]> 2-5m-1-S2E214- So You Think You Hate Jazz? 4159838 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e214-so-you-think-you-hate-jazz-897 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT 355 &lt;p&gt;Inspired by a post on Instagram, and the&amp;nbsp; standard stereotypical responses to the question &quot; Dear &#x27;people who don&#x27;t like jazz&#x27; what don&#x27;t you like about it?&quot; posed by&amp;nbsp;Kira C Garcia&amp;nbsp; (follow her&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/kirachristinemusic/&quot;&gt; here&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Nick and Simon pondered the question. Look out for a blog on this from Simon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://instagram.com/twofiveonepodcast?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&amp;amp;utm_source=qr &quot;&gt;Instagram&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032453421239&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; group&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E13-Jam Sessions]]> 13 13 2-5m-1-S2E13-Jam Sessions 4108488 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e13-jam-sessions-187 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;Jam sessions have been, and continue to be at the heart of the jazz scene.&amp;nbsp; In this episode Simon and Nick briefly&amp;nbsp; discuss the history, culture and function of jam sessions in jazz.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can get more information about our podcasts &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks for listening&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E12-Jazz and Civil Rights]]> 12 12 2-5m-1-S2E12-Jazz and Civil Rights 4058836 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e12-jazz-and-civil-rightswav-165 Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick leads the discussion on the subject of jazz and its connection to civil rights.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E11-Mo Better Blues]]> 2-5m-1-S2E11-Mo Better Blues 4006017 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e11-mo-better-blues-015 Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;In this episode we discuss Spike Lee&#x27;s Mo Better Blues.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wikipedia says:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mo&#x27; Better Blues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is a 1990 American &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film&quot;&gt;musical&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy-drama&quot;&gt;comedy-drama&lt;/a&gt; film starring &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzel_Washington&quot;&gt;Denzel Washington&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Snipes&quot;&gt;Wesley Snipes&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee&quot;&gt;Spike Lee&lt;/a&gt;, who also wrote, produced, and directed.&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo%27_Better_Blues#cite_note-1&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; It follows a period in the life of fictional &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz&quot;&gt;jazz&lt;/a&gt; trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Washington) as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and his playing career. The film focuses on themes of friendship, loyalty, honesty, cause-and-effect, and ultimately salvation. It features the music of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branford_Marsalis&quot;&gt;Branford Marsalis&lt;/a&gt; quartet and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Blanchard&quot;&gt;Terence Blanchard&lt;/a&gt; on trumpet. The film was released five months after the death of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Harris&quot;&gt;Robin Harris&lt;/a&gt; and is dedicated to his memory, being his final acting role.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E10-Aebersold]]> 10 10 2-5m-1-S2E10-Aebersold 3935932 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e10-aebersold-846 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT 309 &lt;p&gt;Any student of jazz will be well aware of the Aebersold series - over 100 play along records with accompanying books. There are even supplements with transcriptions of the voicings the pianist played if that&#x27;s your sort of thing!.&amp;nbsp; Nick and Simon discuss the origin and impact of the series.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;His website is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jazzbooks.com&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It has an interesting page for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jazz-play-a-longs.com/intro#&quot;&gt;further reading&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E9-Jazz And Meditation]]> 9 9 2-5m-1-S2E9-Jazz And Meditation 3857721 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e9-jazz-and-meditation-866 Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMT 308 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Simon &amp;amp; Nick discuss jazz and meditation. There are elements of meditation that improvisers may well relate to : flow state, acceptance, being in the moment, completely absorbed in the process yet fully aware of what is happening around you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We mention&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Kenny Werners &lt;a href=&quot;https://kennywerner.com/effortless-mastery&quot;&gt;Effortless Mastery&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Tony Scott &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/music-for-zen-meditation/1444221277&quot;&gt;Music For Zen Meditation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jerry Begonzi&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Developing-Jazz-Language-Improvisation-instruments/dp/0206303734/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ICCF1L7QIS67&amp;amp;keywords=developing&#x2B;a&#x2B;jazz&#x2B;language&amp;amp;qid=1692009041&amp;amp;sprefix=developing&#x2B;a&#x2B;jazz&#x2B;language%2Caps%2C63&amp;amp;sr=8-1&quot;&gt; Developing a jazz language&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There are various apps to help you get going with meditation&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.calm.com/?pid=googleadwords_int&amp;amp;af_channel=googlesem&amp;amp;af_c_id=17318560031&amp;amp;af_adset_id=139010612345&amp;amp;af_ad_id=613773707258&amp;amp;af_siteid=g&amp;amp;af_sub_siteid=&amp;amp;af_keyword=kwd-316578326783&amp;amp;af_sub3=c&amp;amp;af_sub4=Cj0KCQjwoeemBhCfARIsADR2QCs4AwtyhTz1Ig7-OwiEm4cOTUGGeGiqcexbvKv4ULCuFldhCOVoJLYaAgGlEALw_wcB&amp;amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;amp;utm_source=googlesem&amp;amp;utm_campaign=17318560031&amp;amp;utm_content=homepage&amp;amp;utm_term=kwd-316578326783&amp;amp;gad=1&amp;amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwoeemBhCfARIsADR2QCs4AwtyhTz1Ig7-OwiEm4cOTUGGeGiqcexbvKv4ULCuFldhCOVoJLYaAgGlEALw_wcB&quot;&gt;Calm app&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; is very popular&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Many others are available. Headspace and Balance are also popular.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E8-Jimmy Jones]]> 8 8 2-5m-1-S2E8-Jimmy Jones 3808608 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e8-jimmy-jones-748 Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;This episode is about the &quot;under-the-radar&quot; pianist Jimmy Jones.&amp;nbsp; An arranger/pianist for some of the great singers, here is an Apple Music link to the album Nick mentions in the episode : Sarah Vaughan - The Divine One.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-divine-one/693407980&quot;&gt;&quot;The Divine One&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1 S2E7-Practicing]]> 7 7 2-5m-1 S2E7-Practicing 4751540 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e7-practicing Sat, 15 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Nick and Simon discuss what it means to practice jazz piano.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E6-Jazz Humour]]> 6 6 2-5m-1-S2E6-Jazz Humour 3723611 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e6-jazz-humour-720 Sat, 01 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Two pianists walk into a bar looking confused.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was an 11/8 bar.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What role does humour play in jazz.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E5-Playing and Singing]]> 5 5 2-5m-1-S2E5-Playing and Singing 3647907 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e5-playing-and-singing-613 Thu, 15 Jun 2023 07:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Playing the piano and singing at the same time, what&#x27;s involved? Nick and Simon talk about it in this episode.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E4- Film Review- Round Midnight]]> 4 4 2-5m-1-S2E4- Film Review- Round Midnight 3604132 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e4-film-review-round-midnight-765 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;Another in our new series of jazz film reviews. The Bertrand Tavernier jazz movie that refreshed Dexter Gordon&amp;apos;s career late in his life.&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E3-Dudley Moore]]> 3 3 2-5m-1-S2E3-Dudley Moore 3570587 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e3-dudley-moore-482 Mon, 15 May 2023 07:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;Dudley Moore may well be best known for his comedy with Peter Cook and his success on screen in the films 10 and Arthu,r but he was also a very accomplished musician. He was an organ scholar when at Oxford which is where he met the other members of Beyond the Fringe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Perhaps less well known is what a great jazz pianist he was. Simon and Nick discuss him in this episode.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Llink to his Genuine Dud album &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXvY61W04so&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S2E2-Jazz and Boxing]]> 2-5m-1-S2E2-Jazz and Boxing 3542162 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s2e2-jazz-and-boxing-036 Mon, 01 May 2023 07:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;Did you know some jazz musicians were also boxers? Find out more in this episode.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[The Fabulous Baker Boys]]> 1 1 The Fabulous Baker Boys 3498637 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/the-fabulous-baker-boys-854 Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;To start season two Simon &amp;amp; Nick talk about the Fabulous Baker Boys.&lt;br&gt;This is a new strand where Nick and Simon talk about jazz related films.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At present there are a few distinct strands:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Under-the-radar pianists- e.g. Hod O&#x27; Brian&lt;br&gt;2.Jazz oddities - e.g. Jazz Oboe&lt;br&gt;3. Technical discussions - e.g. block chords&lt;br&gt;4 Jazz books - e.g. Jazz Heavyweight&lt;br&gt;5.Jazz films - e.g. Round Midnight&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All episodes are available on our new &lt;a href=&quot;https://2-5-1.onpodium.co&quot;&gt;OnPodium Website,&lt;/a&gt;where you can also leave comments and suggestions for subjects to cover.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is also a blog page where you can find material that supports the podcasts as well as more general jazz subjects.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E2.2-Marty Paich -With Mel Torme]]> 2 2 2-5m-1-S1E2.2-Marty Paich -With Mel Torme 3454785 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e22-marty-paich-with-mel-torme Tue, 28 Mar 2023 08:00:00 GMT 4560 &lt;p&gt;In the full episode 2 it was a pleasure to chat with arranger/orchestrator Giles Thornton. He helped me out on some of the transcriptions for the Marty Swings the Singers project [watch this space for news of the gig} One of the charts he took down was &quot;Surrey with a Fringe on Top&quot; and we discuss that plus&amp;nbsp; &quot; It&#x27;s Too Darn Hot&quot; a transcription I am currently working on.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is a link to a reduction of Surrey With a Fringe on top&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dropbox.com/sh/d7xkt30fpwypv14/AAC5zaETi-jITS80o2IkI39ka?dl=0&quot;&gt; LINK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;the piano solo from Ep 1 is also in that folder &quot;Too Darn Hot&quot; reduction will follow&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is a link to the 2 songs on &lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2-5-1-marty-paich-with-mel-torme-ep-2/pl.u-kvk6dTgLpGy&quot;&gt;AppleMusic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you use Spotify they are on the link from episode 2.1&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks to Giles from me.&lt;br&gt;His website is linked on episode 2.1&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E2.1-Marty Paich -With Mel Torme]]> 2 2 2-5m-1-S1E2.1-Marty Paich -With Mel Torme 3454786 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e21-marty-paich-with-mel-torme Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:00:00 GMT 917 &lt;p&gt;This is the 15 minute introduction to the full episode 2, as episode two is 1 hour 15 minutes I felt it better to publish the intro separately&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is a link to the albums as a playlist on A&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2-5-1-mel-and-marty-background-listening/pl.u-xlb7PuY9EmW&quot;&gt;pple music&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1pmrVt2EKbLbqht6gCmllN?si=39514ebd71b64574&quot;&gt;Spotify&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-Marty Paich - S1E1 - The Pianist]]> 1 1 2-5-1-Marty Paich - S1E1 - The Pianist 3454787 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-marty-paich-s1e1-the-pianist Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:00:00 GMT 3324 &lt;p&gt;This new five part longer form series starts with Nick and Simon examining Marty Paich as pianist.&#xA0; Paich was a musical polymath and his career spanned jazz, classical &amp;amp; film music.&#xA0; Simon will present the other four episodes talking to various arrangers about Marty Paich as arranger - looking at his medium-sized ensemble work with particular focus on the octet, his work for big band referencing Art Pepper &#x2B; 11, his work for the famous Dektette focussing on his work with Mel Torme, and his work in film.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E50-END OF SERIES 1]]> 50 50 2-5m-1-S1E50-END OF SERIES 1 3454788 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e50-end-of-series-1-764 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:00:00 GMT 32 &lt;p&gt;An end of series announcement: In the 50 episodes so far Nick and I have covered 8 under- the-radar pianists, reviewed 7 Jazz books, talked about 10 technical subjects, discussed 5 unusual jazz instruments and even managed 1 April Fool!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Plus many more subjects like famous jazz clubs and&amp;nbsp; record labels.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We have also made 2 &amp;nbsp;long form series over 5 podcasts about Kenny Drew and Sonny Clark, made &amp;nbsp;interviews with 4 London based jazz influencers and produced &amp;nbsp;3 Christmas Specials.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Look out for Simon&#x27;s upcoming series on arranger Marty Paich&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We will return with Series 2&amp;nbsp;on April 15th 2023&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E49-George Wallington]]> 49 49 2-5m-1-S1E49-George Wallington 3454789 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e49-george-wallington Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Another episode in our &quot;under-the-radar pianists&quot; series.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;George Wallington&amp;nbsp; wrote a tune that was made well known by Gerry Mulligan&#x27;s&lt;br&gt;arrangement on Birth of the Cool, and established himself as one of the best bebop pianists of his generation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He was prolific as a sideman in the 1950s, but in 1960 dropped out of music&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;to pursue something far cooler. Listen to find out more!&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-Special- Nick & George]]> 2-5-1-Special- Nick &amp; George 3454790 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-special-nick-george-929 Sun, 08 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT 840 &lt;p&gt;In this special episode Nick and Simon discuss &lt;strong&gt;George Shearing &lt;/strong&gt;and Nick&#x27;s new project playing his music&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shades of Shearing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Band Is&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nick Tomalin&lt;/strong&gt; &#x2013; piano&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nat Steele&lt;/strong&gt; &#x2013; vibraphone&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave Warren&lt;/strong&gt; &#x2013; guitar&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dominic Howles&lt;/strong&gt; &#x2013; bass&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Matt Fishwick&lt;/strong&gt; &#x2013; drums&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E48-Jazz Oboe]]> 48 48 2-5m-1-S1E48-Jazz Oboe 3454791 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e48-jazz-oboe-233 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;A look at the Oboe in jazz.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-Christmas-2022]]> 3 3 2-5-1-Christmas-2022 3454792 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-christmas-2022 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:00:00 GMT 3280 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss four newish (one Jewish) holiday offerings.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;1. Snowbound- Emma Smith&lt;br&gt;2. Louis Wishes you a Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong&lt;br&gt;3. On Christmas Day- Paul Edis and Friends&lt;br&gt;4. Big Band Holidays- JLCO with Wynton Marsalis&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Frabjous Nicktide from us!&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E47-Candid Records]]> 47 47 2-5m-1-S1E47-Candid Records 3454793 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e47-candid-records-370 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 08:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss a record label that started in the USA and continues now in the UK.&lt;br&gt;A label which represented many jazz greats as well as new and emerging talent.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E46-Enclosures]]> 46 46 2-5m-1-S1E46-Enclosures 3454794 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e46-enclosures-159 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;We discuss &#x27;enclosures&#x27; one of the cornerstone concepts in making jazz sound like jazz - particularly post-bebop jazz.&amp;nbsp; We talk about the idea of &#x27;enclosure&#x27; with regard to the melodic line and play some examples.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Get the pdf &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxkg6podlopk1d9/The%202-5m-1%20enclosure%20worksheet.pdf?dl=0&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E45-The Bass Clef Jazz Club]]> 45 45 2-5m-1-S1E45-The Bass Clef Jazz Club 4751541 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e45-the-bass-clef-jazz-club Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In many ways the life of The Bass Clef jazz club is a story that echoes in ripples from the centre to the outskirts of London.&#xA0; Jazz is a tough music to make a profit from and as such clubs spring up in low rent areas, they thrive, bring character to a district and then that district gentrifies.&#xA0; Hoxton is now a far cry from the run down weekend ghost town it once was. Buisness is booming and the prices of the properties soaring. Many new venues have emerged further out from the centre, and the pattern continues as East London becomes next in the wave of development and gentrification. Nick and Simon discuss Peter Ind&amp;apos;s 10 year tenure in this episode&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E44-Arranging The Score]]> 44 44 2-5m-1-S1E44-Arranging The Score 4751542 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e44-arranging-the-score Tue, 01 Nov 2022 08:00:00 GMT 300 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We discuss the book Arranging the Score by the Canadian jazz critic and musician Gene Lees.&lt;br/&gt;in the book Lees paints portraits of some of the great jazz arrangers including Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans Kenny Wheeler and Billy May&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E43-Jazz Cello]]> 43 43 2-5m-1-S1E43-Jazz Cello 2780525 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e43-jazz-cello-806 Sat, 15 Oct 2022 08:00:00 GMT 303 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon talk about Jazz Cello, like you do...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[Chris Hodgkins]]> 2 2 Chris Hodgkins 2744941 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/chris-hodgkins Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:00:00 GMT 3234 &lt;p&gt;Chris Hodgkins has been an integral part of the UK jazz scene since the early seventies. As a trumpet player he performed with the Icon Jazzmen and toured Europe and the US with various bands. In 1974 he co-founded the Welsh Jazz Festival which later became the Brecon Jazz Festival and in 1985 became director of Jazz Services for which he is perhaps best known. In this wide-ranging conversation Chris talks about his early musical life and later involvement with the Welsh Jazz festival and Jazz Services, he also considers the state of jazz funding in the present climate, marketing for musicians and his recent work with the All Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The &#x27;Review of Jazz&#x27; Chris talks about in the podcast can be found here:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://appjag.org/&quot;&gt;www.appjag.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;and Chris&#x27;s website including the Jazz Services archives he mentioned&amp;nbsp; are here:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.chrishodgkins.co.uk/&quot;&gt;https://www.chrishodgkins.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E42-Andre Previn]]> 42 42 2-5m-1-S1E42-Andre Previn 2705727 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e42-andre-previn-469 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:00:00 GMT 301 &lt;p&gt;Musician, composer, and conductor Andre Previn had a long and varied career career. &amp;nbsp;Simon and Nick discuss his life and his work in the jazz, film and classical music worlds&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E41-Monk Biography]]> 41 41 2-5m-1-S1E41-Monk Biography 2686980 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e41-monk-biography-212 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss the biography &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thelonious-Monk-Times-American-Original/dp/1439190461#customerReviews&quot;&gt;Thelonious Monk:&lt;/a&gt; The Life and Times of an American Original.&amp;nbsp; Author Robin D. Kelley grew up in Harlem in a house where modern jazz was the soundtrack to family life.His PhD was on Social Movements, but through a series of posts at top American universities he moved more towards writing about music...&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E40-San Francisco Jazz]]> 40 40 2-5m-1-S1E40-San Francisco Jazz 2686981 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e40-san-francisco-jazz-389 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;The Fillmore district of San Francisco was known as &amp;quot; The Harlem of the West&amp;quot; in the 1940s and there were many clubs that flourished there for a decade or more.&#xA0; Live recordings of top artists bear the names of some of them. There are currently several jazz clubs and a specialised Jazz Centre in San Fransisco so&#xA0; in the words of Frank Zappa,&#xA0; in Fog City &amp;quot; jazz isn&amp;apos;t dead it just smells funny&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E39- Hear me Talkin' to Ya]]> 39 39 2-5m-1-S1E39- Hear me Talkin&#x27; to Ya 4751543 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e39-hear-me-talkin-to-ya Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss the&#xA0; well known book of jazz interviews&#xA0; &amp;apos;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hear-Talkin-Dover-Books-Music/dp/0486217264&#x27;&gt;Hear&#xA0; me Talkin&amp;apos; to Ya&lt;/a&gt;&#xA0;The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It.&amp;apos;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E38-Red Garland Block Chords]]> 2-5m-1-S1E38-Red Garland Block Chords 2574871 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e38-red-garland-block-chords-146 Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:00:00 GMT 303 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland&quot;&gt;Red Garland&lt;/a&gt; was one of the big beasts of the 1950s New York jazz scene recording&amp;nbsp; many albums as leader with&amp;nbsp;his&amp;nbsp; trio, he was also part of the first great Miles Davis quartet and with Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones&amp;nbsp; they collectively became known as &quot; The Rhythm Section&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss and demonstrate Red Garlands pugilistic block chord playing style.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E37-Blue Notes in B&W]]> 37 37 2-5m-1-S1E37-Blue Notes in B&amp;W 2574870 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e37-blue-notes-in-bw-991 Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;Simon and Nick discuss the book Blue Notes in Black and White a book about the relationship between jazz image and jazz music.&amp;nbsp; Below is the blurb from the book:&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can read an excerpt&lt;a href=&quot;http://calstate.fullerton.edu/inside/2011fall/Cawthra-book-excerpt.asp&quot;&gt; here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. John Coltrane, one hand behind his neck and a finger held pensively to his lips. These iconic images have captivated jazz fans nearly as much as the music has. Jazz photographs are visual landmarks in American history, acting as both a reflection and a vital part of African American culture in a time of immense upheaval, conflict, and celebration. Charting the development of jazz photography from the swing era of the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the &#x2019;60s, &lt;i&gt;Blue Notes in Black and White&lt;/i&gt; is the first of its kind: a fascinating account of the partnership between two of the twentieth century&#x2019;s most innovative art forms. Benjamin Cawthra introduces us to the great jazz photographers&#x2014;including Gjon Mili, William Gottlieb, Herman Leonard, Francis Wolff, Roy DeCarava, and William Claxton&#x2014;and their struggles, hustles, styles, and creative visions. We also meet their legendary subjects, such as Duke Ellington, sweating through a late-night jam session for the troops during World War II, and Dizzy Gillespie, stylish in beret, glasses, and goatee. Cawthra shows us the connections between the photographers, art directors, editors, and record producers who crafted a look for jazz that would sell magazines and albums. And on the other side of the lens, he explores how the musicians shaped their public images to further their own financial and political goals. This mixture of art, commerce, and racial politics resulted in a rich visual legacy that is vividly on display in &lt;i&gt;Blue Notes in Black and White&lt;/i&gt;. Beyond illuminating the aesthetic power of these images, Cawthra ultimately shows how jazz and its imagery served a crucial function in the struggle for civil rights, making African Americans proudly, powerfully visible.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E36-Rent Parties]]> 36 36 2-5m-1-S1E36-Rent Parties 2574869 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e36-rent-parties-200 Fri, 01 Jul 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;The rent party was a phenomenon that occurred from 1920-1950&#x27;s particularly in areas like Harlem, to raise the money needed to meet the cost of accommodation,&amp;nbsp; which was often higher for black tenants.&amp;nbsp; They were covertly advertised on simple cards&amp;nbsp; as &quot;Social Parties&quot; or &quot;Whist Parties&quot;&amp;nbsp; Rent parties in Harlem often had music provided by stride piano stars like Fats Waller or James P Johnson. Harlem renaissance poet and man about town Langston Hughes collected these cards and some of his collection is viewable&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/langston-hughes-collection-of-harlem-rent-party-advertisements--88875792618898007/&quot;&gt; here &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/langston-hughes-personal-collection-of-rent-party-ads.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;to steal from the master&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot; Not too slow and not too fast&lt;br&gt;but a hip old podcast while it lasts&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;which in this case is 5 minutes!&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E35-Quartal Harmony]]> 35 35 2-5m-1-S1E35-Quartal Harmony 2574839 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e35-quartal-harmony-432 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;What is quartal harmony? Who brought it into jazz and when?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nick and Simon discuss these questions.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E35a quartal harmony examples]]> 35 35 2-5m-1-S1E35a quartal harmony examples 4751544 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e35a-quartal-harmony-examples Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:00:00 GMT 184 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are 2 examples of quartile harmony to support the previous podcast&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1 S1E34- The Tritone Substitution]]> 2-5m-1 S1E34- The Tritone Substitution 4751545 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e34-the-tritone-substitution Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When is a dominant chord not a dominant chord?&lt;br/&gt;When it&amp;apos;s a tritone substitution!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We try to demystify this term and speak about its use in jazz harmony.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E33-Flamingo Club]]> 33 33 2-5m-1-S1E33-Flamingo Club 4751546 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e33-flamingo-club Sun, 15 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT 316 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Flamingo Club&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The&#xA0; Flamingo Club (not to be confused with Club Flamingo of Police Squad!)&lt;br/&gt;was a London nightclub active from 1952-1969. It was initially, primarily a jazz club and later became a haunt for the swinging 60s crowd featuring bands like The Who. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Simon would like to make a correction 1959 is, in fact, not the book he was thinking of it was London Blues. However 1959 is also a great novel about Jazz (but in Virginia America)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;There are some photos of The Flamingo Club on Getty images&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/flamingo-club-london&#x27;&gt; here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E32-How to listen to Jazz]]> 2-5m-1-S1E32-How to listen to Jazz 4751547 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e32-how-to-listen-to-jazz Sun, 01 May 2022 07:00:00 GMT 308 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Book Review&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ted Gioia has written 11 books on music, many of them on jazz. Simon wrongly said that the first book of Ted&amp;apos;s he read was West Coast Jazz forgetting that it was actually&#xA0; &amp;quot; Jazz : An Imperfect Art&amp;quot; from 1989 - one of the four books of&#xA0; Gioia&amp;apos;s which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;How to listen to how to listen to jazz - click &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/How-to-Listen-to-Jazz-Audiobook/B0758HLBD8?qid=1649683714&amp;amp;sr=1-3&amp;amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_3&amp;amp;pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&amp;amp;pf_rd_r=3QPD6TP7FMYNWT39MBC0&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Subscribe to his Honest Broker Email &lt;a href=&#x27;https://tedgioia.substack.com&#x27;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E31-Archer Street]]> 31 31 2-5m-1-S1E31-Archer Street 2574876 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e31-archer-street-028 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Archer Street&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;We discuss the role of a single Soho street in the lives of musicians looking for work in London from the 1920s until the 1960s &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Watch the Documentary mentioned &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Esuz5CnAc&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Musicians Union Article &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.muhistory.com/from-the-archive-4-archer-street-london/&#x27;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5q-1- S1S3-Sebastian Scotney of London Jazz News]]> 2-5q-1- S1S3-Sebastian Scotney of London Jazz News 2574877 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5q-1-s1s3-sebastian-scotney-of-london-jazz-news-294 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:00:00 GMT 3210 &lt;p&gt;This is our third interview with people who promote, facilitate and help proliferate jazz.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sebastian Scotney is the driving force behind London Jazz News a hub for the promotion of new jazz releases, upcoming gigs and all things &#x27;jazz&#x27; in London and beyond. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E30-Tete Montoliu]]> 30 30 2-5m-1-S1E30-Tete Montoliu 2574878 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e30-tete-montoliu-568 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:00:00 GMT 305 &lt;p&gt;Tete Montoliu was a Spanish pianist who had a long and successful career. As part of our &quot;under-the-radar&quot; pianists strand we discuss him and his playing style. This goes with our other episodes on pianists Mel Powell, Joe Albany, Hod O&#x27;Brien and Horace Parlan, all well worth checking out if you haven&#x27;t heard those episodes.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E29-Riverside Records]]> 2-5m-1-S1E29-Riverside Records 2574880 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e29-riverside-records-073 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Riverside Records only ran from 1953 to 1964 but in that time captured some of the greats of the period. Orin Keepnews was the producer of a majority of the jazz albums, and even had a tune named after him composed by Bill Evans at his anagramatical best!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E28-Stars of Jazz]]> 26 26 2-5m-1-S1E28-Stars of Jazz 2574892 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e28-stars-of-jazz-606 Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:00:00 GMT 289 &lt;p&gt;In this Episode Nick and Simon discuss &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stars of Jazz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&#xA0; which was an American television program that ran between 1956 and 1958 and featured performances and interviews with many leading &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz&#x27;&gt;jazz&lt;/a&gt; performers of the time. The innovative program started on &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KABC-TV&#x27;&gt;KABC-TV&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles&#x27;&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/a&gt; in June 1956. It was produced by &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Baker_(television_producer)&#x27;&gt;Jimmie Baker&lt;/a&gt;, and presented by pianist and songwriter &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Troup&#x27;&gt;Bobby Troup&lt;/a&gt;. Musicians who appeared on the show included &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson&#x27;&gt;Oscar Peterson&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday&#x27;&gt;Billie Holiday&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey&#x27;&gt;Art Blakey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brubeck&#x27;&gt;Dave Brubeck&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Getz&#x27;&gt;Stan Getz&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Ory&#x27;&gt;Kid Ory&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Baker&#x27;&gt;Chet Baker&lt;/a&gt;, and Troup&amp;apos;s wife &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_London&#x27;&gt;Julie London&lt;/a&gt;.&#xA0; All 130 shows were filmed as &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinescope&#x27;&gt;kinescopes&lt;/a&gt;, but all but 45 were later lost. The remaining films were donated to the &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCLA_Film_and_Television_Archive&#x27;&gt;UCLA Film and Television Archive&lt;/a&gt;, where they are gradually being restored.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E27-Whole tone scale]]> 27 27 2-5m-1-S1E27-Whole tone scale 2574881 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e27-whole-tone-scale-539 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Another in our series of&amp;nbsp;music theory podcasts, this time we focus on the whole tone scale. In &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music&quot;&gt;music&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;strong&gt;whole-tone scale&lt;/strong&gt; is a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_(music)&quot;&gt;scale&lt;/a&gt; in which each &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note&quot;&gt;note&lt;/a&gt; is separated from its neighbors by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)&quot;&gt;interval&lt;/a&gt; of a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_tone&quot;&gt;whole tone&lt;/a&gt;. In twelve-tone &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament&quot;&gt;equal temperament&lt;/a&gt;, there are only two &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement_(music)#Aggregate_complementation&quot;&gt;complementary&lt;/a&gt; whole-tone scales, both six-note or &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexatonic_scale&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;hexatonic&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; scales. A single whole tone scale can also be thought of as a &quot;six-tone equal temperament&quot;. Some early instances of the use of the scale in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz&quot;&gt;jazz&lt;/a&gt; writing can be found in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix_Beiderbecke&quot;&gt;Bix Beiderbecke&lt;/a&gt;&#x27;s &quot;In a Mist&quot; (1928) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Redman&quot;&gt;Don Redman&lt;/a&gt;&#x2019;s &quot;Chant of the Weed&quot; (1931). In 1958, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Evans&quot;&gt;Gil Evans&lt;/a&gt; recorded an arrangement that gives striking coloration to the &quot;abrupt whole-tone lines&quot;of Redman&#x27;s original. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Shorter&quot;&gt;Wayne Shorter&lt;/a&gt;&#x27;s composition &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuJu_(album)&quot;&gt;JuJu&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (1965), features heavy use of the whole tone scale, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane&quot;&gt;John Coltrane&lt;/a&gt;&#x27;s &quot;One Down, One Up&quot; (1965), is built on two augmented chords arranged in the same simple structure as his earlier tune &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressions_(instrumental_composition)&quot;&gt;Impressions&lt;/a&gt;&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, these are only the most overt examples of the use of this scale in jazz. A vast number of jazz tunes, including many standards, use augmented chords and their corresponding scales as well, usually to create tension in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnaround_(music)&quot;&gt;turnarounds&lt;/a&gt; or as a substitute for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_seventh_chord&quot;&gt;dominant seventh chord&lt;/a&gt;. For instance a G7 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_seventh_chord&quot;&gt;augmented 5th dominant chord&lt;/a&gt; in which G &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_scale&quot;&gt;altered scale&lt;/a&gt; tones would work before resolving to C7, a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone_substitution&quot;&gt;tritone substitution&lt;/a&gt; chord such as D&#x266D;9 or D&#x266D;7&#x266F;11 is often used in which D&#x266D;/G whole tone scale tones will work, the sharpened 11th degree being a G and the flattened 7th being a C&#x266D;, the enharmonic equivalent of B, the major third in the G dominant chord.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum&quot;&gt;Art Tatum&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk&quot;&gt;Thelonious Monk&lt;/a&gt; are two pianists who used the whole-tone scale extensively and creatively. Monk&#x27;s &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_in_One_(composition)&quot;&gt;Four in One&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (1948) and &quot;Trinkle-Tinkle&quot; (1952) are fine examples of this.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E26-Birdland]]> 26 26 2-5m-1-S1E26-Birdland 2574882 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e26-birdland-826 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:00:00 GMT 305 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon talk about &lt;b&gt;Birdland&lt;/b&gt; the&#xA0; &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_club&#x27;&gt;jazz club&lt;/a&gt; which&#xA0; started in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City&#x27;&gt;New York City&lt;/a&gt; on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Manhattan)&#x27;&gt;Broadway&lt;/a&gt;, just north of West &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street_(Manhattan)&#x27;&gt;52nd Street&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan&#x27;&gt;Manhattan&lt;/a&gt;, was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one night in 1979 for the 30 year anniversary. A revival began in 1986 with the opening of the second nightclub by the same name that is now located in Manhattan&amp;apos;s &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater_District,_Manhattan&#x27;&gt;Theater District&lt;/a&gt;. The current location is in the same building as the previous headquarters of &lt;a href=&#x27;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Observer&#x27;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The New York Observer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E25-Horace Parlan]]> 25 25 2-5m-1-S1E25-Horace Parlan 2574883 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e25-horace-parlan-462 Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;Horace Parlan is another of our &#x27;under-the-radar&#x27; piainists,&amp;nbsp; known for working in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop&quot;&gt;hard bop&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-bop&quot;&gt;post-bop&lt;/a&gt; styles of &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz&quot;&gt;jazz&lt;/a&gt;. In addition to his work as a bandleader Parlan was known for his contributions to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus&quot;&gt;Charles Mingus&lt;/a&gt; recordings &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingus_Ah_Um&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mingus Ah Um&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_%26_Roots&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Blues &amp;amp; Roots&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E18-Fakebooks]]> 18 18 2-5m-1-S1E18-Fakebooks 2574884 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e18-fakebooks-720 Sat, 01 Jan 2022 09:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;What is a fakebook, where can I get one and is a real book different? These questions are answered as Nick and Simon discuss the jazz player&#x27;s tune bible.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1 Christmas Special 2021]]> 2 2 2-5-1 Christmas Special 2021 2574885 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-christmas-special-2021 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:00:00 GMT 2928 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss&amp;nbsp;classic holiday albums from the past, and also look at a couple of new Christmas releases.&lt;br&gt;This year we also deal with the issue of wassailing!&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here is an apple music playlist of some of the albums we discuss&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2-5-1-christmas-special-2021/pl.u-2aRjqtKaoYZ&quot;&gt;https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2-5-1-christmas-special-2021/pl.u-2aRjqtKaoYZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;MERRY CHRISTMAS!&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E24-Jazz at the Philharmonic]]> 24 24 2-5m-1-S1E24-Jazz at the Philharmonic 2574886 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e24-jazz-at-the-philharmonic-765 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Norman Granz set up Jazz at the Philharmonic with little more than chutzpah and a handful of cash. JATP would go on to create careers and fortunes for many musicians.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;Find out more as Nick and Simon discuss a series of concerts that changed jazz.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E23-Jazz Harp]]> 22 22 2-5m-1-S1E23-Jazz Harp 2574887 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e23-jazz-harp-269 Wed, 01 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT 302 &lt;p&gt;Simon and Nick discuss an instrument less often heard in jazz - the harp.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E22-Jazz Heavy Weight]]> 22 22 2-5m-1-S1E22-Jazz Heavy Weight 4751548 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e22-jazz-heavy-weight Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:00:00 GMT 308 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who was the Jazz Heavy weight? &#xA0;Nick and Simon discuss the biography of a jazz great who had a varied career.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E21-The Altered Scale]]> 2-5m-1-S1E21-The Altered Scale 2574889 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e21-the-altered-scale-286 Mon, 01 Nov 2021 08:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;What is an altered scale, where can you use it, what are its other names, and what scale is it related to? Nick and Simon shed light on the altered scale and its harmonic usage.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E20-Book Review But Beautiful]]> 20 20 2-5m-1-S1E20-Book Review But Beautiful 4751549 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e20-book-review-but-beautiful Fri, 15 Oct 2021 07:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon &amp;amp; Nick talk about a book they both enjoyed reading. But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E19-Hod OBrien]]> 19 19 2-5m-1-S1E19-Hod OBrien 2574891 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e19-hod-obrien-197 Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;Who was Hod O&amp;apos;Brien? In this episode Nick introduces Simon to a pianist he feels deserves wider recognition.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E17-The Cabaret Card]]> 17 17 2-5m-1-S1E17-The Cabaret Card 2574867 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e17-the-cabaret-card-796 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 08:00:00 GMT 308 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss the Cabaret Card and it&amp;apos;s impact on the New York jazz scene of the 1940&amp;apos;s and 50&amp;apos;s.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5Q-1-S1E2-Paul Pace]]> 2 2 2-5Q-1-S1E2-Paul Pace 2574879 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5q-1-s1e2-paul-pace-697 Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:00:00 GMT 1800 &lt;p&gt;Nick And Simon visited &lt;b&gt;Paul Pace&lt;/b&gt; at &lt;b&gt;Ronnie Scotts&lt;/b&gt; and asked him these &lt;b&gt;5 questions&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;1. Could you tell us about the history of the Spice of Life jazz club. How did it come about, what were the early days like etc&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;2. What is your involvement with the club now and what are some of the challenges involved in running a jazz club at this time.&#xA0;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&#xA0;3. How did you become involved with Ronnie Scott&amp;apos;s jazz club&#xA0;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;4. What does your work at Ronnies involve today. &#xA0;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&#xA0;5. Could you reflect on the jazz scene in the UK today. What do you feel are the challenges it faces, and how do you see the future.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Find out what his answers were.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E16- Can You Hear Me at the Back?- Amplification and Jazz]]> 16 16 2-5m-1-S1E16- Can You Hear Me at the Back?- Amplification and Jazz 2574866 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e16-can-you-hear-me-at-the-back-amplification-and-jazz-434 Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:00:00 GMT 305 &lt;p&gt;Can You Hear Me at the Back?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Nick and Simon lay out the development of amplification, and how it has been used in jazz.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E15-Jive Talk]]> 15 15 2-5m-1-S1E15-Jive Talk 2574851 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e15-jive-talk-084 Sun, 01 Aug 2021 08:00:00 GMT 305 &lt;p&gt;Salutations solid gone gators, Nick and Simon beat their gums to give you the swingformation on Jive talk. They are putting it down and you better pick up on it, so tune on in and get your signal right. Hey gate! put down that giggle water we don&#x27;t want no gin mill cowboys here, so agitate the gravel jack, only Ding Dong Daddies and Dungaree Dolls hip to the jive welcome.&amp;nbsp; If you dug our episode on nicknames, a few hair cuts on the back beat now, this will fry your wig, &#x27;cause this is the most to say the least.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you understood all that you are one copasetic shape in a drape! If not you may need to translate with&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.co.uk/Straight-Fridge-Dad-Dictionary-Hipster/dp/1842432885&quot;&gt; Straight from the fridge dad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click Below for useful links&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&quot;&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linktr.ee/cyberdonkey&quot;&gt;Linktree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E14-Licks or Language]]> 14 14 2-5m-1-S1E14-Licks or Language 2574840 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e14-licks-or-language-843 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:00:00 GMT 305 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon enjoy an ice cream while speaking Esperanto. No? OK,&#xA0; they discuss the concept of &amp;apos;The Lick&amp;quot;, that divisive little melodic fragment in the improvisation debate.&#xA0; Are you improvising if you play a lick?&#xA0; What does the &amp;apos;language analogy&amp;apos; bring to the table,&#xA0; la table, la mesa, la tablo?&#xA0; Will you have a banana? Have you been to the Guildhall?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Click Below for useful links&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&#x27;&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://linktr.ee/cyberdonkey&#x27;&gt;Linktree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&#x27;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E13-Joe Albany]]> 13 13 2-5m-1-S1E13-Joe Albany 2574841 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e13-joe-albany-367 Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:00:00 GMT 303 &lt;p&gt;In our jazz quest to entertain and inform we like to shed light on some less well-known pianists who we think are worth exploring.&#xA0; Joe Albany is one such player.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Click Below for useful links&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&#x27;&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://linktr.ee/cyberdonkey&#x27;&gt;Linktree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&#x27;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E12-When Is a Chord not a Chord?]]> 2-5m-1-S1E12-When Is a Chord not a Chord? 2574842 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e12-when-is-a-chord-not-a-chord-551 Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:00:00 GMT 303 &lt;p&gt;When it&amp;apos;s a voicing.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Nick and Simon discuss the meaning of the word voicing in jazz and on piano in particular.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E11 - Nicknames]]> 2-5m-1-S1E11 - Nicknames 2574843 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e11-nicknames-918 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 11:00:00 GMT 307 &lt;p&gt;In this episode we outline the origins of some nicknames of jazz players. Why was Charlie Parker called Bird? How did Jeff &#x27;Tain&#x27; Watts get his moniker and we skate over why Eddie Davis was known as Lockjaw!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click Below for useful links&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&quot;&gt;Patreon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://linktr.ee/cyberdonkey&quot;&gt;Linktree&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5q-1- S1E1-Steve Rubie]]> 1 1 2-5q-1- S1E1-Steve Rubie 2574844 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5q-1-s1e1-steve-rubie Wed, 19 May 2021 08:00:00 GMT 1671 &lt;p&gt;In the first of our new interview stream we talk to Steve Rubie who has run the 606 club for many decades.&amp;nbsp; We asked him about&lt;br&gt;1. The history of the club and the move to Lots road.&lt;br&gt;2. The ethos of the club&lt;br&gt;3.&amp;nbsp; Surviving the pandemic&lt;br&gt;4. Highlights over the years and any anecdotes&lt;br&gt;5. What does the future of the 606 look like?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Check out the 606&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.606club.co.uk&quot;&gt;Website&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E10-Dick Twardzik]]> 2-5m-1-S1E10-Dick Twardzik 2574845 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e10-dick-twardzik-373 Sat, 15 May 2021 08:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick introduces Simon to a little known pianist : Dick Twardzik. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;follow us on &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&#x27;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;we have a&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&#x27;&gt; Patreon Page&lt;/a&gt; also&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E9-The Diminished Scale]]> 2-5m-1-S1E9-The Diminished Scale 2574846 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e9-the-diminished-scale-174 Sat, 01 May 2021 08:00:00 GMT 314 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss this symmetrical scale that has been known about for a surprisingly long time, and has come to be used extensively by jazz improvisers.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E8-Tuba or not Tuba?]]> 8 8 2-5m-1-S1E8-Tuba or not Tuba? 2574847 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e8-tuba-or-not-tuba-712 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:00:00 GMT 304 &lt;p&gt;Normal service is resumed after the April fools gag that was Des Luton.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss the use of the tuba in jazz, from its role as primary bass instrument to colouristic and improvisational member of the ensemble.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Comments welcome&amp;nbsp; via your podcast app or via our Facebook page.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&quot;&gt;2-5-1-Facebook&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks for listening!&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-07-Who was Des Luton?]]> 7 7 2-5m-1-07-Who was Des Luton? 2574848 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-07-who-was-des-luton-182 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 06:00:00 GMT 311 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss the obscure British pianist Des Luton [1924-1987?]. Known for an incredible left-hand technique, Des has since fallen into obscurity.&#xA0; Nick and Simon have managed to get hold of possibly the only recording of the mercurial piano player via a 78 RPM recording made as a demo and unreleased commercially; so for once we can play it!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(Please note, this episode of our podcast was an April Fools Day special and sadly Des &amp;apos;Left Hand&amp;apos; Luton never actually existed!)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E6-Did Charlie Parker Play the Bebop Scale?]]> 6 6 2-5m-1-S1E6-Did Charlie Parker Play the Bebop Scale? 2574849 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e6-did-charlie-parker-play-the-bebop-scale-231 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:00:00 GMT 313 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon consider the subject of bebop scales. Did Charlie Parker use them?&#xA0; What are they and what do they sound like?&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E5-The Best Jazz Club in the World?]]> 5 5 2-5-1-S1E5-The Best Jazz Club in the World? 2574850 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e5-the-best-jazz-club-in-the-world-881 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:00:00 GMT 316 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss the legendary Village Vanguard Jazz Club in New York.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E4- Is three minutes long enough?]]> 4 4 2-5-1-S1E4- Is three minutes long enough? 4751550 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e4-is-three-minutes-long-enough Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:00:00 GMT 312 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick and Simon discuss how the available recording media at various times have affected jazz.&#xA0;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1-S1E3-Are Block Chords for Blockheads?]]> 3 3 2-5m-1-S1E3-Are Block Chords for Blockheads? 2574864 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e3-are-block-chords-for-blockheads-098 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:00:00 GMT 305 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon briefly explore the pianistic technique of playing block chords, find out what block chords are, who used them and how they work.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5m-1- S1E2 - Mel Powell]]> 2 2 2-5m-1- S1E2 - Mel Powell 2574853 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5m-1-s1e2-mel-powell-768 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT 301 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss the pianist Mel Powell who had an illustrious career&amp;nbsp;in jazz and modern classical music.&amp;nbsp; He played with some of the top jazz players of the age and married a film star.&amp;nbsp; His later years&amp;nbsp; were as an educator at the highest level replacing Paul Hindemith as head of composition at Yale and setting up Cal Arts back in Hollywood.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A pianist who deserves more attention perhaps?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1 Two pianists,Five Minutes,One Subject. S1Ep1]]> 1 1 2-5-1 Two pianists,Five Minutes,One Subject. S1Ep1 4751551 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-two-pianistsfive-minutesone-subject-s1ep1 Fri, 01 Jan 2021 08:00:00 GMT 307 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;WTFH?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;What the French Horn?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Nick and Simon discuss the use of the French Horn in Jazz&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Take a look at our &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511/?view_public_for=101450671563511&#x27;&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1 Two pianists, Five Christmas tunes, One podcast.]]> 1 1 2-5-1 Two pianists, Five Christmas tunes, One podcast. 2574855 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-two-pianists-five-christmas-tunes-one-podcast Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:00:00 GMT 3584 &lt;p&gt;In this bonus Christmas edition Nick and Simon discuss five Christmas tunes favoured by jazz musicians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Christmas Song&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;White Christmas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Winter Wonderland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;O Christmas Tree&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511/?view_public_for=101450671563511&quot;&gt;facebook page.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Merry Christmas!&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S2E5- Dexter Calling and One Flight Up]]> 5 5 2-5-1-S2E5- Dexter Calling and One Flight Up 2574856 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s2e5-dexter-calling-and-one-flight-up Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:00:00 GMT 3650 &lt;p&gt;In the final episode of Series 2 Nick and Simon discuss Dexter Calling, the last album Kenny Drew made with Dexter Gordon in the US, and One Flight Up one of the few Blue Note albums recorded in Europe in the 1960s; Our Man in Paris being another obvious example, also a Dexter Gordon session.&amp;nbsp; In 1961 Kenny Drew moved to Europe and Dexter Gordon soon followed. Dexter did return in 1973 to US soil but Kenny Drew saw out the rest of his career in Europe.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dexter-calling-remastered-2015/1444098842&quot;&gt;Dexter Calling&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/one-flight-up-remastered-2015/1444037164&quot;&gt;One Flight Up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&amp;amp;fan_landing=true&quot;&gt;Please support our Patreon page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S2E4-Undercurrent]]> 4 4 2-5-1-S2E4-Undercurrent 2574857 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s2e4-undercurrent Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:00:00 GMT 2871 &lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss Undercurrent, arguably a hidden gem in the rich soil of the Blue Note label&amp;apos;s discography. It was Kenny Drew&amp;apos;s last album as leader for the label, and shows his compositional style and improvisation skills off in a showcase of original tunes with a band playing exceptionally well.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S2E3-Blue Train]]> 3 3 2-5-1-S2E3-Blue Train 2574858 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s2e3-blue-train Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:00:00 GMT 3104 &lt;p&gt;This Episode focuses on the classic&amp;nbsp;John Coltrane album &lt;strong&gt;BLUE TRAIN &lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;Kenny Drew&#x27;s&lt;/strong&gt; part in it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1957 &lt;strong&gt;John Coltrane&lt;/strong&gt; had a pivotal year. He was sacked by Miles Davis for his heroin addiction so kicked the habit cold turkey and got down to rebuilding his life. He joined Thelonius Monk and made several albums under his own name as leader but only one of those was for &lt;strong&gt;Blue Note.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/blue-train/1468202477&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apple Music&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FACEBOOK GROUP&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://valdez.dumarsengraving.com/tranesubtunes.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JASON LYON ARTICLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&amp;amp;fan_landing=true&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PATREON&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S2E2-It could happen to you]]> 2 2 2-5-1-S2E2-It could happen to you 4751552 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s2e2-it-could-happen-to-you Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:00:00 GMT 2788 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick and Simon discuss Kenny Drew&amp;apos;s contribution as sideman on the original vinyl release of It Could Happen to You , Chet Baker Sings. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/it-could-happen-to-you/1444050487&#x27;&gt;Apple Music link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ih8NWQfxpZAFWlYbJTuWV&#x27;&gt;Spotify Album Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&amp;amp;fan_landing=true&#x27;&gt;Patreon Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511/?ref=bookmarks&#x27;&gt;Facebook Group&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S2E1- Introducing Kenny Drew]]> 1 1 2-5-1-S2E1- Introducing Kenny Drew 2574860 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s2e1-introducing-kenny-drew Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:00:00 GMT 3112 &lt;p&gt;Nicholas Tomalin and Simon Whiteside are back for a new series of 2-5-1 Two Pianists,Five Podcasts, One Subject.&#xA0; In this series the subject is pianist Kenny Drew.&lt;br/&gt;We examine this hard-bop pianist through the lens of five albums. The first is his Blue Note debut as leader from the series of 10 inch LPs &amp;quot; New Sounds New Faces &amp;quot; called Introducing the Kenny Drew Trio.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Facebook page &lt;a href=&#x27;https://www.facebook.com/2-5-1-Two-pianistsFive-podcastsOne-Subject-101450671563511/&#x27;&gt;CLICK HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Album on &lt;a href=&#x27;https://music.apple.com/gb/album/new-faces-new-sounds-introducing-the-kenny-drew-trio/1455162555&#x27;&gt;Apple Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Album on &lt;a href=&#x27;https://open.spotify.com/album/0DLP5YTFIZkV0CvDYzrtzP?si=uC6aoAqMSNqwOmeHNOCBgg&#x27;&gt;Spotify&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E5-Sonny Clark Ballad Style & Legacy]]> 5 5 2-5-1-S1E5-Sonny Clark Ballad Style &amp; Legacy 2574861 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e5-sonny-clark-ballad-style-legacy Mon, 01 Jun 2020 08:00:00 GMT 4111 &lt;p&gt;In the season finale Nick and Simon discuss Sonny Clark&#x27;s ballad playing style as sideman and soloist, playing musical excerpts and discussing his playing approaches.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This episode is sponsored by Open Studio - Jazz Lessons from Jazz Legends. Become a better jazz musician, guaranteed at &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://openstudiojazz.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;openstudiojazz.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Nick and Simon go on to discuss Sonny Clark&#x27;s legacy, and talk about what they have learned from the extensive listening and study they have done and what happens next.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks for listening and please leave constructive comments, reviews and suggestions&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;and give the podcast a rating.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E4-Sonny Clark's Style and Trio Recordings]]> 4 4 2-5-1-S1E4-Sonny Clark&#x27;s Style and Trio Recordings 2574862 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e4-sonny-clarks-style-and-trio-recordings Fri, 15 May 2020 16:00:00 GMT 3104 &lt;p&gt;In Episode 4 we discuss Sonny Clark as a leader in the trio format. We focus on two tunes in detail: &quot;Somebody Loves Me&quot; from what is now known as the Standards Album, and Sonny&#x27;s most recorded original tune &quot;Minor Meeting&quot; the version (take 9) from the full edition of the trio album with George Duvivier and Max Roach. We also consider his improvising style, his compositional approach and his influences.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E3- Sonny Clark as Leader]]> 3 3 2-5-1-S1E3- Sonny Clark as Leader 2574863 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e3-sonny-clark-as-leader Fri, 01 May 2020 06:00:00 GMT 3604 &lt;p&gt;In this episode we explore Sonny Clark&amp;apos;s work as leader on Blue Note records. Specifically his work with ensembles.&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1-S1E2-Sonny Clark as Sideman]]> 2 2 2-5-1-S1E2-Sonny Clark as Sideman 2574865 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e2-sonny-clark-as-sideman Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT 3639 &lt;p&gt;In this episode Nick Tomalin and Simon Whiteside discuss the music Sonny Clark recorded with Buddy de Franco, Grant Green and Dexter Gordon. Even after re-recording the Buddy De Franco section to half it&amp;apos;s length, the original podcast plan to also include Sonny Criss and Hank Mobley meant it ran to 1.5 hours. So we decided to drop those two sections.&lt;br/&gt;If you would like to hear that long version it will be publicly available on our Patreon page later. If enough people register their interest through comments on the podcast outlets we can upload it to all the usual suspects later.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25450273&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false <![CDATA[2-5-1- S1E1-The life and works of Sonny Clark]]> 1 1 2-5-1- S1E1-The life and works of Sonny Clark 4751553 https://2-5-1.onpodium.com/episodes/2-5-1-s1e1-the-life-and-works-of-sonny-clark Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:00:00 GMT 2472 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/973312/open_sms&quot;&gt;Send us a text&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In episode one&#xA0; Nick Tomalin and Simon Whiteside talk about Sonny Clark&amp;apos;s short but musically prodigious life, from his birth in July 1931 to his death in January 1963.&#xA0;&lt;/p&gt; jazz, piano, music, performing, false