Another episode in our " Under the Radar Pianists" series.George Wallington  wrote a tune that was made well known by Gerry Mulligan'sa...

In this Special Episode Nick and Simon DiscussGeorge Shearing and Nick's new project playing his music Shades of Shearinggigs areSat January 14th...

A look at the Oboe in jazz.

Nick and Simon discuss four newish (one jewish) holiday offerings. 1. Snowbound- Emma Smith2. Louis Wishes you a Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong3. On Chri...

Nick and Simon discuss a record label that started in the USA and continues now in the UK.A label with many jazz greats represented as well as new and...

We discuss 'enclosures' one of the cornerstone concepts of what makes jazz sound like jazz - particularly post-bebop  jazz.  We talk about t...

Nick and Simon talk about Jazz Cello, like you do. 

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 to...

Andre Previn had a long career  Simon and Nick discuss his life and his work in the jazz, Film and Classical Music. 

Nick and Simon discuss the biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.  Author Robin D. Kelley grew up in Harlem in a house...

The Fillmore district of San Francisco was known as " The Harlem of the West" in the 1940s and there were many clubs that flourished there f...

Nick and Simon discuss the  well known book of jazz interviews  'Hear  me Talkin' to Ya The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It.&ap...