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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 an in depth look at the life work and piano stylings of single pianists. So far Sonny Clark and Kenny Drew have been covered.

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2-5m-1-S3E27-Mid Season Break

Mid Season Break Announcement

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S3E26 Whiplash Jazz On Film

Whiplash is a 2014 American independent psychological drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle , and starring Miles Teller , J. K. Simmons , and Paul Reiser . It focuses on an ambitious music student and aspiring jazz drummer (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor (Simmons) Chazelle completed the script in 2013, drawing upon his experiences in a "very competitive"…

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2-5m-1-S3E25-Special-Humour in Jazz-is there a place for it?

A long time ago we did an episode on humour in jazz. you can hear it here This is a longer investigation into it.

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Untitled 2-5m-1-S3E24 But Beautiful TWLepisode

in another one of our tunes we love Nick and Simon discus But Beautiful But Beautiful " is a popular song with music written by Jimmy Van Heusen , the lyrics by Johnny Burke . The song was published in 1947. One of five songs written by Burke and Van Heusen featured in the Paramount Pictures movie Road to Rio (1947)

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2-5m-1-S3E23 Johnny Towner Williams URP

one of our under the radar pianists episodes John Williams there Jazz pianist . Yes the Star Wars guy!

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2-5m-1-S3E22-Special-What Makes a Jazz singer?

Following on from our last episode this is a special longer examination of what makes a jazz singer

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2-5m-1-S3E21 Laufey [Is she a jazz singer?]

We ask is Laufey a jazz singer. what do you think?

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2-5m-1-S3E20 The Horn John Clellon Holmes -JBR

One of our jazz book reviews podcasts about the Novel The Horn by John Clellon Holmes-born 12th March 1926 Studied at various places Columbia 1943 and post-draft at the New School 1949 where he met Jack Kerouac and remained a life long friend First novel published as Go a fictional book based on real characters and considered the first beat novel The Horn was his second novel and again contains…

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2-5m-1-S3E19 Jazz and Traditional notation

we discuss the issue of notating jazz in traditional western music notation in this episode

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2-5m-1-S3E18 Stella By Starlight TWL

We discusss " Stella by Starlight " a popular jazz standard with music by Victor Young that was drawn from thematic material composed for the main title and soundtrack of the 1944 Paramount Pictures film The Uninvited . Appearing in the film's underscore as well as in source music as an instrumental theme song without lyrics, it was turned over to Ned Washington , who wrote the lyrics for it in…

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