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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 and 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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December 30, 2025 69 mins

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Often Nick and Simon run out of time so occasionally we will record a special episode. We felt that the previous episode was far too brief and so in true jazz musician tradition we improvised an extended episode.  Because of that here is the full correct quote from Raymond Chandlers essay " the simple art of Murder"


“down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished ...

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In this episode we delve into the dark world of jazz and the detective. 

jazz has become associated with the gumshoe the likes of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe and the film Noir femme fatale.  " so I drew my smith and Wesson 9mm and Nick was soon sining like a canary"

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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 " the smell of jazz" 

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December 1, 2025 5 mins

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In this episode we discuss Philip Larkin [ the English Poet] and his love of jazz and his hate of other jazz 

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November 15, 2025 5 mins

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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. 

There are others we couldn't fir into the 5 minutes

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