2-5-1
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.
Episodes
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" jazz band in high school. Soon after, R...
A long time ago we did an episode on humour in jazz. you can hear it here
This is a longer investigation into it.
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)
one of our under the radar pianists episodes John Williams there Jazz pianist . Yes the Star Wars guy!
Following on from our last episode this is a special longer examination of what makes a jazz singer
We ask is Laufey a jazz singer. what do you think?
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 many barely disguised real-life ch...
we discuss the issue of notating jazz in traditional western music notation in this episode
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 1946.
in this episode we discus the pianist and vibraphonist Eddie Costa
in this episode we discuss the winners of the jazz categories of the grammy awards 2026
- Large ensemble-christian McBride
- Best Jazz Vocal Album-Portriat Samara Joy
- Best Jazz instrumental album -Soouthern Nights Sullivan Fortner
- Best Alternative Jazz Album-LIVE-ACTION-Nate Smith
- Best Latin Jazz -A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole – Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Yainer Horta & Joey Calveiro
- best Live album Windows – Live &nd...
In this episode we discuss the writer and dramatist Alan Plater and his connection to jazz.
We are starting a new strand to the ever expanding tapestry of 2-5-1 : Tunes we love and why. The first of these is on the song Softly as in a Morning Sunrise by Sigmund Romberg a 32 bar AABA format tune, often in C minor, that has become a favourite amongst musicians.
Here is an Apple Music play list which is only the tip of the iceberg [or should that be Romburg?]
Nick leads the discussion on the TV jazz show Jazz Casual. Most episodes are available on YouTube
Wikipedia describes it thus
"Jazz Casual was an occasional series on jazz music on National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The show was produced by Richard Moore and KQED of San Francisco, California. Episodes ran for 30 minutes. It ran from 1961 to 1968 and was hosted by jaz...
What is Mainstream Jazz? Is the term still relevant? Who coined the phrase?
find out in this episode
In this episode we delve into the dark world of jazz and the detective.
Jazz has become associated with the gumshoe detective e.g. Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe and the whole world of film noir including seedy nightclubs and femme fatales. We decided to investigate further "so I drew my Smith and Wesson 9mm and Nick was soon singing like a canary"
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 "the smell of jazz"
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