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.
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2-5m-1-S1E40-San Francisco Jazz
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Simon Whiteside and Nicholas Tomalin
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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 for a decade or more. 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 in the words of Frank Zappa, in Fog City " jazz isn't dead it just smells funny"