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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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2-5m-1-S2E34- Kind Of Blue Book

August 15, 2024 • Simon Whiteside and Nicholas Tomalin

Nick and Simon present one of their jazz book reviews.

Kind of Blue : Miles Davis and the making of a masterpiece.

Ashley Kahn Granta 2001 is an in-depth look at the legendary album its creation and its legacy. Ashley Kahn has written much about jazz and his books on A Love Supreme and Impulse Records : the house that Trane built [ Simon got that title slightly wrong in the podcast]

in December 1999 Kahn got to hear the master tapes of the sessions including the false starts etc and the 50th anniversary release contains those so you can hear them too. the Cd release also included a DVD including a documentary

Miles Davis-Kind of Blue-Celebrating a masterpiece

The Legacy edition is on Apple Music
and other streaming platforms.

Simon has written a blog post on the book and 2 other related books on the podcast website.

The book is available in Print and E-Book format but not as an audio book.

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