This clip from the amazing BBC series, The Fast Show, shows the group doing their weekly parody of a jazz club. Complete with comedy cigar smoking host, the band, surroundings and music are just perfect. The sudo-realism makes this show superbly funny and the following clip is no exception. The ensemble in this particular clip features the James Nance Quartet playing the haunting Buddy Freak...

Desolate Shore is a classic video clip from the Jazz Club series which featured heavily on the BBC’s Fast Show in the 1990′s. It was an intelligent take on the funnier side of jazz music and was so well done that you know those guys actually quite liked jazz and spent a fair amount of time in jazz clubs. Anyway, Paul Whitehouse on lead guitar is absolutely hilarious, I just love the...