Thanks to everyone who managed to make it down to the Mint Lounge last week for the Big Band Bonanza, it went really well and it was great to see so many faces in the audience. One of those faces was Chris Ackerley, a jazz journalist who has previously worked with Jazzwise, BBC Jazz on [...]
So, we’ve finally got it together to record some tunes in a studio. We spent a long day at a secret location with Ben and co. at the controls and so far, from the rough mixes, we’re really happy with what we’ve done. The highlight of the day was, I’m sure everyone involved [...]
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After having such a great time on my last visit I couldn’t resist another opportunity to spend some more time in Copenhagen. So after my planned trip to Aarhus I hopped on a train back to the Danish capital and wasted no time meeting up with my friend Marc for a quick informal recording [...]
JAZZ FACTOR 29.05.09
I spent the best part of today at the first in a series of workshop days organised by NW JazzWorks designed to link up local players/promoters with industry experts from around the country. Our panel of experts for the day were;
Stuart Johnson (musician, promoter, tour manager) - our Chair for the day
Oliver Weindling [...]
Freedom Principle & The Noise Upstairs are hosting a night at this years Chorlton Arts Festival. It definitely promises to be a unique experience with a variety of groups performing in the fantastic venue that is St Ninians Church. There will be a mix of contemporary performance drawing influence from jazz/classical/electronic & Jewish music. We will also be staging several spacial-sound-jams which audience members will be encouraged to take part in. Oh yeh, and we’ll be supplying the food, if you bring the booze!
Go and visit www.beatsnpieces.net and have a look at the brand new Beats & Pieces website, and leave a comment to let me know what you think! Its a bit bare now but over time its hopefully going to have a full archive of live recordings, and of course all the details of upcoming gigs [...]
Anton and myself have just spent several thoroughly enjoyable days in the Danish capital meeting some fantastic musicians and generally soaking up the vibe. We flew out on Wednesday, Antons flight was badly delayed (he can fill you in with the details) and we eventually arrived at our very kind hosts (Fredrik and gang) who [...]
Thanks a lot to everybody who could make it down to the RNCM last night for our gig before Guy Barker’s Amadeus Project, hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! I’ve now uploaded the recordings as I promised in amongst all my waffling, so do take a listen. The piano is unfortunately a [...]
This month’s featured artist is Concrete Moniker co-founder Josh Kopecek aka The Red Box.
All are welcome to join in via the traditional “name-in-a-hat” method.
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