Celebrating the Joy of Jazz
12 Noon
Saturday 25th February 2017
Dave Ware on Trumpet
Jimmy Tagford on Drums
Chris Thompson on Bass
John Finch on Trombone
Chris Ramsey (clarinet/saxophone)
Lyn Saughter (banjo)
Ramsgate Small Boat Owners Club
Guildford Lawn,
Ramsgate
CT11 9AY
Tickets Including Buffet £12
Hotline 01843 596789
Booking line: 020 7734 4888
Noel McCalla & Derek Nash
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Christine Burden messaged me via the Herne Bay & Herne Remembered Facebook Group: “There is a jazz festival in May at Mt Gambier, South Australia, organised by James Morrison, where 4600 school students take part for three days in a marquee holding 6500 people, called Generations In Jazz. My grandson plays the trombone, check out the website.”
Thank you Christine, quite a scoop for Jazz&Jazz. Very fitting too that it should come via the Herne Bay Facebook Group, because that’s where in my teens I first cut my teeth on jazz. Plus a good many Aussie Jazz Fans are followers of Jazz&Jazz and my Facebook Jazzers Group.
So it’s my pleasure to feature “Generations in Jazz” on Jazz&Jazz!
Quoting the Generations in Jazz Website: “Jazz music may have its roots in places like New Orleans and New York, but its influence reaches around the globe. Mount Gambier, in South Australia’s Limestone Coast, is Australia’s hot spot for this high-energy sound – largely thanks to a unique annual event called Generations in Jazz. This spectacular gathering on the outskirts of the city made famous for its Blue Lake not only attracts the jazz legends of today, but the bright stars of tomorrow, bringing together up to 4400 of Australia’s most talented musicians, along with a growing list of global artists.
“High school students from more than 100 schools around the nation compete in the Stage Band Awards, while individual Jazz and Vocal Scholarships are also highly coveted, helping to secure the musical destiny of individuals with enormous promise. And then there are the daily concerts – the sound inside the James Morrison big top pavilion, seating up to 6100 people in the middle of a paddock, is simply incredible!”
Be sure to explore the entire Generations in Jazz Website. It’s an inspiration! More of the same needed in the UK.
“What an inspiring environment! The energy of the students was something I’ve never experienced. Can’t wait to be part of Generations in Jazz again!”
Willie Murillo (trumpet), Big Phat Band
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Welcome to our February Newsletter
“The Jazz of Dudley Moore”
Advance Notice – Tuesday, 4th April
Born in San Francisco, California, USA, Susan has been singing jazz since her graduation from the University of Oregon. Since moving to the UK, she has worked with many top UK bands including The Pete Allen Jazz Band where she appeared on his theatre tour. With Pete she recorded the CD “Running Wild”. Susan has also performed regularly with The Mike Kemp Trio, ‘Sir’ Alan’s Jazz Band and The Rascals of Rhythm. She has performed in guest appearances with The Ken Colyer Trust Band, John Burnett Jazz Bandits, West Jesmond Rhythm Kings, Bob Dywer Jazz Band and Max Collie. She has starred at many jazz festivals including Breda Jazz Festival in Holland, Swanage Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazz Festival, Keswick Jazz Festival, and Upton Upon Severn Jazz Festival. Plus popular venues such as the 100 Club, The Queen Elizabeth Hall, and The Banqueting House of St. James Palace. She has toured her shows “Legendary Ladies of Jazz” and “Swing Serenade”.
Don’t miss these shows – I’m sure tickets will fly! But you could always check on late cancellations!
‘Live music at reminiscence session’
JazzandJazz is honoured to accept recognition from The National Jazz Archive for services to jazz and to be invited to join them in the promulgation of all things jazz. What better place to start this joint venture than with their recently launched
The National Jazz Archive is a registered charity based in Loughton Library in Essex. It was founded in 1988, and holds the UK’s finest collection of written, printed and visual material on jazz, blues and related music, from the 1919 to the present day.
Project launch event.
Their Intergenerational Jazz Reminiscence Project Archive is already half way through an ambitious 18-month programme which will expand the Archive’s holdings in collaboration with local and national organisations, with participation from community groups of all ages. The project is exploring how different generations have promoted, performed, supported, and documented our jazz heritage. It has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The future …
The project is focussing on three areas in Essex close to the Archive’s base. In each location, using materials from the Archive and others supplied by local jazz clubs and the Chelmsford Museums service, the Archive team is engaging with members of Age UK / Age Concern activity centres, local jazz clubs, local youth groups and young jazz musicians to explore and discuss what music has meant and still means in their lives.
… of jazz!
The generation that founded jazz clubs, learned to play jazz before there was any formal musical education in jazz, and who have donated their magazines, photographs and other material to the Archive are nearing their twilight years. Through interviewing and recording talks and discussions at intergenerational workshops in Age UK/Age Concern activity centres the project is logging and conserving the reminiscences of a generation of people who had to make considerable investment to access music. Music is a part of the workshops, including live music by both young and experienced musicians.
Interviews conducted by the University of Essex with older jazz musicians, club promoters and supporters are forming a permanent record of anecdotal jazz history. The project is working with the Black Cultural Archives to encourage participation from the older Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities, including local musicians associated with these communities. Loughton Youth Project is participating in and filming the sessions. Their members are being trained in media, broadcasting and interviewing skills.
Project Meeting
The interviews and memories collected by the project will be made available on the Archive’s website and will contribute to an exhibition ‘Say it with Music’, celebrating the people and places that have shaped jazz music across the UK, at the Forum in Southend in May 2017.
The reminiscence project began in January 2016 supported by HLF funding of £83,300. It follows on from the very successful HLF-funded Story of British Jazz project that the National Jazz Archive completed in 2014, which resulted in storing and conserving more than 40,000 archive items (journals, photos, posters and programmes), cataloguing more than 4,300 books and 600 journals to series level along with personal and photo collections. Numerous journals, photos, posters and programmes were also scanned and digitised for direct access via a redesigned website.
The Archive’s Lottery Funded ‘Intergenerational Jazz Reminiscence Project’, once completed, will make a invaluable contribution to the ‘Story of British Jazz’ made available via the Archive’s web site for future jazz researchers, musicians and equally important, jazz fans.
However, whether a musician, club owner, promoter or a regular fan, it’s the jazz and the wonderful experience of playing or listening and even dancing to the music they love that’s the vital element. Recognising this, the Archive, in partnership with three top jazz clubs in Essex, is hosting sessions of live music and dancing. Alongside will be displays of archive material from the Jazz Reminiscence Project, showing investment in jazz across the generations.
The first two gigs will feature the exciting Essex Youth Jazz Orchestra, directed by one of the country’s leading jazz musicians, Martin Hathaway, providing opportunities for musicians aged between 14 and 17 years who have a love for jazz.
The first EYJO outing is at the Colchester Jazz Club on Sunday 19 February, 7.45pm: www.colchesterjazzclub.co.uk The second is programmed for the Hornchurch Jazz Club on Sunday 26 February, 8.30pm: www.hornchurchconservativeclub.co.uk/sunday-jazz
The third gig will feature the vibrant National Youth Jazz Collective which supports the creative and educational needs of the young jazz musician. They will perform at the Southend Jazz Club at 7.30pm on Monday, 27th February: www.facebook.com/southendjazzclub
All three gigs are entrance free and all are welcome to come along to see and hear the future of UK Jazz. Further updates on the ‘Intergenerational Jazz Reminiscence Project’ will be posted as the project progresses.
National Jazz Archive
www.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos © National Jazz Archive)
Jerry Šenfluk & Capital Swing recapture all that was best in the
mid 40’s height of the Swing Era.
Capital Swing are Jerry, Martin Litton, Nils Solberg, John Rees Jones and Jack Cotterill. Together they will recapture the musical highlights of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, yet with their own twists from their vast experience of a wide range of styles. A truly international quintet and their music is hot.
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1. BOHÉM FESTIVAL
The 26th Annual Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival: March 24-26, 2017, in the Hírös Agóra Cultural Centre in Kecskemét. More news very soon, including ticket-links etc, will be announced on http://www.bohemragtime.com/en/act.html
3. BOHÉMS ON THE ROAD IN EUROPE 4. SCOTT JOPLIN CD: Last, but not least, a few Bohém Festival headliner YouTubes: Bria Skonberg (Canada/USA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLsf4-kiozQ Bria & the Bohéms a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWX_Fuz9tg Janá Dekanková & Fats Jazz Band (Slovakia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lQzaTfQoSY Voice Messengers (France): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQvGK4aH2k HAPPY NEW YEAR! |
Thank you, Tamás, for sharing news of your 2017 Programme of events with Jazz&Jazz. It was a privilege to meet you all and film Bohém Ragtime Jazz Band at The Bay Jazz Club
in May last year.
Venue: The Ramsgate Small Boat Owners Club
Guildford Lawns, Ramsgate, CT11 9AY
Time: 11.30am for Noon
Admission: £12.00 including buffet
Contact: 01227 361238
Vocalion Jazz Band Stars:
Dennis Jenkins
Jan Bryce
Trumpet: Dennis Jenkins (leader + vocals);
Clarinet/Alto Sax: Pete Curtis;
Trombone: Jan Bryce;
Banjo: Kenny Sanderson;
Bass: Trefor Williams;
Drums: Pete Morgan
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Pete Curtis (left)
Kenny Sanderson
Trefor Williams
Sam Weller’s Vocalion Jazz Band circa 2012 – Dennis Jenkins centre on trumpet.
Notes:
1 Sam Weller first founded Vocalion. Dennis took over as leader when Sam retired.
2 Jan Bryce is the son of Owen and Iris Bryce. I met up with Iris again this past weekend at The Walnut Tree Jazz Club where Owen last played.
Jazz&Jazz Portrait of Sam Weller and Mark Alexander
Jazz&Jazz Portrait of Vocalion’s characterful Saxophonist Ivan Gandon
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(Photos & Portraits © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
The Jazz Repertory Company Presents
Part 2: The 1930s And 1940s – Swing To Be-Bop
Award Winning Big Band Orchestra Embark On
A Musical Journey Through History
Saturday 28th January 2017
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Square, London, SW1X 9DQ
London’s ever popular Jazz Repertory Company, renowned for recreating key musical moments in the history of jazz, return to the spectacular surroundings of Chelsea’s Cadogan Hall with their brand new production ‘Jazz In New York: Part 2’.
Following on from their 2015 sell out show ‘Jazz In New York’, the follow up charts The Big Apple’s musical revolution from the 1930s into the 40s; a time when the Swing movement evolved into the exciting new sounds of Be-Bop.
Part 1 features the dynamic Echoes of Ellington Orchestra, winners of ‘Best Big Band’ at the 2016 British Jazz Awards. Led by the larger than life band leader and clarinettist Pete Long (Jools Holland’s Rhythm & Blues Orchestra / Ronnie Scotts Big Band) and featuring the Jazz
Enrico Tomasso
Pete Long
Repertory Company’s star trumpeter Enrico Tomasso (best trumpeter award at the 2016 British Jazz Awards), the jazz orchestra will perform some of Duke Ellington’s greatest works from the 1930s, followed by some of the music of Ellington’s famous “Blanton-Webster” band of the 40s. Swinging small band music from Artie Shaw’s Gramercy 5 (with the first ever use of jazz harpsichord) will also feature, as well as John Kirby’s Orchestra, whose intricate arrangements were on the cusp of the Be-Bop movement. Another sensational highlight will be the astonishing sounds of Raymond Scott’s Quintette, whose massive selling records such as “Powerhouse” found a second life as soundtracks to Looney Tunes cartoons.
Charlie and Dizzy
Part 2 pays tribute to the unforgettable Minton’s Club jam sessions – the renowned hothouse and laboratory where Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and drummer Kenny Clarke came forth to turn the world of jazz on its head. The concert’s grand finale will arrive in the form of the Gillespiana Big Band performing “Showtime at the Apollo 1947”: an authentic recreation of how Dizzy Gillespie’s Orchestra would have been presented at the legendary Harlem Theatre at the height of the Be-Bop craze. The latest jazz mixed with the percussion-led rhythms of Cuba will be accompanied by dancers showing the latest moves developed to the new rhythms of the era.
Concert goers will be guided through this musical journey by the inimitable humour and erudition of band leader and Master of Ceremonies Pete Long, capturing the essence of this great era in his own unique way. The music is recreated with dazzling virtuosity by a mix of Jazz Repertory Company regulars alongside some of the hottest young players on the London jazz scene.
One of the first great popular jazz events in 2017, this spellbinding concert will dazzle both jazz aficionados and curious newcomers alike. An exclusive event and some of the Capital’s very best entertainment.
Contact Dynamic Agency for more information, including
interview and review ticket requests:
0203 305 8214 / 07769 554 247
[email protected]
http://www.dynamicmusicagency.com
Trio Manouche and Clare Teal
100 years of jazz in Britain – BBC Radio 4
