Scheduled for
13th – 15th August 2021
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
Announcing The Pershore Jazz Festival
May 14, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Facing up to Facebook
April 22, 2021 By Leave a Comment
A close friend and long time follower of Jazz&Jazz recently lamented on the current paucity of features on the site. He presumed it might be due to the ongoing shut down of live jazz due to Cobid19.
Not so! A key to the problem is the rapacious omnipresence of Facebook. How so? Simply put, besides my personal Facebook Page I have also launched a Facebook Group entitled “Jazz&Jazzers / Celebrating the Joy of Jazz”. Popularity of the Group has shot up with 1,600 members and counting.
So as of now, my intention is to focus on and lure fans to this, my home site, Jazz&Jazz.com. In recent years I have filmed a series of YouTubes featuring a wide range of jazz bands and musicians. But I have become so entrapped by the easy accessibility of jazz on Facebook that I have sidestepped presenting them here on Jazz&Jazz.com. So much so that to date I have released only 56 of over 400 of my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes.
This has to change!
beginning with:
YouTube No 57 in the Jazz&Jazz Covid 19 Blackout Buster Series
“SOUTH!” (Bennie Moten): The Tenement Jazz Band
During their Spring 2019 tour south of the border, Edinburgh’s
Tenement Jazz Band played at a Tad Newton Jazz Evening at Bedford Golf Club.
In addition to “South” their repertoire included a series of tuneful but
little know numbers.
Paddy Darley – Trombone
Charles Dearness – Trumpet
Tom Pickles – Saxophones
John Youngs – Guitar/Banjo
Doug Kemp – Double Bass
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Farewell Colin Kingwell!
March 29, 2021 By 2 Comments
The sad news reached me today that Colin Kingwell has, in words he would appreciate, shuffled off his mortal coil. I was flawed.
Colin always welcomed me to film him with his Jazz Bandits.
The last time I filmed the band was when Ramsgate Seaside Shuffle welcomed him back to their 2014 Festival. As ever, Colin and the band were on top form and his jokes and repartee
surpassed adoration.
Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz & Jazz
Farewell Chris Barber
March 3, 2021 By Leave a Comment
“The sad news keeps on coming. Chris Barber has now joined
the band in the sky.”
Brian O’Connor
“Chris Barber OBE, one of the greatest figures in the history of British jazz, has sadly passed. For nearly 70 years, Chris led bands that covered many genres of jazz from New Orleans, the Blues, Rhythm & Blues and, of course, skiffle. A great servant to the jazz world who will be
hugely missed by jazz fans.”
National Jazz Archive
I was delightfully privileged to spend time in deep conversation with Chris not so long ago:
https://www.jazzandjazz.com/2020/04/chris-barber-90-today/
Thank you, Chris, for your massive contribution to Jazz. I managed to capture the YouTube featured in the link above from way back in The Gods in Wyllyotts Theatre, Potters Bar. That same day Chris said we should get together to share the story of his life in jazz in full. I guess that now we will have to wait until another day!
Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz & Jazz
“A Touch of High Society”
February 16, 2021 By Leave a Comment
YouTube No 56 in the Jazz&Jazz
Covid 19 Blackout Buster Series
The Adrian Cox Quartet recaptures the magic of
clarinetist Edmund Hall
One of a series of Jazz&Jazz YouTubes filmed during Adrian’s
Edmund Hall Presentations.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Facebook! Friend or Foe?
February 2, 2021 By 1 Comment
I launched my Jazz&Jazz Facebook Page some years ago. My intention? Primarily to feature and promote the contents of, and further the reach of jazz&jazz.com. It has helped. All the more so since adding my Facebook Jazzers Group. But recently Facebook has become top dog with Jazz&Jazz demoted to the wings.
One of my major Jazz&Jazz supporters recently emailed me: “I know everything has come to a near stop as far as jazz is concerned, but, on my frequent visits to your site, I have noticed it is rather spasmodic and quieter than I’ve been used to. I trust this is just down to the current situation we are all in.”
Norman, you may have hit the nail on the head. But this need not and should not be so.
Promotional opportunities lost!
Yes, along with the many members of my Facebook Jazzers Group, I have been featuring and promoting reams of jazz on Facebook. But this has been at the expense of current features here on Jazz&Jazz. Promotional opportunities lost!
A solution to this during the Covid19 Shut Down is to feature more, many more, of my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes here on Jazz&Jazz. I have let this lapse, so entangled have I become in Facebook and my Facebook Jazzers Group.
Facebook can be an encumbrance. It doesn’t get down to the nitty gritty possible here on jazz&jazz.com.
So my plea! Even though I use Social Media to highlight items, I urge fans and enthusiasts to comment in “Speak Your Mind” here on Jazz&Jazz rather than on, or maybe as well as, the Social Media links.
Obviously I will continue to use Social Media. But with increased discretion. I need to get back to spending serious time posting features here on Jazz&Jazz rather than allow Social Media to distract me or my followers.
Jazz&Jazz first and then my Facebook Jazzers Group!
Currently Covid19 prevents me from filming but fans can follow my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbyqlX9cd5D7h2FpXsdS7BQ/videos
Please, help the cause with positive feedback to this and other posts in Comments below. Thank you for your patience and continued support.
Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz&Jazz
“Stairway to the Stars”
January 9, 2021 By Leave a Comment
YouTube No 55 in the Jazz&Jazz
Covid 19 Blackout Buster Series
I jumped at the opportunity to meet and film Jonny Boston at
Botany Bay Jazz Club for my Jazz&Jazz YouTubes.
Just today (9th January, 2021) Jonny messaged me:
“So much has happened since this gig. Lovely to watch again!
Thanks Peter for posting it!”
Full story and more YouTubes on Jazz&Jazz: http://goo.gl/QBG4ey
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
(YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz)
Dave Browning’s Jazz Cats Live at The Walnut Tree
December 23, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Station Road, Blisworth, NN7 3DS
Sunday 3rd January, 2021: 12.30-3pm
Admission £15.00 in advance only (reduced numbers strictly limited).
Call 01604 858549 to book and for further information.
Three miles from J15 on M1.
Free parking.
LIVE JAZZ … USE IT OR LOSE IT!
TAD NEWTON 01604 858549
www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com
email: [email protected]
Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz&Jazz
“Cushion Foot Stomp”… YouTube Masterpiece: Sarah Spencer’s Covid 19 Global Ramblers
December 12, 2020 By 2 Comments
A fine example of jazz musicians combining their talents from different locations to compensate for the plight of the Covid19 live jazz shut down.
Thanks go to Sarah for her skill in compiling this
YouTube masterpiece.
Also to help fill the void whilst Covid19 casts its unwanted pall of silence over live jazz, I am currently featuring a series of my own Jazz&Jazz YouTubes filmed in happier days. These include Sarah playing with Mike Owen’s Scarlett’s Serenaders (below) shortly after her arrival
in the UK from the USA.
Mike (trombone), Sarah (Saxophone) , Brian Mellor (Banjo),
Brian Lawrence (bass) and Baby Jools (Drums).
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor Jazz&Jazz
“The Dime Notes” Live at the Walnut Courtesy of Tad Newton
December 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Station Road, Blisworth NN7 3DS NN7 3DS
Sunday 13th December 12.30-3pm
Admission £12.50 by ticket only (Reduced numbers strictly limited).
Call 01604 858549 to book and for further information.
Bar facilities and good food available.
Superb intimate atmosphere, great jazz, real ales.
Three miles from J15 on M1.
Free parking.
LIVE JAZZ … USE IT OR LOSE IT!
TAD NEWTON 01604 858549
www.tadnewtonsjazzfriends.com
email: [email protected]
Peter M Butler
Editor Jazz&Jazz
