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Rob Stringer

Rob Stringer started playing on the North West Jazz scene around 2004, after studying music at University in Liverpool. He took lessons with highly regarded UK jazz pianist Les Chisnall and also studied piano technique in New York with Eleanor Hancock of the Taubman Institute. Rob currently tours extensively across Europe and North America, with ‘Brit Floyd’, a Pink Floyd stage production. He also has his own jazz group, the Bobby Swing Band, in which he sings and plays piano, and in which the other members of The Weave have performed. He has done much session studio and live work and appearances include Later with Jools Holland, BBC Radio 2 Jonathan Ross and Mark Lamarr shows. A real highlight for Rob was performing at Stella McCartney’s 08 Fashion Show to an audience including Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison and Sir George Martin all seated in the front row!

The Weave: Knowledge Porridge

by Phil Barnes
August 27, 2015

Once there was a time when to be an individual meant pursuing self-realisation, working out who you were, how you felt about the world and what you believed for yourself. If that meant that say Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra or Charles Mingus were viewed as eccentrics then too bad, it was just how they were or ...

The Weave: The Weave

by Bruce Lindsay
September 15, 2013

From the perspective of an east of England jazz writer, it can seem like Manchester has the north east's jazz scene to itself, with Liverpool, its near neighbour, putting up little in the way of competition. It's not that Liverpool is un-musical--it is after all the home city of Gerry And The Pacemakers--but its impact on ...