Jazz Articles about Django Bates

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Django Bates: Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)

by Chris May
June 16, 2008

One of the true visionary geniuses of British--and indeed all--modern jazz, keyboardist and composer Django Bates is a shaman and synapse twister with a breathtakingly imaginative take on the traditions and structures he recalibrates. His energy is iconoclastic but also sunny and effervescent and benign, shot through with humor and relish of the absurd. His ideas are big and he particularly excels when writing for big bands, two of which--Loose Tubes and Delightful Precipice--have led joyful rococo revolutions on the ...

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Django Bates: Winter Truce (And Homes Blaze)

by Chris May
October 30, 2005

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Django Bates' Human Chain: Live At The Hackney Empire, London, 24 July 2005

by Chris May
July 31, 2005

After twenty-something years subverting and enlivening the UK jazz scene - with Loose Tubes, Delightful Precipice, and Human Chain, amongst myriad other projects - Django Bates has announced he is leaving the country. Tonight's performance was the last London gig before he relocates to Denmark, to become the inaugural Professor at Denmarks's adventurous, and generously state-funded, Rhythmic Music Conservatory. In '97, of course, Bates famously won the Danish Jazzpar prize, only the second non-American and second Briton so to do.