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Performance / Tour

Nu Civilisation Orchestra - Firebird: A Stravinsky-Parker Sound Clash

Source: Adam Sieff
January 19, 2012

Saturday 3 March: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London Saturday 28 April: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton Firebird is an engaging programme of new work exploring musical paths that converge at the crossroads of jazz and classical music. It's an exciting place where two musical revolutionaries—Igor Stravinsky and Charlie Parker—meet and cross swords utilising their distinctive armouries of rhythmic ingenuity and harmonic invention. Firebird features a remodelled version of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto (originally commissioned by jazz clarinetist, Woody Herman in 1946); ...

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Performance / Tour

The Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra becomes The Nu Civilisation Orchestra. New programme Firebird debuts Autumn 2011

Source: Adam Sieff
July 26, 2011

The Nu Civilisation Orchestra is the new name of the Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra, a fully professional 16-piece orchestra comprising past and present members of the Tomorrow's Warriors artist development programme. Tomorrow's Warriors Artistic Director Gary Crosby OBE said, 'this is our response to feedback from promoters and the public who were not fully aware of our Orchestra's depth of quality and professional status. It is also to avoid any confusion with other Tomorrow's Warriors lineups, such as the Yamaha ...

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Recording

jazzlotion releases direct to stereo EP by the Peter Edwards Trio

Source: Adam Sieff
November 21, 2010

jazzlotion is a new company dedicated to recording the finest young jazz musicians direct to stereo in a state-of-the-art environment. There are no drop-ins, mixdowns, effects or gadgetry of any kind—just great musicians performing live in the studio without a safety net and their performance going straight to a Studer half-inch tape machine. It's the closest you can get to the purity of a live show where all that matters is the performance and the music. jazzlotion will release this ...

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Recording

Rhythmica release debut album: ‘Rhythmica’.

Source: Adam Sieff
September 27, 2010

Dune Music artists Rhythmica release their debut album in digital format on September 27 2010, with CD release set to follow in February 2011. Rhythmica are: Zem Audu—saxophones, Mark Crown—trumpet, Peter Edwards—piano, Pete Randall—double bass and Andy Chapman—drums There's a sense of destiny about Rhythmica. This is a brand new group from the same Tomorrow's Warriors development programme that has already produced some of the UK's most talked-about jazz groups including Empirical, Nu Troop, J-Life, Jade Fox and Zed-U, not ...

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