Jazz Articles about Terry Day

The People Band with Gina Southgate at The Vortex

by Sammy Stein
May 19, 2013

Gina Southgate and The People Band The Vortex London, UK May 11, 2013 On a Saturday evening in the heart of Dalston, East London, The People Band once again graced The Vortex with its free form and improvised style of jazz. As the group played, artist Gina Southgate, with the help of a very computer-literate assistant, created live paintings which were projected on a screen behind the musicians. The collaboration created a visual ...

Terry Day: 2006 Duos

by Nic Jones
May 4, 2007

These five duo performances captured for posterity all involve first-time partnerships for Terry Day, although he has worked with some of the musicians in different settings in the past. He has a perhaps unique claim to be the only musician working in the field of free improvisation who concentrates on bamboo pipes as his means for musical expression, and throughout this disc there is ample evidence of the degree of individuality he brings to the music.

His skilful use of ...

Terry Day: Interruptions

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 14, 2006

Bisognerebbe candidarsi a scrivere presto una biografia romanzata del signor Terry Day, da Hemel Hempstead, Regno Unito, classe 1940. Polistrumentista, cantante, compositore, pittore, cuoco, forse anche entomologo e chissà cos’altro. Musicista d’orchestre da ballo a cavallo dei Cinquanta e dei Sessanta, proprio dal 1960 in poi inizia ad interessarsi alla musica d’avanguardia che “contamina” e trasporta in mille avventure rock-pop perpetrate poi lungo tutto l’arco dei creativi Settanta. Funambolico dissacratore di ogni tipologia di strumento musicale, Day gioca, letteralmente, in ...