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Block and Roll and All That Jazz
by Sammy Stein
There are just a few bands that can fill a jazz venue as easily as they fill one more used to contemporary pop music, and it seems right to acknowledge one of the best jazz-influenced, long-lived and popular groups from the late '70s to the present day, The Blockheads. This band filled Ronnie Scott's and The ...
Fete Quaqua: London, UK, August 19-21, 2012
by John Eyles
Fete QuaquaThe VortexLondonAugust 19-21, 2012Fete Quaqua is the annual three-day festival of improvised music organized by guitarist John Russell as an offshoot of his monthly Mopomoso evenings at The Vortex. “Quaqua" is a Latin word which translates as “wherever," and encapsulates Russell's declared intention that the festival should “provide a fertile ...
Freeform in the U.K.
by Sammy Stein
Freeform and improvised jazz is having a hard time at the moment. Venues have to make tough choices between pleasing what is a smaller cohort of customers and bringing new, maybe transient, but paying clients who are attracted by big names, standards and music they know. Customers have less cash in these difficult economic times, so ...
Free Form Evolution
by Sammy Stein
Since free form tentatively emerged during the 1940s and '50s it has evolved with both the times and changing audiences. Now, free form elements cross genre boundaries and many musicians use elements from free form in their works. Because it is music which draws on the spiritual feelings of the players, social dramas and the atmosphere ...
The Beginnings of Free Form
by Sammy Stein
"Free form" is a term used to encompass a whole genre--or genres--outside mainstream jazz. Jazz has its roots in spiritual music, Dixieland, New Orleans, blues and ragtime, and after the 1940s these became fused into a catch-all assignation of genre. Jazz took on a predictability that was largely influenced not by the limitations of the players, ...
Terry Day: 2006 Duos
by Nic Jones
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 ...
Terry Day: Interruptions
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
