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Great British Jazz: Six Decades of Tributes, Stories and Impro at Southbank Centre- 19-26 July 2011

By on June 17, 2011
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sowetokinch Great British Jazz: Six Decades of Tributes, Stories and Impro at Southbank Centre 19 26 July 2011

by Damian Rafferty

Featuring cult-figure Evan Parker; Kinch’s tribute to the genius of alchemist Joe Harriott; Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Orchestra’s celebration of and a tribute to and the Big Band

As part of ’s of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations with MasterCard, the GREAT BRITISH JAZZ mini-series of four concerts is a celebration of some key moments in the evolution of jazz in the UK and the musical movers and shakers that have defined British jazz over the past six decades, since the of Britain in 1951.

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Check it out live

  • Artist: Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Orchestra
  • Date: Saturday, July 23rd 2011
  • Time: 7:45pm
  • City: Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Orchestra in London
  • Venue: Purcell Room, QEH
  • Address: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road
  • Venue phone: 020 7960 4200
  • Country: UK
  • Admission: £13
  • Notes: This concert also forms part of the London Is The Place For Me weekend, celebrating some of the seminal moments in black British music.
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  • Artist: A Tribute to John Dankworth
  • Date: Monday, July 25th 2011
  • Time: 7:30pm
  • City: A Tribute to John Dankworth in London
  • Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall
  • Address: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road
  • Venue phone: +44 (0)20 7960 4200
  • Country: UK
  • Admission: £25 £20 £10
  • Notes: The GREAT BRITISH JAZZ mini-series of four concerts is a celebration of some key moments in the evolution of jazz in the UK and the musical movers and shakers that have defined British jazz over the past six decades, since the Festival of Britain in 1951.
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  • Artist: Soweto Kinch
  • Date: Tuesday, July 26th 2011
  • Time: 7:30pm
  • City: Soweto Kinch in London
  • Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall
  • Address: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road
  • Venue phone: +44 (0)20 7960 4200
  • Country: UK
  • Admission: £20 £10
  • Notes: Abstract. Tribute to Joe Harriot. The GREAT BRITISH JAZZ mini-series of four concerts is a celebration of some key moments in the evolution of jazz in the UK and the musical movers and shakers that have defined British jazz over the past six decades, since the Festival of Britain in 1951.
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Empirical – Out ‘n’ In

By on April 29, 2010
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Not only have the jazzheads been after the new album by for some time, when it does arrive there’s the bonus of having it produced by Jason Yarde and featuring Special Guest Julian Siegel, what more can you want?

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Billy Jenkins – I Am A Man From Lewisham

By on April 11, 2010
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’ new CD I Am A Man From Lewisham got a hot reception when Jenkins was recently introduced by Libby Purves as a “ man from Lewisham whose latest and most significant gigs have been humanist funerals”!!! Is it enough to wake the dead?

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Fringe Magnetic – Empty Spaces

By on January 31, 2010
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The new album by Rory Simmons’ is big band leftfield at its best and no doubt the highlight of the forthcoming Loop Collective at the Vortex.

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Joachim Kuhn/Majid Bekkas/Ramon Lopez – Out of the Desert

By on June 18, 2009
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Veteran German pianist Joachim K?ºhn is not the first free- artist to look to for inspiration — sax legend Archie Shepp recorded with Algerian and musicians at the Pan African — but to find such an electric collaboration between two such distinct musical worlds is exciting

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Fat Freddy’s Drop – Live at the Matterhorn

By on November 2, 2008
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Fat Freddy’s Drop reached lofty heights with their award-winning, platinum selling, 2005 album Based On A True Story. Every New Zealander it seemed bought the CD, played to death and then brought it abroad with them

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Byard Lancaster – Funny Funky Rib Crib

By on September 21, 2008
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Byard has started his career in the mid 60s working with and but reached his funky peak with this album on the obscure Palm label, so it’s with great anticipation we find Kindred Spirits are reissuing it this week.

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V/A – The Rough Guide To The Music Of Japan

By on June 25, 2008
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With that uncanny timing of things, whilst the host a night of with the SOIL & “Pimp” Sessions, The guys decide to go back to a time before Death !

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Joshua Redman- Back East

By on June 9, 2007
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Joshua Redman emerged in 1992 with great acclaim for his self-titled album. Like a beacon of hope, Redman offered a vibrant and engaging , which was many miles way away from the stuffiness that the genre can be guilty of. This was to listen to, fall in love with (and to) and importantly (and something which is often lost in ) the sheer, simple ability to whistle a tune in the morning

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Lars Frediksson – Ting Qiu: Listening To Autumn

By on November 28, 2006
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When the launch party is at the Ethnographic Museum, you know this isn’t your usual album

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Michael Garrick Big Band – London Jazz Festival 2006 (Live Review)

By on November 11, 2006
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“Michael Garrick’s music is a masterly synthesis of head and heart. It possesses sufficient freedom in the general structure to allow spur-of-the-moment extensions.”

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Archie Shepp – Kwanza

By on November 11, 2006
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Kwanza is a celebration of “all things African and African-American”.

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Jonquil – Sunny Casinos

By on October 29, 2006
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Time to take a on some leftfield conceptualism

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Eric Dolphy – The New King, Already Dead

By on August 18, 2006
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Our Man on the Coast, Maxwell Chandler takes another look at Eric Dolphy’s masterpiece Out to Lunch to coincide with its reissue — but not before plotting the musical landscape from bop to the new thing

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Sun Ra – Concert for the Comet Kohoutek

By on August 5, 2006
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This is an overlooked gem from 1973, recorded at the Townhall, City a couple of days before Christmas. ’s mind was on his ‘Space is the Place’ film and like an avant-garde film of that time, the music is restless, shifting and all over the space

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