Now the festive season is well and truly upon us the team would like to wish you a Happy Christmas after a spectacular year for Birmingham Jazz. As a thank you for your continued support of the 100 or so gigs we have presented this year please click on the links below for some live recordings and videos of the excellent performances we have presented in 2008.
The Heritage Orchestra & Lizzy Parks Album Launch
Town Hall Birmingham
Video highlights of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSuoKYVyW9I
Django Bates StoRMChaser Project
CBSO Centre
Click here to download Jazz On 3 Broadcast recorded at the CBSO Centre in October.
Click on link below to purchase the Django Bates StoRMChaser CD Spring Is Here
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~jemuk/
John Escreet with Dave Binney
CBSO Centre
Click here to download Jazz On 3 Broadcast recorded at the CBSO centre in October.
For more details and to purchase music from John Escreet please go to :http://johnescreet.com/
John Randall Band
Jazz Club at The Rainbow
Click here for exclusive live recording of the gig in November.
To purchase John’s new album please go to : http://www.tentotenrecords.com/
Christmas message from Artistic Director Tony Dudley -Evans
For me the national tours that Birmingham Jazz sets up are always highlights of the year. So this year we set up the tour with Dave Liebman playing with Phil Robson Trio in January, the tour that brought together Ken Vandermark, Mark Sanders and Barry Guy in November and the Charlie Dark African Beats tour in March. It’s great that there are already plans to have Liebman with Phil Robson Trio at Cheltenhem 2009 and for the Vandermark/Sanders/Guy trio to release an album and to play at international festivals.
Other gigs I really keep thinking back to include the Robert Glasper Trio at Jam House in March, composer/drummer John Hollenbeck working with the Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra in June, Django Bates with his Danish stoRMChaser Big Band in October and Partisans at Jazz Club @Rainbow, also in October. But I also get particular pleasure from promoting top young British players such as John Escreet, Finn Peters and the double bill with Dan Nicholls and Alcyona Mick (both graduates from the Conservatoire jazz course) that we ended the year with.
A final positive thing has to be the continuing success of the Friday Rush Hour Blues session attended by around 300 people every week at Symphony Hall. We have put on some great gigs there too.
Tony
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2009 Preview
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