Last year I was the education composer in residence at Cheltenham Jazz Festival’s Jazz It Up project. I must have done something right cause they have had me back again this year. Last year the theme was Cartoons this year it is Heaven and Hell. So there has been big band arrangements for Bat [...]
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Birmingham Jazz Youth - Posted March 19, 2008
This pic is made of pasting two together. This explains the colour difference in the middle and odd liking of balcony above.
Last Saturday 15th saw the culmination of three Birmingham Jazz Youth sessions at the CBSO centre. We did an informal concert of small band pieces and finished it off with a creative big [...]
Birmingham Jazz Youth Creative Big Band Sessions - Posted January 11, 2008
Coming up on Saturday 19th January at the CBSO centre Birmingham Jazz are hosting the first of 3 creative big band sessions. If you are interested in being part of a big group of improvising musicians and are aged between 12 and 21 come along. The first two sessions are 12pm-3pm and the final one [...]
Birmingham Jazz Youth - Posted March 25, 2007
Many thanks to all the young musicians who came to the jam session and creative big band workshop at the CBSO centre yesterday. Also a major thanks to the tutors and teachers who brought the young folks along. It was a great day with lots of amazing performances from all involved.
We recorded the creative [...]
Creative Big Band Session CBSO Centre Sat 24th March 12.30pm – 2.30pm - Posted March 18, 2007
Birmingham Jazz are running a jam session for young musicians at the CBSO centre on Saturday 24th March. It starts at 10.00am and goes on until about 12ish at which time we will break for lunch. From about 12.30pm we will run a creative big band session. I am writing a graphic score that will [...]
Elements - Posted April 3, 2006
www.myspace.com/hellogull The Void
www.myspace.com/hardwahThe Hard Wah
Check out these two young bands and if you are on My Space link to them. They have come out of the Elements education project run by Sound It Out and Birmingham Jazz and based at Hamstead Hall school. Check them out for now and I will post a lot [...]