INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY CELEBRATIONS UK: 2021

International Jazz Day is an International Day declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2011 ´to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe´. It is celebrated annually on April 30.

TRAVELS WITH A TROMBONE

´Perhaps some people underestimate the creativity that went into some original jazz masterpieces but working as a band you find out what possible adjustments can be done to make a tune sound right and how to stretch out the bits that are important.´
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NEW WINE FROM OLD BOTTLES

Certainly the lead female dancer of Antionio De La Rosa´s flamenco fusion delivered her steps with a sense of defiance and dominance that was surely making some point about gender issues.

ANDRA DAY & BILLIE AND THE BLUES

an electrifying portrait of a broken artist, often strung out on heroin, fighting back against an FBI that persecuted her relentlessly.

OPEN DAWES TO GREAT MUSIC

a band that should have been on my playlists long before now.

MUSIC MISCELLANY (all highly acclaimed)

So, get excited everyone. A music is healing. and showing that even during what has been the worst of years it has still imitated, innovated and inspired..
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JAZZ; FILM AND BOOK REVIEWS

how on earth can I write about Billie Holiday ? How can anyone ?

THE DEMOCRACY! SUITE music for our times

He has won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood On The Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Our thanks to JAZZ IN READING

enthusiasts who share a passion for jazz and seek to promote the best of live jazz across the Thames Valley on their website and to present regular concerts in the convivial surroundings of the Progress Theatre, Reading and beyond.
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SONGS FOR REAL WOMEN

I recognise, of course, that some names are of such the perfect length and so much the right cadence that even if you tumble over the words you can still stutter out a hit to proclaim your love for Bar, Bar, Barbara Ann, just like the Be Be Beach Boys did!