Once or twice a year, I find myself at an academic conference about jazz. The Leeds one is a regular feature, but there are others that crop up from time to time, and for the last couple of days, I was in Manchester for the ‘Mediating Jazz‘ conference put on by Salford Uni. It’s a [...]
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Arrivals, Kolkata International Airport. After some long flights, delays and no sleep, Jez Collins, Ruth Daniels and I arrived in Calcutta/Kolkata. We’re staying a couple of days in a massive and beautiful apartment near the centre of town, and have already been made to feel very welcome. It’s very warm, as you might expect – [...]
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Hi. I’m a Knowledge Transfer Fellow in Online Music and Radio Innovation and a Senior Lecturer in the Music Industries in the Centre for Media and Cultural Research and the Interactive Cultures Research Unit within the Birmingham School of Media, in the Performance, Media and English Faculty at Birmingham City University. I will never have [...]
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Today I launched a new weekly jazz show. But it’s not on the radio. In fact, all it is is a Spotify playlist linked from a Posterous blog page. You can find the show here: Dubber’s Sunday Jazz. It’s a two hour playlist of jazz, chosen by me. No talking – just the tunes. And [...]
