It’s raining outside, and I have a bit of downtime today, so I thought I’d do a long overdue sort of my albums. Alphabetical, naturally – but also sorting them into sections. They’re not brilliant divisions for music in general, but it kind of makes sense of the collection I have. The sections are: – [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: Records
If you’ve been following along with this blog for any time at all, you’ll know that I’m involved with and a big supporter of Un-Convention, who organise grassroots and independent music knowledge and networking events around the world. They asked me to do a video for the Un-Convention Hub website, and just answer a few [...]
Categories: Video
Tagged: unconvention
This group of people just spent a week living, eating and working together, performing jazz music in multiple different combinations, composing new music, learning new techniques and approaches, putting on concerts, holding jam sessions until dawn, drinking, laughing and generally having an amazing, creative, exhausting and life-changing time. A lot of them have done it [...]
Categories: Music
Last night was ‘party night’ at Jazz Danmark’s Summer Session. The musicians have been working from morning until late at night (and beyond) for almost a week now, and the organisers figure that this is a good point for them to cut loose a little bit. There was a surprise element this time, which nobody [...]
Categories: Music
