I’m in Cheltenham this weekend for the Jazz Festival. It’s not just music going on here… I’ve been moderating a couple of discussions that have been pretty well attended too, even with a £5 entry fee on the door. Some great speakers and some really helpful advice for people wanting to get started in the [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: jazz
I’m giving an academic conference paper tomorrow at the Rhythm Changes jazz cultures research conference at Media City in Salford. My presentation’s centred around the Auckland jazz scene in the mid to late 1990s. There are some interesting aspects to that scene: the cross-pollination between local hip hop and jazz, the influx of Australian musicians, [...]
Categories: Research
I’m in Manchester for an academic conference about jazz. It’s the final major event of Rhythm Changes, the three-year European jazz research project I’ve been working on, and it is, by all accounts, the largest academic jazz conference EVER (in Europe). There must be literally tens of people here. One of the great things about [...]
Categories: University
Tagged: Conference, jazz, research
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
