I did my the first of my new weekly DJ slots at the Hare and Hounds pub down the road this afternoon. They’ve turned the back room into a rather nice restaurant space, and they’re serving leisurely Sunday roast dinners. And as the people eat their meals and read the newspapers, I’m playing records – [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Food,Music
Soul Food Sunday – Vol. 2 by Dubber on Mixcloud I’ve just finished a new mix to promote the regular Sunday afternoon DJ sets I’m going to be performing as part of Soul Food Sundays at the Hare and Hounds. Not much else to say about it – except that Jake made the cover. Click [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
While I was in Helsinki, I was interviewed by Radio New Zealand National‘s Saturday Morning host Kim Hill. The pretext was that Finland had just been declared best country in the world to live in, and since I was a New Zealander who just happened to be there, I was on the radio for quarter [...]
Categories: New Zealand,Radio,Travel
I’m in Helsinki for the 9th Nordic Jazz Conference, at which I was doing a presentation about jazz on the internet, and my role in Rhythm Changes – a 3 year jazz research project I’m working on. The conference was held in the Finnish National Archive building – and today we had a bit of [...]
Categories: Travel
Soul Food Sunday by Dubber on Mixcloud I had a meeting today at my local pub (which also happens to be Birmingham’s best music venue, if you ask me…). They’ve recently started doing food on site: some guys I met before, when they were at Island Bar in town, are running ‘Soul Food’ at the [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Food,Music
Tagged: Funk, Hare and Hounds, jazz, Soul Food
A nice, laid back and slightly tropical / latin mix for today. I can see a bit of blue sky, there’s no sign of yesterday’s torrential rain, and this is just what I was in the mood for, after completely immersing myself in old school hip hop all day yesterday. Quite pleased with this selection, [...]
Categories: Music
If you haven’t come across one of these before, it’s a playlist I’ve made using Spotify. If you live somewhere you can use the service (currently Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands), then you can simply download the software, then click the link below, and enjoy two hours of jazz chosen [...]
Categories: Music
Every now and then, a friend asks me to make up a Sunday Jazz Spotify playlist. This time, it was the turn of Nick in Belfast. Here’s what I came up with: Click here to listen Gary Burton – Boston Marathon Peggy Lee – Black Coffee Gil Scott-Heron – Ain’t No New Thing Jimmy Smith [...]
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You may be aware that I like jazz. I used to host a jazz radio programme, I once co-owned a jazz record label, and I have a lot of jazz records. But other than those times I’ve been able to squeeze it into my research (specialist music radio – including jazz; music on the internet [...]
Categories: Travel,University
Tagged: jazz, Rhythm Changes, Vienna
I haven’t done a Dubber’s Sunday Jazz Spotify playlist for a while, and hadn’t given the matter much thought either. So it was nice when I received a request for one via Twitter from my friend Dave. He specifically asked for stuff that swings and has great drum and trumpet solos. Nothing too obscure… “classics [...]
Categories: Music
