TUBBY HAYES: A MAN IN A HURRY: Interview with the film’s producer Mark Baxter

  This is a #HJFilmFest related post. The new Herts Jazz FILM Festival takes place at Welwyn Garden City Cinema on 16-18 September 2016 with a special gala evening on 2 October. It will showcase compelling films that all have a distinctly jazz flavour. Timed to complement the Herts Jazz Club’s well-established and prestigious annual Herts Jazz …

WAR DAMAGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS – Tate Britain

  The galleries echo with call and response, from war to war, place to place. The sounds recall last breaths and death rattles, slow exhalations. As much as distant wars, fallen armies and martial music, it is hard not to think of other musics, other times. It is impossible not to think of the soaring, …

New album by Get The Blessing may be best yet…

My short review of OCDC published online in One Hundred Words Magazine:- Bristol-based jazz-rockers Get The Blessing are back with an addictively rousing album, OCDC. It's perhaps their best yet. The front line are Pete Judge (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Jake McMurchie (saxes) playing music which is part-inspired by Ornette Coleman but with a contemporary …