Comments on: 24th Birmingham International Jazz Festival http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/29/24th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Peter Bacon http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/29/24th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/#comment-21740 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:46:47 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1716#comment-21740 Worth checking out are the Cobweb Collective;s Jam Session at the Yardbird on Wednesday 9 July and the Walsall Jazz Orchestra at the Symphony Hall bar on Thursday 10 July. Cobweb is a bunch of Birmingham Conservatoire students and graduates – some very talented players and a really fresh take on jazz with a particularly Birmingham spin. Also, the fab film about Chet Baker, Let’s Get Lost, is showing at the Electric.
Definitely worth a look.

]]> By: Russell Fletcher http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/29/24th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/#comment-19634 Sat, 31 May 2008 16:13:17 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1716#comment-19634 You want home-grown names in the jazz fest? Try Richard Hughes, Mike Green, Steve Street, the Mike Burney Quartet, Paul Sawtell, Nick Millward, John Patrick, Brian Mellor, Keith Bill, Arthur Brown Band, the Bryan Corbett Quartet, Mick Hatton’s MJHQ, Roy Forbes, the David Moore Blues Band, the Adam Phillips Trio, Fat Lip Blues Band, Kel Elliott, Lexie Stobie, Sam Payne, they are all set to play their part.

I haven’t yet checked with the Jazz Gestapo, but I would also include Val Wiseman, Steve Steinhaus, Boysie Battrum, Bobby Woods and Tom Hill – some born here and moved away, others vice versa. That’s as well as the co-operation with several local jazz organisations which include a bunch more local players – and there’s an exhibition of the paintings of local musician and bandleader King Pleasure.

]]> By: simon gray http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/29/24th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/#comment-19482 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:31:57 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1716#comment-19482 my observation of the event was that it always used to be primarily the aural offence that is ‘trad’; looking at the programme it still seems heavily weighted in that direction.

nice to see my old trumpet teacher digby fairweather playing though !

]]> By: dp http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/29/24th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/#comment-19441 Thu, 29 May 2008 23:00:16 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1716#comment-19441 Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, Robin 2, Bilston. Bilston?

Okay, I see there are gigs in Bromsgrove, Dudley and Solihull too.

But where are the homegrown names?

]]> By: Midge http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/29/24th-birmingham-international-jazz-festival/#comment-19438 Thu, 29 May 2008 22:29:22 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1716#comment-19438 No Biscuit Boys and no Big Man Clayton (Mr C)?.

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