I’ve had an email from Steve Tromans, a Birmingham-born composer who’s been globetrotting for a little while and, well, I’ll let him tell it:
I’m emailing to tell you about my upcoming return to Birmingham – specifically at the Yardbird Jazz Club, Paradise Circus, on Thurs 8th January 2009. I’ll be presenting the premiere performance of my musical setting of Gregory Corso’s “Bomb”, which is part three of a project I have called “Beat Series”. Back in 2003 I was commissioned by Birmingham Jazz to write “Howl”, part one of the series.
Fellow composer and poet Sid Peacock will be narrating and vocalising, Birmingham jazz scene favourites Chris Mapp and Miles Levin are on bass and drums respectively.
There’s a load more info about Bomb here.