The Flat Earth Society
These images were taken at the mac on Saturday night. They are of a Belgian band called the Flat Earth Society who were performing a score written to be performed with a showing of a 1919 silent movie called the Oyster Princess. Pete Bacon has reviewed the gig on his site here. I took the [...]
Eugene Chadbourne
Last night Fizzle, the Improv music club held at the Lamp Tavern in Digbeth, Birmingham, hosted Eugene Chadbourne and Roger Turner. I was vaguely aware of Chadbourne’s name and reputation but hadn’t knowingly listened to his music before last night. Now I am aware of what I have been missing. Chadbourne is from the USA [...]
Atomic and the Vandermark 5
Last night saw a contender for one of my gigs of the year. Atomic and the Vandermark 5 both played at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham. Atomic are Swedish and the Vandermark 5 hail from Chicage in the USA but to me they have things in common which are more than just five piece line-ups. [...]
Live Jazz again!
After Birmingham Jazz’s summer break the new season started on friday with a special Rush Hour Blues on the main stage in Symphony Hall for ArtsFest weekend. Two bands played, Ben Markland’s Quintet and Percy Pursglove’s Quartet. Both bands were great and it was good to be back listening to live jazz and taking images [...]
Iconsamongstus
I have just been watching the second episode of the Sky Arts documentary “Iconsamongstus – Jazz in the present tense.” The first two programmes have been really interesting and have featured a wide variety of the younger Jazz musicians around on the US scene. The first episode presented the idea that whilst their might be [...]
Black and White Images
I’ve spent the last few days uploading several hundred of my old Black and White images from Jazz gigs in Birmingham onto my photoshelter site. There are still more to come as I haven’t yet started on the Black and White images of Andy Hamilton and guests. The gallery posted here features images from 1997. [...]
Mirror at the Rainbow
These are the images I took last Wednesday night at the Rainbow. The band is Mirror featuring Dan Nicholls on keyboards, James Allsop on sax and Dave Smith on drums. I’ve taken longer than I hoped to get this blog sorted out. I’ve been distracted by other work like uploading more images to my site. [...]