Over a hot stove
Cooking it all up for his own satisfaction and your delight is Peter Bacon. Peter discovered his father’s Art Tatum records at an early age and has been a jazz devotee ever since. Other formative experiences were hearing Miles’ In A Silent Way over the speakers in a dark basement jazz club at the age of 17 and witnessing Abdullah Ibrahim (then Dollar Brand) playing his first gig back in South Africa in 1970.
He is delighted and honoured to be living near enough to Birmingham, England, and the many amazing (especially young) jazz musicians who have chosen to study, gig and – please! please! – stay there. When he can he writes very complimentary things about them.
This blog is mainly about jazz in Birmingham, but there are also reviews of CDs he has been listening to, and ramblings about whatever else takes his fancy.
Its title is inspired not only by his surname, but also by a New Yorker cartoon which showed a dog sitting at a fancy restaurant table perusing the menu while a waiter stood at his side, pencil poised above pad. The caption read: “I’ll have the dog’s breakfast, please.”
Peter was delighted to have this blog site nominated as one of three contenders for the title of Best Publication in the 2009 Parliamentary Jazz Awards.
Fab review of Tom Cawley/Curios and Esbjorn Svvenson CD’s. Am confident of enjoying these as soon as they are available.
Thank you
I have been trying to locate for ages a promised CD by Zoe Rahman, featuring Bengali songs heard at their MAC gig last winter. Is “Where rivers meet” this long awaited release?
It is indeed – I was also dying to hear it ever since I heard them play this music last year. Good news is that it is even better than anticipated. More good news is the band appears twice in the Midlands in late October – at the Abbotsholme Arts Society and for Birmingham Jazz. Keep watching on the main page for more.
hi. Dont forget to get yourself down to london to see raymond butchers 5 tet. They are playing on march 3rd at the prestigious 606 jazz club. Featuring birminghams very own Tim Amann, Sam Rogers, Tyrone bishop and the one and only Miles levin son of Tony. ‘fluent and powerful’ Steve Rubie (606 club) ‘has some good ideas’ Wynton Marsalis. Ray is also featured on wolverhampton Ivor Novello award winning folk singer Scott Matthews cd due out in march which also features Robert Plant .
Hi Peter,
I love your jazz blog, great information, forward thinking, and fun at the same time, what more can you ask!? In the meanwhile I was looking for a link on the blog to contact you, or is this the only possibility?
All the best – Joe
What a very enjoyable site – I’ll look forward to listening to your recommended albums – I’m on your wavelength.
Hi Peter,
I present Jazz Kaleidoscope, a weekly Jazz Show on 102.5 The ‘Bridge and available on line at http://www.thebridgeradio.net
The show covers many different styles of Jazz from the ODJB to current happenings. The show is on air on Monday nights 10-12pm. Why not give it a listen and let me know what you think.
All the best,
Alan