Here the energy and fun which had built steadily during the first half erupted not only in a musically circling mass saxophone solo, but a physically circling piano solo. Source: LondonJazz: REVIEW: Duke Ellington’s We Love You Madly at Birmingham… Read More ›
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LondonJazz: INTERVIEW: Jeremy Price – (newly-formed Birm. Cons. Ellington Orch., launch concerts 3 Feb Birmingham, 5 Feb Southport)
I have an irrepressible grin standing in front of the Ellington Orchestra for pretty much every tune we are doing… That’s Jeremy Price talking about directing the new Birmingham Conservatoire Ellington Orchestra. Read my interview with Jeremy by clicking on… Read More ›
Birmingham Jazz Orchestra will squeeze five cities onto the Symphony Hall stage
On Wednesday evening next week Birmingham Jazz Orchestra and their audience will sit on the Symphony Hall stage. But we will all be travelling- to Moscow, Stockholm and Reykjavik up north, to Bilbao and Marrakech down south. And we’ll be… Read More ›
Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra
With special guests, Dave Holland, Nate Smith and Stan Sulzmann Director: Jeremy Price Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham UK 24-06-2016 And that’s the last time I will ever write Adrian Boult Hall as a venue! This was a farewell concert to… Read More ›
JQ Jazz Legends Festival – Saturday
Words and pictures by John Watson The Red Lion, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham UK 21-05-2016 It’s often the case that one ambitious project in the arts world can spark valuable spin-offs. Two of the bands featured in the JQ Jazz Legends… Read More ›
Second Legends Festival comes to Jewellery Quarter in May
The Legends are being celebrated earlier this year. After their highly successful first Legends Festival in July last year, Birmingham Jazz is raising a glass to the great jazz players of the past a little earlier in the calendar year…. Read More ›
BBC Young Musician 2016 Jazz Award
Birmingham Conservatoire’s Head of Jazz Jeremy Price reports on the award night and applauds a jazz competition that turned into a jazz celebration. Last Saturday I went to hear the Final of the BBC Young Musician Jazz Award at the Royal Welsh… Read More ›
Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra with Stan Sulzmann
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham UK 10-03-2016 The saxophonist, composer and arranger had been working with the student band all week, and this performance was the result. Sulzmann had chosen music mainly from fellow British composers – Nikki Iles, Mike Walker,… Read More ›
… and what are we looking forward to in 2016?
Here are a few thoughts from jazz movers in the English Midlands: Tony Dudley-Evans, programme adviser Cheltenham Jazz Festival: “I look forward to the Cheltenham Jazz Festival from 27th April to 2nd May, particularly the programme in the Parabola Arts… Read More ›
Celebrating John Taylor – Birmingham Conservatoire concert plus tributes
The death of the pianist John Taylor in July this year left a huge and hugely unexpected hole in jazz: in British jazz, in international jazz and in jazz education. Birmingham Conservatoire’s jazz department is keen to mark his contribution to… Read More ›
Jeremy Price – March 2015
Jeremy Price is a trombonist and Head Of Jazz at Birmingham Conservatoire. We chatted over a pint or two in the Prince Of Wales, the pub behind the ICC, and then followed it up with an email exchange. Here are… Read More ›
Mike Williams’ Sama
CBSO Centre, Birmingham UK 09-01-2015 Jazzlines, Birmingham’s premier jazz producers, opened their 2015 season with real aplomb and a project long overdue: a commission for new music from the saxophonist, composer and, perhaps most importantly, teacher, Mike Williams. Williams has been… Read More ›
Birmingham Conservatoire appoints Andrew Bain as senior lecturer in jazz
Birmingham Conservatoire‘s jazz department, part of Birmingham City University, has expanded its senior teaching staff by 50%. Interviews for a new post of Senior Lecturer were held yesterday and earlier today Head of Jazz Jeremy Price let me know that the… Read More ›
Do you want to make a real and lasting contribution to jazz’s future?
Well, here is a prime way to do just that. Birmingham City University – that’s Birmingham Conservatoire as far as jazz is concerned – is advertising for a Senior Lecturer in Jazz. According to Jeremy Price who is Head Of… Read More ›
Two words which bring warm smiles
You just have to say two words to those who have been listening to British jazz for a while to elicit (I’ll stick my neck out here and say) without exception a warm smile and enthusiastic appreciation. Those words are… Read More ›
Mingus Discovery Day/Arnie Somogyi’s Scenes In The City
CBSO Centre, Birmingham UK 09-11-2013 Two Charles Mingus albums, The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady and Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, are 50 years old, and double bassist Arnie Somogyi has put a tour together for his band Scenes In… Read More ›
Charlie plucks redemption from the Devil’s Blues
That’s Charles Mingus at Montreux in ’75 with tenor saxophonist George Adams having fun with the vocals, Jack Walrath on trumpet, Don Pullen on piano and – but of course – Dannie Richmond on drums. Tomorrow is Mingus Discovery Day… Read More ›
