HEADING HEADING THE JAZZ RAG ISSUE 123 AUTUMN 2012 2012 BRITISH JAZZ AWARDS: UK £2.75 THE NOMINATIONS Jamie Brownfield by Merlin Daleman CONTENTS NEW RELEASES FROM UPBEAT JAZZ JAMIE BROWNFIELD PHOTOGRAPHED BY MERLIN DALEMAN AT THIS YEAR'S URDVD251 THE BIG CHRIS BARBER BAND DVD BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL. JAMIE IS Live on the Isle of Wight Fantastic live concert recording of The Big Chris Barber Band. ONE OF THE NOMINATIONS FOR RISING STAR IN THE BRITISH JAZZ 18 tracks running 90 minutes – not to be missed! AWARDS (PAGES 18-19). URCD249 THE LONDON SWING ORCHESTRA The Roaring Twenties 4 NEWS 25th Anniversary recording from Graham Dalby and the orchestra (formerly The Grahamophones) 20 terrific tracks. 5 UPCOMING EVENTS URCD242 SISTER ROSETTA THARPE – The Queen of Hot Gospel 6 WHERE DID IT ALL START? Includes previously unreleased recordings including her own wedding! A great rarity! RON SIMPSON ON EUROPEAN JAZZ BANDS AND November 2012 is the 10th Anniversary of THEIR ORIGINS the passing of Lonnie Donegan and we have five terrific albums of Lonnie’s great music for you to choose from: 9 JAZZ IN THE MOVIES JAZZ ON FILM URCD214 Jubilee Concert 1981 1st Half ANDREW PATRICK ON JAZZ FILMS URCD212 The Last Tour – 2002 his last recording URCD218 Jubilee Concert 1981 2nd Half URCD200 This Yere De Story – BBC broadcast - his life in words & music1994 11 SOUTHPORT MELODIC JAZZ/JAZZ: Complete track listings and personnel online. All CDs available from good record shops – distributed by RSK – BODY AND SOUL or online together with the full Upbeat Jazz catalogue at www.upbeatmailorder.co.uk 12 DANNY POLO AMERICANS Upbeat Mail Order also stocks many third party labels SUBSCRIBE TO THE JAZZ RAG IN LONDON including Lake, 504, PEK, Jasmine, Proper, JSP, Frog and Raymer Sound and many more…. 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Email: [email protected] 2012 is the 26th year of the British Jazz Awards, the ‘Jazz Oscars’, and October 12th is Doors open 7pm Web: www.jazzrag.com the closing date for voting. Highly valued by jazz musicians for many reasons – not least the long list of illustrious names on the roster of a quarter-century of awards –, the Awards Presentation from 8:30pm. Publisher / editor: Jim Simpson awards pay tribute to the many wonderful players, singers and bands whom we tend to News / features: Ron Simpson take for granted. Tickets £20. Inclusive dinner and admission, £44. Reviews editor: Russell Fletcher International editor: Yue Yang This issue's cover photograph features one of the musicians chosen by the CONCORDE CLUB Commercial Director: Tim Jennings Nomination Panel, but, as the article on pages 18-19 emphasises, there are many Subscriptions & accounts: Russell Fletcher excellent musicians not on the list of nominations and the voting system allows, even Stoneham Lane, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 9HP Designed by Nerys James encourages, votes from outside the panel’s choices. Printed by Warwick Printing www.warwickprinting.co.uk The British Jazz Awards will be celebrated in a presentation at Eastleigh’s Concorde Tickets available online www.theconcordeclub.com Club on October 22nd, always a first-class event with superb jazz from a group of the © 2012 THE JAZZ RAG. All original material including advertising winners. The voting system is by no means confined to Jazz Rag , but our readers always Or telephone 02380 613989 artwork remains the sole copyright of the Publisher and may not be play an important part in the process. So the Jazz Awards once again rely on your reproduced without permission votes, whether by mail or on line! 2 THE JAZZ RAG THE JAZZ RAG 3 NEWS NEWS / UPCOMING EVENTS the Space, Nottingham JJJ ACADEMY Continued with Alec and Emily and the local Felpham in Focus a quintet including Don Byron Contemporary, is the venue for The new Julian Joseph Jazz Dankworth. On Sunday co-host wrote in glowing terms about the and plays Leeds on November Christine Tobin (October 18) and Academy, presented by HMDT Digby Fairweather interviews performance by the Julian Marc 14. Another excellent jazz event Jan Kopinski: Mirrors (25). An Music and due to open in January record producer Ken Barnes in Stringle Quartet, full of such is the Tommy Evans Orchestra enterprising monthly series of 2013, offers young people a great Bing Crosby Remembered and the words as ‘fantastic’, ‘superb’ and with his suite The Green Seagull Live at the Libraries features opportunity to work with top other co-host Alan Barnes joins ‘exceptional’ – it’s great to see (November 10). concerts in Mansfield Library jazz musicians to develop their Bruce Adams for Basie’s Back . jazz finding such favour in a leafy Tel.: 0844 848 2700 (Sunday lunch-time), then creative talents and performance And, of course, there’s Jazz in the English village! The pre-Christmas www.operanorth.co.uk Southwell and Worksop Libraries skills. The academy will operate at Festival Bar on Saturday and programme will do that Autumn gigs for King Pleasure (Monday and Tuesday evenings). weekends and is aimed at Sunday. reputation no harm. Mike Piggott and the Biscuit Boys include The Corey Mwamba Trio experienced instrumentalists and Tel.: 01702 339565 and Steve Green (violin and (October 14-16), the Nicola vocalists aged 12 to 19 who have www.visitsouthend.co.uk guitar in Hot Club style) appear Loughborough Town Hall Farnon Trio (November 11-13) a good ear and knowledge of on October 3, followed by One (October 4), the Platform, and the Nottingham Youth Jazz scales and a real interest in jazz DORKING JAZZ Foot in the Grave (Paul Eshelby, Morecambe (5), Marsden Jazz Orchestra (December 9-11) are Watermill Jazz in Dorking Phil Phillips, Roy Babbington and Festival (12), Royal Spa Centre, Jan and in improvisation. Three Taster the next to appear. Finally the Days have been arranged to presents its annual concert at the Bobby Worth) on November 7 Leamington Spa (18), Swindon Jack DeJohnette Kopinski Grand Final of the Nottingham enable those interested to work Menuhin Hall on Saturday and a real coup in December. Arts Centre (20), Charcot, International Jazz Piano Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen are France (November 9), Otley Festival at the Trouville Hotel in Headliners at Marsden Jazz BIG DAY AT HALF with Julian Joseph and enjoy a October 6. Claire Martin and Sir Competition takes place in the performance by his quartet. Richard Rodney Bennett team up appearing in two Xmas Specials Courthouse (10), Ronnie Scott’s, Sandown on the Isle of Wight Festival (October 12-14) include MOON Nottingham Albert Hall on Following the opener at the for another of their composer (14 and 21), a remarkable double London (December 8) and the (February 22-25) and Jazz King Pleasure and the Biscuit October 7 will be a splendid day October 7. Barbican on September 30, tributes: Out of this World , the event for a village hall club (and Mill Arts Centre (16). Weekend at the Wessex Hotel, Boys, Gilad Atzmon and the Tel.: 0121 454 7020 for Dick Laurie, the Elastic Band www.jazzsteps.co.uk further Taster Days follow at the songs of Harold Arlen. The very reasonably priced). The New Bournemouth (March 8-11). Still Orient House Ensemble, www.kingpleasureandthebiscuitboys.com and the Half Moon in Putney. The WAC Performing Arts and Media regular programme at the Friends Year starts well, too, with Two for to come in 2012 are a different Tommaso Starace Quartet and band is celebrating its 29th CONCORDE JAZZ College (October 20 – 2-6 pm) Life Social Club every Thursday is the Price of One, saxophonists Jo Isle of Wight venue, the Shanklin Dennis Rollins’ Velocity Trio. The Cherry Tree in Belchamp St Tel.: 0845 5194415 birthday and the 20th anniversary and the World Heartbeat full of new and original groups Fooks and Vasilis Xenopoulos Hotel (October 19-22), the Eastleigh’s Concorde Club, which Paul, Suffolk, stages jazz every www.marsdenjazzfestival.com of its tenure at the Half Moon Academy (November 11 – 10 and projects. BLINQ (4) is a vocal with the Roy Hilton Trio on Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod is hosting October’s British Jazz two weeks with the Roger Odell and a special guest appearance by am-4 pm). super-group with Liane Carroll, January 2. Wells (November 2-4) and the Awards presentation, has its usual Trio and singer Larraine Odell, The William Shakespeare John Barnes – one of his first Tel.: 020 8820 7410 Ian Shaw, MOBO nominee Tel.: 01243 584932 Mercure Castle Hotel, Windsor excellent jazz programme in plus top-class guests: Cameron Jazz’n’Swing Festival at the major excursions since his severe www.hmdt.org.uk Natalie Williams and Los Angeles- www.jazzatthevillage.org.uk (November 9-12). addition. The Concorde offers all Pierre (October 14), Tina May www.jazzbreaks.com Stratford Holiday Inn (November stroke – should add mightily to born Brendan Reilly, accompanied kinds of show, from rock tributes (28), Alan Barnes (November 11) For further information on 2013 24-26) has John Petters’ usual the festivities.