Jazz In Britain
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A not-for-profit organisation, whose aim is to collect, curate, preserve, celebrate and promote.
Sunny Yorkshire
Joined December 2019
and the lucky winner will receive a bunch of out-of-print Jazz In Britain CDs and books… Competition closes 31st December… Send answers to - admin@jazzinbritain.org
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Here’s the cover which was designed by Jazz In Britain’s Pete Woodman, with Chris… photos of nine musicians featured in the book… can you name them all? If you correctly identify them, your name will be put in the hat to be drawn in the New Year…
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Here’s our annual Jazz In Britain Xmas quiz… well, this is the first year! We sent the final manuscript of our next book to author Chris Searle today, for a final check over, so the quiz is based around that impending publication… ‘Global Groove: Words of a Jazz Cosmos’.
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but the release of music that still insists on being heard. Read Steve Williams' complete review of Tebugo at UK Vibe here: https://t.co/nbdfe32lx9
ukvibe.org
Over the past decade, Jazz in Britain has built a reputation not through scale or spectacle, but through a steady, almost forensic commitment to its archive. Much of the label’s work begins with...
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Nothing appears without approval; nothing is issued for the sake of filling gaps. Tebugo, a previously unreleased 1992 recording by Evan Parker, Paul Rogers and Louis Moholo, fits squarely within this approach. It is not an act of recovery for its own sake,
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homes or family collections — tapes that were never intended for release, and in many cases barely revisited. From hundreds of such finds, only a small number are chosen, and only where artistic value and consent are clear.
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Over the past decade, Jazz in Britain has built a reputation not through scale or spectacle, but through a steady, almost forensic commitment to its archive. Much of the label’s work begins with cassette and reel-to-reel recordings that have surfaced from musicians’
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PS The plan is for more than one book next year... should be back to 2023 levels!
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and without everyone who makes a contribution in whatever manner... providing recordings, words, photos, memories, memorabilia, artwork, audio work... and, of course, without about 5,500 friends around the globe who support us by buying the albums and books... Thank you everyone!
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It's time to do this again... here's what Jazz In Britain put out in 2025... compared with 2024... and 2023... Wouldn't be possible without the time, skill and energy that Pete Woodman has brought for the past three years...
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"On this album, Coe’s playing rests on an unusually integrated conception of composition and improvisation..." from Jack Kenny's review of our new Tony Coe album, 'Axel: What Say We Play Today?, on the Jazz Views site today. Read Jack's full review here: https://t.co/6xdCNAHpoZ
jazzviews.net
Quote The music is rather like tightly structured avant-garde embroidery, requiring concentration to fully appreciate the skeins of ideas. Jazz in Britain JIB-68-S-CD & JIB-68-S-DL Tony Coe (Clarin...
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My latest ‘Hanging Out a Window’ column is just out and it’s a review of Ute Lemper’s performance of her remarkable ‘Rendezvous with Marlene’ at the Barbican. Read and subscribe (free) here: https://t.co/NjUEqFzLgf
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Released today… a month ahead of the planned date! All UK pre-orders have already been posted and all international ones will be on their way by the weekend… … Tebugo by Evan Parker, Paul Rogers and Louis Moholo
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but thanks to devoted and skilled travelling recordists, Andy Isham and Steve Trent, these long and precious musical instants are still with us, throbbing with life and artistry.
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and each other.” Rogers is a virtuoso bassist like no other, playing an instrument like no other, and Levin’s sense of time and moment is deeply empathetic, knowing instinctively the musical minds of his quartet-mates. Tippett and Levin are gone,
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Sometimes haunting and hymnal as if coming from ancestral spirits — as in the opening message of Dunmall and Tippett in Cheltenham, othertimes rhapsodic and joyous: “We never spoke about the music beforehand,” declared Dunmall, “we just walked on stage and trusted in the music
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Cuneiform label, but now a triple CD has been created by Jazz in Britain, recorded from concerts in Cheltenham (1993), Vienna (2003) and Birmingham (2010). It is a beautiful sonic triptych called Mujician in Concerts, with the four members playing at their unified peak.
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quartet, Mujician. Composed of the Bristolian pianist Keith Tippett, the south London tenor and soprano saxophonist Paul Dunmall, Luton-born seven-string bassist Paul Rogers and the Shropshire drummer, Tony Levin. Between 1990 and 2005 they waxed six memorable albums on the US
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Chris Searle's review in the Morning Star of the Mujician album in his 'Four Best Jazz Album' list to close out 2025: MANY jazz listeners have affirmed, that in the long wake of the John Coltrane Quartet, the foursome that has since most touched their brilliance is the English
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and one of the other three is another Jazz In Britain release - Mujician: In Concerts! What are the other two? 'Only' Wadada Leo Smith and Charlie Rouse! Read Chris's reviews online here: https://t.co/8ocEQc7RQ3
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