Artis Specialist and Mentor Leader Stuart Barter (Chime) once again successfully fuses music, drama and movement – in an innovative and fun way, the children have to play back a rhythm using claps and clicks depending on what part of the drum the teacher is playing. To start, the skin of the drum is a…
JAZZ. Calm down calm down! Don’t worry, we won’t bore you with different forms of music improvisation by its chordal complexity, often exhibiting ii V progressions in multiple keys… zzz. – lets just remind ourselves of one of the greats. Marcus Miller, baron of bass and sultan of session continues to perform and is coming…
A quiet revolution has swept the country over the last two years, like a gentle tsunami laced with, well, lace, and buttons, and knitting wool. For everywhere you look, craft has enjoyed a subtle boon, from cool knitting clubs to vintage faires to TV programmes to craft “queens” like Jazz Domino Holly. The trend hasn’t…
Many of the crimes committed by teenagers in the United Kingdom are captured in self-shot footage from bystanders, victims, and often the offenders themselves, whilst others are caught on the four million CCTV cameras nationwide. New BBC3 series ‘Our Crime’ explores the human stories behind these shocking real-life scenes of violence, theft and mayhem. In…
The intrepid twosome have been presenting their special blend of music, fashion and culture on their Peppermint Candy programme on JazzFM.com since last May, a show that The Guardian said “will shatter your expectations of jazz radio.” They are up against competition from Radio 1, Kiss and French Radio London so make sure you cast…
Alighiero Boetti Mappa 1994 Private Collection © Alighiero Boetti Estate by DACS / SIAE, 2012, courtesy Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti Embroidery Enter Room 6 of Tate Modern’s current exhibition Alighieri Boetti: Game Plan, and you’ll immediately notice beautiful blue canvas paintings that span the length of the room – shaded here and there with large white…
Earlier this year, the country of Senegal in West Africa called an election. Under usual circumstances, the current president Abdoulaye Wade would have concluded his two-term run and allowed for new contestants to run, one of which was the celebrated Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour. However, the 85-year-old Wade decided to run for a contested third…
As well as presenting Big Band and Trad on Jazz FM, Bob Sinfield tells Radio Times how he once stepped in for Harry Enfield for a Radio 2 sitcom and written jokes for Bob Monkhouse and Tracey Ullman. Bob Sinfield’s Big Band and Trad is on www.jazzfm.com every Saturday at 1pm.
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What do Dionne Warwick and The Rolling Stones have in common? They may not inhibit the same genre, but it’s a little known fact that they started their careers at the same time; just as the decade of love was unfolding in 1962. Fifty years on, both are household names and musical legends with their…
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Do you think of films as a visual medium or is it all about the sonic subtleties of the story – the passion of the film score, the intricate layering of sound effects? This February and March, Watershed are exploring the role of music in film through its two-month festival called Filmic. Sir Christopher Frayling…