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JUNE JAZZ CLUB AT LOWTON - PICTURES Our final Jazz Club session of our 2007-08 Season, featured two fine youth bands from Rochdale - the Rochdale Junior Big Band (MD Ian Nelson) and the Rochdale Youth Big Band (MD Alec Wares). It was a pleasure to welcome these groups of talented youngsters, who were a credit to the Rochdale Music Service and to their parents (many of whom were present in the audience). Photographs from the concert are now online - click here to see them (the page has a link to their website). Remember pictures from all events this season and in the previous five seasons can be accessed via the Photos menu.
There are no Jazz Club sessions during July and August - although July sees the Wigan International Jazz Festival, with which we are closely associated. Remember, Jazz Club members can buy tickets at special concessionary prices, so we hope to see as many of you there as possible. The programme for our 2008-09 season is yet to be finalised, but rest assured that details will appear here as soon as we have them.
WIGAN INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL: JULY 11th - 19th 2008 There may be no Jazz Club until September but we'll be present throughout the Wigan International Jazz Festival
JAZZ LEGEND OF THE WEEK: JULY 6TH - 12TH Our jazz legend this week is a musician who was said to have resurrected jazz with a single live performance. No prizes, just for fun. Answer next week.
Last week's legend was our recent visitor to Wigan, Butch Miles, born on the 4th of July, 1944. Read more about his life and career here.
Details of Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra gigs, workshops, rehearsals etc. will appear here - for a fuller list go to WYJO page. NB Not all of these are open to the general public - check first.
WIGAN PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM Jazz photographer William Ellis is a familiar visitor to Wigan, especially during the International Jazz Festival. Bill has exhibited at Wigan and is a great friend and supporter of the Festival and the Jazz Club. His work is internationally acclaimed, and he is one of three photographers currently exhibiting at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Bill has contributed 20 photographs to an international exhibition entitled 'Jazz in Black & White': Bebop & Beyond. Three of these photographs were taken at Wigan - those of John La Barbera, Benny Golson and James Morrison - so, thanks to Bill, the name of Wigan and its Festival is being promoted in one of the true homes of jazz. The exhibition continues until July 20th, but don't worry if you can't make it to Kansas City - the photographs are available to view (and purchase) online. They can be found at http://web.mac.com/william.ellis/iweb/Site/Jazz%20Museum.html .
FREE 'JAZZ ON THE DOCK' IN LIVERPOOL Our friends at Liverpooljazz are presenting a series of four free jazz concerts beginning this Tuesday 17th. We are happy to reproduce their flyer below: LIVE RPOOLJAZZ Raising the profile of live jazz performancePresents Jazz on the Dock at Starbucks Liverpooljazz in conjunction with the Beatles Story present a series of weekly jazz gigs at the new Starbucks Coffee Shop below the Beatles Story Shop, Britannia Pavillion, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3. Featuring Liverpool’s fantastic MARTIN SMITH QUARTET. With Martin on trumpet and flugel horn, Rob Stringer on keyboards, Hugo Harrison on double bass and Tilo Birnbaum on drums. A line up of some of Liverpool’s finest mainstream and modern jazz musicians. These special gigs must not be missed. Each 90minute performance will commence at 6.00pm and admission will be free.The remaining performances will be on;- Tuesday 1st July Tuesday 8th July Great music, great coffee and snacks, great venue. Why not call in on your way home from work. There’s no better way to end a busy day than to listen to some cool jazz over a freshly ground coffee. And if you’ve never been before, the Beatles Story and their new shop are well worth a visit. One of Liverpool’s most popular attractions. Pay &display opposite or three multi storey car parks close by:The Beatles Story Shop/Starbucks in Albert Dock is just over the road from the new Paradise Street bus station and shopping precinct. (don’t confuse it with Costa!) For more details visit;- www.beatlesstory.com www.liverpooljazz.org The Liverpooljazz website also has full details of the monthly Thursday "New Horizons" concerts at the newly-refurbished Bluecoats (next concert 3rd July).
SHOP ONLINE
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CLUB There’s now a new and easy way
for you to help us raise funds for Wigan Jazz Club - simply by shopping online!
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Following a computer failure, we had to rebuild our mailing list from an older version. If you have not received any emails for some timel, please contact us at wigan.jazz@virgin.net giving your name and email address, to enable the list to be updated. If you would like to have your email added to the list for the first time, then the same applies.
Although the national networks seem to play fast and loose with their jazz coverage, there is in fact a wealth of jazz and big band programming on regional and local stations all over the UK, available via the internet. To find out what is available, and to access these either live or via the I-player facility, click here
LINKS & CONTACTS Our Links & Contacts page has contact details for Wigan Jazz Club, WYJO, WJCBB and Wigan International Jazz Festival. In addition, there is now a growing list of links to local, national and international jazz-related websites, as well as online jazz radio stations. We welcome your suggestions for suitable links to add to the list - email them to wigan.jazz@virgin.net (Please note that we are not responsible for the content of external websites).
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