Mind Your Own Music

new musical visions across the great divide!

Keith and Julie Tippett

''Couple in Spirit''

In concert as part of Stroud International Textile Festival

on Sunday 3rd May 2009 doors open 7pm

@ The Subscription Rooms, George St, Stroud, GL5 1AE

Tickets: 01453 760900

£15/ £12 NUS

www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk

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Paul Dunmall with Henry Grimes and Andrew Cyrille
performing as The Profound Sound Trio
at the Town Hall Pillar Room, Cheltenham
Saturday 2nd May at 4.30pm (75 mins) £15
0844 576 8970 cheltenhamfestivals.com
sound samples at youtube and http://www.porterrecords.com/id53.html

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Keith Tippett, Tapestry Orchestra -First Weaving, the complete concert, released for the first time as a 2 CD set via Red Eye Music.

First Weaving is from the 1998 Le Mans Jazz Festival; a gigantic session which became an underground classic despite never being commercially available. Originally commissioned by the BBC it stayed under wraps because the intention was to produce a studio recording for which the funding never materialised.

Although acknowledged as one of the great founding fathers of Post Modern British ‘jazz’, Keith Tippett is a mysterious figure, always on the edge of contemporary music. Today he is probably best known for his solo explorations in spontaneous composition, an irony given his history in collective music making, (i.e. Centipede, Ark, Mujician and the Georgian Ensemble etc.)

There is a whole debate about the relationship between the ‘jazz orchestra’ and ‘big band’ traditions, one that is complicated still further by a composition such as First Weaving, which draws inspiration from music reaching well beyond the label ‘jazz’. It is not just about orchestrating, Keith Tippett uses written composition to open up space for twenty, thirty, forty other soloists to come together to extend the possibilities of the score sheet.

First Weaving is from a certain place. The Fifth and Sixth Threads commencing Disc Two sound like prophetic elegies for nations which, in 1998, had still to suffer the tragedy of conflict. We know what happened. This music remains a First Weaving. If ever there was music which embraces hope it is here. The Tapestry Orchestra contains musicians who were there right at the beginning in Centipede – among them Larry Stabbins, Louis Moholo, Mark Charig, Paul Rutherford, Dave Amis, Julie Tippetts, Maggie Nicols and the late Elton Dean. First Weaving unites some of the most important innovators on the British scene, playing in a setting well beyond national boundaries.

It has taken nine years for this brilliant performance to be heard on CD, now that it is available on Red Eye Music; it needs to be listened to more than ever (Steve Day)

CD Package includes liner notes by Philippe Renaud, Riccardo Bergerone, Nod Knowles, Janinka Diverio and Chris Albury of Mind Your Own Music.

Red Eye Music
www.redeyemusic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/keithtippett