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| Saturday 18th June 2011 A Celebration of the Life and Music of Tony Levin 1940-2011
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18th June 2011 This concert celebrates Tony Levin’s major contribution to jazz in UK and brings together some of his closest musical colleagues to perform in his memory. Tony was born in Birmingham on January 30th 1940 and lived just past his 71st Birthday. He lived much of his life in Birmingham, but spent his early years as an evacuee in Shropshire and returned there in the last 20 or so years of his life. But he was always active in playing, promoting and latterly teaching in Birmingham. Tony Levin was strongly influenced by the drumming of Elvin Jones, and was widely respected drummer in a straightahead style, but was increasingly attracted by ‘free jazz’ playing, especially in the group Mujician. So for this tribute to Tony, we have invited players associated with his free playing to play one set and others who played with Tony in more ’straight’ contexts to play another set. Playing the free set will be Tony’s three colleagues from Mujician, saxophonist Paul Dunmall, pianist Keith Tippett and bass player Paul Rogers. Joining them will be two drummers: Tony’s son Miles Levin and Mark Sanders. For the ’straight’ set we concentrate on a few of the great saxophonists that Tony loved to play with: Ray Warleigh on alto, Jean Toussaint, Stan Sulzmann on tenor and soprano saxophone supported by a great rhythm section of John Taylor on piano, Arnie Somogyi on bass and Clark Tracey on drums. In each set there will be changing configurations of players with changing partnerships. All the musicians will be playing for expenses only and all proceeds will be donated to Tony’s favourite charity: Blue Chairs: Shropshire Blood Trust Fund. Autumn 2010 Well what have we here? Only a string of five Mujician dates that's what. Organized by drummer Tony Levin as part of his seventieth birthday celebrations it's us lucky listeners that are getting the treats. Thank you so much Tony and we're looking forward to catching at least two, if not three, of these special dates. If you've never heard Mujician live then I urge you with all my heart to get along to at least one of these dates. Whatever you may think of free improv, this cooperative operates on the highest plane and could be a musical life-transforming experience whether you come from a jazz, classical or folk background. There is no such thing as an average, let alone a bad, Mujician gig (or record for that matter). These gigs are rare enough and it's often a desperately long time waiting for the next Mujician gig. As an extra treat the first set of each of these gigs will see the talented and equally veteran Berlin-based pianist Aki Takase team up in a trio with Tony and the ever-smiling and lovely bassist John Edwards. Also up here a couple of other dates we know about including a rare UK solo date for Keith Tippett - at the enterprising Sundial Theatre in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Go listen, go support and do take a look at the CD Shop for old and new goodies now in stock, thanks to the tireless recording projects of Paul Dunmall, Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura . Apologies if you have found our website down due to bandwidth problems which we are trying to resolve. Happy listening, Chris, Janinka & Lucian, September 2010 Thu
23 September : Paul
Dunmall/Paul Hession/Mike Hurley/Chris Mapp Hurray! Hurray! Five times hurray! Mujician on tour... Thu
7 October : Mujician
+ Aki Takase Trio (with John Edwards & Tony Levin) Fri
8 October : Mujician
+ Aki Takase Trio Sat
9 October : Mujician
+ Aki Takase Trio Mon
11 October : Mujician
+ Aki Takase Trio Thu
14 October : Keith
Tippett & Aki Takase Piano Duo Thu
14 October : Mujician
+ Aki Takase Trio Fri
12 November : Keith
Tippett solo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2009 Dates Keith Tippett - solo piano improvisation Pitteville Pump Room, Cheltenham Friday 23rd October 8pm Box office: 0844 5762210 ********* 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 ********* The
Profound Sound Trio Saturday
2 May at 4.30pm (75 mins) £15 sound samples at youtube and http://www.porterrecords.com/id53.html ********* Keith Tippett's Octet: From Granite to Wind & The Dartington Improvising Trio THIS GIG NOW POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 4TH.PLEASE CALL VENUE FOR CONFIRMATION NEARER THE TIME. 21.00 - Dempseys, Cardiff 10/ £8.000 Tel: 2920496802 http://www.myspace.com/dempseysjazz Trio lineup:Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Paul Dunmall Octet
Lineup: Kevin Figes - Alto Sax and Baritone Sax, James Bateman
- Alto Sax, Paul Dunmall - Tenor Sax and Soprano Sax Satoko Fujii ma-do: European Tour 2009 Akira Horikoshi (drums), Natsuki Tamura (trumpet) , Satoko Fujii (piano), Norikatsu Koreyasu (doubl bass) Listed here below are Satoko Fujii's European Tour dates for February 2009 (UK dates in red) Monday 9th Feb: 20.00 - “Jazzpower at Café Wilhelmina, “ Eindhoven, the Netherlands 10 euro http://www.axesjazzpower.nl/index.html Tuesday 10th Feb: 20.30 - “Vooruit” Gent, Belgium, Double Bill with Marilyn Crispell, 16 euro (adv. 12 euro), http://www.vooruit.be/ Thursday 12th Feb: 20.30 - “Stadtgarten,” Cologne, Germany, http://www.stadtgarten.de/ Friday 13th Feb: 20.30 - “Bunker Ulmenwall,” Bielefeld, Germany, 15 euro (adv.12 euro), http://www.bunker-ulmenwall.de/ Monday
16th Feb: 20.00 - “Vortex,” London, UK, £8.00
http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/index.html 2008 Dates We apologise if any of the information below vague. It's only ever as good as the information that the artists give us - please try googling the artists and/or dates/venues to obtain more acurate information and further dates as this list is not comprehensive. October / November 31st October - Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts - Wiltshire Music centre, Bradford on Avon 2nd November - Keith Tippett and SWMS - Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon Fifteen outstanding musicians who joined South West Music School last year, a new virtual school for highly talented young musicians aged between eight and eighteen. Another fifteen have been lucky enough to join this year. Hear the results of an intensive weekend of workshops under Keith Tippett’s creative direction and experience the work of these exceptionally gifted young musicians. The performance will last about 1 hour with no interval. www.wiltshiremusiccentre.org.uk 01225 860 100 14th November - Keith Tippett's Piano Quintet, Keith Tippett & Stan Tracey, Keith Tippett & Julie Tippetts Purcell Rooms, London www.londonjazzfestival.org.uk www.teingmouthjazz.org |
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