NEW RELEASES - FOUR NEW CDs FOR CHRISTMAS
Yes FOUR exciting new CDs for your Christmas listening.
PKCD-363 KEVIN GRENFELL & RICHARD LEACH - SLIDE BY SLIDE "Pro Bono"
The second CD by this brilliant and hugely entertaining two-trombone band. Recorded live in April 2011.
PKCD-364 MELLOW AVSTREIH WITH PAUL MUNNERY'S SWING STREET "A Way Of My Own"
A wonderful CD featuring the amazing young singer Mellow Avstreih, without doubt one of the finest on the jazz scene today. Recorded live in July 2011.
PKCD-365 CHRIS PEARCE'S FRENCHMEN STREET JAZZ BAND "Volume One"
This is the first CD by a relatively new band who play a wide variety of traditional jazz with superb musicianship and style. Recorded in June 2011.
PKCD-366 THE RAE BROTHERS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BAND "True"
Here is the first CD by the ever-popular Rae Brothers since the change of personnel following the sad death of Clem Avery. Recorded live in April 2011.
Full details of these new CDs can be found on the "Recent Releases" Page and in the on-line Catalogue.
If you would like a hard copy of the Catalogue for a friend, or if you've misplaced yours and would like another copy, just email Peter and he'll be happy to send you one.
SPECIAL OFFER
Buy all four new releases and deduct £7 from the total price.
This offer is valid until 29 February 2012.
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ANTIQUE SIX JAZZBAND
Many of you will have heard the surprising news that the Antique Six Jazzband have taken the tough decision to stop playing at the end of this year. This has come as a shock to their many fans who will certainly miss the band's exciting brand of traditional jazz. Nevertheless you have to admire their courage in deciding to quit while they are at the top of their game. Not surprisingly the news has given a considerable boost to sales of CDs at their gigs!
I will of course continue to stock their CDs for the foreseeable future.
However, as they say, when one door closes another opens, and I think there is little doubt that Chris Pearce's decision to re-establish his Frenchmen Street Jazz Band came about as a result of the Antique Six Jazzband decision to cease playing.
Also the word is that another new band will soon emerge phoenix-like from the Antique's ashes.
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BUDE JAZZ FESTIVAL
The other piece of shock news to emerge in recent months is that the 2012 Bude Festival has been cancelled. In a recent press release Rachel Hayward (organiser) said :-
The 2011 Bude Jazz Festival was a tremendous success, both in terms of musicianship, and from the enjoyment of the visitors to the festival. Thanks to all those who came and listened, and those who told us how much they enjoyed it via feedback forms.
Due to the current economic climate which seems set to stay with us for the foreseeable future, the plethora of weekend festivals now taking place around the end of August and the Olympic Games, there will not be a Bude Jazz Festival in 2012. However, we plan a re-launch in 2013.
I understand that a four-day mini-Bude Festival will take place next year, organised by volunteers and some of the Bude Hoteliers.
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LOOKING AHEAD
There's not a lot to report this time - things are rather quiet on the recording scene just now.
By the time you read this I will have recorded The Wessex New Orleans Jazz Band with their very special guest John Scantlebury. John plays clarinet & sax with New Orleans Heat and I'm looking forward very much to working with him. At the end of November I am booked to record The Millennium Eagle Jazz Band at Sutton Coldfield Jazz Club. No date has been fixed yet for me to record The Reunion Band; hopefully a date will be fixed before too long.
At Keswick 2012 I am booked to record Brian Carrick's International Band. This promises to be a truly sensational band with musicians from UK, USA and Canada.
So now it just remains for me to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Jazzy New Year.
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