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Oxcentrics
The Oxcentrics is a Dixieland jazz band founded in 1975 at Oxford University. The band's name was derived from ''The Oxontrics'', an original 1920s jazz band. Several (although by no means all) members were from University College, Oxford, University College, where many of the rehearsals took place. They played at a number of University of Oxford, Oxford Commemoration Ball, Balls, for the Oxford University Jazz Club, on May Morning, and for other events, including playing on Punt (boat), punts on the River Cherwell in Oxford. The line-up, mostly Oxford University undergraduates, who recorded ''The Halcyon Days of the '20s & '30s'' on 29 February 1976 at the Acorn Studios in Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, and the songs recorded were: ;Musicians * ''Adrian Sheen'' — Singing, vocals * ''Geoff 'Hot-Lips' Varrall'' — trumpet * ''Adam Brett'' — trumpet * ''Olly Weindling'' — clarinet * ''Glyn Lewis'' — tenor saxophone * ''Paul St John-Smith'' — trombone * ''Charles Kuta, Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Wallace
Simon Wallace (born 1957) is a British composer and pianist. Simon Wallace was born in Newport, South Wales. He studied music at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and University College, Oxford, where he ran the Oxford University Jazz Club and played with ''The Oxcentrics'', a Dixieland jazz band. He also studied with jazz pianists in London and New York. Wallace collaborated with the film and television composer Simon Brint from 1980 until Brint's death in 2011. They composed music for television series including ''Absolutely Fabulous'', ''Coupling'', ''French and Saunders'', ''Murder Most Horrid'', ''All Rise For Julian Clary'', '' The Ruby Wax Show'', ''Bosom Pals'', ''The All New Alexie Sayle Show'', ''The Clive James Show'' and ''The Ben Elton Show''.. In 1982 they scored ''A Shocking Accident'' which won 1983 Oscar for 'best live action short their last broadcast work together was the music for ''The One Ronnie'' in December 2010. Independently of Brint he scored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Jenkins (musician)
Billy Jenkins (born 5 July 1956) is an English blues guitarist, composer and bandleader. He was born in Bromley, Kent, England. Jenkins was a member of Burlesque, then Trimmer & Jenkins. After a short period, he was a member of Ginger Baker's Nutters. For several years, he ran Wood Wharf Studios. He worked on his own VOTP Records label and led the Voice of God Collective, a group which included Iain Ballamy, Django Bates, Steve Watts, Ashley Slater and other members of the group Loose Tubes. The band released several albums, including ''Sounds Like Bromley'' and ''Uncommerciality''. In the 1990s, Jenkins recorded several albums on Oliver Weindling's Babel Records, and led some seasons at the Vortex Jazz Club. He is now best known as a blues guitarist. Until 2009, Jenkins was captain of Francis Drake bowls club on Hilly Fields, Lewisham. He masterminded a successful season of live music to accompany the 2006 FIFA World Cup at the Vortex Jazz Club. In the mid-1990s, Jenkins and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kuta
Charles Stanley "Herb" Kuta (born 1956) is an American electronics engineer and software engineer who was a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, a major graphics workstation manufacturer. Charles Kuta was brought up in Pennsylvania, United States. He attended Atlantic College in Wales and then University College, Oxford, England, where he studied engineering science from 1974 to 1977, gaining a first class degree. Here he also played tuba in the Oxcentrics, an Oxford-based Dixieland jazz band. Kuta went on to study for a Master's degree at Stanford University in California, USA. Here he was invited to be a co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc., by Dr Jim Clark, established in 1982. He was involved in the design of the pipelined Geometry Engine that undertook 3D graphical transformations in hardware. Subsequently, Kuta worked at Pellucid and co-founded Quantum3D in 1997, where he was Vice President of System Software Architect. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyn Lewis
Glyn Lewis is a British professor of psychiatric epidemiology and the current head of thDivision of Psychiatryat University College London Education Glyn Lewis was born in Wales. He studied at University College, Oxford, where he played saxophone with ''The Oxcentrics'', a Dixieland jazz band. Lewis trained as a psychiatrist at thMaudsley Hospitalin London and as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He received his PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. Research Lewis worked at the University of Bristol and the Cardiff University prior to his current post at UCL. He has published extensively on psychiatric epidemiology, including investigating the causes of psychiatric disorders. His research is in the area of the aetiology of schizophrenia and depression and the treatment of depression and other mental disorders. He has published widely in leading journals such as '' The Lancet'', including research on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Southon (writer)
Mike Southon is a British entrepreneur and author. Education Mike Southon was educated at Papplewick School, Ascot (where he was a contemporary of Richard Curtis) and Wellington College, Crowthorne (where in 1967 he met Chris West, who was to become his co-author). He subsequently attended Imperial College London to read mechanical engineering, but left after a year. He worked at Tate & Lyle Research in Reading for a while and then went on to the University of Bradford to read chemical engineering and management economics. Work Southon was co-founder of The Instruction Set, a Unix training company, in 1984. Other co-founders were Peter Griffiths and Mike Banahan. The company grew to 150 people, then was bought out in 1989 by Hoskyns Group (now part of Capgemini). During the 1990s, he was involved with 17 startup companies, including Riversoft and Micromuse, both of which had public floatations. In 2002, he published ''The Beermat Entrepreneur'' with Chris West. This book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Weindling
Oliver Weindling (born 1955) is a British jazz promoter and founder of the Babel Label, Babel jazz record label. Background He came from a family that encouraged his interest in music, being taken to the opera and concerts regularly. Originally an economist by training with degrees from Balliol College, Oxford and London School of Economics and ten years working in various banks and other organisations. He nevertheless became more and more involved with music, as a performer, such as clarinettist with The Oxcentrics, and latterly as an organiser. Weindling started the Babel Label in 1994, which has since had over 150 releases ranging from Penny Rimbaud to Billy Jenkins (musician), Billy Jenkins to Polar Bear (jazz), Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland. He is also a director of the Vortex Jazz Club and was instrumental in achieving the successful move of the club from Stoke Newington to the Dalston Culture House. He is a director of Radio Jazz Research in Germany. He has regularly cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris West
Chris West (born 1954) is a British writer. He works in a range of genres: business, psychology, history and crime / general fiction. His four mysteries written in the 1990s were among the first crime novels to be set in the contemporary People's Republic of China. Biography After studying economics and philosophy at the London School of Economics, West travelled in China, leading to his first book, ''Journey to the Middle Kingdom'' in 1991. Following that, he wrote the four crime novels featuring Wang Anzhuang, a mid-ranking detective in the Beijing ''Xing Zhen Ke'' (Criminal Investigation Department) and his wife, Rosina Lin, a nurse at the Capital Hospital. In 2020, these were reissued with new titles and Wang's name changed to Bao Zheng (a reference to a hero of traditional Chinese detective stories from the Song Dynasty). On completing this series, West concentrated on co-authoring books aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses, the first of which was ''The Beermat Entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Jones (journalist)
Sally Jones is a British journalist, television news and sports presenter. She is three-times a world champion at real tennis; once in the singles and twice in the doubles. Education Sally Jones was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham and St Hugh's College, Oxford where she read English and won five blues and half blues for different sports including tennis, squash, netball, cricket and modern pentathlon. In 1976, she was Oxford University rock n'roll champion (Oxford Rock Soc) and began tap-dancing with the Oxcentrics jazz band as well as gaining notoriety via a student prank, successfully dressing up as a man to stand for membership of the all-male Gridiron Club. Sport She was Warwickshire county and British schoolgirls tennis champion (Lawn Tennis Association) and a finalist in the British Under 21 doubles championship (LTA). She played county tennis, squash (Warwickshire, Devon and South Wales squash ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Jazz Club
The Oxford University Jazz Society, also known as JazzSoc, is the focus of jazz music at the University of Oxford, England; the place to be for players and listeners, dancers and drinkers. Formerly known as the Oxford University Jazz Club, the society now provides the main arena for student players to interact musically, whilst also encouraging a non-student contingent. History The music critic Peter Gammond (born 1925) was involved with the band that formed the original Oxford University Jazz Club. The conductor, composer, and pianist Samuel Hogarth has studied the early history of the Club. In 1951, the Club held meetings in St Michael's Hall every Saturday at 8 pm. This consisted of two sessions of live Jazz presented by the Club's musicians, a record interlude, and often a recital by a guest soloist. In 1953, the club started to hold its meetings on alternate Fridays in the Green Room of the Kemp Restaurant where the Club's resident band would perform. The writer and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Morning
May Morning is an annual event in Oxford, United Kingdom, on May Day (1 May). Event The event starts early at 6 a.m. with the Magdalen College Choir singing a hymn, the Hymnus Eucharisticus, from the top of Magdalen Tower, a tradition stretching back over 500 years. The choir traditionally also sings a madrigal, Now Is the Month of Maying, following prayers for the city led by the Dean of Divinity. Large crowds of both students and Oxford residents normally gather under the tower, along the High Street, and on Magdalen Bridge. Students and fellows of Magdalen College gather in the college cloisters and on top of the other towers within the college grounds. In 2017 the event took place during the Bank Holiday weekend, and a record 27,000 people gathered to hear the choir. During the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic the event was cancelled, however the choir recorded a 'Virtual May Morning', originally broadcast live. This is then followed by general revelry and festivities includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lockheart
Mark Lockheart (born 31 March 1961) is a British jazz tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Loose Tubes big band during the 1980s. Career After the demise of Loose Tubes, Lockheart formed jazz/folk quartet Perfect Houseplants with Huw Warren, Dudley Phillips, and Martin France. The band released five albums, including two with The Orlando Consort. At this time Lockheart The Scratch Band, performing his compositions. The group recorded two albums, including ''Imaginary Dances''. In 2005 Lockheart put together his "Big Idea" to record the album ''Moving Air''. In 2003, Lockheart joined the British jazz quintet Polar Bear. The group have recorded six albums, including '' Held on the Tips of Fingers'', which was nominated for the Mercury Award and was selected one of the 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World by ''Jazzwise'' magazine. A project of more of Lockheart's compositions was released in 2009 with the In Deep Quintet featuring Liam Noble and Jasper Hoiby. The next ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan
Colin Berkeley Moynihan, 4th Baronet, 4th Baron Moynihan (born 13 September 1955) is a British Olympic silver medalist, businessman, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician, and sports administrator. Lord Moynihan served as chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) from 2005 to 2012. Biography Early life Moynihan is the son of Patrick Moynihan, 2nd Baron Moynihan, by his second wife June Elizabeth Hopkins, daughter of Arthur Stanley Covacic Hopkins. He was educated in the state system, including at secondary level, but studied at Monmouth School with a Music Scholarship from 1968 to 1973. In 1974 he went up to University College, Oxford, graduating in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts, BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (proceeding Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), MA in 1982). He was a "double Blue (university sport), blue" coxing the victorious Oxford University crew in the 1977 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race and boxing against University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
