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Steve Berry (musician)
Steve Berry (born 24 August 1957) is a British jazz double bassist, composer and educator. Career Berry developed an interest in jazz during his fine art degree and moved to London in 1979, where he studied with Chris Laurence, Daryl Runswick and Dave Holland. He also undertook postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1984, he joined the 21-piece jazz orchestra, Loose Tubes and became one of the main composers on their three studio albums and toured all over the World. In 1988, he formed the Steve Berry Trio with Mark Lockheart on saxophones and Pete Fairclough on drums and released the album '' Trio'' on the Loose Tubes record label. He has performed with many internationally recognised jazz musicians, including Scott Hamilton, John Surman, Tal Farlow, Art Farmer, Ian Carr and Lew Tabackin. In the 1990s he became increasingly active in jazz education and was appointed Head of Jazz and Improvisation at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2019. ...
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Gosport
Gosport ( ) is a town and non-metropolitan borough on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England. At the 2011 Census, its population was 82,662. Gosport is situated on a peninsula on the western side of Portsmouth Harbour, opposite the city of Portsmouth, to which it is linked by the Gosport Ferry. Gosport lies south-east of Fareham, to which it is linked by a Bus Rapid Transit route and the A32. Until the last quarter of the 20th century, Gosport was a major naval town associated with the defence and supply infrastructure of His Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth. As such over the years extensive fortifications were created. Gosport is still home to and a Naval Armament Supply Facility, as well as a Helicopter Repair base. The Town area of the Borough, including Newtown, consists of the town centre, Stoke Road shopping area, Walpole Park, Royal Clarence Yard and three modern marinas: Royal Clarence, Gosport Marina and Haslar Marina. As part of the ''Renaissa ...
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Tal Farlow
Talmage Holt Farlow (June 7, 1921 – July 25, 1998) was an American jazz guitarist. He was nicknamed "Octopus" because of how his large, quick hands spread over the fretboard. As Steve Rochinski notes, "Of all the guitarists to emerge in the first generation after Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, more than any other, has been able to move beyond the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic vocabulary associated with the early electric guitar master. Tal's incredible speed, long, weaving lines, rhythmic excitement, highly developed harmonic sense, and enormous reach (both physical and musical) have enabled him to create a style that clearly stands apart from the rest." Where guitarists of his day combined rhythmic chords with linear melodies, Farlow placed single notes together in clusters, varying between harmonically enriched tones. As music critic Stuart Nicholson put it, "In terms of guitar prowess, it was the equivalent of Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile."Stuart Nichol ...
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British Jazz Double-bassists
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1957 Births
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Mike Westbrook
Michael John David Westbrook (born 21 March 1936) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces. He is married to the vocalist, librettist and painter Kate Westbrook. Early work Mike Westbrook was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, and grew up in Torquay. After a spell in accountancy and his National ServiceThe Wire, 1985 (some of it in Germany) he went to art school, studying painting, in Plymouth. There he also began his first bands in 1958, soon joined by such musicians as John Surman, Lou Gare and Keith Rowe. After moving to London in 1962, Westbrook led numerous bands, large and small, and played regularly at the Old Place and the Little Theatre Club at Garrick Yard, St Martin's Lane. Together with Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, Westbrook shared the role of house-band at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. He became a key figure in the development of British jazz, producing several big-band records for the Deram label, ...
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Open Letter (Loose Tubes Album)
''Open Letter'' is the third album by English big band Loose Tubes, that was released on the EG label in 1988. Reception Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars. Allmusic: ''Open Letter''accessed 19 May 2010 Track listing # "Sweet Williams" (Django Bates) – 8:54 # "Children's Game" ( Eddie Parker) – 5:27 # "Blue" ( Steve Berry) – 5:52 # "Shadow Play" (Parker) – 5:40 # "Mo Mhuirnin Ban" (Trad, arr. Chris Batchelor) – 3:37 # "Sticklebacks" (Batchelor) – 4:24 # "Accepting Suites from Strangers" (Bates) – 7:39 # "The Last Word" (Parker) – 6:39 # "Open Letter to Dudu Pukwana" ( Dave DeFries) – 6:39 Personnel * Eddie Parker – flute, bass flute * Dai Pritchard – clarinet, bass clarinet *Iain Ballamy – alto and soprano saxes and flute * Steve Buckley – alto and soprano saxes and penny whistle *Mark Lockheart – tenor and soprano saxes * Tim Whitehead – tenor sax *Julian Argüelles – soprano and baritone saxes * Dave ...
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Loose Tubes (album)
''Loose Tubes'' is the debut album by English jazz Loose Tubes. It was released in 1985 as an LP on Loose Tubes Limited. The recording has never been reissued on CD. Track listing # "Eden Express" (Django Bates) – 8:15 # "Rowing Boat Delineation Egg" (Bates) – 3:55 # "Descarga" (Dave Pattman, John Parricelli, Steve Berry (musician), Steve Berry) – 8:00 # "Descarga Ocurriencia" (Berry) – 2:43 # "Yellow Hill" (Bates) – 6:01 # "Mister Zee" (Berry) – 7:08 # "Arriving" (Chris Batchelor) – 4:22 Notes *Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6 & 7 recorded at Portland Studios, London 29/12/84 *Tracks 3 & 4 recorded at Lansdowne Studios, London 15/9/85 Personnel *Iain Ballamy – alto & soprano saxophones (soloist: track 5) *Steve Buckley (musician), Steve Buckley – alto & soprano saxophones *Mark Lockheart – tenor saxophone (soloist: track 1) *Tim Whitehead (musician), Tim Whitehead – tenor saxophone (soloist: track 6) *Dave Bitelli – baritone saxophone (t ...
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Music For The Third Policeman
''Music for The Third Policeman'' is an album by the composer and musician Django Bates and the Powder Room Collapse Orchestra. It was released by Ah Um records in 1990. The album is based on the 1939 comic novel ''The Third Policeman'', written by the Irish author Flann O'Brien. It was performed live July 2000. Reception Allmusic awarded the album with 2.5 stars. Allmusic: ''Music for The Third Policeman''accessed 24 May 2013 Track listing # "Ouverture" - 2:13 # "1st Person" - 5:58 # "John Divney" - 3:52 # "Peculiar Terms of Physical Intimacy" - 2:28 # "Getting the Box (Also an Introduction to De Selby)" - 3:53 # "Martin Finnucane" - 4:11 # "A Journey is an Hallucination" - 4:54 # "Is it About a Bicycle?" - 3:24 # "Mac Cruiskeen" - 3:22 # "Atoms" - 0:17 # "Scaffold, Serenity, and One-Legged Army" - 4:34 # "Soft as the Softest Softness" - 4:12 # "The Beginning" - 3:48 Personnel * Django Bates – keyboards, tenor horn, percussion, trumpet on track 7, saw, bicycle p ...
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Django Bates
Django Bates (born Leon Bates, 2 October 1960) is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. Bates has been described as "one of the most talented musicians Britain has produced... his work covers the entire spectrum of jazz, from early jazz through to bebop and free jazz to jazz-rock fusion." In additional to his jazz work, he is also a noted classical composer (writing both large- and small-scale compositions on commission), theatre composer, and has taught as a professor at various European music schools. As a leader, his bands have included Human Chain, Delightful Precipice, Quiet Nights, Powder Room Collapse Orchestra and Belovèd, and he was also a leading figure in Loose Tubes and Bill Bruford's Earthworks. Early life Bates was born in Beckenham, Kent, England, and attended Sedgehill School. While at this school, he also attended the Centre for Young Musicians in London (1971â ...
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Chetham's School Of Music
Chetham's School of Music () is an independent co-educational music school in Manchester, England. Chetham's educates students between the ages of 8 and 18, all of whom enter via musical auditions. Students receive a full academic education alongside specialist group and individual music tuition. Chetham's offers a year-round programme of concerts at the school, Manchester Cathedral, the Royal Northern College of Music, Band on the Wall and Bridgewater Hall. Recitals also take place in churches and community spaces, at festivals and internationally. Its senior ensembles, Chetham's Symphony Orchestra and Big Band, alongside many individual students, have won awards for their music, and many alumni have progressed to highly successful careers as professional musicians or in other sectors. The music school was established in 1969 from Chetham's Hospital School, founded as a charity school by Humphrey Chetham in 1653. After becoming a boys' grammar school in 1952, the school turn ...
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Royal Northern College Of Music
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester, England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition to being a centre of music education, RNCM is one of the UK's busiest and most diverse public performance venues. History The RNCM has a history dating back to the 19th century and the establishment of the Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM). In 1858, Sir Charles Hallé founded the Hallé orchestra in Manchester, and by the early 1890s had raised the idea of a music college in the city. Following an appeal for support, a building on Ducie Street was secured, Hallé was appointed Principal and Queen Victoria conferred the Royal title. The RMCM opened its doors to 80 students in 1893, rising to 117 by the end of the first year. Less than four decades later, in 1920, the Northern School of Music was established (initially as a branch of the Matthay School of Music), and fo ...
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