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  1. Thank you all - it went very well! It was recorded, so I can post a link to the audio at some point. Sorry not to have posted here about the Worksop gig as well - that whole Nottinghamshire library tour was great!
  2. I always post here too late - I read here but never think of posting! Anyway, if you're in the East Midlands I'm playing tomorrow. I've been commissioned by Derby Jazz to write a piece about the Orrery which appears in a painting by Joseph Wright. I'll be on vibes and conducting, with Dave Kane - bass Joshua Blackmore - drums Graham Clark - violin Tony Kofi - baritone saxophone Jan Kopinksi - tenor saxophone Deborah Jordan - voice Julian Siegel - bass clarinet Alex Suckling - trumpet Orrery will be played twice: first, as a promenade piece that uses the whole space in which the audience stands; and second as a more conventional set-up with chairs. Hope to see you there! C.
  3. Hello, In case anyone is in the U.K. and fancies a trip to Derby, Mat Maneri and Lucian Ban [known as DECO HEART] are currently touring Europe and will be hitting these shores in about a week. They're in London with Evan Parker at the Vortex on May 17th; then Newcastle on May 18th. They then come to Derby on May 19th at 6:30p.m. You can read more details and reserve a seat here. Also, trumpeter Nick Malcolm's quartet with Alexander Hawkins, Olie Brice and Mark Whitlam is heading here on its Jazz Services tour. As I'll be depping for Alex the next day in Bristol I'm sitting in. They'll reach here on May 31st, 8pm. Details/tickets here. All the best!
  4. Hello! Just to let whoever sees this know that I've got a gig in Leeds this Sunday with a couple of great musicians: bassist Dave Kane and pianist Alex Hawkins [who posts here]. The address: Seven Arts, 31A Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD It starts at 1.30pm and it's £5 or £4 to get in! All the details are here: http://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/gig/trio-1327843800 All the best, C.
  5. Yep. Set with Robert Mitchell, then (I think) an improv free-for-all. Dom's on it, too! 2pm. Then I'll park the contraption somewhere and we'll have "NUFF" jokes; and then in the evening get to the deep listening...
  6. Alex - you playing on the 19th Nov. at all? Unfortunately I won't be down into That London until the Saturday so I will miss your new band, which sounds amazing - but we both know what we have to do on Saturday. The Lit and Phil is a lovely venue, with great pianos. I think you'll like it there...
  7. EXCELLENT!! The trio is stopping over so we can all hang...
  8. Manchester's coming up in July - although the programme is still not out yet, I know I'm playing! Does anyone normally go to it?
  9. That's a great read. Didn't know he was ill, but it's great to hear he still has his "voice" and classic touch.
  10. Me too... but I have to say... it's tough at the moment... but we'll keep soldiering on!
  11. Hello, Not posted for a while but I thought I'd let anyone who's interested know that I have a new sextet and we're going on a small tour. The group is called Heralds and consists of: saxophonist Ntshuks Bonga trumpeter Alex Bonney, clarinettist Arun Ghosh, bassist Dave Kane, drummer Josh Blackmore, and me on vibes. Our dates: Tue 18th Jan, 6:30pm CUBE at Deda, Chapel Street Derby DE1 3GU £10/£5 Thu 20th Jan, 8:30pm The Spin Off @ Bar Santiago, Grand Arcade, Leeds LS1 6PG £6 Tue 25th Jan, 8:30pm SCHMAZZ @ The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2PQ £7/£5/£3 If there's any chance anyone makes it to any of these, come say hello! All the best, C.
  12. Right - I think it's finished. I've been getting good feedback so far... so give it a look if you have time! It'd be nice to get other musicians seeing what they can do with it. It's now at http://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/musify/
  13. Cool! I was a bit ill, which is why I thought of doing it the first place - feverish dreams... I can't embed any in the forum [understandably] but it will embed in any pages you make... I have added formatting of time signature and slash chords now too. It is free to use non-commercially.
  14. Hello, I've written a very simple function to enable those who need to write chord sequences etc. on their webpages. It's not fool-proof, so it does need testing. Please take a look and let me know what you think! It's here: http://www.coreymwamba.co.uk/testbed/ Thanks, C.
  15. I listen to FLAC [and where space is an issue like on the laptop, Ogg] mainly, although most of my music is on CD. I have some vinyl, but my record player died a while back. I still buy and sell CDs. In fact, I actually removed the downloads section from my site through lack of demand! I sell way more CDs. People seem to much prefer the physical product. Well, here, anyway. That sounds like the Nyquist theorem. I remember an engineer that had been in the business a while giving me a ticking-off about that, saying that it didn't work. I think he was essentially saying "record at the highest quality you can", which I obviously wasn't disagreeing with. But I'd be interested to know what you'd heard...
  16. Good to hear you are well again! See you on here and Vibe.Net!
  17. I've just seen that there's been a time change from the e-mails I received - it starts at 7p.m.. Sorry! C.
  18. Hi. If you want tickets for Thursday, let me know! C.

  19. Hello, Thanks very much! I did have to get back home that day - it was insane. I'm not sure but if you let me know that you're definitely coming along I'll get them to put aside as many tickets as you need. C.
  20. Hello, Don't usually post my gigs here so apologies if this is the wrong place: but I'm taking part in a series of solos on Thursday 2nd September, 8.30p.m.: and if you can make it, it'd be great to see you. The event is called Accidental Powercut, which was set up by poet/DJ Charlie Dark. On the bill is Talvin Singh, Tinashe and me. Apparently we're known for doing electronic music[?] and so all the sets are acoustic in nature. I play vibes and it's in a chapel space, so I'm looking forward to that! It's being recorded and I'm getting a copy, so I'll make it available as soon as I can. The location: House of St Barnabas 1 Greek Street London W1D 4NQ Tickets are £5 per concert, and limited to 60 per performer: all proceeds are going to the House of St Barnabas, which helps homeless people develop skills for life and work. Cheers, C.
  21. Is it this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEvqGVV3qsA I can see a link [cf. the Complexes] - but "prime" might be pushing it... It reminds me a bit of the opening of Bach's Chromatic Fantasy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGO0wbRdI4Y but it's a small fragment of Hancock's musical statement - there's the whole rest of the solo to consider. And as he studied classical piano, what are the odds he got it from a piece he had been taught? But still: it's really interesting to hear the coincidences! Sent me on a Tristano/Gould trip today.
  22. The pianist Chris Anderson was a major influence on him and his teacher/mentor. Also from Chicago... http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/cds/56922.php There are a few samples on there - but there is a beautiful [and in my opinion, better] solo album called From The Heart, where you can hear the "blood line", so to speak. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heart-Chris-Anderson/dp/B0000666DE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1280733762&sr=8-2
  23. YES! His drummers are quite incredible. I was thinking a couple of days ago listening to 'Makin' a Move' (the Very Very Circus album, rather than the group) how awesome Pheeroan sounds with Threadgill...all the Sextett stuff obviously, but the VVC soundworld too...in fact, his rhythm sections just groove like absolute crazy...watching that Very Very Circus video...how could you not PLAY over that vibe!?! One of the amazing things about Threadgill's music to me is how it completely shatters/sidesteps the 'accessibility'/'innovation'/'avant garde'-type debates...it's new as you like, in the tradition as you like, totally individual as you like, weird as you like, familiar as you like, grooving like mad... In agreement there... his voice is purely about music. And the drummers are all killing [and the one in Zooid is certainly worth a look: http://pirecordings.com/artist/Elliot+Humberto_Kavee I'm loving his flow and space!] Thank you again, all.
  24. That's all right - I understood you Its catalogue is fascinating - thanks for the heads-up. It was the Wire transcript I had read previously. For reference: http://thewire.co.uk/articles/3251/ I've been doing some more reading, and video watching in lieu of listening. The Zooid group is certainly hitting the spot.
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