Poetry Olympics
- Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Forty years ago the Royal Albert Hall was the venue for the Poetry Olympics (filmed as Wholly Communion) which celebrated the renaissance of performance poetry.
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Poetry Olympics
- Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Forty years ago the Royal Albert Hall was the venue for the Poetry Olympics (filmed as Wholly Communion) which celebrated the renaissance of performance poetry.
London Jazz Festival
- Tuesday, September 20, 2005
With this year's London Jazz Festival just around the corner the organisers have confirmed several surprise big names in addition to the line-up announced in Jazzwise last month.
UK tour for Tord Gustavsen Trio
- Friday, September 16, 2005
The trio format is one of the most popular and flexible in jazz history and in recent years has re-entered the spotlight with the success of groups such as EST and The Bad Plus.
UK tour for Tord Gustavsen Trio
- Friday, September 16, 2005
The trio format is one of the most popular and flexible in jazz history and in recent years has re-entered the spotlight with the success of groups such as EST and The Bad Plus.
The Write Way Up
- Tuesday, September 13, 2005
The new writers' initiative, The Write Stuff, returns to the London Jazz Festival for its third year running following the success of the past two courses.
The Write Way Up
- Tuesday, September 13, 2005
The new writers' initiative, The Write Stuff, returns to the London Jazz Festival for its third year running following the success of the past two courses.
Jazz and literature
- Friday, September 9, 2005
Next month's Cheltenham Literature Festival has an interesting jazz evening on 12 October. In the first half author Luke Sutherland performs a short story inspired by the Markus Stockhausen commissions from the Cheltenham Jazz and Music Festivals with musical accompaniment.
Jazz and literature
- Friday, September 9, 2005
Next month's Cheltenham Literature Festival has an interesting jazz evening on 12 October. In the first half author Luke Sutherland performs a short story inspired by the Markus Stockhausen commissions from the Cheltenham Jazz and Music Festivals with musical accompaniment.
Soweto Kinch to present BBC radio shows
- Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Next month alto saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch presents Where Musical Worlds Collide a set of two programmes where Kinch discusses spoken word in the context of both hip hop and jazz and investigates the spoken word in jazz, scat and jive talk, improvisation with language, protest and beat poetry, the links between spoken word, personality and performance, working with samples and cutting contests in both jazz and hip-hop.