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The group was created by Pete Oxley of The Spin jazz club in Oxford for a one-off Joni Mitchell Christmas special concert in 2022, and has since carried on touring and performing. [1] They base the majority of their repertoire on Mitchell's 1979 live album Shadows and Light , but also perform work by Mitchell's collaborators and the band ...
The Oxcentrics is a Dixieland jazz band founded in 1975 at Oxford University. [1] The band's name was derived from The Oxontrics, [2] an original 1920s jazz band. [3] Several (although by no means all) members were from University College, where many of the rehearsals took place.
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra was founded by Jim Mair and Gene Hall in Kansas City in May 2003 after being inspired by similar jazz orchestras across the United States, though it was primarily modeled after the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. [2] Jim's wife, Mary Mair, was also integral in getting the orchestra started. [1]
Oxford High School has produced several championship sports teams recently: district champions in football, regional champions in baseball, and tournament champions in basketball. [ citation needed ] Oxford High School has also produced academic Scholar's Bowl teams that have gone to state, in which it took 2nd place in 2008 [ 23 ] and 4th in 2014.
This list contains singers and groups who performed in the new jack swing (or swingbeat) [1] [2] style, a hybrid style popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. [3] It developed as many previous music genres did, by combining elements of jazz, R&B, funk and hip hop. [4]
Kansas Smitty’s House Band was formed in 2013 by Jack Abraham and Giacomo Smith. The band are a 7-piece group who describe themselves as ‘a group of jazz-addicted twenty-somethings who run their own bar’ [1] The current line up is: Pete Horsfall- trumpet Giacomo Smith- alto sax Alec Harper- tenor sax Joe Webb- piano David Archer- guitar
Thomas received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2014. [1] Several of his recordings were released in 2019: "from the ruminative post-bop piano trio heard on BleySchool, the free improv of the collective trio Shifa, an exploratory trio with reedist John Butcher and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg on Fictional Souvenirs and a stunning live solo piano set of Duke Ellington music ...
Williams was born in Kansas City, Kansas and grew up in Overland Park. He began learning the clarinet at age 8, under the influence of his father who played the saxophone. Williams went on to study music at New Mexico State University and later transferred to Indiana University School of Music in 1969.