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Hejira is a British jazz-band that celebrates Joni Mitchell's jazz period. 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 ]
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.
Rawicz won Jazz Newcomer of the Year at the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2022, [2] won a Drake YolanDa award in 2021, was a finalist in BBC Young Musician Jazz Award 2022 [3] and nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at Jazz FM Awards 2021. [4] Emma Rawicz has chromesthesia, a type of synesthesia which involves seeing colours when hearing sounds.
In the beginning of the orchestra's performing schedule, they regularly drew audiences of up to 1,000 people. "Our vision for the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is to be on the same cultural plane as the symphony, the ballet, and the Lyric opera", said Mair when elaborating on a strategy to grow the orchestra and attract young audiences and ...
Celebrity Ball in London, and the Bull's Head jazz venue in Barnes, west London. [1] From 1999 to 2002, the band was led by cardiologist and saxophonist Euan Ashley. During his tenure, the band appeared at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival and performed Kenny Wheeler's Sweet Time Suite at St Barnabas Church, Oxford.
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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 ...
One unscripted moment in the spin room trumped all the memorized talking points: Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), center, in the Spin Room prior to the CBS News vice presidential debate between ...