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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 Oxford University Jazz Society, also known as JazzSoc, is the focus of jazz music at the University of Oxford, England; [1] the place to be for players and listeners, dancers and drinkers. [2] Formerly known as the Oxford University Jazz Club, the society now provides the main arena for student players to interact musically, whilst also ...
In 2012, the band toured to Canada, performing at the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, supporting the Mingus Big Band on the main stage at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, and playing at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. [12] In 2013, OUJO became an official Oxford University Music Society affiliated ensemble. [13]
From 1928 to 1948, the Perch was popular among Oxford University students as a venue to hear the latest jazz.Although it ceased to be a jazz venue after 1949, in 2009 the Perch was named by the Brecon Jazz Festival as one of 12 venues which had made the most important contributions to jazz music in the United Kingdom.
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.
The Oxford University Music Society (OUMS) [1] is one of the oldest societies in the University of Oxford, England, tracing its origins back to 1872. The Society was formed in 1916 by the merger of the Oxford University Musical Club , founded in 1872, and the Oxford University Musical Union , founded in 1884.
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 nature of popular music and jazz is such that it is ever changing, evolving and growing and therefore needs a new edition much more frequently than more static subjects." [5] Guinness Publishing, Virgin Publishing and Omnibus Press have produced the spin-offs on each subject and Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums is