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- What is your profession?
- Writer, Journalist, Author, Actor, Educator
- What Instrument Do you Play?
- learning to play the clarinet - very slowly
- Where Are you located?
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- How did you find out about TGJN?
- About Me:
- I am a playwright, historian, director, publisher, actor and freelance writer living and working in Shakespeare's Stratford.
In 1997 I co-founded The Bird of Prey Theatre Company in Stratford.
With my wife Hilary I created the publishing company Newman Books in 2008.
I write about all things jazz for my own column, Steve Newman's Jazz Groove. For a while I also wrote for Suite101.
I'm a member of The Society of Authors.
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Sidney Bechet - Jazz Musician
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 2:44pm —
BBC Proms 2008 - Classical Jazz
The BBC do try hard to get things right at the Proms: to bring old and new together, to widen audiences horizons. But when it comes to incorporating jazz within the framework of the old classical war-horse series of concerts they invariably get it wrong. Sadly they got it wrong again last night.
It started off okay (once Gershwin's 'Strike Up the Band' was out of the way) with young British saxophonist Jason Yarde playing a newly commissioned piece of his own, 'Rhythm and Other Fascinations', t… Continue
It started off okay (once Gershwin's 'Strike Up the Band' was out of the way) with young British saxophonist Jason Yarde playing a newly commissioned piece of his own, 'Rhythm and Other Fascinations', t… Continue
Posted on August 10, 2008 at 7:00am —
Mike Westbrook's Concert Band - Celebration
In 1967 when The Beatles were recording their Sgt Pepper album at the Abbey Road studios in London - and changing popular music forever - another group of young men were in the Decca studios just a few miles away recording the album 'Celebration' and doing the same for British modern jazz.
Mike Westbrook's Concert band had been formed just a year earlier, and it was a band that had already made a name for itself on the UK jazz scene as an outfit with power, inventiveness, and a handful of soloi… Continue
Mike Westbrook's Concert band had been formed just a year earlier, and it was a band that had already made a name for itself on the UK jazz scene as an outfit with power, inventiveness, and a handful of soloi… Continue
Posted on August 8, 2008 at 9:56am —
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Mel Brown Quartet
March 25, 2009 at 8pm to March 27, 2013 at 11pm – Jimmy Mak's
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Saturday JAZZ Nights at Chelsea Wine Bar
November 14, 2009 at 8:30pm to November 15, 2009 at 12:30am – Chelsea Wine Bar
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Jazz & Art Extravaganza!
November 15, 2009 from 3pm to 8pm – Emmy Lu Gallery
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Lee Summer's "Just Piano Series" presents...
November 19, 2009 from 7pm to 8pm – Triad Theatre
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Workout
December 3, 2009 from 9pm to 11pm – Casale Monferrato
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“Grazie”
December 17, 2009 from 6pm to 9pm – Ivrea
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Tish Oney - The Peggy Lee Project
January 10, 2010 from 7pm to 8:15pm – The Triad
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Jazz On Edge Volume 2
February 6, 2010 from 6pm to 10pm – Garden Theatre
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A Rock Royal Finds Himself In The Digital Age
His father was a Beatle, but Dhani Harrison wanted a musical project that didn't carry the burden of his family name. So he started a band called thenewno2, where he's created a sound and a promotional strategy that is all his own.Hafez Nazeri: From Iran, Music Beyond Politics
On Nov. 14, Hafez Nazeri will headline at Carnegie Hall. The young Iranian musician has been attracting attention for "Sounds of Peace," an East-meets-West program inspired by a progressive political vision. Or is it?Marin Alsop's Shared Musical Roots
The Baltimore Symphony conductor chooses a season of music built on the belief that understanding where we come from, and celebrating diversity, can create a sense of continuity, history and belonging — not to mention some great concerts.Between Albums, Rivers Cuomo Digs Up Solo Work
Since Weezer's debut in 1994, the band has released six more albums, gone through a re-organization, and earned a devoted following. Their new album is called Raditude. Last year, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer's lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter, released two solo CDs of songs that didn't make it onto the band's albums.Interview: Thurston Moore Of Sonic Youth
Thurston Moore is a musician who, aside from being in the legendary band Sonic Youth, has collaborated with everyone from Glenn Branca to Lydia Lunch to Mike Watt. For Moore, Internet culture doesn't mean replacing music experience so much as reconfiguring it.Swagger Like Us: Thoughts on Women in Music, 2000-09
At the end of the '90s, I got excited when I realized that young girls no longer needed to hang out with creepy record-collector guys in order to find out about cool music. Information was out there for everyone to access equally via the Internet. Knowledge about obscure records could no longer be hoarded and used as power.Music Of Late Musician Explores Haitian Culture
The late Alan Lomax brings the sound of Haiti to life. Recordings that Lomax made decades ago are now being released as a 10- disc box set, along with a journal and other artifacts from his trip to Haiti. Host Michel Martin speaks with Gage Averill, an ethnomusicologist and a professor of at the University of Toronto. Averill was the project's curator and is joined by Ellen Harold, Alan Lomax's niece who also worked on the project.A Life Of Craft Beer And Free Jazz
Some people know Bruno Johnson as the proprietor of the well-respected out-jazz record label Okka Disk. Others know him as the owner of the Palm Tavern and the Sugar Maple in Milwaukee, Wis. Talk about your jazz bars.Quiet Anguish In Elgar's Cello Concerto
The concerto was the English composer's last major work for orchestra, as well as his most confessional. In this recording, cellist Jacqueline Du Pre gives one of her finest performances, exposing both gentleness in the pain and an edge to the tenderness.Doveman: Soft-Spoken But Upbeat
With the release of the 2005's The Acrobat, 2007's With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead and an album in which he covers the soundtrack to the '80s movie Footloose, Thomas Bartlett established Doveman as a true sleeper. His third album of original material with Doveman, The Conformist, is a testament to his soft-spoken style. This time around, though, he adds flourishes of upbeat synths, drums and catchy choruses.New Music From Long-Dead People
In 'What's in a Song,' our occasional series from the Western Folklife Center, we learn of one man's quest to channel the music of the Aztecs and Mayans through new compositions that combine inspiration with scholarly research.A Raelette On Ray Charles
As a backup singer, Angela Workman was one of Weekend Edition host Liane Hansen's first music interviews. For Hansen's 20th anniversary show, Workman spoke about the legacy of Ray Charles, and what she's been up to since.Music For Sting's Favorite Season
For the former Police frontman, the winter months are a time for imagination and reflection. His new album, If on a Winter's Night, takes traditional songs from his native British Isles as its starting point. Here, he performs one of them and speaks with Scott Simon.Out Of Paul Simon's Shadow, A Son Rises
With the help of legendary Nashville session musicians and a little paternal assistance from Paul Simon, Harper Simon has just released his solo debut. But don't be fooled by his pedigree: The younger musician has his own sound.New York City Opera Rises From Turmoil
A longtime scrappy alternative to the plush Metropolitan Opera, City Opera struggles to make a comeback with a new general manager, a renovated theater and a shorter but smarter season of operas.© 2009 Created by THE GLOBAL JAZZ NETWORK on Ning. Create Your Own Social Network
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I am impressed with who you are across the pond and was wondering if you would be interested in reviewing DEATH OF A BEBOP WIFE by Grange "Lady Haig" Rutan.
Al Haig was once loved in England and died in 1982, after 15 years and interviewing over 400 luminaries of the jazz world Cadence Jazz Books published last April my tome.
What is The Society of Authors?
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www.ladyhaig.com
alhaigbebop@aol.com
Just looked up your page here and since you say you write about all thing jazz in Jazz Groove, am dropping a line about what some say is my inspiring (enough so that I'm making a full-length auto-bio doc) story.
Let me know if there's anything you'd like to know since I'm up for stories being published and/or on other media with which you may be active or know folks interested in seniors' involvement in jazz, the arts, filmmaking, et al.
I may be reached at ellifordyce@msn.com.
Best,
Elli Fordyce
www.cdbaby.com/ellifordyce
Greetings Steve,
Wow I'm impressed, how wonderful it must be to have the freedom to live your passion. Carry on and
thank you for the invite. I happen to be very good at reading, peace and blessings.
Please visit my page.
~Deena~
He was also the husband of the late Damita Joe.
Gloria Lynn on your site. My father was an avid fan of hers. He introduced me to her music. Sometime he would go into his music room and listen to her for hours. She definately was a talent to be reconed with back then.
Thanks for including me as a friend.
All the Best,
Paul Metzke