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Birmingham's International Jazz and Blues Festival
If you're a big fan of the swing of jazz and the gutsy thrum of blues, then there's only one place you should want to be during festival time – Birmingham. This fantastic city doesn't just have loads to offer even the most discerning of tourists, but each year it also hosts a wonderful festival dedicated to jazz and blues music and those people who love it. Not just for jazz and blues connoisseurs, the Birmingham International Jazz and Blues Festival welcomes music lovers of all tastes and ages, and you can be sure that you'll find something to suit your likes even if you've never thought you enjoyed jazz and blues before.
The festival takes place in July and, in spite of being just ten days long, it manages to squeeze in over two hundred performances into that small amount of time. What this means is that you can be sure that you'll be able to discover amazing new jazz and blues acts at all times of the day when you visit Birmingham during the festival. With most days kicking off around lunch time, a multitude of acts will be able to swing you through the afternoon, introducing you to new toe tapping beats, impressive guitar licks and unforgettable bass lines. And best of all? You'll be able to take in loads of these fantastic musicians' performances for free, as the Birmingham International Jazz and Blues Festival is free. This is because the performances are held in every corner of Birmingham, from the streets and squares to shopping centres, the zoo, hotels, cafes, the canal, the buses, the castles and in museums. The festival aims to get the rhythms of jazz and blues all over the city, and with a list of playing grounds like those mentioned above, it's not hard to see just how much it succeeds!
This wonderful festival brings jazz and blues acts from around the world together. You'll be able to see groups and solo artists such as Zingaros New Gypsy Tango, Tipitina, Brooks Williams, Djabe, King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys, Jay Tamkin Band, Teens Jazzband Velke Losiny, Bourbon Street Stompers and many, many more.
So when you're booking your Birmingham hotels for this summer, be sure to do it in July so you can enjoy this enormous, wonderful, internationally acclaimed festival and bring a bit of jazz and blues into your day thanks to the Birmingham International Jazz and Blues Festival.
Isla Campbell writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
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Isla Campbell writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
Recommend some good jazz and blues albums?
So, if you had to pick a couple albums to play someone who didn't listen to jazz or blues, to make them start, what would they be? I'm trying to expand my music library to some other genres.
Jazz:
Jazz at Massey Hall ~ Charlie Parker
Count Basie & Sarah Vaughn (self-titled)
Biitches Brew ~ Miles Davis
The Roar of '74 ~ Buddy Rich
Chameleon ~ Maynard Ferguson
Kirk in Copenhagen ~ Roland Kirk
Blues:
More Real Folk Blues ~ Sonny Boy Williamson
Born Under A Bad Sign ~ Albert King
Me And Mr. Johnson ~ Eric Clapton
Live at Sugar Hill ~ John Lee Hooker
Keb' Mo' (self titled)
The Progressive Blues Experiment ~ Johnny Winter
Those will give you a well rounded good start on liking Jazz and Blues
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Tina Brooks True Blue Jazz Music CD Review
Very talented Jazz artist Tina Brooks has released her latest CD titled True Blue and Wow! It’s really a good one.
Unfortunately, it’s not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just can’t force myself to get through. Not at all the case with True Blue. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.
One of the refreshingly nice things about this CD is the way all of the participating artists seem to be really enjoying themselves. Combine that with the overall presentation and you’ve got one of Tina Brooks’s most impressive releases ever.
Listen to this CD and I believe you’ll find there's not much to dis-like about it. The songs are inspired, the production is simply outstanding, and Tina Brooks is clearly in top form. So much so that if you're even mildly into Jazz music you'll enjoy this album.
While this entire album is really very good some of my favorites are track 2 - Up Tight’s Creek, track 6 - Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You, and track 8 - Good Old Soul
My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - Good Old Soul. Good stuff!
True Blue Release Notes:
Tina Brooks originally released True Blue on February 15, 2005 on the Blue Note Records label.
CD Track List Follows:
1. Good Old Soul 2. Up Tight's Creek 3. Theme For Doris 4. True Blue 5. Miss Hazel 6. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You 7. True Blue - (alternate take) 8. Good Old Soul - (alternate take)
Personnel: Tina Brooks (tenor saxophone); Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Duke Jordan (piano); Sam Jones (double bass); Art Taylor (drums).
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (06/25/1960).
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