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Season Three and big changes

Olly — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:13:22 +0000

Dear listener,

It may have escaped your notice but GetJazzical has taken a break. No the kind of ‘weekend away’ break but the kind of a’ rock star has a major drug addiction and needs a few months to get clean, relapse, get clean and find themselves’ kind of break. We’ve been changing, rebuilding and rethinking who we are, what we’re doing and where we’re going.

The answers we’ve come up with are: We’re GetJazzical, we’re about to launch the third and best season yet and we’re going places.

We’d love you to be part of our third season which will be presented in a new and exciting format, if you’d like to be played alongside of the likes of Peter Gregson, Carly Commando, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Belleruche and Vijay Iyer then all you need to do is email us at music@getjazzical.com and we’ll be in touch.

We’re doing a tremendous ammount of work behind the scenes and we can’t wait to lift the veil and bring you Season Three of GetJazzical!

Olly and Alasdair

OxJazz Photos and Part Two

Olly — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:50:27 +0000

Here’s a double wammy post – photos from our recent Oxford Adventure and PART TWO of our coverage. You lucky lucky things…

Oxford Jazz Festival: EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE

Alasdair — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:25:28 +0000

OXJAZZ SPECIAL PART I: We’ve got the first in our roving-reporting-recordings of the splendiferous OxJazz Festival and it’s here NOW for your podcasting pleasure. Featured in this episode are: Alvin Roy, Seb Pipe and Dave O’Higgins. Click here for more info…

BBC INTERVIEW: The chaps at BBC Radio Oxford asked the GetJazzical boys to take care of an interview with Liane Carroll for them and for good measure they also decided to interview our heroes as well, have a gander at the video…

Sticky: Season 2 – Episode 4

Olly — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:00:42 +0000

Look at them all! They're like ants!

This episode almost never happened because Olly just had to go and go to Rome didn’t he? The combination of girls, gelato and grappa were very nearly too much to resist and we almost lost him. In fact on his last day in the ancient city he was found, his arms wrapped around a Corinthian column, screaming that they’d have to prise him loose. They did and he’s back. On an aside, do you know how many tourists there are in Rome? F’ing loads of them! Absolutely everywhere like a dirty smear on a silk dress – if you’re the kind of person who clings to your sense of superiority to keep you buoyant in this world of chavs, bursting hospitals and early releases then Rome can be hard to get along with cos it’s really hard to feel elite when you’re being jostled by an overweight Texan man who inexplicably keeps trying to smell your hair as you admire the Sistine chapel.

But the episode… Golly gosh, gee and wow – this is something else. In the runup to the OXFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL your friends at GJ have pulled out the stops with a luscious playlist including:

Adam Rafferty – Chameleon: This guy beatboxes whilst he plays the guitar and he covers Herbie Hancock. Now read that again. Yeah, I know. He is spectacular and he’s playing at OxJazz so you and I get to see him LIVE! Lucky us. Tickets and more here.

Carly Commando – Bear: Olly loves this chick. She made a new album called ‘One Take’ and it’s available on her MySpace right bloody now – smooth and rhythmic, listen to it naked. In the bath, obviously.

The Fauxharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C 1st Movement: So much more to say about this incredible guy. Paul Henry Smith takes control an enormous library of musical notes played by real orchestras and ‘conducts’ them live with two wii-motes. Seriously incredible and just the sort of thing that gets our engines running here at GJ. Check out this video for more:

Peter Gregson - Omina: Very daring, very avant-garde, Peter uses beats, licks and harmony more like a DJ than the professional cellist that he is. Peter is currently ‘genius in residence’ at The Hospital Club which has become a new obsession for us here at GJ and we often recline and dream of planning our next podcast whilst sipping a cool G&T in cool surroundings with cool people at the club. One day. One day

Clara Sanabras & The Real Lowdown - Love for Sale: ANOTHER OxJazz artist and a doozy at that, we have a feeling she’ll be incredible live and can’t wait to find out if we’re right. Tickets here.

It’s big, it’s clever and it doesn’t care who knows it – send us a tweet, buzz us and BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO OXFORD NOW! We got a pretty sweeet last minute hotel deal here and you should too, you can even stay in a prison which looks super foxy.

PREVIEW: Oxford Jazz Festival

Olly — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:37:36 +0000

GetJazzical has an uneasy history with Oxford, city of dreaming pretension. It seems (and this all came out in a gush of great heaving sobs) that one of our number was summarily and brutally REJECTED from the canonised seat of education that dwells within the city. Their loss, the big brainy tossers. ANYWAY, GetJazzical has some news that’ll make you fall off your chair, get up, sit down and fall off it all over again…ready?

WE ARE THE OFFICIAL PODCAST OF THE OXFORD JAZZ FESTIVAL!

The city that so cruelly stamped REJECT on us has come shuffling back, mortarboard in hand, to ask for a second chance and being the magnanimous and benign people we are, we said ‘yes’ and gave Oxford a little pat on the head to imply that it wasn’t over but we were being the bigger man.

Of course all of this is immensely exciting and has only been made possible by the gregarious and boundlessly energetic Max Mason, co-founder of the festival (along with ever so talented Alissa and Paul) and more deliciously proprietor of the Big Bang sausage and jazz restaurant in that fair city. As the festival approaches we’ll be bringing you more, but for now book a holiday for the 1st to the 4th of April and have a listen to Max tell you why you should be Oxford-bound for Easter weekend.

Links to stuff!

Olly — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:41:40 +0000

For some time now in the GetJazzical universe we’ve been meaning to get a links page up with hyper-space-links to some of our favourite clubs (only the musical variety as Olly had to be told several times), musicians and other Internet ephemera. We’ll it’s finally here! Yay! So click here or on the irrelevant photo below to go there.

It's sort of symbolic, cos' there's stuff to discover OVER the bridge and... shut up!

Season Two – Episode One

Olly — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:50:58 +0000

It’s the last ten minutes of the film. The hero has overcome adversity, heartbreak and robots to get this far and yet he lies there motionless on the floor, life ebbing away whilst the villain laughs mockingly at his crumpled body. ”No!” You think, surely this can’t be the end? Not now, not when our hero only just learnt an important lesson about himself that he really knew all along. It’s just too heartbreaking. It’s NOT FAIR!

It is, of course, at this moment that he springs from the floor with a knowing smirk before felling the shocked villain and shagging the girl – often at the same time. In case you’ve drifted off and started thinking about dragons, this metaphor has been about US. We ARE that hero! Thousands of you supposed that GetJazzical had been defeated by the evil twins of actual employment and sloth but we have risen from the dusty mat and we’re ready to… do stuff! Yeah.

So here it is -Season Two: Episode One. The return, the reanimation, the renaissance of GetJazzical – the podcast that’s going places! Oh yeah, the music… There’s some really ace tuneage in this Episode, we’ve got Melissa Reiner who uses the violin like Mr Gretsky used a hockey stick, Kelly Rossum who evokes the Pink Panther with his playful, mischievous jazz number, the ever brilliant Christian Calcatelli, a smooth pair of Electro Beat-niks and finally ex-marine soulful pianist EB.

The state of things

Olly — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:12:58 +0000

So we went to see Bad Ass Brass the other night and they were absolutely incredible. We’ve never seen so many people dancing to a brass band since the 1930′s and even then our only point of reference are old episodes of ‘Jeeves & Wooster‘.

We’ve got interviews, photos and more on the way as soon as we can figure a way of getting them off Olly’s bloody iPhone.

Also some of you may be wondering where this week’s episode is. In fact all of you must be wondering as I can’t imagine too many of you come to this blog to admire the view. Well it is coming very soon but this week Alasdair is ‘running’ this and Olly is very lazy. Soon dear readers, soon.

Gig Alert: Bad Ass Brass

Alasdair — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:00:46 +0000

You know a band’s good when they get played on GetJazzical. You know we’re fans when we play them twice. Now, on top of all that, your favourite hosts are about to step out into the public eye to experience the live sounds of Bad Ass Brass. And we’d love you to come too!

Blagclub is the place to be on Saturday 23rd May, with some Bad Ass Brass and smooth cocktails to compliment these hot summer nights … that we’re expecting soon. More information can be found here, and at £5 a ticket, doors open at 20:00. Saturday night is going to kick off GetJazzical’s Summer of Jazz with a night not to be missed!

Oh, and you can also e-mail them (badassbrass@live.co.uk) to get on the guest list. Stick with us kids – we’ve got all the hook ups.

Borrowed Quotations

Olly — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:35:34 +0000

“There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.” – Steve Jobs

And now, if you will, contrast that with this photo of our ‘studio’. Our hearts, if not our wallets, are in the right place ladies and gents and so are you. Stay tuned, stay hungry, Get Jazzical.