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.
Gigs / Concerts, Jazz, Site News
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It’s awards season, ladies and gentlemen – that couple of months in the calendar that ensures every free newspaper out there is concentrating on awkward double acts, mutton dressed as lamb, jokes sinking like lead balloons, and the ramblings of trumped up entertainers you are sure you’ve never heard of going on for longer than they should.
It was with that in mind that we recorded Episode Three of our second season. If you want to hear the conversation of two over tired graduates who have both reached the end of the honeymoon periods of their “real” jobs in the “real” world, then you are in for a treat! You probably won’t notice the difference, and we know you really came for the music, so here’s the scoop:
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Classical, Episodes, Jazz, Music, Season Two benny hill, Fuzjko Hemming, Richard Anthony Jay, Salvatore Bonafede Trio, Tom Norris, Twilight
It really doesn’t seem that long ago when apples were fruits, tablets were taken for headaches, Jordan was a Hashemite Kingdom, and classical music was something you had to really look for, pay a lot for, and not really get as it wasn’t really for you. In fact it wasn’t really for anyone. Most people at classical concerts couldn’t hear the music for the sound of the self congratulatory conversations going on in their own head, imagining the chat at the work place the next day – “Oh the Elgar was divine, but the champagne was warm” and so forth. You might start to think that we’re beginning to sound like a stuck record, but the internet really is changing this.
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‘Things can only get better‘ sang portly Labour party members in 1997, sweat cascading down their fat, pink little faces as they jiggled about in exuberant glee at the dawn of a new political era. It all ended rather badly BUT the same cannot be said for the boys of GetJazzical who just keep on getting better!
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Classical, Episodes, Jazz, Season Two Beats & Pieces, disaster, Herman Chitterton Trio, James Rhodes, labour, Vijay Iyer, Wescott & Rodway
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!
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