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Blog URL http://www.towerofjazz.blogspot.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
A blog devoted to things directly and indirectly related to the Babel Label and the Vortex Jazz Club, leading jazz label and venue respectively based in London
Latest Blog Posts
- Chris Batchelor - Paul Hamlyn Award on Nov 10, 2009
Last night Chris Batchelor was awarded one of the 8 Paul Hamlyn Awards. It's worth £45,000 over three years and he can do with it what he wants. Iain Ballamy got one in 2007 and Evan Parker in 2008. So,for the past 3 years, there has been one jazz m...
- Independence of culture on Oct 26, 2009
An article in yesterday's Observer allows me to put up an image of one of my heroes, John Maynard Keynes. For Keynes was founder of the Arts Council.Tamara Rojo makes clear about the independence of culture as a result of having an Arts Council. Clea...
- The label to find (some of) the best bands to come? on Oct 24, 2009
I look back at the catalogue of Babel fairly regularly - if only because there are quite a few boxes of CDs in my storage spaces and in my shop by the Vortex.Two things come out from some of these recent musings:One is the quality of so much music th...
- Year end CD listings on Oct 9, 2009
We are the time of year, when journalists prepare their year-end lists. When one looks down it, I would be intrigued to see what proportion area) CDs which were released in the past 3 months and/orb) CDs where average age of the musicians is under 30...
- Paula Rae Gibson - In The Dark on Sep 4, 2009
Paula Rae Gibson is performing In The Dark on 8 September, 6 October.We have tickets for £5. Email me on oliver@babellabel.co.uk if you want to be on the list.The basic facts are that Paula Rae Gibson is a singer, a songwriter, a photographer and a...
- Launch of Kevin Le Gendre Now's the Time ll on Aug 20, 2009
A special launch event for the new CD compilation 'Now's The Time II' (Vortex Records) will take place in the Clore Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall next Friday 21 August starting at 5.30 p.m.Loz Speyer, Babel artist Julie Sassoon and Jason Yarde...
- New releases on Babel - Golden Age of Steam, trioVD, Twelves Trio, Triptych, Paula Rae Gibson on Aug 7, 2009
Lots of names, but many of the musicians we know and love.First will be trioVD. With a launch at the London Jazz Festival in NovemberThen, in early 2010, Triptych (Richard Fairhurst, Jasper Hoiby, Chris Vatalaro); Golden Age of Steam (James Allsopp,...
