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Sep 20

Jazz: The British Story (Andy Panayi's Big Band)

The Arts Council England (Yorkshire) funded the commission of an original suite by Andy Panayi and Alan Barnes for the final session of Saturday night. This is impressionistic celebration of British jazz. Self-confident about the distinctiveness of the jazz of these isles, and incorporating themes from eighty-years of British style, portraits of notable artists, and recreations of the key sites of British jazz culture. The suite was written especially for the musicians in the seventeen-piece Big Band. Here’s your chance to listen to two of the numbers.

Track 1: Club 11
Track 2: Ronnie's Checkmate

“The result is a joyous, proud and heartfelt celebration of our common jazz heritage”.

Club 11 by Andy Panayi's Big Band

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After You've Gone

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About 'Just Like Jazz'

'Just Like Jazz' is a collaborative project between Interactive Cultures, a research unit at Birmingham City University, and the Scarborough Jazz Festival. We're media academics who happen to be jazz fans and we're working with the Scarborough Jazz Festival to explore the ways in which jazz festivals can be portrayed online.

Rather than creating a brochure website around the festival, or simply filming the festival and putting that online, our goal is to capture the spirit of the festival using a range of techniques such as photography, text and handheld, personal digital video. We have given small, cheap, portable video cameras to select audience members, musicians, backstage staff and the festival organisers and asked them to capture whatever they think is interesting: the buzz of the audience, the surrounding environment, snippets of the music performed, and any discussions that take place around jazz.

The Just Like Jazz team
Left to right: Prof Tim Wall, Andrew Dubber, Dr Simon Barber, Jez Collins.

We're gathering together all of this video, photography and text from our contributors and publishing it live on this website as the festival happens. We're also tagging the content in order to experiment with the ways in which the characters and stories that are captured can be navigated by you, the visitor. This process gives audiences the opportunity to experience the festival in their own way and makes the event accessible to those who may wish to attend the festival in future years, or who may never have considered visiting a jazz festival at all.

Although we've worked on projects like this before, with Aftershock in Italy and with the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, we don't have a fixed idea of what we're going to end up with. We're working with a loose structure and quite a lot of improvisation - in a way, it's just like jazz.

Do come and say hello if you see us around. We hope you enjoy exploring the festival online with us,

Tim, Andrew, Simon and Jez.
http://interactivecultures.org

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