Jez and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Ted  
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Everyone kept telling us that we had to interview the legendary Ted. So we did. Ted, you are indeed a legend. Keep on jazzing and keep on dancing.

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Marian interviews Scarborough Jazz patrons

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Visitors to Scarborough Jazz Festival talk about their experiences

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Andy Panayi montage

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Saturday afternoon vox pops

Saturday afternoon at the Jazz Festival and Jez Collins caught up with Theo Cross from Bridlington and Lorraine and John Amos from Plymouth to ask them what they thought of the festival so far.

Lorraine & John Amos  
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Theo Cross  
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Scenes from the Long Bar, Scarborough Spa

           
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Laurie Taylor at Scarborough Jazz - what could be finer?

BBC Radio 4 presenter Laurie Taylor gives his pitch for Scarborough Jazz.

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Avid BBC Radio 4 listeners will probably know Laurie Taylor from his excellent Thinking Aloud radio programme. The long-running show is based upon intelligent talk about British society, often based upon academic work from universities. Taylor has been an actor and professor of sociology before he started work as a broadcaster.

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Damn good ice cream

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Not a natural at this...

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We gave cameras to members of the audience. Some took to it more readily than others...

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From the audience perspective

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Explore the festival
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.
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