JazzIan
@jazzian.bsky.social
Jazz programmer. Reader. Frequenter of cemeteries.
A bit of Belgian jazz for a Friday afternoon? Why the hell not?
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
A bit of Belgian jazz for a Friday afternoon? Why the hell not?
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10 yrs ago we were up to Loy-related activity at the Bluecoat in Liverpool: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2016/01/mina...
January 30, 2026 at 10:08 AM
10 yrs ago we were up to Loy-related activity at the Bluecoat in Liverpool: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2016/01/mina...
Recent reading....Finally finished the last of the Czech books I planned to read before going to Prague four months ago...
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Recent reading....Finally finished the last of the Czech books I planned to read before going to Prague four months ago...
Tomorrow in Birmingham...
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Haven't seen Paul Dunmall since January last year. As a tribute to Tony Bianco they'll be performing Coltrane's Ascension live (so I've been told). Mystery guest on this session...I wonder who it might be...
Tickets www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...
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Haven't seen Paul Dunmall since January last year. As a tribute to Tony Bianco they'll be performing Coltrane's Ascension live (so I've been told). Mystery guest on this session...I wonder who it might be...
Tickets www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...
Dunmall Invites: Brackenbury / Saunders / Kane / Levin plus Mystery Guest
Dunmall Invites: Brackenbury / Saunders / Kane / Levin plus Mystery Guest6:30pmEastside Jazz Club
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January 28, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Tomorrow in Birmingham...
tinyurl.com/5x5uzksr
Haven't seen Paul Dunmall since January last year. As a tribute to Tony Bianco they'll be performing Coltrane's Ascension live (so I've been told). Mystery guest on this session...I wonder who it might be...
Tickets www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...
tinyurl.com/5x5uzksr
Haven't seen Paul Dunmall since January last year. As a tribute to Tony Bianco they'll be performing Coltrane's Ascension live (so I've been told). Mystery guest on this session...I wonder who it might be...
Tickets www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...
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TONIGHT (Tues 27 Jan) @ Artefact, Liverpool - first outing for a new duo with Adam Fairhall on harmonium and electronics, playing late-period John Coltrane tunes. Also on the bill is a duo of Nick Branton and Jonathan Raisin #electroacoustic #improvisedmusic #jazz #saxophone #harmonium
January 27, 2026 at 12:32 PM
TONIGHT (Tues 27 Jan) @ Artefact, Liverpool - first outing for a new duo with Adam Fairhall on harmonium and electronics, playing late-period John Coltrane tunes. Also on the bill is a duo of Nick Branton and Jonathan Raisin #electroacoustic #improvisedmusic #jazz #saxophone #harmonium
"Reading is a hobby that never grows stale - and an unpunished vice." - Edmund White
January 21, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"Reading is a hobby that never grows stale - and an unpunished vice." - Edmund White
Working on the Bath Jazz Weekend from Fri - Sun. Great line up www.bathjazzweekend.com/programme
Looking forward to catching up with @oliebrice.bsky.social & @alexanderhawkins.bsky.social and many others who aren't on BlueSky
Looking forward to catching up with @oliebrice.bsky.social & @alexanderhawkins.bsky.social and many others who aren't on BlueSky
Programme | Bath Jazz Weekend 26
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January 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Working on the Bath Jazz Weekend from Fri - Sun. Great line up www.bathjazzweekend.com/programme
Looking forward to catching up with @oliebrice.bsky.social & @alexanderhawkins.bsky.social and many others who aren't on BlueSky
Looking forward to catching up with @oliebrice.bsky.social & @alexanderhawkins.bsky.social and many others who aren't on BlueSky
Top 5 gigs of the year:
Ferg's Imaginary Big Band - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
James Brandon Lewis & the Messthetics - Boat Club, Nottingham
Led Bib - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
Freetown Quartet - Jazz Dock, Prague
Ahmed - Chapel Street Arts Centre, Derby
Ferg's Imaginary Big Band - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
James Brandon Lewis & the Messthetics - Boat Club, Nottingham
Led Bib - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
Freetown Quartet - Jazz Dock, Prague
Ahmed - Chapel Street Arts Centre, Derby
December 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Top 5 gigs of the year:
Ferg's Imaginary Big Band - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
James Brandon Lewis & the Messthetics - Boat Club, Nottingham
Led Bib - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
Freetown Quartet - Jazz Dock, Prague
Ahmed - Chapel Street Arts Centre, Derby
Ferg's Imaginary Big Band - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
James Brandon Lewis & the Messthetics - Boat Club, Nottingham
Led Bib - Peggy's Skylight, Nottingham
Freetown Quartet - Jazz Dock, Prague
Ahmed - Chapel Street Arts Centre, Derby
Doubt I'll be going to any more gigs in the next two days so here are my top 5 gigs of the year. I've seen around 60 bands this year and it was easy to narrow it down to 10 but getting to 5 was much tougher. Some were chosen for setting, some were totally new to me, sometimes I was really drunk 1/2
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Doubt I'll be going to any more gigs in the next two days so here are my top 5 gigs of the year. I've seen around 60 bands this year and it was easy to narrow it down to 10 but getting to 5 was much tougher. Some were chosen for setting, some were totally new to me, sometimes I was really drunk 1/2
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Pianist Michel Petrucciani was born on this day December 28, 1962 in Orange, France. After performing with Charles Lloyd's quartet in the mid-1980s, Michel recorded a series of stellar Blue Note albums as a leader thru the early-1990s beginning with “Pianism”: bluenote.lnk.to/MichelPetruc...
December 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Pianist Michel Petrucciani was born on this day December 28, 1962 in Orange, France. After performing with Charles Lloyd's quartet in the mid-1980s, Michel recorded a series of stellar Blue Note albums as a leader thru the early-1990s beginning with “Pianism”: bluenote.lnk.to/MichelPetruc...
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robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle..., But please don't buy my new book for someone at Christmas: buy it for yourself!
ELLE: A VERSE NOVEL is now published
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is now published by Broken Sleep Books Details for ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Bro...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle..., But please don't buy my new book for someone at Christmas: buy it for yourself!
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Bob Dylan, Nottingham - 1966
December 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Bob Dylan, Nottingham - 1966
Two months after visiting Prague, I finally got round to reading this, which I bought while I was there....Read it in about twenty minutes. Might have another read over a pint sometime soon.
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Two months after visiting Prague, I finally got round to reading this, which I bought while I was there....Read it in about twenty minutes. Might have another read over a pint sometime soon.
I was listening to this yesterday but didn't check the dates...
60 years ago on December 3 & 4, 1965 saxophonist Ornette Coleman was in Stockholm, Sweden recording his Blue Note debut "At The Golden Circle" with a trio featuring David Izenzon on bass & Charles Moffett on drums.
Vol. 1: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
Vol. 2: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
Vol. 1: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
Vol. 2: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColem...
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I was listening to this yesterday but didn't check the dates...
"Would that I knew the chicken-livered poltroon, the milksop thou hast brought to my door, good Master Cuckoo. I would give much for my eyes to behold this whining cur precede me through thy flaming gate to Heaven - but that doesn't mean I will clutch any turd of a quacksalver to my bosom like thee"
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Would that I knew the chicken-livered poltroon, the milksop thou hast brought to my door, good Master Cuckoo. I would give much for my eyes to behold this whining cur precede me through thy flaming gate to Heaven - but that doesn't mean I will clutch any turd of a quacksalver to my bosom like thee"
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ELLE is officially published today. So here's an updated post with a little video or verse one, and links to the publisher and to previous posts about the 'project': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
ELLE: A VERSE NOVEL is now published
My new book Elle: A Verse Novel is now published by Broken Sleep Books Details for ORDER: Robert Sheppard - Elle, a Verse Novel | Bro...
robertsheppard.blogspot.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ELLE is officially published today. So here's an updated post with a little video or verse one, and links to the publisher and to previous posts about the 'project': robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/11/elle...
Excellent gig by the #FergusMcCreadieTrio tonight @lakesidearts.bsky.social Yes, I know I say it every time I hear him live, "he just gets better and better"...but he does...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
The Shieling, by Fergus McCreadie
10 track album
fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Excellent gig by the #FergusMcCreadieTrio tonight @lakesidearts.bsky.social Yes, I know I say it every time I hear him live, "he just gets better and better"...but he does...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
Have a listen: fergusmccreadie.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
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Look what just arrived!
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Look what just arrived!
Just when you want to leave the Lincolnshire Poacher, Damian turns up...sober....Been In London selling Picassos....Beer and whiskeys! "Bushmills is a Protestant whiskey!" Don't tell my folks...
November 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just when you want to leave the Lincolnshire Poacher, Damian turns up...sober....Been In London selling Picassos....Beer and whiskeys! "Bushmills is a Protestant whiskey!" Don't tell my folks...
Incredible gig by @Ahmed this afternoon in Derby. I've always been into avant garde jazz but this was special. Relentless. Tantric. No solos. Everyone improvising for an an hour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
[Ahmed] (Pat Thomas, Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip, Seymour Wright) (Live in London 2022.8.26)
YouTube video by les-sons-du-monde
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November 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Incredible gig by @Ahmed this afternoon in Derby. I've always been into avant garde jazz but this was special. Relentless. Tantric. No solos. Everyone improvising for an an hour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8eg...
Never met Seymour Wright before. I know his dad. He looks like a fucking tramp.
Quiet in the Lincolnshire Poacher earlier. I persuaded them to play Jelly Roll Morton off of their phone. My work is done.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
The Chant - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers (1926)
YouTube video by Atticus Jazz
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November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Quiet in the Lincolnshire Poacher earlier. I persuaded them to play Jelly Roll Morton off of their phone. My work is done.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhm...
This was calling card when I used to be a DJ!
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Today’s reprints:
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today’s reprints: