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| COLLECTIVE LANDS AND BANDS ... | ||
| The Destroyers | www.thedestroyers.co.uk | Louis' umteen-piece Balkan klezmer gypsy madness |
| Ray Butcher | www.myspace.com/raybutcher | Raykov's MySpace pages |
| Joe Broughton | www.joebroughton.com | Exceptional violin lunatic |
| Stoney Lane | www.stoneylanemusic.co.uk | Jazz, productions, promotions and design |
| Cobweb Collective | www.cobwebcollective.co.uk | Bringing together Birmingham jazz musicians and improvisors, establishing new venues and projects in the city |
| Flamenco-Birmingham | www.flamenco-birmingham.com | Various flamenco-based performance, festival and worshops programmes |
| SOME SPLENDID FRIENDS ... | ||
| Sid Peacock/Surge | www.sidpeacock.com | Wonderfully inventive composer and guitarist |
| The Sub Ensemble | www.sugarbeats.co.uk | Great septet at the broken beats and club end of the jazz spectrum |
| Lizzy Parks | www.lizzyparks.com | Fine vocalist |
| Bryan Corbett | www.bryancorbett.co.uk | Trumpet maestro, appearing on TG's debut album |
| Steve Tromans | www.steve-tromans.co.uk | Eternally great creative pianist and composer |
| Jim Hart | www.jimhart.co.uk | Tip top vibes |
| Portico Quartet | Myspace | Great London contemporary jazz/classical ensemble |
| Gadjo | www.gadjomusica.com | Marvellous Catalonians - polyglot balkan-ska-swing |
| James Summerfield | Myspace | Forgiving the Aston Villa allegiance, an excellent singer songwriter |
| Fola | www.folamusic.com | Two Aston Villa fans in one room. Be afraid |
| Cantaloop | www.cantaloop.net | Funk locomotive |
| Misty's Big Adventure | www.mistysbigadventure.co.uk | Many good people playing hip hoppy scratching skrewy jazz pop |
| Roger Inniss | www.theroginnisszone.co.uk | Bass player extraordinaire |
| Slender Loris | www.slenderloris.com | Seventies cult band (feat. Sam and Jamie's old English teachers!) |
| Sara Colman | www.saracolman.com | Splendid and popular singer and pianist |
| Terry Clarke | Myspace | The nicest man in music |
| Steve Ajao | www.steveajao.com | Birmingham's sax and blues guitar boss |
| Perry Hemus | www.woodlandrecords.com | Home of Rhodesmode |
| Soweto Kinch | www.soweto-kinch.com | Ever popular creative Birmingham-based sax man + MC |
| The Seal Club | Myspace | Old friends Sam Pearce, Roger Perks and Steve Sherriff in Tenerife |
| Improvisation Birmingham | Myspace | Home of Fizzle - Weird and wonderful noises galore |
| Tom Lewis | www.tomlewis.co.uk | Dab hand with a paintbrush, and premium degree pencil wizard |
| Ramon Ruiz | www.flamenco-london.com | Top flamenco guitarist |
| The Electric Cinema | www.theelectric.co.uk | Excellent cinema, recording studios and ice cream |
| Audio Suite | www.theaudiosuite.com | Fine sound recording with Neil Hillman |
| Output | www.output.ws | More top recording and projects with Ian Wallman |
| Radio 2 Go | http://radiotogo.blogspot.com | Robin Valk's excellent Podcasts featuring all walks of Midland's music |
| Neil Yates | www.neilyates.co.uk | Magnificent trumpeter and composer |
| Clive Davis | www.spectator.co.uk/clivedavis/ | Clive's new Politics and Culture blog-site |
| Paul Vernon Chester | www.paulvernonchester.com | Excellent gypsy-jazz guitarist |
| Jo Hamilton | www.johamilton.com | The top voice of singer-songwriter Jo Hamilton |
| Michael Berk | www.michaelberk.com | Great solo acoustic guitarist based in London |
| Paul Broadrick | www.paulbroadrick.com | Mighty fine photographer and all round good egg |
| Brian Rasic | www.brianrasic.com | Another top photographer and gentleman of the lens, for TG's first album |
| Old Dance School | www.theolddanceschool.com | Very fine Birmingham folk ensemble |
| Tony Levin's Jazz Club | www.tlsjazzclub.co.uk | The drumming guru's very fine monthly gathering |
| Paul Murphy | www.paulmurphymusic.com | 'Is it true that Paul Murphy is working in a Manchester laundry?' |
| Andy Derrick Quartet | www.adjq.co.uk | Top trump trombonist band news and blog |
| Tom Chapman | www.tomchapman.net | Percussive splendour |
| VERY NICE PEOPLE ... | ||
| Birmingham Jazz | www.birminghamjazz.co.uk | Unrivalled jazz promotions and projects in Birmingham |
| Jibbering Records | www.jibberingrecords.co.uk | Moseley's very own splendid establishment |
| Proper | www.properdistribution.com | The good distribution folk |
| Jazzwise | www.jazzwise.co.uk | Undisputed No.1 Jazz Mag |
| Jazz Services / Jazz UK | www.jazzservices.org.uk | More very nice jazz people |
| M.U | www.musiciansunion.org.uk | Pay your subscription on time and you get a nice new diary |
| PRSF | www.prsf.co.uk | PRS Foundation for new music |
| Ray's Jazz | www.foyles.co.uk | Top friendly jazz store in London |
| Serious | www.serious.org.uk | International Music Producers. And rather good at it |
| Garry Corbett | www.flickr.com | Excellent photography of all things jazz in Birmingham |
| Andrew Dubber | www.newmusicstrategies.com | Online music guru |
| Peter Bacon | thejazzbreakfast.wordpress.com | Peter Bacon's fine 'Jazz Breakfast' blog |
| The Stirrer | www.thestirrer.co.uk | Adrian Goldberg's intriguing news and campaigns |
| Created in Birmingham | www.createdinbirmingham.com | Pete Ashton's fine all-sorts blog site |
| Birmingham: It's Not Shit | www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk | It doesn't lie |
| Tak! Design | www.taktak.net | Ingenious creations |
| Live Brum | www.livebrum.co.uk | Excellent comprehensive gig and event listings |
| Birmingham Alive | www.birmingham-alive.com | Ditto |
| World Unlimited | www.worldunlimited.freeuk.com | Folk, roots and acoustic promotions in the Midlands |
| Ear Connector | www.earconnector.co.uk | Jazz, new music, and other urgent matters |
| Nu Century Arts | www.nucenturyarts.co.uk | The Live Box and African-Caribbean performing arts in Birmingham |
| Capsule | www.capsule.org.uk | Top art and music promoters |
| 7 Inch Cinema | www.7inch.org.uk | Birmingham's finest |
| Keep Digbeth Vibrant | www.keepdigbethvibrant.co.uk | Wholesome area of Birmingham being threatened by 'developers' |
| INTERESTING ARTIST AND VENUE SITES ... | ||
| Paco de Lucia | www.pacodelucia.org | Practise for 8 hours a day and you'll be this good in 357 years time |
| LAGQ | www.lagq.com | The tremendous Los Angeles Guitar Quartet |
| Ennio Morricone | www.enniomorricone.com | Anyone speak Italian? |
| David Arnold | www.davidarnold.com | More than worthy custodian of the hallowed 007 music |
| Paolo Bellinati | www.bellinati.com | Superb Brazillian composer and guitarist |
| Hot Club | www.hotclub.co.uk | Books, CDs and gypsy jazz online store |
| Cheltenham Jazz Festival | www.cheltenhamfestivals.com | 1/2 of the UK's top jazz festivals |
| London Jazz Festival | www.londonjazzfestival.com | The other 50% |
| Shambala Festival | www.shambalafestival.co.uk | Magical secret festivities |
| Glastonbury Festival | www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk | Little festival gathering on a farm |
| Samois Sur Seine | http://django.samois.free.fr/ | Annual Django oasis a la Francais |
| Lewes Guitar Festival | www.lewesguitarfestival.co.uk | Annual guitar-playing and luthier haven near Brighton |
| Sadlers Wells Flamenco | www.sadlerswells.com | Flamenco great and small at Sadlers Wells, London |
| L'Esprit Manouche | www.lespritmanouche.com | International gypsy gathering in Moseley, Birmingham |
| Moseley Folk Festival | www.moseleyfolk.co.uk | Top class folk-based festival in Moseley, Birmingham |
| Gigbeth | www.gigbeth.com | Fast growing and diverse Birmingham Festival and conference |
| International Dance - | www.idfb.co.uk | Birmingham's new dance festival |
| - Festival Birmingham | ||
| The Blue Note | www.thebluenote.co.uk | Leominister's intimate jazz cavern |
| Le Quecumbar | www.quecumbar.co.uk | Great gypsy jazz venue in Battersea, London |
| Szugye Gallery | www.szugye.com | Fine jazz inspired art |
| Stephen Hill | www.spanishguitars.co.uk | A dab hand at making rather nice guitars |
| Flamenco World | www.flamenco-world.com | Home of flamenco on the web |
| World Guitarist | www.worldguitarist.com | Online worldwide guitaring directory |
| The Home of Football | www.wba.co.uk | Long live The King |
| Acorns | www.acorns.org.uk | Please donate to a very worthy cause |
