You grew up in South Africa. Tell us a bit about your childhood experiences with music and how you got into jazz. “My father, the composer Stanley Glasser, worked a lot with South African jazz musicians in the late 50s and early 60s – he was musical director of the legendary musical King Kong. […]
You do a lot of touring and travelling. What have been your favourite places so far? “I don't know if I have a favourite place, I love to tour the world. In this last year, we’ve been to 30 countries so far on The Changing Lights tour, including some places we’ve never been to […]
An Introduction to Tim Garland Tim Garland was born in Ilford, Essex on 19th October 1966, the same year as Julian Siegel, Julian Argüelles and Julian Joseph. He was raised in Canterbury, Kent in a musical family. His father was a cellist and music lover, his older brother played the drums and his older […]
Tell us about your latest album ‘Touch and Flee’ that was released in June. “It’s what we’re calling our concert hall record. Having experienced as a band more and more the inviting acoustics of concert hall venues we felt we were destined to make a record that leant itself to being played in […]
It’s a busy time for Claire Martin OBE. Her new album is due for release and is receiving rave reviews. She is also, with local musician Julian Nicholas, forging ahead with plans for the first South Coast Jazz Festival to be held in January next year. On a rare morning at home, I visited […]
Tell us about your latest album Subterranean. It's a redesign of some of my favourite music by David Bowie. Low and Heroes were two albums I really liked as a teenager and thought might work being adapted for improvising musicians / jazz – if we have to use that word – with the added […]
Hi Thomas. Tell us about the new CD that you have coming out on ECM. “Food will release its 8th record in January 2015. It´ll be our third on ECM and it will celebrate a change in the band’s direction. We´ve been going since 1998. In order to stay musically fit and fresh, […]
SJM editor Charlie Anderson spoke to Tim Haillay, chairman of Brighton Jazz Club. Tell us a bit about Brighton Jazz Club. “Well, I took over with John Rowland in 1992 and it was going for at least 15 years before that.” “Dave Gravitt and John Styles, who are still on the committee, were […]
Reg Hendrickse, co-organiser of JazzHastings, answers questions from SJM editor Charlie Anderson. How long has the club been going? We have been going for 8 years. How did it get started? We started with a small group: John Donaldson, Agatha, Sophie and me at the Old Angling club. Have you experienced any […]
Andy Lavender, owner of The Verdict, Brighton answers questions from SJM editor Charlie Anderson. How long has the club been going? “The club opened to the public on 2nd March 2012.” How did you first get into running a jazz club? “About 1970 I started going to the Brighton Jazz Club […]