Where are you from? I was born in Bedfordshire and grew up in a tiny village and raised by small woodland creatures. Actually, I grew up surrounded by nature; large fields, forests, and angry farmers. Angry because we used to play and build tree-houses on their land. It was an idyllic place to grow up […]
How did you first get into playing jazz? “At school I took piano lessons. At seventeen or eighteen I listened to Oscar Peterson and Errol Garner and then Bill Evans. Anybody who hears Bill Evans is influenced by Bill Evans. That was a big thing for me.” “Then I went to music college […]
LOU BECKERMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH LIANE CARROLL World-class jazz vocalist, pianist and composer Liane Carroll has been interviewed at length in the media and yet I received a characteristically warm response (‘Yes, yes and thrice yes, darling’) to my request for this interview from a singer’s perspective. I went to meet her in […]
Imogen Ryall has recently been making a name for herself performing and teaching around Sussex. Editor of The Sussex Jazz Mag, Charlie Anderson, and aspiring jazz vocalist Anabel Alegre sat down with her to talk about her love of jazz, her love of teaching and her development as a musician. Charlie: How did you […]
I don't remember choosing music. I think it must've chosen me. I grew up in Copenhagen in a slightly chaotic home. My parents were unhappy back then. My two sisters had left home at about 15 & 16, which was when I was born. I felt like an only child but I did have my […]
Trombonist Mark Bassey moved from London to Brighton a few years ago and talks to Charlie Anderson about the change. How did you start out playing music? “I was born with no hands and I have an artificial hook on the left side and an artificial finger on the right side. When I was […]
Brighton trumpeter Jack Kendon talks to SJM editor Charlie Anderson. How did you first get into jazz? “When I was nine or ten, my Dad bought me a minidisc player and he gave me four minidiscs.” An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet “One hell of a powerful album with Lalo Schiffrin on […]
SJM editor Charlie Anderson sat down with John Easterby to talk about food, photography and jazz. With a long and distinguished career in the photographic industry, John Easterby has recently taken on the job of chef at The Verdict cafe in Brighton. I started our conversation by asking him how it all started. “I did a […]
Charlie Anderson met up with guitarist Steve Aston to discuss gypsy jazz and some of the reasons why some people love it and some people hate it. I met up with Steve Aston at The Paris House, a beautiful French café-bar in Brighton, and I asked him what he liked most about gypsy jazz […]
On a warm sunny day, editor Charlie Anderson wandered down to a bowling club in Hove to have a chat with bassist George Trebar. I caught up with bassist George Trebar at a busy time. As well as studying for a postgraduate degree at Trinity under the guidance of Simon Purcell and bassist Steve […]