Stolen Times : Roger Little
I initially achieved Roger tiny at the then Rush Hour Blues collection of Commuter Jazz concert events which were held at Symphony Corridor in Birmingham on a weekly foundation. Now beneath the banner Totally free Jazz and promoted by JazzlinesSH they go on to this day, every Friday at 5 PM and carry on to draw a substantial viewers for jazz.
My portrait of Roger was built at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in December 2016 through one of his visits from Cyprus where by he now life.
We commenced by conversing about how he acquired into jazz.
“It was in the 90’s and I was on a regular basis owning to travel North on the M6 for organization” he started, “flicking throughout the radio dial I arrived throughout Jazz FM which in all those times was broadcasting from Manchester”. Listening to the station became a normal factor on his repeated journeys. The jazz was seeping into his consciousness.
“Up right until then I experienced related jazz with the likes of Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball who I might observed on Tv set in the 60’s. At the time I was a admirer of Blues, Dylan and rock songs so the compact amount jazz I had been exposed to was anathema to me”. The radio station and those common Northern journeys supplied the key to a new sound planet.
“It was a critique I chanced on in either the Moments or Telegraph of Diana Krall which gave me the incentive to go and research this new music I now knew to be jazz”, Roger states. At to start with he wanted much more of what he’d heard, the softer, smoother facet of the songs.
Some time later he was pointed in the course of those people Symphony Corridor Hurry Hour Blues classes every single Friday. Pretty quickly he was meeting with persons who experienced been listening to jazz for much lengthier than himself and thanks to frequent attendance at the cost-free jazz gigs he manufactured close friends in the jazz local community and was exposed to a wider sweep of jazz audio.
A bout of insomnia observed him tuning into the BBC Entire world Provider. ” in these days they had an arts programme which consistently featured African new music and jazz tinged audio”. It opened his ears even further.
Following a divorce in 2009 he moved to Cyprus in which he had a dwelling.
“So, my introduction to the jazz scene in Cyprus was the initially Limassol Jazz Festival in 2010”. Sadly the 1st was also the last “there ended up maybe 20 activities, it wasn’t a lousy exhibit”, he adds. “I need to notify below for a wider knowledge that Cyprus has a population of 800,000, substantially much less than for illustration Birmingham and unfold out above a much broader place. The catchment for 1 city is pretty small. There was only just one recognised jazz location in Limassol – Jazzy B. I utilized to persuade unwilling close friends to join me for the late night time classes on a Friday night time but they all only ever came at the time – it was mostly a little bit much too present day for them – they favored common jazz though I never actually found out what they meant by that. So I got utilized to heading on my individual and it was easy to get shed in the crowded natural environment of the moments. Other than that there was 1 notable celebration when regardless of delaying the get started for an hour, the band eventually had to commence with me as the only paying customer. Its not a extremely cozy knowledge when they look to YOU at the finish of a number to be the sole respondent to present appreciation in the usual way!
Jazzy B in the long run folded through lack of help and in time the mantle for keeping jazz functions was taken up by a new contemporary bar venue The Library Bar, in the old element of the city that had been rejuvenated by the environment up of the Cyprus Technological College in the aged British colonial buildings, and the distinct development all over Limassol Castle of bars and restaurants that finally also served the adjacent new |Limassol Marina elaborate. It usually offered an possibility for the exact same selection musicians from across the island – mainly Nicosia and Limassol which are about an hour aside on a speedy highway route.
But just one sizeable improvement appeared to be the progress of University Tunes classes run by the recognized musicians as academics and which manufactured young expertise that guested on the regular gigs.
Someday later as a member of a “retired community” social team (along the lines of U3A (College of the 3rd Age) ) I answered an attraction to set up a Jazz Group – meaning followers of, not players and focused to the older part of typically expat citizens. A shocking number came out of the woodwork to present an interest, but whatever it was that they considered they wanted, it wasn’t supplied by the prospectus of the group that I was ready to guide. I somewhat suspect that they were attuned to abide by present practice and predicted a common say every month assembly to speak about jazz. Well quite actually I had no credentials to front this, and no-one particular else who could have, required to guide this other unstated pseudo curiosity.
In the close it boiled down to just a few impartial initiatives.
As a social team of about 10 we meet up with regular for a shared picnic at someone’s residence, enjoy jazz in the qualifications with some commentary from the host, and much more a meeting of like minds than something else, converse about ,matters of mutual curiosity, here as opposed to anyplace else that would have served the identical reason. Though – I have key claim to the best facilities all around, with a “proper” hi-fi, an enclosed yard with exterior speakers and a perfect house layout for cooks in the kitchen that opens on to the property. I just sit back again and let it materialize. Any time I return from the United kingdom the topic of gatherings that I host is invariably the Birmingham jazz scene and my experiences there.
We have a standard date at The Library Bar to meet up with and love whatsoever gig is on some declining the specific supplying on the evening and other people from time to time remaining off island. It is not often a respectful viewers, based on what (consumer) teams flip up and occupy seats in the new music wing. In some cases they overlook that they are not in a pub – or not in the bar wing. We as the Getting Jazz group are preferred by the bands due to the fact we are mentioned for listening to what they participate in. On one particular amusing event I found myself in Nicosia on a night when a standard cocktail jazz group was owing to appear singing largely from the American Songbook, and, coming in late just as the 2nd established begun I observed myself in a crowded bar but sat appropriate at the front – on the stage just about. At the close of the initial number I politely applauded. I was the only a single. Evidently this venue was not one particular exactly where dwell music was appreciated – it may well just as effectively have been piped. I was the centre of consideration thereafter and manufactured some new pals. Essentially I asked for a single of my favorite music – I enjoys you Porgy – from Porgy and Bess. They didn’t perform it but a couple of months later on at the Fly Once more outside jazz festival, Ioanna Troulidou did sing it. I spoke to her at the break, we ended up previously on speaking phrases, and claimed how considerably I loved it, its not really usually listened to. “Oh it was you” she claimed. The drummer was the very same in the two groups.
But there are venues exactly where individuals will hear attentively in shut to a concert atmosphere. And there are a huge assortment of them as well, from modest roadside bars with a few stools and kerbside tables, modest courtyard coffee stores, vacant, stripped factories or warehouses with non permanent staging for seats, common amphi-theatres and even the cloisters of an outdated monastery now converted to a cultural centre in the aged metropolis of Nicosia. Quite a few of the gigs are no cost, some cost a nominal cost and €10 is the norm for a good party with an abroad contributor.
The Library Bar has due to the fact the summertime split started to organise an trade programme with Yellow Submarine in Israel to convey in some new bands in the expectation that it will produce into an exchange programme for Cypriot bands to go about there.
And lastly I operate a facebook website page Finding Jazz, which began off as an information and facts source for our group, but is now honoured by becoming frequented / consulted by the tunes fraternity in basic. It is not by any suggests an initial supply but it shares functions that are revealed on variety of obscure individual sources that other folks would not want to consult with.
www.fb.com/findingjazz/?fref=ts
And to wrap up the Cyprus scene I must also mention a Sarah Fenwick, a resident of cyprus and journalist with net marketing and advertising passions but also a substantial jazz singer in her individual correct. She manages the open up fb team Guidance Jazz & Blues in Cyprus
Tango Blues
www.youtube.com/observe?v=JFltfuCNkVI
Jazz Traces
www.youtube.com/look at?v=Qg94E03JV94
Given this reverse chance to record 5 songs this is what I deliver to you from Cyprus, significant to me
Takoushis Karapatakis Task
www.youtube.com/observe?v=QghPDvSUt7Q
Cahit Kutrafali Charis Iouannou and enterprise
www.youtube.com/look at?v=ZPdIJx7rWiQ
Ioanna Troullidou – singer
www.youtube.com/view?v=btPJaBY1VtE
Leonid Nesterov Trio – at the Marina
www.youtube.com/check out?v=cT1TziR8pwg
I loves you Porgy
Billie Holliday
www.youtube.com/enjoy?v=26HSGMUh-3U
Christine Aguera
www.youtube.com/view?v=J1VvUcvoLnk
Posted by Garry Corbett on 2017-01-08 14:53:47
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