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Simon Fell at the 2014 Marsden Jazz Festival

Jez Nelson presents British bass player and composer Simon Fell premiering The Ragging of Time, a new suite for sextet, in a concert given at the 2014 Marsden Jazz Festival.

British bass player and composer Simon Fell premieres The Ragging of Time, a new suite for sextet in concert at the 2014 Marsden Jazz Festival.

When approached to write a new commission for the festival Simon Fell began with a brief to explore sounds from the first part of 20th century, and ended up creating "a kind of bridge (or better still, a time tunnel) which allows the musicians to slip backwards and forwards over the decades within a split second". From twisted ragtime to swing era stomps and bursts of free improv, Fell and his sextet present jazz's lineage as one of the festival director's John Quail describes, making "sounds that are now so antique... to make them new, to make them shocking, to make them the 'Devil's music' as it was once before."

On stage drummer Paul Hession and guitarist Richard Comte join the leader in the rhythm section whilst Percy Pursglove, Alex Ward and Shabaka Hutchings complete the line up on trumpet, clarinet and bass clarinet respectively.

Also on the programme, Simon Thackray of The Shed improv venue samples the festival's street parade, and Ian McMillan interviews poet and improviser Michael Horovitz in celebration of his 80th birthday.

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Chris Elcombe.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 6 Apr 2015 23:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • New Release

    • Vein & David Liebman

      Waking With A Start

      • Jazz Talks.
      • Unit Records.

  • Simon Fell's SFS in concert at Marsden Royal British Legion, Marsden Jazz Festival on 11 October 2014

    • Simon Fell's SFS

      The Ragging Of Time, pt.1: Lebam Lebam (Un Cauchemar)

      Composer: Simon Fell

    • Simon Fell in conversation with Simon Thackray (from The Shed)

    • Simon Fell's SFS

      The Ragging Of Time, pt. 2: Unstable Cylindrical Structure

      Composer: Simon Fell

    • Simon Fell's SFS

      The Ragging Of Time, pt. 3: The Human Omelette (1926)

      Composer: Simon Fell

  • Poet Michael Horovitz in conversation with Ian McMillan

    • The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet

      Blues for the Hitchiking Dead

      • Jazz Poetry Superjam #1.
      • Gearbox.

    • Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, Michael Horovitz & Graham Coxon

      Bankbusted Nuclear Detergent Blues

      • Jazz Poetry SuperJam #3.
      • Gearbox.

    • William Blake Klezmatrix Band

      Shalom

    • William Blake Klezmatrix Band

      Tyger

  • Improvised poetry by The Verb's Ian McMillan

    • Ian McMillan / The Necks

      Improvisation / Submerge

Line up:

Percy Pursglove (trumpet); Alex Ward (clarinet); Shabaka Hutchings (bass clarinet); Richard Comte (guitar); Simon Fell (double bass); Paul Hession (drums)

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 Apr 2015 23:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Related Links

  • (marsdenjazzfestival.com)
  • (youtube.com)
  • (theshed.co.uk)