Please use relevant Email & WebSite Links. You can also use the Guest book to leave comments or make contact. Butter Side Down availability & bookings through Colin de Gasperi please.

Chairman: Alan Witham

Director of Music: Colin de Gasperi

Workshop Leader: Peter Smith

Secretary: Hilary Cowley

Treasurer: Mike Fulker
P.R. Officer: John McCombe

 

The Calder House Hotel WebSite:   www.calderhouse.co.uk

 

Other Links & Courses.   

   

HOLMROOK READING ROOM MUSIC CLUB

Small Band Workshop to share information and play music. Some Thursday evenings 7:30 - 9:30pm. If you are interested in attending please contact Peter: pepys.gps@hotmail.com

 

JAZZ COURSES

 

Len Phillips

Len, a famous big band director, runs a couple of advanced courses and a beginners course at Higham   Contact Higham Hall or Len (lenphillips@btinternet.com) for information if you're interested.

 

International Saxophone Summer School

Join Rob Buckland at one of the most successful summer schools in the UK. An amazing week of music-making, in a beautiful English countryside location, which will be relaxing, instructive and a great way to meet new friends.  http://www.robbuckland.com/ 

 

Jazz Academy, Tonbridge Wells: http://www.jazzacademy.co.uk/

Courses  around July/September & Dec.

 

Jamey Aebersold, Richmond: http://www.jazzwise.com/summerschool/  

Next course around September. I can also recomend his course in Kentucky.

 

Some of our members attend these courses so if you are in Cumbria and are thinking of going, get in touch and we can benefit from group bookings and shared transport.

Want to improve your reading and enjoy playing in a wind band?  Try the West Lakes Music Centre in Whitehaven on Tuesday evenings (free if you're school age, £40 a term if you're an adult; you can have 2 free trial visits first though) http://www.wlmuscentre.org.uk/

 

Composition and Jazz (CAJ) Ltd is a company dedicated to enriching musical life in the North of England.  It's based at the Dryden Centre Gateshead and runs excellent improvising courses. http://compositionandjazzltd.co.uk/

And there's The Music Place near Altricham which runs great jazz courses: http://www.themusicplace.co.uk/

 

Upcoming Events


Links for Backing Tracks & Chord Progressions.

Midi files: http://www.midisite.co.uk/

New Orleans jam book: http://cjam.lassecollin.se/

 

Chords & words to popular songs:   http://ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~bwlee/midi_h.htm

The chords & words site appears to be foreign but can be followed with a bit of logic. Look on the home page for a route to chord progressions or other song lists. You can substitute the h before .htm for another letter to find specific alphabetic pages. Good hunting.

 

If you know of an up and coming Jazz event, can recommend a good course or would like to add another useful link to this page, email the details to me at pepys.gps@hotmail.com for consideration.