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Oxford Improvisers

Event Date: 15 July 2010
Port Mahon, 82 St. Clements Street, Oxford  OX4 1AW

Hackett/Stent/Wachsmann

Martin

Martin Hackett (electronics), David Stent (electric guitar) and Philipp Wachsmann (violin and electronics) have between them a huge range of musical influences and experiences, and will meet tonight for the very first time as a trio.

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Event Date: Monday 12 October 2009

Queen Mary’s College, Basingstoke, RG21 3HF Central Studio 13:55 – 15:05

Pat Thomas – Islam’s contribution to Jazz and Improvised Music
As part of Black History Month Queen Mary’s College, Basingstoke invited the reknown Jazz pianist and free improviser Pat Thomas to talk about the origins and development of Jazz. Pat Thomas traces the word Jazz to its Arabic origins and explains the deep-rooted West African and islamic musical traditions found in the amalgam of cultures which we know as Jazz today. This is followed by a performance of improvised music.

‘Islam’s contribution to jazz and improvised music’

First published in Rubberneck (no. 15) magazine, reprint can be found here.

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The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London

Wednesday 7 October 2009
16:30 – 19:00

Royal Holloway in Bedford Square, 2 Gower Street, London WC1E 6DP

Professor Andrew Bowie – “Background capabilities and prereflexive awareness”

Accounts of human action in many parts of philosophy tend to depend on the idea that action is to be characterised in terms of following norms or rules. This gives considerable emphasis to the idea of self-consciously determining yourself to do something, according to a rule. This model has considerable consequences for how procedures are codified in many areas of social and professional life. However, there are serious reasons to think that this model is inadequate as an account of how we actually do many things. This is because, even though rules are essential, so much that we need to do these things cannot come immediately to consciousness when we do them. Examples of what is involved here range from the ways in which we carry out conversations, to the example used for the talk: jazz improvisation.

Presentation includes musical examples and is followed by a performance by the Andrew Bowie Jazz Trio, featuring John Turville (piano), and Tom Farmer (bass).

John Turville studied Music at Cambridge University and at the Guildhall School of Music, and is one of Britain’s leading jazz pianists, playing, for example with Tim Garland, Tim Whitehead, Gilad Atzmon, Guillermo Rozenthuler, Koby Israelite and Robbie Robson. John and Andrew used to play together at Andrew’s regular Sunday evening gig in Cambridge, now at the Cricketers pub. Andrew was a semi-pro saxophonist in Berlin and still plays regularly in and around Cambridge.

Andrew Bowie’s Publications

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