Showing posts with label frimp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frimp. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 March 2008

Improvised in the Midlands

Excellent new site from Leicester based 'Modern guitar bric-a-brac-ist' Jamie Smith, called Frimp.

[Fr{ee} Imp{rovisation}] and stuff

Free Improvisation Free Jazz Electroacoustic Improvisation Non-Idiomatic Improvisation

http://www.frimp.co.uk/music-shop/index.php

For instance an enlightening audio interview with saxophonist Paul Dunmall on the page linked to above.

Other midlands improv links..

BIO (Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=86085519

Improvisation Birmingham (feat: info about improv gigs, mainly 'Fizzle' at the Lamp in Digbeth and 'Frimp' at the Victoria in Station Street and the quarterly 'Invention Convention')

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207402629

A BBC page about 'Jazz' in Birmingham (featuring mention of BIO, including a photograph of mine, uncredited, I`m going to sue!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2007/06/20/birmingham_jazz_scene_feature.shtml




Bruce Coates conducting the Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra (B.I.O.) during a pre performance rehersal at the CBSO centre Birmingham UK....photo taken... 09 June 2006, 19:25:48 Photo by me (take note BBC), from my flickr account.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowleyregis/




Mike Hurley conducting (or about to) during a Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra (B.I.O.) pre performance rehersal at the CBSO centre, Birmingham UK, photo taken..... 09 June 2006, 18:43:00 Photo by me (take note BBC), from my flickr account.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rowleyregis/