Left:   The Roman amphitheatre
 at Vienne, venue of the Vienne Jazz Festival. 
For eight years I have been privileged to have been invited to perform on the Cybele Stage with the Truro College Jazz Orchestra.  Hit the links below to see the videos
"FUNK TRAIN"    "BLACK ICE"
"LONGSHORE DRIFT" "BIRDLAND"
"NEW ROCHELLE"    "MOJO"

 

The Viv Rodd Quintet
at the
Sea Fusion Jazz Festival
This quintet is a different kettle of fish...To use the words of the immortal  poet, it "kicks ass!"...We normally have Bob Tinker on trumpet/flugal, but because Bob has up-sticks and moved to France, guitarist Steve Turner is the fifth member....There are links to the cd tracks below...

Personnel:  Steve Turner/gtr; Bill Walker/bass; Myself; Terry Rodd/drums, and Viv"88"Rodd - our leader - on keys...(Yep; they're brothers)

The quintet's cd pages...Wait for "Lonely Woman" to stop...(or, if you must - clicking "ESC" will stop it straight away!)..then click these links to hear the tracks...
Babanango:
Winter's Calling Song:
Trek Of The Desert Camel:

TIP:   If the sound is jerky on the faster numbers, let it jerk happily to itself for a few seconds, then stop and re-start it...It's a "buffering" issue which will generally right itself on the re-start...

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The quintet - with Bob Tinker - playing the Cliffhead Jazz Club...

Pete Kubrik-Townsend is on bass here...Terry is somewhere behind the cymbal...

 
 

The cover pages of John Knight's cd...Buy it, you'll enjoy!...John played every instrument on the entire cd - except for the my alto, which only features on "Lonely Woman"...This makes John a damned useful musician in anyone's language...

 

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Jazz Poetry

"Words come flocking"
            Bob Devereux :vocals
            Steve Slimm: guitar
            Larry Johns: flute

"Letter to my father"
           Evelyn Holloway: vocals
           Larry Johns: soprano saxophone

 

 


 
Jazz Poetry was rampant back in the 60s. You don't hear of it very much these days. This is a pity...at least it is for jazz musicians.  In Jazz Poetry we go where the words take us, whenever and however we feel it, with no pre-conceived notions or arrangements.  This, really, makes it one of the purest forms of jazz.  If I were a customer, however, I'm not so sure I could sit through a whole evening of it, but as a musician I'll play it until my lip gives out!