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Tag Archives: Snowboy
TROUBLE OVER HERE… TROUBLE OVER THERE… TROUBLE ALL OVER THIS ATMOSPHERE
“For out-and-out Funk, it does NOT get better than this!” proclaimed percussionist/deejay Snowboy after Friday night’s triumphant return of Washington DC’s Trouble Funk to London town. Having already waxed lyrical about that most memorable encounter with Trouble Funk on the … Continue reading
Posted in Is That Jazz?, Urban runnings...
Tagged 'Big Tony' Fisher, AGMP, Chuck Brown, Drop The Bomb, funk, Go Go, Snowboy, Trouble Funk, Washington DC
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SEVENTY TWO HOURS OF LO-FI MADNESS…. Aoteara Runnings No. 4
7AM Tuesday morning… Da Bei Qigong under the eaves of a building in Myers park. When it rains it Aukland it rains. Things were about to get busy! The PIYN project was scheduled to kick off at Bizdojo at 10.30am … Continue reading
Posted in Just Runnings, Urban runnings...
Tagged Aukland PIYN, Bill Brewster, Bizdojo, British Council, Conch Records, Cut Collective, DJ: EMP, From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz, George Booker, George FM, Maori, Recloose, SAE Institute, Sniffing Glue, Snowboy, Straight No Chaser, Swifty, The Yoots
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DANCE & THE WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR ROMP… The show ends today!
Oscar Romp is unique. Currently residing and teaching in Austria, this Royal College Of Art trained artist is dance culture’s Stanley Spencer. I can say this because his expansive murals which adorned the walls of hospitals like Kings were breathtaking … Continue reading
Posted in Is That Jazz?
Tagged 100 Club, Art, Blue Note, Jazz Dance, Jazzcotech, northern soul, Oscar Romp, Snowboy, That's How It Is
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Snowboy 50… ‘From Jazz Funk & Fusion To Acid Jazz: A History Of the UK Jazz Dance Scene
Sadly, I missed the Southend author, bandleader and congalero’s 50th birthday party but I’m sure it was a cracking affair with a maelstrom of fine music. As you may, or may not, know Snowboy’s seminal ‘From Jazz Funk & Fusion … Continue reading
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Tagged Afro Cuban, All Dayers, Baz Fe Jazz, Berlin, Brothers In Jazz, Charts, Chris Hill, Colin Curtis, Crackers, Dingwalls, Electric Ballroom, Floor Technicians, funk, fusion, Gilles Peterson, Hi Hat, Horseshoe, IDJ, Jazz, Jazz Dance, Jazz Defektors, Jazz Room, Jazzcotech, Mods, Paul Murphy, Pheonix, Robert Farris Thompson, Shiftless Shuffle, Snowboy, UK Jazz Dance, wag Club, Working Week, Zulus
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