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Jazz festivals

Jazz House Records has now added a 6th festival to the portfolio. We're providing a CD stall at the new, improved Southport Festival in May 2013. This is in addition to the Jazz on a Winters Weekend at Southport, plus Swanage, Titley, Herts and Scarborough.

Festival organisers- if you would like a cd stall at your event, please let us know.

Joy Rosenthal:
 
"The book is amazing. I have to read it in small bits because it's like spending time with Makanda.  I love how the stories weave through, I love how you set the context by saying who was playing in clubs at the time, I love reading what he said he was thinking about.  It is so much more than a discography.  I've never seen anything like it.  I can't wait to keep reading - I'm still only on 1963!   I cannot ever thank you enough for your tireless work on this project, and for helping Makanda's spirit live on in a very real way."  
 
Robert Rusch:
 
  "The story of Ken McIntyre is not just the biography/autobiography/discography of one of the important improvisers of the 1950s to 1960s Bop-post Bop transition. In its subtxet it is the story of the joys, passions, frustrations, and roadblocks of the creative improvising artist in the United States.
   A candid look at the "Jazz Business" through first-person accounts of McIntyre and other indiviuals on the scene, this biography amounts to a frank deposition of what went on between the artist, and his production, and the businessmen, focussed on commerce. Unfortunately what was true in the 20th century remains all too relevant in the 21st century.
   Many will embrace this work as reaffirmation of artistry over oppression. Many in the Jazz business will find themselves discomfited by the naming of names and laying bare uncomfortable truths.
   Not just a detailing of one man's journey, this work in part a reference to the vital New York "Free Jazz" revolution of the '50s and '60s."
 
Robert Wyatt:
 
"Absolutely wonderful - His wife's preface alone could make me cry.....gosh, people should see this.............. Celebrate one of the great unknowns of this wonderful, wonderful music......"

340 pages. Signed copies available £20. To order a copy, click here

Jazz House Records has at last entered the 21st Century! We now accept all major credit and debit cards, and... we now have a Facebook page & we're on Twitter. We've no plans to offer downloads.