Apr 17th, 2012
There was an outbreak of trombone poetry in Jenny Lockyer‘s living room one rainy Saturday night. This was provoked by an invitation, and Jenny launched the evening herself with a few life-enhancing songs, before the trombone bounced the blues off a couple of overpopulated sofas. A short-range show. At the end of the month, trombone [...]
Mar 25th, 2012
Not since the Glue Rooms has trombone poetry been heard at The Amersham Arms in New Cross, so Talking Rhythm‘s invitation to perform in their new niche was especially welcome. Presented by Bernadette Read and John Clarke, the bill included Richard Tyrone Jones, Gary from Leeds and sundry bards, but the highlight was the poetry [...]
Feb 11th, 2012
Although his free-jazz blart-frenzy, The Near Jazz Experience, is perhaps not a racing certainty as a romance-kindler on next week’s Valentine’s Day there, Terry Edwards easily banished any January gloom at the hallowed Indo Bar in Whitechapel. The poetry of doomed liaisons and scrambled newspapers was frisbeed over the pizzas and Weissbier by trombone poetry, [...]
Jan 16th, 2012
As December chilled, trombone poetry flew south, although only getting as far as Bromley South, joining forces with Mick Collins’ Modern Jazz Orchestra at the monthly residency. New works included Leave It, a foundling poem extracted from a Caribbean paper, The Sunday Sun. Another expedition was undertaken to Mycenae House in deepest Greenwich, to lob [...]
Dec 5th, 2011
Some dark upset in the laptop’s innards prevented the publication of the October chronicle and November dates, and this bulletin is hardly timely either. We persevere. All these chronicles are posted and archived on the site/blog, and there are plans to write a lot more blog posts in the New Year, while keeping the mail-out [...]