Time for changes...

If you've been redirected from www.jazzreloaded.com  ( or however you got here!), welcome to this page !  The jazzreloaded main site and blog are both  undergoing some development, and this will be the jazzreloaded landing page in the interim.  Which is great news because you download the jazzreloaded EP here FOR FREE - (saving £10 on the after-show price!)  simply join the mailing list , and you'll have exclusive FREE download access to over a dozen tunes, videos and remixes - for this month only.  So what are you waiting for? It's time for changes....
 

About Jazzreloaded:

 Jazzreloaded is an online magazine with news, reviews, interviews and previews of AfroPean Jazz artists

We arrange for people to attend jazz gigs and write reviews on established and developing artists.

We promote jazz in all its forms, Nu Jazz, be-bop, swing, hip hop, soul, funk, spoken word, and styles yet to be labelled!

We produce  UK - Jazz related content, including video showreels, radio programmes, and live events.

We focus on long established artists currently practiscing  in the Uk and worldwide

We reccomend specific artists to perform at specific types of musical event, from functions to festivals. We do this for free because we like the artists involved and want them to get as much work and recognition as possible.

We reccomend specific artists for musical tuition and workshops, for the same reason!

We generally work hard to get the jazz community together, and remind people that we are a community

for a  (partial) list of artists we support and promote have a look at the jazzreloaded myspace top 40:at www.myspace.com/jazzreloaded

We are always looking for people to attend gigs, review CD's and live events, tell us about new acts, and generally support UK jazz and its artists, so if this sounds like the sort of thing you are interested in , please get in contact - join the mailing list or the street team above 

What we are particularly interested  in people with:

basic web skills that can search the web and post gig listings every now and then

advanced webskills ( an understanding of RSS and mySQL would be indicative)

video skills and equipment to liase with artists and arrange video filming / production

journalistic skills to write reviews of CDs and to write online articles
 

production skills to collaborate with artists

sound recording skills to assist in radio show production

venues that want to hear live jazz and it's artists.
 

for band booking / agency / press enquiries, please contact:

 Mr Taylor
www.myspace.com/jazzreloaded
www.reverbnation.com/jazzreloaded
T: +44 208 376 8064
E: jazz@jazzreloaded.com
A: PO BOX 35960 LONDON N17 8WY
M: + 44 7815 21 21 21



 

Jazzreloaded - How did it all begin?

UK Afro Jazz is a worldwide phenomenon.  And Jazzreloaded is a documentation of that musical journey in its myriad forms: Nu Jazz, Soul, Swing, Spoken word, Blues, Bebop, Hip Hop, Leftfield, Broken Beat, Fusion, Post Bop...and styles yet to be imagined.

Jazzreloaded  began with a chance encounter with  the legendary www.onajeallangumbs.com , performing with a certain Mr Gary Crosby and Mr Winston Clifford in a rhythm section for the magnificent Carmen Lundy.  Hearing Onjae perform that night ( as any night) inspired me to play the music I'd been hearing in my minds ear.  Something between John Williams and Jamiroquai.  Don't get get me wrong I really enjoyed Emergency On Planet Earth, but I could tell that there was more to jazz than Acid Jazz.  So I went looking for it.

Gary Crosby invited me to jam with his son Daniel, and their friends at the Rhythmic in Islington, where I met modern day jazz historians Julie Dexter, J-Life, and Robert Mitchell.  We formed a band.  A band that sounded like a band.   That band that became J-Life, and J-Life carried the torch passed on by the likes of Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Orphy Robinson and Julian Joseph, who I also had the extreme fortune to play with in later years.

So here I am, passing on the UK Afro Jazz torch and schooling ya about the modern day jazz historians, and making a little music as I do it.  Sketches of a dream.  I dared to dream, and now you're part of that dream.  Welcome to jazzreloaded.   Time for changes....