Coming up so far in October Friday 9th October with “Rock ‘n’ Rollers” at The Underwriter, EC3, London – playing rock and roll, blues and reggae covers. 9pm Friday 16th October with LV Project featuring Pepa Niebla at Jazz After Dark, Greek Street, Soho, London playing jazz, fusion, samba and soul. 10:30pm – 2:30am Friday […]
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OK! This month, so far we have: Friday 4th September with LV Project at Jazz After Dark 10:30pm – 2:30am – jazz, funky jazz, groovy jazz, reggae jazz, latin jazz, bossa nova, samba and soul featuring a great quartet with a fine singer. Greek St, Soho, London Sunday 13th September at Gillespie Park Festival in […]
Over the time of playing I’ve fallen in love with manipulating the shape of notes. Aspiring musicians are often impressed with the speed and athleticism of flash playing but that’s never really moved me. Sure, I dig the sheer joy in the playing of Fats Navarro, Charlie Parker and others but it’s shaping notes that […]
Bass. Music is basically oom-pah or oom-pah-pah and we bassists are responsible for the oom. Truth is in most styles of music it’s pretty similar. We play roots and roots and fifths in so many types of music. It took me ages to realise that the skill in playing bass often came from playing the […]
Here are the July dates for LV Project. We are playing at our regular venue Jazz After Dark in Greek Street Soho. As it says on the tin, it is ‘jazz’ and it is ‘after dark’. We play standard tunes mostly and we interpret them in a meaningful and fresh way. Sometimes that means a […]
Stop Press (Oct 2010): The Furniture Facebook Page seems to have taken off pretty well so there is more mileage in this than I thought: Go to Furniture Facebook Page ——————————————————————————————————————— Original post June 2009 I’ve not really used Facebook as a way to promote music so far. It doesn’t seem to be well-built for […]
Doug was such an inspiring and amazing talent I felt the need to write a little about him. I always loved his funky and frenetic playing even though it was always light years from my own. You’ve heard Doug on seminal Santana albums and maybe live with David Bowie and on great Billy Cobham and […]
Hmmmm….I initially went for 20, this expanded to 30 and then I culled it dramatically and painfully to 20 again. These are not necessarily the ‘best’ albums – though I think they might be: they are the albums which mean the most to me. Some of my hugest influences are omitted as I can’t think […]
As I looked forward to taking a lesson with Steve Lawson (something we have oft talked about) I gave some thought to other teachers I’ve had on bass. As a musician and a teacher, I am fascinated by the whole process. Now, after a lesson with Steve, I am ready to finish getting this post […]
Phil Wain 