Mood Indigo - TW12 Jazz Festival

Dawn Cooper

Dave O'Higgins

Mood Indigo

Terence Collie - piano
Dave O'Higgins - saxophone
Richard Sadler - bass
Chris Nicholls - drums
Dawn Cooper - voice
Janet McCunn - voice

Date - 24th July 2016
Venue - Hampton Hill Theatre

Richard Sadler

Future events
4th September -  Riverside Arts Jazz - Celebrating Coltrane feat. Simon Allen

16th September - Jazz Cafe Posk - feat. Quentin Collins, June Bluestone

9th October - Riverside Arts Jazz - "Brubeck/Desmond" feat. Allison Neale

21th October - Jazz Cafe Posk - Roberto Manzin, Weronika Bielecka

4th November Jazz Cafe Posk - Steve Rubie, Anna Clarke

6th November -  Riverside Arts Jazz - Andrew McCormack

11th December - Riverside Arts Jazz - Christmas Party TBA

Terence Collie

Mood Indigo are the talented Jazz outfit brought together under the identically named banner that organises concerts throughout South West London. The events organisation Mood Indigo is the brainchild of Terence Collie and Janet McCunn, the same duo who organise the TW12 Jazz Festival. Regular haunts for gigs include the Hampton Hill Theatre, Riverside Arts (Sunbury), Café Posk (Hammersmith) and the Richmond & Music and Drama Festival, but keep an eye open for pop-up gigs throughout the area. The TW12 Jazz Festival is the most high profile of their events and has been part of the London jazz calendar since 2013.

Chris Nickolls

Furious pulsing piano from the filigree of Terence Collie calls the Caravan, it charts a path between the knife edge of night and day. Wafting faintly from it as it passes is a whiff of chemical inducement, a mix energised by blood and beat. A flowering spew runs from the quartet of Collie, O'Higgins, Sadler and Nicholls into the TW12 audience, an impulsive retch of botanical cascades. There is a bawdiness to O'Higgins, he is the thickset boyfriend and Collie the wispy dame as they dance together. Nicholls is the bartender, running a tight ship and keeping his drinkers from falling over, while Sadler is the jolly at the bar, desperate for a good time. Like the best barflies he exists in a world of his own, generous with his wallet and his bass.

With a name like Things Ain't What They Used to Be and infused by the music the mind bathes in a stream all of its own. Rich roll, chocolate Swiss roll, roly poly, custard and ZX spectrums, block jump games and thick arm-wrestling cricketers.

Janet McCunn

Ellington's Mood Indigo leads us on a chiffon trail through translucent hearts. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me continues the glide in the hands of vocalist Dawn Cooper, the smooth chrome lines give flight as we see our reflections in the flanks of an automobile. While All Too Soon zings like a cocktail, sharpening the eyes as they stare across the room, you cannot help but focus on our singers delicate wrists, the tilt of her head and an exposed neck that would welcome a kiss.

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Southside Gypsy Trio - Djangocardiacs

Mike Guy

Southside Gypsy Trio

Mike Guy - accordion

Christian Miller - guitar

Eric Guy - double bass

Date - 24th July 2016
Venue - Hampton Hill Theatre

Eric Guy

The popular TW12 Jazz Festival returns for another year under the guidance of Terence Collie and Janet McCunn. The Southside Gypsy Trio are an all-acoustic trio that include three of London’s finest musicians, coming together from varying musical backgrounds to pay tribute to Parisian culture of the twenties and thirties with a heart-warming repertoire of Gypsy Jazz classics, American songbook standards, and maybe the odd Musette waltz and Paso Doble thrown in for good measure.  In particular, the band features the forward-thinking compositions of Gus Viseur, the only accordion player to ever play in the Quintette Hot Club de France with the great Django Reinhardt. 

Entwined narratives, rolling minds, wandering hands set the scene of village meals where children hide under the tablecloths and spin make believe worlds. There are patterned shadows and burnt fingers in the music of the Southside Gypsy Trio. We lick our fingers clean of their musical grease, and our guilty smiles jerk across our faces. Whether they recount in novel or short or paragraph length you find yourself lost in the stories.

Christian Miller

Excuse the roll of lists than spring from the mind but they collect like pennies in a cloth cap. Coloured awnings and perpetually ascending stairwells rise to upper floor apartments. We hear the anthems for bumbling achievers, for this is the music for the dreamer or some would call us the contented failures. I am proud to be blackened by my various misdemeanours, and it is this war paint that brings me closer together to the people who sit beside me in the low-lit audience.

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RACC Jazz Ensemble - TW12 Jazz Festival

Dave Jones

Fliss Hother

RACC Jazz Ensemble
Dave Jones - bass
Kate McGurk - vocal
Emiliano Caroselli - drums
Fliss Hother - saxophone
Gerard Gregg-Smith - saxophone
Alfie Carroll - guitar
Emma Wade - piano

Date - 24th July 2016
Venue - Hampton Hill Theatre

Gerard Gregg-Smith

The popular TW12 Jazz Festival returns for another year under the guidance of Terence Collie and Janet McCunn. Once again the Art of Jazz sketching is contained within the confines of the festival's main stage at the Hampton Hill Theatre during the afternoon session. The festival is one of London's best kept secrets tucked away in the TW12 postcode, although nowadays it has grown to include the streets of Richmond and Twickenham, the Hampton Pub (Hampton) and Normansfield Theatre in Teddington.

Emiliano Caroselli

Students at Richmond Jazz School, part of the Richmond Adult Community College, perform with  composer and virtuoso bass player Dave Jones and guest drummer Emiliano Caroselli.

The grasshopper dance of Emma Wade as she hops through the opening of Cedar Walton's Bolivia and the an equatorial pick me up from Alfie Carroll on guitar feels dangerously strong, refreshing and alcoholic for a daytime tipple in the suburbs.

Kate McGurk

I'll Close My Eyes is full rich and beachside like the Bolivia which proceeds it. There is time and space in which to breathe, the smell of the air transports you both to imagined climes but also spins a reality in which to catch personal feeling within.

Emma Wade

The cheeky Bud Powell is well worn and worn well by the RACC Jazz Ensemble, it has a carefree flip of a coin. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is laidback attack, powerful and deliberate. It is a slow motion spread of jam on a slice of white bread, cut from a freshly baked Cavan's tin. A Hampton Hill speciality.

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Alfie Carroll

Ruth McGinley - Calais Refugee Benefit Concert

Ruth McGinley

Gabriella Swallow - cello
Ruth McGinley - piano
Victoria Hamilton - voice

Date - 12th July 2016
Venue - The Forge, Camden, UK
Current Release - Reconnection (Lyte Records)

Part 5 of Gabriella Swallow and her Urban Family gig in aid of the Calais Jungle Crisis.

Gabriella Swallow

The evening at The Forge, Camden directly benefitted Phone Credit For Refugees which is an organisation that provides vital phone credit to refugees and displaced adults and children across Europe. They give the gift of communication to people who are separated from family and friends, miles away from home and in very uncertain circumstances. £20 buys a month's internet and calls providing a lifeline to keep recipients safe and connected. For many unaccompanied children their phone credit is the only safety net they have. To date they have helped over 2500 displaced adults and children make contact with loved ones, stay up to date with news from home and even summon emergency life saving assistance.

Victoria Hamilton

A crescent play, the rounded face, the tear, a bite, a tongue on lips. A tragedy laid out upon a table, mise-en-scene of a narrative, book open, an implement for cutting, the ripped remains of a correspondence. Just this feels so strange, to read a letter in this age, but whether the reader has written these words or are simply seeing them for the first time is unclear. This is music of disappearances and escapes, long walks and distant lives. It is an apt sentiment.

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Iyatra Quartet - Calais Refugee Benefit Concert

Alice Barron

Iyatra Quartet
Rich Phillips - cello
George Sleightholme - clarinets
Will Roberts - percussion (no sketch)
Alice Barron - violin

Rich Phillips

Date - 12th July 2016
Venue - The Forge, Camden, UK
Current Release - This World Alone

Part 4 of Gabriella Swallow and her Urban Family gig in aid of the Calais Jungle Crisis.

The evening at The Forge, Camden directly benefitted Phone Credit For Refugees which is an organisation that provides vital phone credit to refugees and displaced adults and children across Europe. they give the gift of communication to people who are separated from family and friends, miles away from home and in very uncertain circumstances. £20 buys a month's internet and calls providing a lifeline to keep recipients safe and connected. For many unaccompanied children their phone credit is the only safety net they have. To date they have helped over 2500 displaced adults and children make contact with loved ones, stay up to date with news from home and even summon emergency life saving assistance.

George Sleightholme

Willow dancers entwine, growth and spurt. The soft jostle of animals as they rub and move, maintaining pecking orders and friendships without the shackles of verbal confirmation.
Duck waddle and dart, fish sweep. The gallop and the rolling journeys that cut through fields. Lost in the brambles, stuck and still.
Stopping. Listening to the trees high above. Bark and holler, the rebound from the forest as we hear the screams of wildness that aren't our own. Iyatra and the themes of nature are caught/free together.

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Graeme Flowers Quartet - Calais Refugee Benefit Concert

Graeme Flowers

Graeme Flowers Quartet
Graeme Flowers - trumpet
Louis Riccardi - guitar
Gareth Huw Davies - bass
Jarrod Pizzata - cajon

Jarrod Pizzata

Date - 12th July 2016
Venue - The Forge, Camden, UK
Current Release - The Samba Is Waiting / Nova Fronteira - Rhodes To Rio EP (Quantize Recordings 2016)

Part 3 of Gabriella Swallow and her Urban Family gig in aid of the Calais Jungle Crisis.

The evening at The Forge, Camden directly benefitted Phone Credit For Refugees which is an organisation that provides vital phone credit to refugees and displaced adults and children across Europe. they give the gift of communication to people who are separated from family and friends, miles away from home and in very uncertain circumstances. £20 buys a month's internet and calls providing a lifeline to keep recipients safe and connected. For many unaccompanied children their phone credit is the only safety net they have. To date they have helped over 2500 displaced adults and children make contact with loved ones, stay up to date with news from home and even summon emergency life saving assistance.

Louis Riccardi

His music has sizzling omelette feet, greasy legs and a full wobbly belly. Giant men whose friction creates a perpetual machine of contact, reciprocation and repercussions.
A Circle that runs thick along its rim. Eels writhing in a bucket. Happiness is this burgeoning and full gift. The preciousness of being.
A Big Top flashes past in a vibrant blurred circus. Sweetshop washes with rich pastel and primary twists. An easiness that is a shorthand for being fulfilled and sated. Eyes open in delight, that delicious round white that maroons the iris as we lie on our individual contented islands.

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(Apologies to Gareth Huw Davies, who I didn't have time to sketch)

Sally Silver - Calais Refugees Benefit Concert

Sally Silver

Sally Silver - soprano
Jeremy Silver - piano

Date - 12th July 2016
Venue - The Forge, Camden, UK
Current Release - SATANELLA (Released February 2016)

Part 2 of Gabriella Swallow and her Urban Family gig in aid of the Calais Jungle Crisis.

Jeremy Silver

The evening at The Forge, Camden directly benefitted Phone Credit For Refugees which is an organisation that provides vital phone credit to refugees and displaced adults and children across Europe. they give the gift of communication to people who are separated from family and friends, miles away from home and in very uncertain circumstances. £20 buys a month's internet and calls providing a lifeline to keep recipients safe and connected. For many unaccompanied children their phone credit is the only safety net they have. To date they have helped over 2500 displaced adults and children make contact with loved ones, stay up to date with news from home and even summon emergency life saving assistance. 

Je'Taime 
Dreamtime. The space of flickering beauty that exists above the flames or the safety of a secret hollow, the nook of an arm or crook of the neck.

Le Yeux Clos
Small steps along the long wooden slats of a corridor, light pooling in those intersecting Vs where window spill their excesses. The wood is nicked in pale cuts as though a youth has marked the days he has loved or perhaps his conquests.

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