SUMMER JAZZ COURSES!

the season of courses at the Shoefactory has been a resounding success. Many thanks to the tutors and students who have taken part. Here are some great new summmer workshops - a mixture of specific instrument days and general playing sessions in tutored combos.

These will be especially interesting for those of you who can't get away for a whole week of playing on one of the Summer Schools!

As you know, we've put on a wide variety of these short courses already, including specific days for piano, bass, guitar, saxophone, voice, and drums, as well as general playing days for different levels of experience.

Tutors here have included, Jeff Clyne, Trevor Tomkins, Mark Lockheart, Steve Rose, Dave Lewis, Andra Sparks, Dudley Phillips, Dave Cliff, Alex Wilson, John Parricelli and Clark Tracey.

Main courses have included Rolled Sirloin with souldrop couscous, Lamb Shanks with burgundy jus and orange toffee, mediterranean chicken with roasted pepper and tomatoes and pommes dauphinoises, and have been followed by Tiramisu, Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding, Poached Pears with hot chocolate sauce, and Wicked Sticky, as we call toffee pudding in these parts! As I'm in the planning stage, please let me know if you have any requests for specific events, dates, tutors or meals!!

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Thank you for reading Royal Musics online in such great numbers. The full novel Idristan is now published and available from Amazon (see below)

We'd like this site to be a resource for jazz education in the UK as well as a shop window for our own activities, so please carry on sending in your links to news items, events, teachers and courses!

The novel IDRISTAN is now published.

Read more about it HERE

It is funny, sexy, philosophical, poetic, and available on Amazon.

Go on, treat yourself!