Rob Lavers

Rob Lavers was in the studio today with a quartet trying out some new compositions. Guitarist Stuart McCallum (Cinematic Orchestra) and double bass player Pete Turner came over from Manchester and fellow York musician Simon Roth was on drums.

There's also a short clip of the band rehearsing one of the tunes - you can just see Simon's head in the drum booth.
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"A big thank you to Jazz Yorkshire and Nigel Slee for the 'demo in a day' scheme. I was able to record with my quartet to a very high level with excellent skills from our engineer Alistair McClaurin.
We had a hassle free day and recorded 7 new original compositions. This experience has provided us with a great demo with which we intend to get a tour to launch the band".

Rob Lavers

The UK Mingus Collective

Great session yesterday. Alistair was great. We got 2 or 3 takes on 7 tracks. Will send you a copy once I get it. Photos attached. Thanks a million again for your help.

Colin Byrne

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The full band


Paul Baxter


Chris Moore and Martin Strange

Colin Byrne

Colin is recording his Mingus project in the studio today. Pictures to follow soon.

Colin's band, the UK Mingus Collective, will be playing at Seven Jazz as part of Fuseleeds 'Blow a Fuse' day on Sunday 26 April.

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Rob Lavers

Rob is coming into the studio on Tuesday 31 March with his project. Rob has also contributed an introduction to the new York Jazz Scene magazine edited by Anna Lacy which can now be read online at issuu.com/yorkjazzscene

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Ruby Wood

Ruby was in the studio last Friday. Looking forward to hear some tracks soon.

With another project "The Yamaha New Jazz Sessions CD" Ruby's tribute to John Coltrane's Africa for voice, double bass (Jenni Molloy) and vocal percussion (Ball-Zee) reached a wide audience when included as a covermount on Jazzwise Magazine's December 2008 issue.

You can listen to Africa here

Check out some of Ruby's tunes and other musical projects visiting her website www.rubywood.net