Martin Taylor's Spirit of Django Prom Concert

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... will be performed Friday, 31st August, around 10pm UK time. Details here. Hopefully it will air on BBC iPlayer too.

From an interview with Taylor in this morning's Guardian:

... a Spirit of Django suite, using six of my own pieces reflecting Django's work, French life, American jazz and Gypsy music, and his interest in Debussy, too. Guy [Barker, collaborator] says he's always fascinated by how Europeans play jazz - how they play it with their own regional accents, even though that language originated in America.

We sometimes say we imagined it being a soundtrack to an old black-and-white movie about a summer in France. I hope it also catches a little of Django's mischievousness. There's a passage of music in the suite dedicated to Jacques Tati. I got the idea for that by watching a very bad unicyclist who kept falling off.

(source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/au ... hief-magic)