[Dixielandjazz] All What Jazz? - Philip Larkin Jazz & Poetry With John Petters Quartet - North Yorks UK

[John Petters]

Hi folks,
Shameless Plug - Monday 26th July @ Helmsley Arts Centre, Helmsley, 
North Yorks.

The outstanding British poet, Philip Larkin, who died 25 years ago, was 
deeply influenced by the hot jazz he heard in the ‘30s and ‘40s.

He started writing a regular jazz review in the Telegraph in 1961 which 
lasted through to 1971. These columns were published in a book, ‘All 
What Jazz’, the introduction to which has become one of the most 
celebrated pieces of prose pieces of the twentieth century.

The Rydale Arts Festival has commissioned a special one off performance 
of “Honey & Broken Glass, Poetry and prose of Philip Larkin (1922-1985) 
read by Martin Vander Weyer and David Pike, of the 1812 Theatre Company, 
combined with the jazz Larkin loved, played by the John Petters Quartet 
with Martin Litton, piano, Trevor Whiting, reeds, Keith Donald, bass.

Larkin had rather extreme views about jazz. He favoured the view put 
forward by Eddie Condon, “As it enters the ear, does it come in like 
broken glass or honey?

He was a traditionalist who liked early jazz and swing and deplored 
Be-Bop and the ugliness of Coltrane.

How's this? "Perhaps I was mistaken in thinking that jazz had died; what 
it had done was split into two, intelligence without beat and beat 
without intelligence"...."Beat was jazz gone to seed, just as 'modern 
jazz' was..."

This unique show promises to be a night to remember for fans of real 
jazz and the works of one of our most famous poets.

There are only a few tickets left so please book now on: 01751 475777.

The show starts at 8PM at Helmsley Arts Centre, Helmsley, north Yorks.
-- 
John Petters
www.traditional-jazz.com
Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ