Harrogate Jazz – 28/4/09

This just in: Bryan Davis will be playing at the Harrogate Jazz Club this coming Tuesday (28th April ’09) with Jim Corry‘s “A Tribute To Atlantic Jazz“. This fine septet features tunes recorded on, and in the spirit of, the “Soul Jazz” recorded on Atlantic Records in the 1970s and ’80s. It promises to be a great night. Please come out and support live music – in these days of recession, it may disappear if you don’t!

The Details:
Harrogate Jazz Club
The West Park Hotel
19 West Park
Harrogate
HG1 1BJ

8.30pm start

Door charge: £3

Site Redesign/Updates etc

We’ve finally finished the new redesign of BryanDavis.info – now it’s 8th incarnation! There were several problems with the previous design; mostly due to the fact that it was only supposed to be temporary following the accidental erasing of v6 during a WordPress upgrade. There are several new features we’ve been waiting to add for some time and they will be unveiled during the next few days. There has also been some rearranging of content – e.g. Photos, Videos and the Discography can now be found in the Media section, and the Guestbook is now a subpage of the Contact page. We hope you can still find everything you are looking for. If there are any major problems with the rendering of the design/layout please help us to fix them by letting us know! You can email us at webmaster at bryandavis.info (of course putting the @ sign in the appropriate spot!) – it is most helpful if you can let us know whether you are using a Mac or PC and which web browser you are using (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc), as well as the nature of the problem.

Among the new features we are adding is the new Teaching section of the site. There will be details on the services Bryan Davis offers; private lessons, clinics/workshops etc, as well as the new Online Lessons service. Bryan is available to teach one-on-one lessons via webcam – saving the need for you to wait for him to visit your city!! There will also be a Resources section featuring extensive links to Musicians, Manufacturers etc, articles and online communities where you can keep up with the latest in the Brass world. All the details will be available very soon.

In addition, Bryan will also be adding a Podcast – the first episode is just about to be recorded. This will feature his thoughts on a number of subjects related to music and trumpet playing, as well as audio and video clips. If there are any subjects you’d like Bryan to talk about, then please contact him and let him know. He will blog more about this in a forthcoming post – another new section we’ve added! He’s promised to stop by with a new post before he heads out to Austria on the LACJO tour at the end of the week – look out for that.

We hope you like the new site. Once again, any feedback will be welcomed at webmaster at bryandavis.info.

LACJO 2009

Following the tremendous success of the inaugural concert in September ’08, Bryan will be returning to play with the Lower Austria Concert Jazz Orchestra for their 2009 Tours. Details are now confirmed for the first tour in March ’09. Venues are as follows:-

• 16th March ’09 – Radiokulturhaus Wien (Vienna)
• 17th March ’09 – Stadtsaal Mistelbach
• 18th March ’09 – Stadtsaal Zwettl
• 19th March ’09 – Stadtsaal Waidhofen/Ybbs
• 21st March ’09 – Schloss Reichenau
• 22nd March ’09 – Schloss Grafenegg

There is also a tour planned in the Autumn, again throughout Austria. The dates are likely to be from September 26th – October 3rd. Following that tour, there is a trip being planned to perform at the “11th China Shanghai International Arts Festival” in Shanghai, China (funnily enough). This trip is pencilled in from 22nd – 30th October ’08 and is likely to include two concerts in the Festival as well as some other events, and hopefully some sightseeing!
For all the concerts in 2009, the LACJO will be performing it’s “Murdering the Classics” programme, featuring Big Band arrangements of famous ‘Classical’ works. Included is the Stan Kenton version of Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” amongst others. The first concert in September was recorded and will be released on CD in the Spring – hopefully to coincide with the March tour. More details on that as we have them….

Become A Fan On Facebook.

A new feature for all your Facebook users out there – Bryan Davis now has his own Facebook fanpage. Please click the following link to ‘become a fan‘!

Bryan is also accessible through a number of other popular internet communities. You’ll find a list of links on the frontpage of this website, at the bottom of the sidebar. Update: These are now at the right hand side of the black bar at the bottom of each page.

Last Minute Visit To Grimsby Jazz

Due to some kind of communication breakdown, Grimsby Jazz have found themselves without a band this evening! Although we’re not entirely sure who will be in the band at this time, Bryan Davis will be performing, with friends at 8.30pm at the Stamford Club (formerly Chartdale Club) on Clee Road in Grimsby.

If you’re at a loose end, please come out and hear Bryan play!