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Yes this is total showing off…. but fuck it…

Here is the story of how I got to play with Sun Ra and what happened (at least how I remembered) – apologies to DL who is a very nice man and a fantastic musician.

I recorded these for an interview for a research thing. It was fun so I thought I’d put them up here. I was in Ghana and during the recording I get interrupted by my wife, nearly burn down the hotel room, there’s a lizard, and my wife read more

This is a beautiful music manifesto/poem from the sorely missed wonderful person and musician – Scottish bass and tuba player Lindsay Cooper. Lindsay was a close to unique musician (at least in my experience) because he was equally at home playing dixieland and trad on the one side and out-to-lunch free improv on the other. I am not sure if he was that interested in anything in between. One of the greatest pieces of improvisation I ever saw was Lindsay doing a vocal and bass solo incorporating the word Absolut which was being beamed across the pub by laser as a vodka promotion. Sheer genius. I discussed it with George Burt in a podcast and it turns out Bill Wells was there and sent me a recording of it. Which I have now lost….

To see the pdf click here

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft – Good bits that couldn’t fit into the interviews with Greg Lawson, Haftor Medböe, and Paul Towndrow. With Tom Bancroft

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews Dutch musician Jorrit – who is based in Boston – about being Dutch, jazz and improvised music as a form of resistance and protest, and reflect on the Multi Story Karma Park gig from 1997 – which featured Jorrit and Martyn Bennett (who died 16 years ago today) amongst many others – with some video footage from that gig featuring Martyn.. It is beautiful!

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews New York’s David Berkman ahead of him joining Playtime for a live remote transatlantic improv session on January 29th at 8.15pm GMT (3.15 EST. and 1.15 pm PST. Find the livestream on YouTube read more

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews wonderful guitarist and human Haftor Medböe for his Playtime Livestream. Hear the concert at www.playtime-music.com.

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft rounds up the Playtime year with Martin Kershaw and Mario Caribé

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews Greg Lawson of Moishe’s Bagel ahead of their gig at Playtime live-streamed from Pathhead Village Hall. There is flirting, there is hair tossing…

Playtime Interval Interview: Tom Bancroft interviews Tom Gibbs ahead of his gig at Playtime live-streamed from Pathhead Village Hall. What did they discuss… school… bearded face masks… stuff. It’s good.