{"id":1043,"date":"2018-11-02T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2018-11-05T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:20:24","slug":"hannah-and-molly-at-their-first-jazz-concert-buck-and-billie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/2018\/11\/02\/hannah-and-molly-at-their-first-jazz-concert-buck-and-billie\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah and Molly At Their First Jazz Concert: Buck and Billie"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday 19 October, Arts Ambassadors Molly and Hannah attended Turner Sims\u2019 concert of Buck & Billie<\/em>, a tribute to the collaboration between Billie Holiday and Buck Clayton. As relative newcomers to jazz they share their experiences.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Teague<\/u><\/p>\n

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Molly and Hannah waiting in the Turner Sims Foyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I sat in the foyer of Turner Sims<\/a> I was both anxious and excited of what to expect. I had never been to a jazz concert before and so I had no idea what was to come: would I enjoy it? Would it be my thing at all? I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the concert hall. The Buck Clayton Legacy Band<\/a> worked in harmony alongside Julia Biel<\/a>\u2019s renditions of some of Billie Holiday\u2019s famous songs.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know much about jazz, but speaking to band leader and Radio 3 presenter Alyn Shipton\u00a0<\/a>put me at ease on what to expect. Alyn has the same ideas as me in wanting to encourage younger audiences to be more interested in jazz, as it is having a great comeback at the moment. He did make a joke about Molly and I \u201creducing the average age of the audience by a great deal\u201d.<\/p>\n

The performance itself was entertaining. I enjoyed the chemistry between all the band members, as they made comments to each other during quieter moments, or laughing about a mistake one of them had made. A humorous moment was when brass players Ian Smith and Adrian Fry walked off the stage as they made the band smaller for a song, and then came back on for the next one where they were immediately dismissed as they weren\u2019t meant to come back on so soon.<\/p>\n

My favourite song was Julia singing \u201cI\u2019m a Fool to Want You\u201d <\/em>which I have definitely heard somewhere before but didn\u2019t know where. Her deep and sultry voice made the piece especially brilliant.<\/p>\n

Overall, I would rate my experience watching Buck and Billie very highly, and would recommend people definitely give jazz ago, even if you\u2019ve never had an interest in it before. The live acoustics at Turner Sims are so different to what you might have heard before on a music player.<\/p>\n

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The Buck Clayton Legacy Band and Julia Biel take a bow at the end of their performance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Molly Adams<\/u><\/p>\n

Billie Holiday\u2019s collaboration with trumpeter Buck Clayton, as re-imagined by the Buck Clayton Legacy Band and vocalist Julia Biel, has been described as one of the greatest musical partnerships of all time and there\u2019s no better time to be celebrating their music and legacy than Black History Month. It\u2019s safe to say the Buck Clayton Legacy Band did their partnership justice. As a newcomer to jazz, I went into Turner Sims knowing only a handful of Billie Holiday songs and being better acquainted with the chaos of rock and metal gigs than the more upmarket jazz show I had lined up. My own preconceptions about the night were quickly dispelled, with the Buck Clayton Legacy Band proving themselves dynamic and charismatic performers and proving jazz to be just as relevant in the modern era as it was in 1937. Catching up with bassist, band leader and broadcaster Alyn Shipton before the show, he told us that, \u201cIt\u2019s a false idea that the idea of progress in jazz leads inexorably to the future, and actually there are lots and<\/p>\n

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Molly and Hannah waiting for the performance to start.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

lots of sideways and byways in history that need exploring. We\u2019re so hung up as a people on progress that we don\u2019t always stop the progress to take a deep breath and say \u2018Is there something else here?\u2019\u201d. Despite being decades old, the music felt vibrant and Julia Biel\u2019s incredible vocals brought so much depth of emotion to Billie Holiday\u2019s lyrics.<\/p>\n

All in all, the night was genuinely insightful. I got to experience a new genre of music in an incredible venue right on my doorstep. Later on in our conversation with Alyn, we discussed the state of live music, especially jazz, in the UK: \u201cAll over the country at the moment there is a resurgence of interest in jazz\u2026 for us to be playing on a university campus, that\u2019s important as well. We\u2019re bringing music to a generation who might not naturally come across it but might have seen something regarding it that says, hey, jazz is the new cool thing\u201d. With so many incredible, cost-effective opportunities to experience live music at Highfield<\/a> campus and in Southampton, there\u2019s no reason not to give a new genre or a new performer a try.<\/p>\n

Buck and Billie performed at Turner Sims concert hall on Friday 19th October 2018. More information about the event can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Arts Ambassadors is a paid opportunity, supported by the\u00a0<\/i>Careers and Employability<\/a>\u00a0Service\u2019s Excel Southampton Internship programme, University of Southampton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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