 |  Manchester Jazz Festival 2004 - vox pop
updated 07/07/04 | | |
|  | | So the Manchester Jazz Festival is almost over for another year.. you've heard the last spontaneous sax solo, thrilled to the final flurry on the fretboard, and the ivories will be improvised no more.
So what did you think?
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Crème Anglaise @ St Ann's Sq on Sat 24th July 2004
 Annie from Mossley:
"I just thought they were wonderful, absolutely fabulousÂ…. I hope see more at the jazz festival, especially next Saturday in St Anns Square."
 Hal Lonigon from Manchester:
" Excellent. I am familiar with most of the band. I've seen them in other permutations and so am familiar with the musicians individually and thought it was an excellent fusion of the guys, really great."
 Denise Worthington from Knutsford:
" Fantastic, absolutely excellent. I've seen some of them before, the drummer & the pianist. This our first year at the jazz festival, we are very keen on jazz so we are going to do it all!"
| John Ellis & Rob Dainton @ Green Roomon Sat 24th July
 Fiona Watts from Chorlton:
"You can always rely on Jon Ellis to provide at least three comedy moments. He came in with some safe melodies at the end, but in the beginning he really pushed the boundaries of music & a few lightweights left the gig. But hey, if you can't take the heat & the comedy, then there you go!"
 Adrian Field from Altrincham:
"It was absolutely incredible. I love the way that they work from each other, that kind of backwards & forwards in the music. There was a real sense of spontaneity in what they were doing, and yet they worked like it was one musician. It was beautiful, really good." Nothing's disappointed yet, it's all been really good."
| Jon Thorne's Oedipus Complex @ Green Room, Sat 24th July
Adrian Field from Altrincham:
" but it was also the second part, the Oedipus Complex, I thought that the visual side of it was absolutely stunning. It worked so well with the music it was an intregal thing, it was fantastic. I'd love to see more of that sort of thing, it was really good. That sort of thing very rarely works, but that worked absolutely brilliantly." | Arcadia @ Bridgewater Hall, Sun 25th July
 Greg from Chicago via Liverpool:
"I thought it was wonderful, simply wonderful... Arcadia were playing the free jazz that I love so I was so happy to hear it, you know the Coltrane and all that. In the second set, which I particularly liked the penultimate number which was called Janga which I thought was very good indeed and reminded me a little bit of Abdullah Ibrahim in its style and I liked it very much"
Eric Mulligan from Manchester:
"Absolutely brilliant. I'll be coming down during the week to see the other bands. I'm retired so I can come down and watch the lot." Fabiola from Sicily:
I heard all the bands this afternoon, and I really enjoyed myself. This is the second year that I have enjoyed the Manchester jazz Festival.... it's a way to let everybody know & appreciate jazz music, enjoy this kind of music & share emotions. I think it's very good. I really enjoyed Arcadia because they were a little bit experimental because I love jazz and want to learn more."
| Steve Berry Group @ Green Room, Sunday 25th July
Adrian Field from Altrincham:
Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. They get better every year. They just come together and become more experienced, more mature, very fresh, fantastic, I really enjoyed itÂ…. I'm seeing everything that I possibly can. I came here to the Green Room last night and again the performance was stunning. Totally different, absolutely stunning." Rosie O'Shea from Manchester:
"They were really great, like nothing else I've heard before. It's not really the sort of music I usually listen to, but I came because the drummer teaches me drums. I want to start a rock band one day."
 Tony Watts from Manchester School of Samba:
" It was great, it reminded me of the modern Scandanavian Jazz. Very uplifting, I enjoyed it. Soaring solos but lots of tonal contrast, I liked it. The jazz festivalÂ… reflects the core of elite musicians, there's a whole jazz scene now, there's a jam every night of the week, there are various different strands of music being played and I think the jazz festival is very representative actually."
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The 9th Manchester Jazz Festival runs from 24th - 31st July. What do you want to do now? |
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