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April 2006
Vote Now! 3 Babel albums up for BBC Jazz Award CD of the Y
ear- click here to vote now(deadline-April 14)
We are thrilled to announce Babel has scored a hat trick of Best album nominations for the prestigious 2006 BBC Jazz Awards, yes that's 3 out of 6 CDs nominated on Babel! The winners will be announced in the awards ceremony on April 14. From Left: Acoustic Ladyland - last Chance Disco; Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers; Partisans - Max. To listen to audio mp3 samples or to purchase albums from our shop please click on appropriate sleeve.
Upcoming releases:Huw Warren duo with Austrian bassist Peter Herbert.listen to samples on our site of 'Everything We Love and More' by clicking on the sleeve on right. You can purchase the album on our site before it reaches the shops by clicking here.
Juli
e Sassoon solo piano due out in July, the pianist from Azilut who recorded the Babel cult classic 'To the Power of Three' to much critical acclaim in 2001. Julie will be launching her album 'New Life' (see sleeve left)at the Vortex jazz club, Dalston on 13 July and playing prior to this at the same venue on 9 March supporting great violinst Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier (see lives). There will also be a piece on her featured in the June issue of Jazzwise Magazine.
Babel guide to Cheltenham Huw Warren and Polar Bear are the Babel artists performing at this year's Cheltenham International Jazz Festival . The dates are as follows:
29-April-06 Everyman Theatre (4.30 pm) Polar Bear Tickets selling out quickly so ring 01242 227979 or at www.cheltenhamfestivals.com
1- May-06 Cheltenham Town Hall (6.00pm) Huw Warren Quartet with Iain Ballamy, Peter Herbert, and Martin France with an abstract film by Crass Agenda's Gee Vaucher. Tickets available on 01242 227979 or at www.cheltenhamfestivals.com a new commission from Babel of a piece exploring Huw's Gower peninsula childhood.
Babel artists on tour now! To check out new dates all over the UK and abroad from Polar Bear, Christine Tobin, Acoustic Ladyland, Richard Fairhurst, Huw Warren and more please click here. We are constantly updating our live page so keep going back.
Tom Arthurs trio session tonight on BBC Jazz on 3 Babel's experimental young trumpeter Tom Arthurs jumps out of one trio, Squash Recipe (after a succesful album and mini-tour the other two members have returned to Canada) and into another. His 'arthurs.høiby.ritchie' trio will appear on Friday 7 April for an exclusively recorded session at 11.30pm on Jazz on 3 - But if you do miss it you can still stream it online for the whole of the following week by clicking here.
Babel Club competition of the month (win free CD!!) - with the imminent launch of Huw Warren's upcoming duo album with Peter Herbert we are giving away a free copy of his excellent previous CD 'Hundreds of Things a Boy Can Make' (sleeve left) to the first Babel Club member who can answer the following question correctly:
A version of a track on the upcoming CD 'Everything We Love and More' also appears on an earlier Huw Warren Album. Can you name the track and the album on which the original version appears?
Answers to by closing date 21st April
Babel Club's Letter of the month received by email from John Clough 
Subject title: album of the Year
"There has been some excellent music released this year, though to look at the nonsense shovelled at you by the big record companies a huge leap of faith is required. Having dipped my hand into the open sewer we call the music industry, it was worth it to pull out a diamond, that diamond being Duw A Wyr (click on sleeve right to sample tracks). This is an astonishing piece of work. The purity and simplicity of Lleuwen Steffan's delivery and the amazingly sympathetic treatment by Huw Warren and Mark Lockheart is enough to move a chap from atheism to grudging agnosticism. Looking forward to another year of ground-breaking, intelligent music from Babel." Regards John.
Babel would like to thank John - please let us know what Babel CD you would like sent in the post. Meanwhile if you've got something to get off your chest or have some passion to spill please send us an email. The best of the month will be printed and recieves a free CD of your choice (stock levels permitting)
We still have some copies of the We All Eat Food sampler to give away. Please email us at to get a free copy.
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