The 
Club
babellabel.co.uk
May 2006
Polar Bear nominated for 2006 Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Award Drummer Seb Rochford's Polar Bear have added yet another award 
nomination to their illustrious collection. Having received huge acclaim, throughout as well as beyond the jazz world, for their second album Held on the Tips of Fingers -including a 2005 Mercury nomination and a new BBC Jazz award nomination - Polar Bear now get the vote of government receiving a nomination for both CD and Ensemble of the year at the second Parliamentary Jazz appreciation award. The ceremony will be held on 10th May 2006 at the House of Commons and is hosted by Paul Gambaccini.
New CD release:
Juli
e Sassoon solo piano due out in the shops early July,but you can buy it now online from Babel by clicking on sleeve on left. She is the eloquent pianist from Azilut who recorded the Babel cult classic To the Power of Three to much critical acclaim in 2001. Julie Sassoon played on 9 March at the Vortex supporting NY violinst Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier but will be launching her solo piano album 'New Life' (see sleeve left for samples and more info) at the Vortex jazz club, Dalston on 13 July (see lives). There will also be a piece on Julie featured in the July issue of Jazzwise Magazine.
Summer Festival diary special Did you get to see Huw Warren and/or Polar Bear down at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival? If so we would love to hear your thoughts - remember that the best (not necessarily most flattering) mail wins a CD ...
We now look ahead here to the Festival season with Babel artists appearing at some major ones both at home and abroad.
May
Bath International Jazz Festival
26 May Polar Bear (double bill with The Bad Plus)
click here for details and tickets
Nattjazz Festival, Bergen, Norway (May)
27 May Acoustic Ladyland
28 May Polar Bear
www.nattjazz.no
June
Wychwood Festival,Cheltenham Racecourse.
3 June Polar Bear(bill incl. Gilles Peterson, Martha Wainwright)
tkts: 01242 227979 and We Got Tickets
Summerjazz Festival, Finland
9/10 June Partisans (click here for festival site)
July
Manchester Jazz Festival
(23 July), Julie Sassoon (Bridgwater hall foyer 2.15pm)
Margate Festival
(14-16 July) After the success of last year's first Margate Jaz
z Festival (see right)we're pleased to announce Babel will be a sponsor of the 2nd Margate Jazz Festival. A bigger event held over three days, the Festival will feature Christine Tobin, Phil Robson, hKippers and a special concert from the recently knighted great British jazz reedsman and composer/arranger John Dankworth and acclaimed vocalist Cleo Laine (see my space.com/johndankworth and myspace/cleolaine and qnote records for info and audio). Keep going to the Babel site for further line up updates.
To check out more live dates all over the UK and abroad please click here. We are constantly updating our live page so keep going back.
Babel on My Space.com/one of the most recent developments on the web is the vibrant community of musicians/listeners that has been established on the My Space website.Please visit www.myspace.com and come and listen to Babel's artists tracks and if you're signed up you can become friends with us. Babel and its artists have become involved and you can also listen to new material from several artists on Babel. Currently the artists to check out on My Space are as follows:
www.myspace.com/babellabel
www.myspace.com/ctobes (Christine Tobin)
www.myspace.com/philrobson
www.myspace.com/tomarthurs
www.myspace.com/billyjenkins
www.myspace.com/thebandpartisans
www.myspace.com/juliesassoon
www.myspace.com/sebastianrochford
www.myspace.com/acousticladylandmusic
Babel Club competition of the month (win free Azilut! CD) - with the imminent launch of Julie Sassoon's upcoming solo piano album we are giving away a free copy of her excellent band Azilut!'s previous CD To the Power of Three (sleeve left) to the first Babel Club member who can answer the following question correctly:
What Azilut track appeared on DJ/Journalist Kevin Le Gendre's Now's the Time compilation released in 2003?
Last month's winner was YVES SANTOIRE from Canada. A copy of the CD 100s of Things on its way to you Yves! Yves was the quickest to give us the answer that the track on the new Huw Warren album 'Everything We Love and More' that also appears on an earlier album is 'Whistling Rufus' from A Barrel Organ Far from Home. Although respect to Lurca who sent us the type of email we like answering 'can't name the track but I bet it 's on the BABEL label'.
Answers to
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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