New Jazz Songs On Tour

[LAZZ]

This may be an act of shameless self-promotion, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

With the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, we take a bunch of new jazz songs on a small tour of Europe in November in company with a couple of very groovy young UK players.

Lazzerini-Coleman Quartet
Colin Lazzerini – voice
Pat Coleman – guitar
Ben Hazleton – bass
Iain Pattinson – drums

November 16 - London Jazz Festival - Royal Festival Hall, Pizza Express Stage
November 17 - Hilton Hotel - Dublin
November 18 - workshop
November 19 - Puzzle Hall Inn - Sowerby Bridge
November 20 - Riverbank - Cardiff
November 21 - workshop
November 22 - Music Village - Bruxelles
November 23 - Music Village - Bruxelles

After many years searching and stumbling, I feel truly satisfied for the first time my own work has achieved the simple honesty and integrity that makes it worthwhile telling you about. I have found my voice. Hit my stride. Like turning on a tap somewhere. I’m enjoying a stream of highly productive personal creativity. A very exciting time.

And it’s always inspiring to work with Pat Coleman - my song-writing partner is a fabulous musician and composer and a seriously great jazz guitar player.

We write good songs together.

We take a our very respectable label catalogue to the market also.

Wish us luck and please check us out if you ever get the chance.

Warm Regards
LAZZ

Lazz@RoadhouseRecords.ca http://www.RoadhouseRecords.ca


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[Allan Johnston]

Congratulations, Lazz...

I played with you a few times when you were around in the early 80's - great to hear that you're just 'finding your voice'! And of course you're right about Pat. We knew he was world class, even back then. I have an old tape of him live at the Red Barrel that I cherish, from back in the day that we had a Jazz Station (CJAZZ) that broadcast that stuff...

[LAZZ]

Thanks for the good wishes, Allan, nice to be re-acquainted.

Perhaps you have your own experiences of really hating one’s sound. But it seems like I suffered for years. So it’s not only great for me to hear I’ve found my own voice at last – it’s something of an exquisite relief.

And I’d love to hear that Red Barrel tape.

Few weeks back I discovered an old Co-op Radio tape from the Spinning Wheel sometime maybe around the end of the seventies(?) – PC and Bob Murphy and Rene Worst and Graham Boyle playing My Funny Valentine.

Pat had no idea who it was - “Who the f*** is that?!!” - and refused to believe me when I told him. Very funny. Very interesting. Says he would have figured it out on his own soon enough. But I think he could be lying.

Pat’s qualification for the world arena may have been evident in the past, but have you heard him play recently? Right now he seems to have assumed occupancy of a totally new zone. It’s very infectious. He is going to surprise absolutely everyone who gets to hear him on tour while I warble away in an idiosyncratic fashion blessed by his reflected glory.

The singular pity of it all is our failure to muster enough budget to accommodate Messrs Taggart, Lister and Allen upon this small adventure.

Next time…

LAZZ

[John Doheny]

Best of luck Lazz.Have a pint of Worthington "E" for me ( I don't drink anymore, but I still enjoy the smell and ambience of a good local).The bit about hating one's own sound...man,you must be reading my mail. I've been through a period of several years where listening to myself has been very difficult.What finally ended it was a piano player(Roy Sluyter) who recorded us on a casual at the Chateau Whistler. He used some really nice tube microphones and hung them unobtrusively, so that after awhile we didn't even notice them anymore.It was a nothing little gig, a wedding, and we just played a bunch of standards and everybody was loose.He recorded us and I forgot all about it.A couple months later I was driving to another gig with Roy, listening to Stan Getz "Anniversary" CD. Roy pulled up with his car sterio blasting and I said," Hey, what a coincidence. We're both listening to Stan Getz" and he said,"no man. That's you."
Just like Pat ,I didn't believe it either. Then I started listening more closely and all my self-critical instincts kicked in and I started hearing all the little things in there that I'm not too thrilled with and then..yes that's me. Sound familiar?
Anyway,good luck,good fortune,and enjoy your trip to post Thatcher Britain.
John D.

p.s. Pizza Express, that's a chain, right? Do they still have a location on Dean Street in Soho that features live jazz?
p.p.s. you still hold the prize for the most gentlemanly "no thanks" I've ever recieved.If only they were all like that.