We are delighted to have received official recognition for our jazz/blues road-trip documentary ‘Back To The Source’ from several film awards organisations.

Including:
– Best Music Documentary – Parai Musical International Awards (PMIAs) – Dec 2021
– Best Feature Film – Kings Cross Film Awards – Dec 2021 – To include a screening at the famed The Water Rats venue in London as part of their film festival and annual awards ceremony this August
– Official Selection – New Creators Film Awards – Dec 2021

AND HERE’S THE BIG NEWS – THE TIME HAS COME – OUR FILM GOES LIVE THIS SUNDAY!!!

Click here for more information on the film, which goes public on Sunday 13th March 2022!

Click here for the film’s Facebook Page where you can post your thoughts about the film: Back To The Source – music road trip documentary

repmusic in collaboration with Cambridge Modern Jazz Club is delighted to present:

Sam Miles Quintet Performs Stan Getz
Thursday March 31st 2022

Gonville Hotel, Cambridge – 6:30pm
Tickets including two course meal – £40
Ticket only – £15

Tenor saxophonist and Royal Academy Of Music jazz graduate, Sam Miles, delves into the music and life of tenor sax giant Stan Getz at this dinner and jazz event, hosted by Gonville Hotel, in collaboration with repmusic and Cambridge Modern Jazz Club.

The performance follows Sam’s passion for the music of saxophone legend Stan Getz, one of the main proponents of West Coast Jazz and hugely involved in the spreading of Bossa Nova to the USA and the rest of the world in the 1960s.

This performance will include tunes from classic albums such as Stan Getz With The Oscar Peterson Trio and Stan Getz Live At Storyville, as well as some of his classic West Coast and Bossa Nova material.

Featuring
Sam Miles – Tenor saxophone
Tim Boniface – Piano
Louis Thorne – Guitar
Sandy Suchodolski – Acoustic bass
Josh Blackmore – Drums

£40 two courses and concert / £15 concert only

Click here for a YouTube video of Sam playing ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’.

To book please email sales@gonvillehotel.co.uk

This UK film premiere screening and music event is a joint repmusic-Cambridge Modern Jazz promotion.

‘Back To The Source’ is a multi-award winning music road-trip documentary film by Robin Phillips, retracing the path of jazz and blues in America, from Chicago to New Orleans on a Harley Davidson to connect with the soul of his art form.

The 58min documentary follows Robin’s trip and music experiences and includes interviews with people encountered along the way, including:
– St Louis blues club owner John May,
– Clarksdale tourist chief Bubba O’Keefe,
– ‘The Swampers’ bass player David Hood,
– Mississippi blues man Dexter Allen,
– Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Chief Engineer from 1970s Steve Melton, and,
– New Orleans saxophonist James Martin.

The Gonville Hotel is offering a dinner ticket which will be served during the documentary screening.The screening will then be followed by a one-set performance by Robin’s New Orleans-flavoured speakeasy swing quartet Pinstripe Rèduit, including original music inspired by the trip featured in the film.

The film won ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Best Feature Film’ at the Kings Cross Film Awards in December 2021, won the PARAI Musical International Award 2021, and was an ‘Official Selection’ in the Best Documentary category at the New Creators Film Awards (Dec 2021).

This is the first public screening in the UK following the World premiere at the Clarksdale Film Festival in Mississippi.

For more info:
www.thejazzpresenter.com
www.facebook.com/backtothesourcefilm
www.pinstripswing.co.uk
or email via the contact page

Cambridge Modern Jazz event page

Tickets including two course meal – £40 Ticket only – £15
Room (B&B) special offer that evening for event attendees – £160

Book by email: sales@gonvillehotel.co.uk or phone Gonville Hotel on 01223 366611

We put together this little video to thank all of the guests who have appeared on ‘The Jazz Show With Robin Phillips’ on Delux Radio in 2021.

We have had a fantastic collection of conversations with these professional jazz musicians from around the world and others involved in the wider jazz and music industries including: Leroy Jones (trumpet – Harry Connick jr – New Orleans), Brandon Allen (tenor sax – Kyle Eastwood), Anita Wardell (jazz singer – Australia), Jason Rebello (jazz piano), Mark Lewandowski (jazz bass – NYC), Kate Mullins (singer – The Puppini Sisters), Lisa Marie-Simmons (singer and poet – Italy), Steve Fishwick (jazz trumpet), Matt Skelton (drummer), Matt Ruddick (Kind Of Jazz), Nigel Price (jazz guitar), Paola Vera (jazz singer – France), Dom Pipkin (singer / pianist), Tom Walsh (trumpet), Leo Richardson (tenor saxophone), Simon Spillett (tenor saxophone), Roger Lewis (baritone sax – Dirty Dozen Brass Band, New Orleans), Jo Harrop (jazz singer), Chris Dean (Syd Lawrence Orchestra), Jamie McCredie (guitarist), Fiona Ross (jazz singer), Quentin Collins (trumpet), Georgia Mancio (jazz singer), Chris Philips (Jazz FM, Jazzed), Clark Tracey (drummer), Amanda Whiting (harpist), and Tobias Menhart (tenor saxophone – NYC).

What’s more, we have even more fantastic interview’s lined up for 2022, including drummer Billy Kilson from New York, Cuban-born Paris-based bass player Damian Nueva from Netflix’s ‘The Eddy’ jazz TV series, Paul Kaufman from the National Jazz Archive, Rob Harris guitarist from Jamiroquai, Richard Wall blues author, and Mace Francis, Director of Perth International Jazz Festival!

To listen back to any or all of the previous shows, click here.

Click here to see the short video on YouTube, or watch the embedded version below.

It was fantastic to perform live as well as provide professional audio support for Miller’s Music during their live stream events in 2021. Here’s the jazz duo performance we did for them:

– Live Stream Duo Jazz Performance:

We thoroughly enjoyed providing the professional audio for a poetry and music video for the online Electric Medway Festival in August, working to capture the sound of the cello (Natalie Rosario) whilst retaining clear vocal recording of the poetry of Jehane Markham, both occurring live and close to each other in an untreated room.

Click here to watch the video.

We really enjoyed merging our love of professional audio and pianos when we were asked to support Miller’s Music of Cambridge’s live streams and demonstration videos, providing all audio support for these events, and additional cameras in some.

Click on the links or watch the embedded videos:

– Ritmuller RS 122 Upright Piano Demonstration Video (audio and additional cameras):

– Yamaha C1X Grand Piano Demonstration Video (Clip on wireless mics, piano mics, additional cameras):

– Grand Piano Live Stream Demonstration (clip on wireless mics and piano mics):

– Upright Piano Live Stream Demonstration (clip on wireless mics and piano mics):

We’ve enjoyed shooting video promotional content for our studio clients as a new offering after the Covid-19 lockdown.

Click on the links to see the videos in Facebook or watch the embedded videos here:

– Outdoor dining video and music content:

– Authentic Neapolitan pizza-making:

– Fresh pasta making:

It was great to be able to talk about the art of improvising (and play that lovely Bechstein!) as part of one of Miller’s Music live stream events.

– Live stream improvising masterclass:

It was a fantastic experience and a great test of everything we’d learned during lockdown to put on this jazz trio live stream from The Dog & Duck in Linton, Cambridgeshire.

The trio featured the regular Dog & Duck Jazz Trio of Robin Phillips, Louis Thorne (bass), and Jim Free (sax), with Robin producer and live-mixing the stream!

Click here to see the whole stream on Facebook or watch the embedded version below!