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The Charlie Bates Big Band
The Charlie Bates Big Band: Silhouettes
by Roger Farbey
Born in Essex in 1994, British jazz pianist Charlie Bates was introduced to jazz in his teens and later studied for a BMus Jazz degree at the Birmingham Conservatoire. In June 2016, Bates won the Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Composition prize with an arrangement of Cole Porter's Everything I Love," adjudicated by Tim Garland. This forty-minute session opens with Cyanopsia," which essentially means seeing everything with a blue tinge. A strong and memorable head played by the ensemble leads ...
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