Friday (today, May 3rd) is the last Bandcamp Friday until September and I’ve just heard that Jazz In Britain are offering 30% off all physical and digital products in their catalogue.
The offer lasts all through the weekend until Midnight on Sunday 5th and also applies to the few CD and vinyl items that are already on sale at a discount, so some real bargains are to be had!
Let us fill our boots!
Use code “May2024” at checkout.
Heartily recommended! 🙂 I have maybe 2/3 of the JiB catalogue already – I’ll check in again to make sure nothing appealing has escaped my attention.
fab – thanks for the tip!
*blue lights flash outside the house*
*in the back bedroom; a low, sobbing sound is heard*
*Police voice through megaphone*
*This is the Wallet Protection Force. Listen carefully*
*Step away from the computer. Your internet has been cut off. Step away from the computer*
Unlikely to be covered by the current discount offer, I surmise, there’s another option, ideal for those un-bothered about owning physical product:
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Could a subscription to Jazz In Britain on Bandcamp be the right choice for you? Becoming a subscriber provides five major benefits:
· An ‘earlybird’ 48 hour exclusive window to purchase physical pre-orders before official pre-release
· All of our new digital releases free for a year (from the date of subscription)
· 16(!) back catalogue digital releases
· One exclusive ‘subscriber-only’ digital release per year
· Access to our Bandcamp fan community with ‘subscriber-only’ messages and photos
All of this is available for only a little more than £2 per month (one annual payment of £28).
BINGO!!
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The “Splinters” set I can heartily recommend
I concur with the Splinters recommendation (it was already a bargain at £10) and would also endorse Karl Jenkins’ Penumbra II (Nucleus in all but name, with Alan Skidmore as a bonus).
Another recommendation for Penumbra II.
Also the Tubby Hayes sets, No Blues in ‘65 and Complete Hopbine in ‘69 – well, all the Tubby Hayes sets, really…
Ordered the Penumbra II and the Morning Star book.
A treasure chest.
Trying to restrain myself. It’s difficult.
If Splinters is there for a tenner or less, it would be madness for ANYONE interested in British music history or jazz in general not to pick it up. It’s a beautiful artefact – hardback book containing three discs, a superb essay on this fascinating, momentary Brit jazz supergroup of avant-gardists and straight modernists (Tubby Hayes, Phil Seamen) and Jak Kilby’s fabulous photos from one of their three (from memory) gigs.
Jazz in Britain mogul John Thurlow tells the story of how the set came together in the first 10 mins of this section of my interview with him, filmed last September: