{"id":133,"date":"2019-03-19T23:38:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/v2sandbox\/?p=133"},"modified":"2019-03-19T23:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:38:48","slug":"the-great-escape-big-band-1996-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/the-great-escape-big-band-1996-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Escape Big Band (1996-1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anarchic big band jazz adventures.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Formed\n in 1996 while I was doing the jazz degree at Leeds College of Music, \nthe Great Escape Big Band was an 18-piece jazz orchestra made up of \nstudents on the course, many of whom went on to international careers.&nbsp; I\n set myself the task of writing a new chart and preparing all the \nparts&nbsp;for the band every week &#8211; inspired as much by Django Bates&nbsp;and \nFrank Zappa as Duke Ellington and Stan Kenton, so&nbsp;the&nbsp;band&#8217;s sound \nincluded some&nbsp;unique&nbsp;quirks, including a six-piece sax section&nbsp;and \nliberal use of collective improvisation and BGN (Bloody Great Noise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  below recordings were taped from a 1997\u00a0concert in the college recital  room at Leeds Civic Theatre) and is still one of my favourite things to  have done\u00a0in music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Great Escape Big Band by KerryJK\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F46499403&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anarchic big band jazz adventures. Formed in 1996 while I was doing the jazz degree at Leeds College of Music, the Great Escape Big Band was an 18-piece jazz orchestra made up of students on the course, many of whom went on to international careers.&nbsp; I set myself the task of writing a new chart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}