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Neil Yates receives JAMES MORRISON Jazz Masters Prize 2007

Salford Universtiy and Australian Trumpet Star James Morrisson have awarded this years prestigious Jazz Masters Prize to Neil Yates after his recital concerts given as part of the MA in Creative Performance course, from which Yates graduated this year with distinction. The course involves recitals, lectures and written articles on all aspects of modern creative perfomance, and seeks to give credit for original creative thinking, stylistic and virtuosic performance across a range of repertiore. Yates' lectures:

"Opening out" - a jazz improvisation theory for teaching and learning without stifling creativity involving recognising simple tonal areas and understanding how other tonal areas intersect;

"The written note" -an exploration the problems facing the written notation of unusual techniques in music, involving his original trumpet technique 'diddleknock', and;

"Subconcious and Self-conscious musical learning" - an investigation into effective practice methods for jazz which involve distracting the often intrusive conscious mind whilst learning new material and attaching connotative meaning to music to aid memory;

               -and all performance recitals were very well received gaining Master of Arts with Distinction in Music (Performance.)

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Great in-depth review of Tarnished Silver Band's Cheltenham gig... by Ian Mann of 24dash.com

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JAZZWISE "TAKING OFF" feature.

Check out the February issue for their feature on Neil Yates written by jazz guru Andy Robson.

Neil Yates: New Origins wins Jazz Services prestigious "Promoters Choise" Award!

The prize is £2500 tour support for 2007 and the band will give a special performance at the 2006 London Jazz Festival and another next year in the 2007 Manchester Jazz Festival. 

 

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