www.billyjenkins.com The horses mouth - official BJ online HQ. Co-Conspirators Steve Arguelles Top tapper on 'Scratches' &  'Motorway'. Even found time to design the 'Greenwich' front sleeve. Iain Ballamy Occasional VOTP vice-captain, saxophonist and composer. Features sound-clips from 'ACME' - the new CD. Django Bates Piano, keyboards, tenor horn. Won the Danish International Jazzpar prize in 1996. Played on Scratches of Spain, Motorway at Night, and Still Sounds like Bromley Steve Berry 1st call double bassist and cellist 1984-88 excelling on vinyl 'Beyond E Major' and especially the two vinyl releases available here on the Webzine - 'Greenwich' and 'Motorway at Night'.   Richard Bolton Vital Blues Collective rhythm guitarist, whose own Richard Bolton Group has an interesting CD available entitled 'ballads 'n' funk' on Big Chain Records. Gail Brand Frightening trombonist who created a huge stir on the 2000 UK 'Suburbia' tour. Martin France Drums. VOG globe-trotter. The Fun Horns As in East & West. + English Charlie Hart Violin, double bass and astonishing CV. Thad Kelly - The Partisans Home of the Blues Collective's bass players' regular gang of left field hardcore players. Crazy guy - crazy band. Mark Lockheart Long time VOGC centre forward saxophonist who served a decade - hear him in 1988 on 'Motorway At Night', then ten years later on 'Suburbia'! Steve Morrison / Blues Abuse South East London blues stalwart, now BJ's other half in Here is the Blues Richard Russell Clarinettist, composer, writer, obscure genius. Martin Speake Alto sensation for whom BJ composed 'Entertainment USA.'

Industry The Babel Label BJ CD's are part of the fabled Babel Label stable. Beowulf Mayfield Champion performance poet, saxophonist and champion of all things Spazzerly, has amongst his site the poem 'Guitar' by Mr.J. - as previously published in 'Unknown Public'. Jazz Services 'A Voice for Jazz' with 'Jazz UK' magazine's gig listings. See Jazz UK's Jan/Feb 2000 issue for cover star BJ feature. The Shed "The best venue in Britain" - David Thomas. Yorkshire Pudding boat-race mecca.

LINKS to other sites with Billy Jenkins content. (Please alert us to new ones). Termite Club (Leeds) Gig review from March '04 _________________________ Diverse News @ Babel BJ archive musings on Steve Arguelles, Sonny Rollins, the Fun Horns and Charles Ives in the Babel Label newsletter. _________________________ Dave Kenningham photo's Early Burlesque + recent blues pics from the Eltham Folkmob stalwart. Anyone else got any? _________________________ New Statesman feature - 31st January 2000 The Back Half by Richard Cook "We can't boast many inventors, let alone innovators, in music, but we can lay claim to the creator of an entire area of modern sound: kitchen-sink jazz. Its progenitor is Billy Jenkins..." _________________________ Summertime Blues season Guardian Review of gig #2 - 5/8/00 _________________________ Billy Jenkins/John Etheridge Blues Bust-up 2000 @ The Vortex, London, December 1999. The Guardian review Rating: **** by John Fordham _________________________ Stewart Lee reviews True Love Collection Sunday Times, May 31, 1998 _________________________ Iran v. U.S.A. report by Ben Watson on the classic one-off footie impro from 1998 posted in the Babel label's online Diverse News, Issue 10. _________________________ Musicweb International BJ entry in music encyclopaedia _________________________ Jazz UK BJ profile PDF file, ends mid-sentence. _________________________

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