Tim Woodall

In Pictures: The 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Why do jazz and photography go together so well? Few other forms of music have so fascinated photographers. Images from jazz’s golden age, the forties and fifties, have filled many a coffee table book – hundreds of pictures of instrumentalists on the poky stages of smoke-wreathed New York jazz clubs.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world -, Music | Monday, 14 May 2012 at 2:07 pm

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Charting the routes of world music

World music. To some it’s a long-defunct marketing invention, a crude catch-all for bringing global folk styles – and numerous dodgy attempts at fusion – under one pointless umbrella. Questioning the validity of the term is not new. Mark Hudson’s 1998 book The Music in my Head satirised the world music phenomenon. But it’s worth looking again at the argument. I would argue that, while it undeniably has its limits, in this age of globalisation world music is an attractively loose term for describing music that crosses cultural boundaries.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world -, Music | Friday, 23 March 2012 at 10:00 am

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Reverb Festival and the quiet evolution of live classical music

London’s classical music scene is changing before our eyes.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world -, Music | Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 1:19 pm

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Mind the culture gap: Do Londoners take the arts for granted?

Standing at the bus stop the other day, I bumped into an acquaintance who had been working outside London for the last few years. When I asked how he liked living in Bristol, and then Liverpool, he reeled off a list of positives before saying, “but culturally, there were only ever one or two shows or exhibitions on at any one time – I missed the variety of culture in London.” What, I asked, is the best thing he had seen in the six months since he’d been back? “Er, to be honest, I haven’t been to anything but it’s just knowing it’s all there if you know what I mean,” came the reply.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Monday, 23 January 2012 at 1:03 pm

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Traditional seasonal music and the lure of Christmas escapism

This week on the Today programme, two well known names in classical music – Observer critic Fiona Maddocks and impresario Raymond Gubbay – discussed an article in The Economist that highlighted the resurgence of carol singing at Christmas.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Saturday, 17 December 2011 at 6:00 am

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World music and the London Jazz Festival

Friday was the first day of the ten-day London Jazz Festival (LJF), that glorious time of year when more live improvised music can be heard in the bars, clubs and concert halls of the capital than the rest of the year put together.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world -, Music | Monday, 14 November 2011 at 1:37 pm

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Treme: The most musical TV series ever?

As a drama, Treme has been described as meandering. And it has to be said, compared with predecessor The Wire, David Simon’s newer HBO series moves at a glacial pace.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Tuesday, 25 October 2011 at 1:01 pm

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Preview: Tinariwen at Koko, Camden

The Rolling Stones started it. They first met blues icon Muddy Waters, the artist from whom they got their name, during the 1964 US tour. The Stones assiduously courted and praised their bluesmen heroes to the point where they gave the old guard a whole new lease of life.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Tuesday, 11 October 2011 at 5:26 pm

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Preview: Transcender at the Barbican Centre

Of all the one-word labels for contemporary music festivals out there – Meltdown and Ether at Southbank Centre, Grimeborn at the Arcola Theatre – the Barbican Centre’s Transcender is surely the finest. The tag funkily encapsulates what this annual autumn weekend is about: spiritual, psychedelic music from diverse global cultures.

By Tim Woodall | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 3:45 pm

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Jazz and the Mercury Prize

With a month to go until the winner of the 2011 Mercury Prize is announced at least one shortlisted artist could be forgiven for not bothering to prepare a victory speech.

By Tim Woodall | Music | Wednesday, 10 August 2011 at 5:32 pm

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