Last month I joined Jan Peeters to interview Ben Westbeech, protégé of Gilles Peterson on his new label Brownswood Recordings.
A couple of hours before Ben Westbeech’s gig in Leuven, we join him for a beer and a relaxed chat in front of Leuven’s train station.
After having launched our joint criticism on the strange and not that well succeeded architectural combination of the neoclassical train station, its ultramodern canopy and the red brick bus station, our conversation takes of with Bristol, a safe haven for new electronical sounds coming from for instance Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead and Roni Size. Bristol seems to be quite a heavily bass-influenced town… (Read the rest of the interview.)
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Dave Decat – Carhartt feature
Martha Cooper Interview
Soul:ID – epk
[...] Hell yeah dat ik zin heb in vanavond! Grappig dat je het vraagt. Eerst even langs Rotterdam om de film 7002 van HOTEL en Duvel te checken. En na die elf minuten gaan we meteen door naar Den Haag waar ik dan eindelijk op het Pure Jazz Festival Ben Westbeech een show zal zien rocken. Check ook dit interview met Ben van Alex. Die man is on-point haha. Verder zin om lekker te gaan genieten van Jazzanova’s eigen Alex Barck en dat live ding van Ntjamrosie natuurlijk. Maar goed, sinds het horen van So Good Today wacht ik al om de beste man live te zien rocken en dat zal vanavond dan gebeuren… HARD! [...]
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Oct 1st, 2007 at 10:56 pm
possibly the dullest man on earth! As he says early on in the interview – “there wasn’t much thought behind it”. You said it. And he’s reduced to performing a remix of one of his singles. Shame. Suburban boredom supreme. And he likens Peterson to Jesus. Dull! Dull! Dull!
Oct 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
HA!!
I like Billy and his comments, I like him a lot. Say what you think brother!! That’s what it’s all about, innit? Sometimes bands/musicians with ZERO personality and boring talent (Westbeech and S & Pimp) get over hyped, because of certain wheels in the industry that put them on a pedestal here in London. That fact frustrates the hell out of me!
I’ve written stuff about S & P Sessions in Chaser mag previously, not sure if the latest review got printed as it was a bit negative in the sense that I feel they are emerging as a one trick pony, and are starting to get on my nerves now.
Oh well, keep up the hard work on this site too tho man….
I wanna hear more jazz on the airwaves!!!!!!!!