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Article: Culture: Fine outlook for a Weather man; Weather Report's Peter Erskine has taken to jazz in an impressive way, reports Martin Longley.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 24, 2001
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Byline: Martin Longley
The BBC has commissioned former Weather Report drummer Peter Erskine to write a new suite for its Music Live festival, to be premiered in Leeds on Thursday.
Birmingham gets to hear the second performance the following night and that audience can then rush home to catch Music For Brass and Percussion on Radio 3's Jazz On 3 programme.
Erskine grew up in New Jersey, his drumming potential picked up by bandleader Stan Kenton at one of his Stage Band Camps when Peter was a seven-year-old. About a decade later, Erskine received his ...
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Article: Classical: Turnage turns his hand to improv Classical composers ...
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... ... and jazz musicians rarely make music together. For Mark-Anthony Turnage, however, the two are not mutually exclusive. Turnage ... jazzmen, guitarist John Scofield and percussionist Peter Erskine. Unusually, Turnage, as well as providing them with notated ...
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