Django Bates Nominated For New Music Award
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Composer and keyboards player Django Bates has made the shortlist for the prestigious PRS Foundation-backed New Music Award for a work that he will create called ‘Pedal Tones’. Currently a professor at the Rhythmic conservatory in Copenhagen, Bates only occasionally performs in England, most recently at last November’s London Jazz Festival tribute concert to the late Joe Zawinul, a key influence on Bates’ compositional and musical choices.
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