| Curriculum
Vitae
Burlesque
The
Fantastic
Trimmer and Jenkins
The
Voice
of God Collective
Big Fights!
Blues
Collective
True
Love Collective
Voice
of the People
Belgium Blues Collective
Here Is The Blues!
Music with
Film
Music with
Words
Compositions &
Selected Works
Selected Solo
Concerts
Selected
Festivals
Other
Musical
Activities
Projects
as
sidesman
As
session guitarist
Other
Education work
Some thoughts
Own Radio
Shows
Selected
Radio & TV
Selected
Interviews
& Features
Born:
Charles William Jenkins
Known
as: Billy Jenkins
Place of
birth: Bromley, Kent, U.K.
Date of
birth: 5th July 1956
Main
instrument: Guitar
Musical
training:
Elementary
tuition under Elinor M. Isard LRAM age
9-11.
Also basic
piano (under Beth Cockett) & viola (under Leonard Davis)
age 11-12.
Chorister
at Bromley Parish Church under Michael
Baily FRCO,ARCM age 10-12.
Also
occasional invited choirs at Westminster
Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral.
Self taught
on guitar from age 12.
Performed
in local church halls, USAF Bases in East
Anglia, riverside pubs, local colleges and
clubs under various names 1970-72.
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Professional
Career (Own projects) :
Burlesque
1972-77.
Popular jazz-art-rock band. Over 700
performances in U.K., Eire, Finland,
Germany & Holland. London residencies
inc. The Speakeasy, The Marquee, The
Nashville & The Tramshed. Legendary
record label boss Clive Davis flew over
from the States especially to sign Billy
and Burleque to Arista Records.
'Acupuncture'
1977 Arista Records ARTY 151 LP
'Burlesque'
1977 Arista Records SPARTY 1028 LP
'Acupuncture'
1977 Arista Records ARISTA 87 45
The
Fantastic Trimmer and Jenkins
1979-82. A
'free jazz & jokes' alternative
musical comedy duo with Burlesque
co-leader & saxophonist Ian Trimmer.
Over 500 performances inc. Reading Rock
Festival, Rock On The Tyne, The Comic
Strip and London residencies inc. Marquee
Club, Star & Garter, Putney; The Cock,
Fulham and The Cartoon, Croydon.
'I Love
Parties' 1979 Charisma CB349 45
'Times Are
B.A.D.' 1980 Charisma CB362 45
'Live From
London's Fabulous Comic Strip' 1981
Charisma CLASS10 LP
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The
Voice of God Collective
1981-97.
'The Voice of The People is the Voice of
God - and the religion is music'. Sporadic
performances in jazz clubs and festivals
in U.K., Austria, Germany,
Belgium,Hungary, Holland, Finland, Canada,
France - esp. first four countries. London
residences inc. Thames Poly, South Bank
Uni, Jazz Café, The Vortex. Run on squad
system.
Regular
collaborators have inc. Iain Ballamy(sax),
Steve Watts(db), Mark Lockheart(sax), Mark
Ramsden(sax), Martin France(drm), Roy
Dodds(drm), Django Bates(kbd), Steve
Argüelles(drm), Dave Ramm(kbd), Thad
Kelly(db), Mike Pickering(drm), Huw Warren
(pno), Martin Speake(sax), Steve
Berry(db), The Funhorns of Berlin - Volker
Schlott (sax), Thomas Klemm (sax), Rainer
Brennecke (tpt) & Jörg Huke (tbne)
etc.
'Sounds
Like Bromley' 1981 Plymouth Sounds LBB1 LP
'Piano
Sketches 1973-84' 1984 Wood Wharf Records
WWR841 LP
'Beyond E
Major' 1985 Allmusic Records ALMS1 LP
'Greenwich'
1985 Wood Wharf Records WWR852 LP
'Uncommerciality
Vol.1' 1986 VOTP VOCA912 MC
'Scratches
of Spain' 1987 Babel BDV9404 CD
'In The
Nude' 1988 West Wind/ITM WW010 CD
'Motorway
At Night' 1988 DCM DCM108 LP
'Wiesen
'87' 1990 VOTP VOCA901 MC
'Jazz Café
Concerts Vol.1 1990 VOTP VOCA902 MC
'Jazz Café
Concerts Vol.2 1990 VOTP VOCA903 MC
'Round
Midnight Cowboy' 1990 VOTP VOCA905 MC
'Uncommerciality
Vol.2' 1992 VOTP VOCA913 MC
'Uncommerciality
Vol.3' 1992 VOTP VOCA914 MC
'Actual
Reality - Music For Two Cassette Machines
1992 VOTP
VOCA AR1 MC
'First
Aural Art Exhibition' 1992 VOTP VOCD 921
CD
'Entertainment
USA' 1994 Babel BDV 9401 CD
'Mayfest
'94' 1995 Babel BDV 9501 CD
'East And
West Now Wear The Same Vest'
1996 Babel
BDV 9601 CD
'Still
Sounds Like Bromley' 1997 Babel BDV 9717
CD
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Big
Fights!
1990 -
date. Improvised musical boxing matches
complete with referee, boxing ring and
timekeeper. Live premiere Crawley Outside
In Festival Sept. '91. Performance inc.
Wiesen Int. Jazz Fest, Linz (Austria),
Berlin, Gent, Nottingham, Marsden,
Manchester, Chester, Rostock, Monmouth,
Vortex Big Fight seasons & Dublin.
Fellow
fighters have inc. Roberto Bellatalla,
Thebi Lipere, Elton Dean, Steve Noble,
Steve Argüelles, Lol Coxhill, Michel
Massot, Deirdrie Cartwright, Alex Maguire,
Gail Brand, Paul Rutherford, Mark Sanders,
Louis Colan, Alan Tomlinson, Michael
Buckley, Mike Nielsen, Karl Ronan, Steve
Beresford, Gary Curzon, Liam Genockey,
Claude Deppa, Alan Wilkinson, John
Edwards, Jim Dvorak, Pat Thomas, Simon
Picard, Orphy Robinson, Rod 'Room
Darkener' Mason, Dave Ramm, Martin Speake,
Ken Marley, Martin 'Mad Dog' Jones, Lyndon
Owen, Dave Stapleton, Simon Pugsley, Paul
Hession a.o.
'Big
Fights No.1' Jenkins v. Steve
Argüelles 1991 VOTP VOCA908 MC
'Big
Fights No.2' Jenkins v. Steve
Noble 1991 VOTP VOCA909 MC
'Big
Fights No.3' Jenkins v. Thebe
Lipere 1991 VOTP VOCA910 MC
Blues
Collective
1995 -
date. Either a 'return to his roots' or a
mid life crisis. Occasional live
performances in Austria, Germany, Ireland,
Portugal and U.K. inc. Jazz Services tour
winter '97 and since '96 a regular seasons
during January and August at The Vortex,
London N16. Three summer seasons at Blue
Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, London SE5
2000 - 02 .
12 date
'Blues Zero Two' Jazz Services tour of
England Autumn '02.
Personnel -
Rick Bolton (gtr), Dylan Bates (vln), Thad
Kelly (bass), Mike Pickering (drm).
Other
contr. inc. Nigel Price (gtr), Phil Robson
(gtr), Doug Boyle (gtr), Jason Yarde
(sax), Whispering Gerry Tigue (Hrmca),
Steve Watts (bass), Roy Dodds, Mark
Sanders (drm).
'S.A.D.'
1997 Babel BDV 9615 CD
'sadtimes.co.uk'
2000 VOTP VOCA 002 CD
'LIFE'
2002 VOTP VOCA 023
'BLUES
ZERO TWO' 2002 VOTP VOCA 024
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True
Love Collective
1996 -
2001. Live premiere at QEH as part of the
Unknown Public Day Out September 1996.
"Invocations and improvisations on pop
covers from the '60's and '70's. Or, to
put another way, free improvisation and
pop songs. Simultaneously." Performances
also in Birmingham, Leicester, Leeds,
Frankfurt, Blackheath, Brawby &
Vortex, London. Personnel inc. Iain
Ballamy (sax), Django Bates (kbd), Dave
Ramm (kbd), Steve Watts (db), Mike
Pickering (drm), Martin France (drm). They
are joined on record by Christine Tobin
(voc).
'True Love
Collection' 1998 Babel BDV 9821 CD
Voice
of the People
1998 -
date. Taking over where the VOGC left off,
keeping the same personnel but unashamedly
reworking VOGC music. "By repeating
ourselves and looking back we'll be just
like nearly every other jazz band these
days!" Received National Lottery A4E funds
to record 'Suburbia' and implement new
'brand name'. UK tour and BBC R3 concert
broadcast early 2000 with nine piece band.
'Suburbia'
2000 Babel BDV 9926 CD
Belgium Blues Collective
2003 - 2004. Belgium based blues ensemble co-led with Antwerp guitarist
Mark Somers. Performances in Brugge, Leuven, Gent, Antwerp, Brussels,
Groningen and elsewhere.
Personnel inc. Bert Embrechts or Thad Kelly (bass), Cesar Jansens or
Marc Descamps (drms) Pieter van Bogaert or Niels Verheest ( organ) and
Sam Volmanns (tpt).
Here Is The Blues!
2004 - 2010. Guitar duo with bluesmeister Steve Morrison.
Selected performances inc. Oliver's, Greenwich; Brooks Blues Bar, Oval
Tavern, Croydon; Catford Broadway Studio Theatre, summer season 2005 at
Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, London SE5; two Vortex Chess
Sessions, London N16 in 2007; Festival de Blues da Guarda and also
Festival Internacional de Blues De Coimbra in Portugal 2008.
Music
with Film
1990 -
date. Improvisations to film with The
Shakedown Club and filmmaker David
Leister's Kino Club inc. Kino Club Nights
London SE1, Purcell Rooms, I.C.A., Lux
Cinema, Leeds Intermix 04 a.o.
Also
directed music for silent comedy &
cartoon classics Camden Parkway Cinema
'91-'92;
Buster
Keaton at Derby Metro '96
USA v. Iran
live football '98
Norman
McLaren & Keaton (score by Huw Warren)
& Lara Croft/Tombraider Birmingham MAC
'98;
Buster
Keaton at The Shed, N.Yorkshire '00 - '01
Keaton/Warren
NW England Autumn '03
Silent Film
Night w. Matthew Bourne, Joanna Macgregor
& Jan
Kopinski FUSELeeds '04
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Music
with Words
Bath
Literary Festival 'Entertainment USA' w.
Nick Moore, Mick Gower a.o. '95, 'Station
2 Station' w. Simon Ings & Nick Royle
'96, 'Bad Luck And Trouble' w. Kate
Pullinger '97.
Also
Swansea Literary Fest. 'Entertainment USA'
w. Nick Moore '95.
'Flesh
Guitar' by Geoff Nicolson 'Mixing It' BBC
R3 11.05.98
Performances
with writer Ben Watson London '98
Live at
The Shed, N.Yorkshire w. Ian McMillan '01
HAT w. Ian
McMillan, Andy Diagram & Angie
Harrison, York, Newcastle, Halifax, Union
Chapel & V&A Museum London '01-
date.
Edgar
Allan Poe with CJO, Liverpool, Halloween
'03.
CD
'What Jazz Can Do For Your Life'
(Waterline Music Splash 13) Jazz Circus
with Jazzman John Clarke 2009
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Compositions
Over 350
works registered with the Performing Right
Society and the MCPS since 1972. Most
pieces 1972-82 co-composed with Ian
Trimmer. Other occasional co-writers have
included Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren, Django
Bates, Steve Noble, Roberto Bellatalla
& Kit Packham.
Selected
works:
2nd
April '78 A Cup Of Tea
Actual
Reality (Music For Two Cassette Machines)
Ain't
Gonna Sing And Play No Jazz No More
An
Empty River
Arrival
of the Tourists
Badlands
Barcelona
Bedtime
Benidorm
Motorway Services
Big
Fights
Bilbao/St.
Columbus Day
Black
Magic
Blues
Is Calling Me
Blues
Zero Two
Carl
Stalling Meets The Fall
Charles
Manson
Clapham,
King's Cross, Lockerbie, Zeebrugge
(Music
For Proper Cello And Two Crap
Pianos)
Cliff
Richard Spoke To Me
Club
Re-Unification
Coke
Cans In Your Garden
Commerciality
Commutting
Consumerism
Cooking
Oil
Corner
Shop With Security Grill
Council
Offices
Country
and Western
Cuttlefish
Dancing
In Ornette Coleman’s Head
Discoboats
At 2 o’Clock
Donkey
Droppings
Doris
Day
Down
In The Deep Freeze
Dreadnought
Seaman’s Hospital
Dressing
Up For Church
Elvis
Presley
Expensive
Equipment
Get
The Poison Out
Girl
Getting Knocked Over
Gogenspiel
Gonna
Throw Them Blues In The Recycling
Bin
Greenwich
One Way System
Growing
Up In Bromley
Hat
(Music For Viola, Guitar & Sampled
Cornet)
Heavy
Metal
Hello,
I’m Your Next Door Neighbour
High
Street/Part Pedestrianised
High
Street/Saturday
I
Like Rain
I
Love Your Smell
Isn’t
It A Great World We Live In
I
Wanna Be Connected
I
Want My Tea
Jazz
Had A Baby (And They Called It Avant
Garde)
Jenny
Slade Meets Robert Johnson
Johnny
Cash
Laban
Dance School Early Morning
Like
John Lee Said
Marching
Into Middle Age
Margaret’s
Menstrual Problem
McDonalds
Meridian
Council Estate (Vandalise Tourists’
Property, Not Residents’)
Monkey
Men
Motorway
At Night
My
Waters Run Clear
Old
Men In Flairs
Oliver
North
Pissed
Off Boy
Pointless
Adornments
Rock
and Roll
Ronald
Reagan
Rope
Sade's
Lips
sadtimes.co.uk
Silence
Stalks The Sleeping Streets
Slimming
Advert
Spastics
Dancing
Suburbia
(A Place To Come From)
Sunday
Morning
Tall
Straight Back Chair
The
Blues
The
Blues Prayer
The
Drum Machine Plays The Battlemarch Of
Consumerism
(Music
For Six Drumkits)
The
Duke And Me
The
Perfect Lawn
The
Rust On The Screws Of The Churchill
Theatre
The
Spanking Solo
There
Is No Lord Up There
They
Built A Ring Road In My Garden
This
Is A Day To Forget
We
Don't Live There (Anymore)
When
The Gig Is Over (commissioned by the
gogmagogs)
with Ian Trimmer (Burlesque
& Trimmer and Jenkins a.o.):
10%/15%
Acupuncture
And
We Love It
Bhopal
Bizz-Fizz
Brilliant
CND
‘63
Cold
War Romance
Drabola
Elsie
Petunia
Every
Night You Turn Away
Fat
People
Going
Dutch
Happy
Hearts
Hymie
Blows It
I
Got Me (Babe)
I
Love Parties
I've
Just Had A Heart Attack
Jazz
And Poetry
Jerkin’
Lana
Turner
Love
It To Death
One
Leg Is Better Than None
Parking
Meters
Pharoah
Sanders
Rochdale
Steel
Appeal
Space
Age Blues
Take
It Out On The People
Thank
You Lord
The
Perfect Nation
The
World Is Fantastic
Time
Are B.A.D.
Wheelchair
Dance Festival
Where
Are You?
Where
Did You Get It
Winsome
Losesome
You’re
The Girl I Wanna Be With (When The Bomb
Goes Off)
with Roberto Bellatalla &
Steve Noble (The Shakedown Club):
1
in 4
5
am Shuffle
Alone
Again
Breakout
Crazy
Dog
Drive
Through
Engaging
Flathead
Social Dance
Jumpin’
Last
Stand
Never
Before Never Again
Night
Chant
Reckless
Solid
State Retro Boogie
Tender
Is The Night
The
Declining Use Of Reckless Grooves
Tumble
Shakedown
Wake
Up
with Kit Packham (One Jump
Ahead)
Cleaning
Up My Act
Fried
Bananas
Junk
Mail
Talk,
Talk, Talk
Tarmac
Jack
The
Big Swinging Dick
The
Simple Things In Life
We
Don’t Normally Work This Cheap
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Selected
Solo Concerts
Stadgarden,
Cologne 24.03.88
Bochum
Jazz Fest 26.03.88
Shaw
Theatre, London 08.03.90
Sopron
University, Hungary 14.04.92
Wiesen,
Austria 18.04.92
Outside In
Festival, Crawley 06.09.93
WABE Arts
Centre, Berlin 17.09.94
Purcell
Rooms, London 01.04.95
Nottingham
Guitar Festival 25.06.95
Porgy
& Bess, Vienna 17.09.95
MAC,
Birmingham 05.10.95
Museum of
Modern Art, Palais Lieshtenstein, Vienna
16.10.98
Wardrobe,
Leeds 01.09.99
South
London Gallery 23.11.00
Brecon
Jazz Festival, Wales 11.08.01
Unity
Theatre, Liverpool 17.05.02
RNCM,
Manchester Jazz Week 27.09.02
Everyman
Theatre, Cheltenham 05.05.03
Gregson
Institute, Lancaster 19.09.03
Museum of
Garden Design, London 05.11.04
Bowen West
Theatre, Bedford 03.02.05
BANG 06,
Bangor, N.Ireland 01.04.06
Glasgow
Jazz Festival 01.07.07
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Selected
Festivals
Windsor
Free Festival 26.08.74
Reading
Rock Festival 23.08.80
Blackheath
Arts 16.05.81
Glastonbury
19.06.81
Druidstone,
Wales 03.07.81
Elephant
Fayre, Plymouth 31.07.81
Rock At
The Bowl, Milton Keynes 08.08.81
Rock On
The Tyne, Newcastle 30.08.81
South
Wales Music Festival, Blackwood 29.05.82
Druidstone,
Wales 03.07.82
Third
Planet Festival, Cambridge 07.08.82
Greenwich
02.06.86
Bracknell
Jazz Festival 05.07.86
Bracknell
Jazz Festival 04.07.87
Wiesen,
Austria 05.07.87
Bochum
Jazz, Germany 26.03.88
Jazz Sous
Les Pommiers, Coutances, France 13.05.88
Scene On
The Green, London 26.06.88
St. Albans
15.07.88
Outside
In, Crawley 02.09.88
Bradford
Jazz Festival 23.09.88
Scene On
The Green, London 24.06.90
Outside
In, Crawley 01.09.90
Major
Music, Gent, Belgium 08.02.91
Camden
Jazz, London 10.03.91
Wiesen,
Austria 06.07.91
Ostend
Fest, Belgium 13.08.91
Outside
In, Crawley 01.09.91
Major
Music, Ghent, Belguim 08.12.91
Mainz,
Germany 25.01.92
Camden
Jazz, London 15.03.92
Tall Ships
Festival, Newcastle 06.06.92
Wiesen,
Austria 11.07.92
Stralsund,
Germany 17.07.92
Salzburg
World Music Fest, Austria 20.10.92
Montreal,
Canada 07+ 08.07.93
Glasgow
Jazz Festival 11.07.93
Newcastle
Jazz Fest 12.07.93
Outside
In, Crawley 05.09.93
Sardinia
29.12.93
Mayfest,
Glasgow 12.05.94
London
Jazz Festival 15.05.94
Bracknell
Music Festival 03.07.94
Wiesen
International Jazz Fest, Austria 09.07.94
Glasgow
Jazz Fest 10.07.94
Deptford
Urban Free Festival, London 30.07.94
Jazz
Happening, Tampere, Finland 05.11.94
Salzburg,
Austria 18.03.95
Nottingham
Guitar Festival 24+25.06.95
Raahe,
Finland 29.07.95
Brecon
Jazz Festival 11.08.95
South
Netherlands Jazz Fest, Eindhoven 22.10.95
Belfast
Jazz Festival at Queens 16.11.95
Nurnburg
East West, Germany 19.05.96
Wiesen,
Austria 05.07.96
People's
Day, Lewisham, London 13.07.96
Edinburgh
Fringe Festival 20-25.08.96
Unknown
Public Day, QEH, London 28.09.96
Babel
Festival, BCH, London 10-12.01.97
Frankfurt,
Germany 06.06.97
Brussels,
Belgium 11.07.97
London
Beer Fest, Olympia 09.08.97
Edinburgh
Fringe Festival 14-24.08.97
Neubrandenburg,
Germany 21.03.98
Friberg
Jazz Fest, Germany 24.04.98
Ilmenau,
Germany 25.04.98
London
Beer Fest 08.08.98
Lucerne,
Switzland 22.08.98
Gronigen
Bicycle Fest, Holland 29.08.98
Babel
Festival, London 23-25.02.99
Camden
Beer Fest 26.03.99
Marsden
Jazz Festival 09-10.10.99
National
Music Day, Newcastle 29.05.00
Artsfest,
Birmingham 10.09.00
Lancaster
Jazz Festival 24.09.00
Marsden
Jazz Festival 14+15.10.00
Nurnburg
East West, Germany 03.11.00
Cheltenham
Jazz 06.05.01
Bath
International Jazz Festival 27.05.01
Brecon
Jazz Festival 11.08.01
Coventry
Jazz Festival 27.08.01
Artsfest,
Birmingham 15.09.01
Dublin
Guiness Jazz Festival 22.09.01
Cambridge
Beer Festival 05.01.02
Cheltenham
Jazz 06.05.02
Lewisham
People's Day, London 13.07.02
Seven
Dials Street Festival, London
07.09.02
Hartlepool
Jazz Festival 27.10.02
Halesworth
Arts Festival 02.11.02
Ear
We Are, Biel, Switzerland 08.02.03
Coimbra
Blues Festival, Portugal 20.03.03
Norwich
Arts Festival 30.04.03
Cheltenham
Jazz 05.05.03
Royal
Bank Glasgow Jazz Festival 07.07.03
Lancaster
Jazz Festival 19.09.03
Dublin
Fringe Festival 27.09.03
FUSE
04, Leeds 5+6.03.04
MADD
Fest, Faringdon, Oxon 01.05.04
Lewisham
People's Day, London 10.07.04
Ealing
Blues 'n' Roots Festival 24.07.04
Fonnefeesten,
Lokeren, Belgium 05.08.04
Greenwich
Riverfront Jazz, London 18.09.04
LMC Guitar
Festival 05.11.04
Berlin
Jazz Festival 07.11.04
London
Jazz Festival 21.11.04
Spitz
Festival of the Blues, London 19.04.05
Lewisham
People's Day, London 10.07.05
Hackney
Spice Festival 16.07.05
Brecon
Jazz Festival 14.08.05
Greenwich
Riverfront Jazz, London 23.09.05
London
Jazz Festival 20.11.05
Atlantic
Waves, London 23.11.05
Gateshead
International Jazz Fest 18+19.03.06
Redbridge
Book & Media, London 08.04.06
Cheltenham
Jazz 01.05.06
Wiesen,
Austria 22.07.06
London
Jazz Festival 12.11.06
Gateshead
International Jazz Fest 17+18.03.07
Llangollen
Jazz Festival 11.05.07
Glasgow
Jazz Festival 30.06 + 01.07.07
Margate
Big Sky Jazz Fest 15.07.07
Edinburgh
Jazz Festival 03 + 04.08.07
Edinburgh
Fringe Festival 06 - 12.08.07
Belfast
Festival At Queen's 01.11.07
Festival
de Blues da Guarda, Portugal 13.03.08
Festival
Internacional de Blues De Coimbra,
Portugal 14.03.08
Jazzahead!,
Bremen, Germany 20.04.08
Bath
International Jazz Festival 25.05.08
Glasgow
Jazz Festival 28.06.08
Cambridge
Folk Festival 03.08.08
Brechin
Arts Festival 14.09.08
dOeK
Festival of Improvised Music, Amsterdam
20.12.08
Celtic
Connections, Glasgow 17.01.09
Orkney
Folk Festival 22 - 24.05.09
Brockley
MAX 06.06.09
Devizes
Festival Fringe 21.06.09
LaStrada
Street & Puppet Festival, Graz,
Austria 04 - 08.08.09
Rhythm
Festival, Bedfordshire 21.08.09
Brockley
MAX 05.06.10
London
Jazz Festival 21.11.10
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Other
Musical Activities
Guest
Music Director for Large Ensemble Project,
Vooruit Arts Centre, Gent, Belgium
February '92.
Guest
Music Director with Creative Jazz
Orchestra May '93.
Guest
Music Director for 'London Meets Vienna'
Big Band project, Vienna September '95.
Ten day tour of Holland with THE BIZZ - (baritone sax, E flat clarinet, bombarde, vocals) and (african percussion and home made junk, vocals) October 1995.
Team
Captain for 'Whose Solo Is It Anyway' -
music improv comedy show w. Tom Bancroft,
John Rae, Tommy Smith, Claude Deppa, Laura
MacDonald, Will Gaines, Joost Huis, Rick
Taylor a.o. Famous Grouse House at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival '96-'97.
Composer
& performer with The Gogmagogs w.
Keith Tippett, Said Murad & Errolyn
Wallen - 'thegogmagogs a'go-go' Purcell
Room Nov. '97.
Special
guest guitarist with London Electric
Guitar Orchestra (LEGO) UK tour '97-'98.
Member of
Tom Bancroft's award winning 'Kidsamonium'
since 2006.
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Projects
as sidesman
Ginger
Baker
1981.Several
European Tours inc. Spain, Italy, France,
Austria, Yugoslavia and and Festivals inc
Rennes, Rock On The Tyne, Glastonbury.
'Ginger
Baker In Concert' 1987 Onsala ONS2 LP
Blue
Moon In A Function Room
1990 - 96.
Occasional surreal function band led by
drummer Steve Argüelles.
'Blue Moon
In A Function Room' 1994 Babel BDV 9402 CD
The
Shakedown Club
1990 -
date. Improvising trio led by drummer
Steve Noble with Roberto Bellatalla (db).
Performances in jazz clubs and festivals
in Austria, Italy, Sardinia, Switzerland
& UK inc. Arts Council of England tour
'92. Sometimes improvises to films with
film maker David Leister's Kino Club.
'¡Tumba La
Casa!' 1990 VOTP VOCA 907 MC
'Tumble
Shakedown' 1990 VOTP VOCA 911 MC
'The
Shakedown Club' 1994 Babel BDV 9403 CD
Kit
Packham's One Jump Ahead
1996 -
2000. Regular private and public
performances with this popular (est.1984)
South London jump jive blues & jazz
outfit. "Packham's Gymnasium. Keeps me
match fit for my own shows." 2 CD's as
guitarist and producer.
'From Top
To Toe' 1999 Pelican Records PEL CD 199 CD
'Jumpin'
On The Bandwagon' 2001 Pelican Records PEL
CD 201 CD
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As
session guitarist
1981 -
date. Television work for Jasper Carrot,
Rory Bremner, 'Jim'll Fix It' &
various children's programmes for BBC TV
& Radio 4.
Jingles
for Ariston, Double Decker chocolates,
Taunton's Cider, Disney World, Johnson's
Baby Powder, Coca Cola, MasterCard,
Domino's Pizza, Persil and others.
Various
bands inc. Splodgenessabounds, One The
Juggler, Transglobal Underground, Alabama
3, True Life Confessions, Duchess &
The Dukes, Chris Jagger's 'Atcha', Brian
Irvine, Andrew Plummer's World Sanguine
Report, The Equators and others.
Other
Since 1972
has always worked sporadically doing
function work, private parties, hotels,
weddings, dances & social clubs in
various outfits like The Jet Set, The
Oxcentrics, The Jazz Angels, Home Counties
Wedding Band, Honkin' Hep Cats etc.
Member of
Arts Council of England Recording Subsidy
panel 1992.
Member of
Arts Council of England Improvised Touring
panel 1993 - 98.
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Education
Work
Sporadic
private tutoring 1980 - date.
Lewisham
F.E. College Music Course. Visiting tutor
in guitar techniques 1990-96.
Royal
Academy Jazz Course. Guest Lecturer
Sept.'95.
Middlesex
University Music Course. Guest ensemble
Big Band director March '96.
International
Summeracademy Freie Kunstschule, Berlin.
Ensemble Masterclasses July '97.
Moving On
Music Workshops w. Andy Sheppard, Paul
Clavis & Ernst Reisjeger Belfast Sept.
'99.
Greenwich
& Lewisham Youth Jazz Orchestra. Guest
Director Feb. 2000
Pied Piper
Improv. workshops N. Yorkshire March '01.
Bromley
Schools Blues Projects 2001+ 2004.
NDAI,
Bangor Music Course, N.Ireland.
Visting Artist Sept. 2001+ 06
Trinity
College of Music. Visiting Artist and
ensemble director on Jazz Faculty 2001 -
02.
Royal
Academy of Music. Visiting Artist 2002 -
09.
Coleg
Menai, Bangor, N.Wales. Visiting Artist,
June 2007
DISTIL
England December '07. Workshop leader w.
Karen Wimhurst & Hossam Ramzy.
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Some
thoughts
All music
is music.
Labelling
of music fuels divisions in society.
The drum
machine plays the battle march of
consumerism.
You've got
to play straight to really play wonky.
It's very
important to play to people who don't
understand music or have rarely been
exposed to proper musicians. I find it
more avant-garde going nuts and bringing
the house down during a straight gig than
working so the so called 'avant-garde'
European scene, where everybody's playing
'weird'. But if everybody's playing weird
- where is the opposition?
Noise in
our world is so prevalent today, it is not
easy for a person to give their full
attention to the sound emanating from a
living musician. Unsurprising then, that
for inspiration (with the skilled noise
makers being drowned out), I personally
find it in non musical forms, like the
visual arts and sport - especially the
glorious kineticism of motor sport. At
least there is passion in sport. The
educators have removed that from jazz -
supposedly the one true art form for
creativity and expression. We need
creators - not curators.
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Own Radio Shows
Devised,
researched, presented, engineered and
produced sixteen live one hour shows
entitled 'Richard Ward's Reward'
for Resonance 107.3FM, a 28 day
radio art and music station broadcasting
from the Royal Festival Hall across
central London as part of John Peel's
Meltdown 98. The station was on air from
9th June - 5th July 1998.
Devised,
researched, presented, and produced 48
live two hour weekly shows entitled 'One
Way Single Parent Family Favourites' for
Resonance 104.4FM from May 2002 to May
'03.
Guests
interviewed by Billy included:
Musicians
Steve Arguelles, Caroline Kraabel, Steve
Noble, Sharon Gal,
Steve
Beresford, Paul Hood, Charles Hayward,
Gail Brand, Dylan Bates, Viv Corringham,
Charlie Hart, Hamish Birchall, Sarah
Washington, Dave Ramm & Ashley Slater
Composers
Errolyn Wallen, Knut Aufermann
Singer
and BBC R3 presenter Claire Martin
Berlin
arts administrator Wolf-Peter
Stiftel
Urban
cultural consultant Elaine Wood
Comedians
Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery - The League
Against Tedium
&
musical comedian Steve Gribbin
Theatre
director Lucy Bailey
Art
inventor Simon Thackray
Guardian
writer John L. Walters
Rock
journalist & BBC R2 presenter David
Quantick
The
Man With The World's Worst Record
Collection - Pete Sargeant.
Musician's
Union General Secretary candidate Chris
Hodgkins
Film
maker David Leister
Novelist
Mel Wright
Music
Enthusiast Phil Saward
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Selected
Radio & TV interviews and sessions
24.08.76
In Concert Radio Bavaria
26.08.76
News Bavaria TV3
21.03.77
Plattenküche WDR TV
29.08.77
Piep Ponskaat Show Netherlands Radio
23.12.77
Track Record Radio London
06.06.80
Today BBC R4
05.06.81
London Live LBC Radio
07.06.81
World This Weekend BBC R4
16.06.81
Nationwide BBC TV1
16.06.81
Newsbeat BBC R1
13.11.81
London Tonight Capital Radio
02.08.82
Newsbeat BBC R1
11.08.83
Book 'Em And Risk It CH4 TV
04.11.83
Thank God It's Friday Capital Radio
29.10.84
Round Midnight BBC R2
03.11.84
Saturday Live BBC R1
04.05.85
Saturday Live BBC R1
21.11.85
The Way It Is Capital Radio
23.11.85
A.M. LBC Radio
02.03.90
London Tonight LWT TV
24.03.91
Steve Allen Show LBC Radio
15.04.92
Jazz Programme Radio ORF Austria
17.04.92
Whats On In Wien Blue Danube Radio Vienna
24.05.92
Jazz Show BBC Radio Northern Network
11.07.92
Jazz Programme Radio ORF Austria
01.02.93
Mixing It BBC R3
03.03.95
The Arts Programme BBC R2
06.08.95
Mark Lamaar Show GLR
15.09.95
JazzProgramme Radio ORF Austria
16.09.95
Arts programme Blue Danube Radio, Vienna
28.02.96
David Freeman Show Jazz FM
19.05.96
In Concert Radio Bavaria
24.05.96
Alive In London Virgin Radio
25.06.96
Striking Chords BBC R4
22.08.96
Usual Suspects BBC Radio Scotland
19.10.96
Jazz On 3 BBC R3
06.06.97
In Concert HR3 TV Frankfurt
24.09.97
Afternoon Shift BBC R4
06.10.97
Jazzamatazz BBC World Service
01.04.98
Jazz 606 BBC TV2
11.05.98
Mixing It BBC R3
31.10.98
Jazz On 3 BBC R3
03.04.99
Loose Ends BBC R4
25.03.00
Jazz On 3 BBC R3
29.05.00
National Music Day BBC Radio Newcastle
29.05.00
National Music Day BBC TV Northern Network
27.01.01
Mixing It BBC R3
17.03.01
Entertainment Zone BBC London Live Radio
27.07.01
Mel & Sue Show BBC London Live Radio
18.08.01
Paul Jones Show Jazz FM
20.11.01
Front Row BBC R4
22.11.01
Look North BBC TV 1
26.01.02
Mel & Sue Show BBC London Live Radio
03.08.02
Loose Ends BBC R4
11.08.02
Mel & Sue Show BBC London Live Radio
30.04.03
Tony Merrion BBC Radio Norfolk
08.07.03
When Celebrities Attract SKY One TV
07.10.04
Dales Diary Tyne Tees/Yorkshire TV
20.11.04
Jazz Line Up BBC R3
08.01.05
Berlin Jazz Fest concert kulturradio des
RBB Berlin
12.03.05
Jazz Line Up BBC R3
10.05.05
Billy Jenkins Special Eikellegimaa
Vikkerraadio Estonia
09.06.05
Jules & Julia Shed Special BBC Radio
York
01.07.05
The Late Show BBC Radio London
16.11.05
The Late Show BBC Radio London
06.10.06
Jazz on 3 BBC R3
14.07.07
Jazz Line Up BBC R3
15.09.07
theJazz Jury theJazz
DAB Digital Radio
15-26.10.07
Jazz/World & Blues Show
MusFlash TV
01.11.07
Alan Simpson Show BBC Radio Ulster
24.02.10
Midweek BBC R4
03.05.10
Robert Elms Show BBC Radio London
10.05.10
Jazz on 3 BBC R3
30.1.11
Jazz Line Up BBC R3
25.4.11
Arthur Smith's Balham Bash BBC R4
Extra
25.5.11
Arthur Smith's Balham Bash BBC R4
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Selected
Interviews & Features
Philip
England
'The
War Of Jenkins' Ears'
The
Independent 8.1.88
Mark
Sinker
'The
War Of Jenkins' Ear'
Wire
Magazine issue 49 Mar. '88 pp.28-30
Ken
Worpole
'Boiling
Billy'
Marxism
Today Nov. '90 p.35
Chris
Parker
'The
Voice Of Billy Jenkins'
Jazz
Forum #362026 3-4/92 (June-Aug) pp.14-15
Phil
Watson
Invisible
Jukebox
Wire
Magazine issue 105 Nov.'92 pp.42,43,73.
Stephen
Graham
'The
Voice Of God Has Spoken'
Jazz
Express issue 147 Nov.'92 p.17
Keith
Bruce
'Promise
Of A Fiery Finish To Jazz Festival'.
Glasgow
Herald 8.7.93
Stephen
Graham
'Smoochy,
Ersatz, Repetitious'
The
Independent 15.3.96 p.10 Section Two
Dave
Gelly
'Hit
Records? That's The Last Thing A Proper
Musician Wants'.
The
Observer 12.1.97. p.13. Review section
Lisa
Gee
'Get
Rid Of The Goatee'
The
Guardian 25.7.97 p.23
Stephen
Graham
'Seconds
Out'
JazzWise
issue 5 Sept.'97 p.20
Stewart
Lee
'Covering
His Tracks'
Sunday
Times 31.5.98 pp.11-12 Culture Section
Richard
Cook
'Bromley
Blues'
New
Statesman 31.1.2000 pp.45-46
Ronald
Atkins
'Born
Again Blueser'
Jazz
UK Issue 31 Jan/Feb 2000 pp.front cover,
6-7
Trevor
Hodgett
'Billy's
Blues'
Blueprint
Issue 32/Vol 2 Feb.2000 pp. 8-11
Rick
Batey
'Dangerous
Manoeuvres'
Guitar
Christmas 2000 pp. 48-51
Mark
Gilbert
'The
Test'
Jazz
Review July 2002 pp.14-15
Mark
Walker
'Welcome
To The Machine'
Rhythm
August 2002 pp 20-22
Pete
Sargeant
'Rolling
The Dice'
Blues
Matters Issue 10 Sept/Oct 2002 pp.
26-28
Iain
Ballamy
'In
The Saxophonist's Chair'
Jazz
UK Issue 48 Nov/Dec 2002 p.20
Zoe
Walker
'Buffing
Up His Blues Suede Shoes'
South
London Press 13.05.05 The Pulse p.7
Michael
Heatley
'Crown
Green Blues
Guitar
& Bass August 2005 pp 70-71
Mike
Flynn
'Bowled
Over'
Jazzwise
October 2007 p.9
Marcus
O'Dair
'Rev
Billy Still Got The Jack 32 Albums In'
Stool
Pigeon October 2007
Mike
Flynn
'You've
Gotta Bowl With It'
Time
Out 03.10.07 p.98
Zoe
Walker
'Bowled
Over By The Blues'
South
London Press 26.10.07 The
Pulse pp 4-5
Trevor
Hodgett
'Hard
Graft Playing Subversive Blues'
The
Irish News 30.10.07 p.21
Phil
Crossey
'Jazz
Genius Merged With Absolute Lunacy'
Belfast
News Letter 01.11.07 p.46
Iain
Ballamy
'In
The Saxophonist's Chair'
Jazz
UK Issue 91Feb/Mar 2010 p.35
Keith
Bruce
'Jazz
is a verb for versatile Mr Jenkins...'
Glasgow
Herald 08.04.10
MIke
Hobart
'Billy
Jenkins' Suburban Blues'
Financial
Times 'Life & Arts'
13.11.10 p.9
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