Oxjam, Oxfam’s celebration of live music, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The festival, which takes place at venues all over the country during October each year, has come a long way since Fatboy Slim launched the first Oxjam in 2006.
The Bedford Oxfam is no stranger to hosting an Oxjam event, with a highly successful Kate Bush vinyl day in 2014. This year, the theme is Jazz and, again, we will be playing Jazz vinyl all day in the shop on Saturday 8th October from 11am. Vinyl volunteer, Rowland Cleverley, will once again be getting out his audio set-up – Dual Deck, Denon amp and Pioneer speakers – that he specially keeps for such occasions.
On the deck during the day will be Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, Waltz For Debby by the Bill Evans Trio, and Newport 61 by John Coltrane besides other memorable Jazz albums. All will be available for sale after being played.
Highlight of the day, though, will be a collection of local Jazz vinyl, including records by Terry Lightfoot, Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine, including an album, Octavius, signed by John Dankworth himself.
Also on sale will be vinyl by Panama Francis, Don Cherry, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Jimmie Lunceford, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and many, many more with an estimated 60 plus Jazz records for sale on the day. And if this isn’t enough, we will also have a large selection of excellent Jazz CDs, sheet music and books. Add to this our usual offering of over 300 records, over 200 CDs and a shop-full of books and it all adds up to a fantastic day to visit the shop.
The event is free and the shop opens at 9.15am. Just turn up and tune in at Oxjam at Oxfam Books & Music in Bedford.
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Oxfam Books & Music, 16 St Paul’s Square, Bedford. MK40 1SL
More details about Oxjam at www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam
