In origine non era previsto, ma date le circostanze qualcosa del Westbrook Blake verrà citato all'interno del William Blake Remixed proposto questa sera al City Varieties Music Hall di Leeds (Regno Unito) da Matthew Bourne e Testament, e con loro Corinne Bailey Rae and Far Cry Acapella.

The visionary world of William Blake relives like never before in this electrifying live performance with rapper, beatboxer and playwright Testament and genre-defying pianist Matthew Bourne celebrating the enduring power of Blake’s work to provoke, inspire, and transform. William Blake Remixed blends spoken word, experimental music, and visuals to reimagine Blake’s radical poetry through the lens of hip-hop, jazz, and digital art. This unique collaboration explores themes of revolution, identity, and creative resistance, bridging 18th-century mysticism with 21st-century sound and vision.  

https://leedsheritagetheatres.com/william-blake-remixed-2026

Le toccanti parole pronunciate da Richard Williams in omaggio a Mike Westbrook durante il funerale della scorsa settimana a Exeter sono ora riportate per intero al suo blog The Blue Moment: "I wouldn’t want to slight any other musician, from any era, when I say that Mike’s place as the pre-eminent composer and bandleader of British jazz is hard to dispute. As is his role in enabling jazz made outside America to establish its right to an independent existence. Most important of all, everything he did was based on a recognition that when a jazz group is working properly, it becomes a model for a decent society: a vehicle for individual expression in full and unselfish collaboration with others. How lucky we were to have him."

E un omaggio a Westbrook lo offrirà questa sera Chris Biscoe, amico e collaboratore in innumerevoli progetti nel corso di lunghi decenni, nonché uno dei suoi più fidi interpreti. In concerto a Stratford upon Avon (Regno Unito) in quintetto con Alcyona Mick, Mike Outram, Dave Whitford e Gary Willcox: Music Is - Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook.

https://thebluemoment.com/a-farewell-to-mike-westbrook https://www.facebook.com/ChrisBiscoe.Jazz
https://chrisbiscoe.bandcamp.com/music-is
https://rotherstreetarts.org/shows/may-jazz-club

Lo scorso 6 maggio, nel giorno del funerale di Mike Westbrook, il canale televisivo BBC Four ha trasmesso il lavoro del celebre drammaturgo e sceneggiatore britannico Stephen Poliakoff Caught On A Train, per la cui colonna sonora compose le musiche originali appunto Westbrook. Ne ha accompagnato la visione uno speciale contributo ora pubblicato anche sul web: Stephen Poliakoff Remembers… Caught On A Train. Il film, diretto da Peter Duffell e prodotto nel 1980 da Kenith Trodd, è disponibile da qualche tempo anche in dvd.

https://www.westbrookjazz.co.uk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w1t6
https://www.stephenpoliakoff.com/caught-on-a-train