Curriculum Vitae
Burlesque
The
Fantastic Trimmer and Jenkins
The
Voice of God Collective
BIg Fights!
Blues
Collective
True
Love Collective
Voice
of the People
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
Billy Jenkins is an Accredited
Humanist Officiant approved by the
British Humanist Association
to conduct non religious funerals.
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 & viola 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
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
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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.
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 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 - 06.
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
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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
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