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Ian Wright's Everyday People

Changing Lives With Music

Ian Wright's Everyday People

Sony Music

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Society & Culture

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Meet Gary Crosby and Janine Irons, a couple mentoring the artists of the future. Together they founded Tomorrow’s Warriors, an organisation devoted to nurturing aspiring jazz musicians.  Over the past three decades, they’ve supported thousands of artists on their journey to becoming professional musicians - never once charging a penny for their time or expertise. Today their alumni are some of the most exciting names in British Jazz. To learn more about Tomorrow’s Warriors and to support the work they do in the community head to www.tomorrowswarriors.org/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something else.

0:03.0

My guest this week are Gary Crosby and Janine Irons, a power couple in the world of British jazz.

0:19.0

Together they set up tomorrow's warriors and have spent the last 30 years nurturing thousands of musicians

0:24.6

never once charging a penny for their time or expertise.

0:28.6

We get this idea and we're trying to expand on it.

0:31.6

But all the time we're having to entertain

0:35.6

this format that keeps going round,

0:38.3

you're trying to find where you can stretch it,

0:41.3

expand it a bit, make it prettier, make it slower.

0:44.3

It's genius how they do it.

0:46.3

Because they're improvising all the time.

0:48.3

It's all in the moment.

0:50.3

You know, it's all in the moment.

0:51.3

You know, when it works, it's, as Mars David said,

0:55.0

it's the best thing you've ever done with your clothes on.

0:59.0

In some circles, Gary is known as the Godfather of British Jazz.

1:03.0

And what made this double bassist and band leader take time away from his own career

1:07.0

to mentor the artists of the future?

1:09.0

And how did that decision influence the sounds we listen to today?

1:13.3

I'm Ian Wright.

1:14.2

From something else, this is everyday people.

1:21.7

I got a gig with Courtney Pyne Pynne back in the 80s,

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