The Future Direction
Changes in the city and Nu Century’s own growth presents the company with new opportunities to develop; evaluating its beginnings and considering what future roles it should play.
Location
The Drum144 Potters Lane
Aston
Birmingham
West Midlands
B6 4UU
Times
Saturday
18th Feb. 2012
20:00PM - 23:00PM
FEMI TOMOWO
“The British Nigerian surely has an original guitar approach, marking him out as a new guitar star having absorbed his influences and come up with something new”.
Jazzwise magazine
He is now become an integral part of the homegrown music scene, who can lay claim to working alongside the industrys brightest talents, not just as a guitarist, but also as a composer and producer.
From acting as Music Director to soul songstress Amy Winehouse on her live tour, to working with the likes of Omar, The Roots, Soweto Kinch, Eska Mtungwazi and Brotherly, he has led an illustrious and varied professional career. Driven by a keen sense of self-determination, Temowo established his own independent record label Femitone Music in 2005, which saw the release of his debut album Quiet Storm a year later.
Heralded by the UK music press, the record included collaborations with performance poet Zena Edwards and emerging vocalist Anna Omak. Temowos zest for jazz in all its manifestations has paid off handsomely and he now teaches at some of the Capitals leading institutions, passing on his knowledge and experience to aspiring musicians. The future for Temowo is peppered with fruitful collaborations between artists old and new, with the shared aspiration of enticing a wider audience to the jazz world: "One of the reasons why were not reaching some people Temowo says, is because they just don't hear a station whose sole mandate it is to represent jazz music.
The genre needs a public identity, a station that plays Coltrane at three o'clock in the afternoon. Or plays Miles, whether its day or night. That's going to play all the young jazz, coming out of this country.