{"id":423,"date":"2025-02-17T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:33:43","slug":"music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/?page_id=423","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"423\" class=\"elementor elementor-423\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46a5d1a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"46a5d1a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7fae712 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7fae712\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>After classical training on the clarinet at school I spent much of my time at university pretending to be a jazz musician on tenor sax. After some years abroad I picked up the tenor again and continued to work at being a jazz musician playing in various function bands.<\/p><p>These days I am mostly involved in various forms of free improvisation playing clarinet, bass clarinet and alto sax. I play regularly with Oxford Improvisers in Oxford and London. Oxford Improvisers is a collective of experienced musicians from all avenues of music dedicated to the investigation and performance of free improvisation. I also work regularly with dancers in Oxford and beyond.\u00a0 I regularly take part in one-off concerts\u00a0 both as an improviser and as a performer of more composed work. For the past few years there has been an annual concert with AZUT, a quartet dedicated to French music with a twist.<\/p><p>I have recorded CDs with Philipp Wachsmann, Bruno Guastalla and Malcolm Atkins plus numerous appearances as guest musician.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After classical training on the clarinet at school I spent much of my time at university pretending to be a jazz musician on tenor sax. After some years abroad I picked up the tenor again and continued to work at being a jazz musician playing in various function bands. These days I am mostly involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"parent":66,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_theme","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-423","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions\/574"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmedley.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}