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The Old Duke. / 51.4521; -2.5932. The Old Duke is a jazz and blues venue and pub in the English city of Bristol. Live music is played every night of the week, admission is free and it hosts an annual Jazz Festival. The pub's name is a reference to the classic American jazz musician Duke Ellington, though the pub has actually held the same (or ...
Trip hop is a musical genre that originated in the late 1980s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. [3] It has been described as a psychedelic fusion of hip hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound, [4] [5] [6] often incorporating elements of jazz, soul, funk, reggae, dub, R&B, and other genres, typically of electronic music, as well as sampling from movie soundtracks ...
Beth Gibbons: Singer and songwriter (born 1965, Exeter, England). She moved to Bristol at the age of 22 and is best known as the vocalist of Portishead. Glaxo Babies: Post-punk group (1977–1980 and 1985–1990). They released four singles and four albums, and recorded two sessions for the BBC's John Peel.
Roger Webb. Roger Webb (7 April 1934 – 19 December 2002) was a British jazz pianist and composer best known for leading the Roger Webb Trio (1963-1965) and for the Roger Webb Orchestra. From the early 1970s he became a prolific composer of film scores as well as much library music for De Wolfe Music and others, and his music has been used for ...
Getty photographer Anna Barclay took this picture of a GWR inter-city service gliding into Temple Meads at sunset. Follow BBC Bristol on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to us on ...
Bristol Old Vic. The Old Vic. The city's principal theatre company, the Bristol Old Vic, was founded in 1946 as an offshoot of The Old Vic company in London. Its premises on King Street consist of the 1766 Theatre Royal (400 seats), a modern studio theatre (150 seats), and foyer and bar areas in the adjacent Coopers' Hall (built 1743).
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music. Jazz clubs are usually a type of nightclub or bar, which is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Jazz clubs were in large rooms in the eras of Orchestral jazz and big band jazz, when bands were large and often augmented by a string section.
Llandoger Trow. The Llandoger Trow is a historic public house in Bristol, south-west England. Dating from 1664, it is on King Street, between Welsh Back and Queen Charlotte Street, near the old city centre docks. Named by a sailor who owned the pub after Llandogo in Wales which built trows (flat-bottomed river boats), the building was damaged ...