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SPITZ EVENTS

THE SPITZ JAZZ COLLECTIVE 2 January 2009, 5.30pm: the Spitz Jazz Collective resume their regular Friday evening sessions in the foyer at Kings Place. Free.   Kings Place 90 York Way, N1 9AG (next to the canal) Station: Kings Cross 5:30 - 8.30pm Free click to enlarge S H KAY March 17th-24th 2009: The visual Spitz returns with "Song", an exhibition of work by painter and photographer S.H. Kay. Some people see music as colour. Recently Susan experienced a long beautiful note when painting blue. The waves, patterns and textures of the sea are her inspiration for 'Song'. www.s.h.kay.btinternet.co.uk   Spitz @ Menier Gallery Menier Chocolate Factory 51 Southwark St, SE1 1RU

A Great Night In The Spitz

a film documentary
52min | UK | 2008 | Dir: Gea Russell & Ken Kamanayo

The Spitz music venue opened in 1996. Over 11 years The Spitz hosted more than 3000 concerts featuring the best in cutting edge music. It was forced to close in 2007 due to re-development of Old Spitalfields Market. This is a music documentary of the last ever event held at the Spitz on 27th September 2007; a concert over two floors featuring some of the best of London's contemporary music scene... A Great Night In The Spitz.

A Great Night In The Spitz was inspired by Art Kane's 1958 photo A Great Day In Harlem which featured the top jazz musicians of 1950s New York. A Great Night In The Spitz was shot entirely over the last 48 hours of The Spitz's existence and portrays some of London's top musicians with a special focus on the elite of London's Black jazz musicians.

Director Jane Glitre said: 'So much of The Spitz was about to become an invisible, silent memory. I felt it was essential to try and encapsulate some of that spirit by documenting the last night in 109, Commercial Street.'

Based around an open live concert, key members of the UK's music community dropped by to pay their last respects and to celebrate 11 years of great music.

Featured artists include: The Spitz Jazz Collective, Soweto Kinch, Gwyneth Herbert, Seb Rochford and Terry Edwards.

'MOJO magazine is distraught at the thought of the Spitz closing its doors for good and all. It has served a world of vibrant, genuinely alternative music virtually single-handed.' MOJO

See a slideshow of the last night at The Spitz on YouTube » www.youtube.com/gideonmendel

SPITZ RECORDS

PARKBENCH Check out the first commercial release on Spitz Records, PARKBENCH: "VERSUS BLACKOUT", released on June 30th, 2008. "Darkly sophisticated slabs of sax-seared lonesomeness ... this is the first commercial release from Spitz Records, a label whose advent can only mean great things for London's leftfield acts." - TIME OUT > read review Buy PARKBENCH: "VERSUS BLACKOUT" from: HMV stores > buy Zavvi London stores > buy Amazon.co.uk > buy Play.com > download myspace.com/parkbenchfromthechinamen Dhafer Youssef playing at the Spitz.

SPITZ RECORDS ARE NOW AFFILIATED WITH A TOP OF THE RANGE RECORDING, MIXING AND MASTERING STUDIO IN SAN FRANCISCO, USA. wildlifestudio.net