Trev Teasdel – Jazz Town – 

(A New  Bandcamp Album).

Review by Pete Clemons.

“This is Jazz Town. The melody of the rain, Trumpets of improvised images rain down. Maple Leaf or make believe, could reality be this absurd! Lovers bathe in Malay Specials, pineapples, bananas, and the grapes of wrath; pipers pipe in the Tartan highlands, absurdist politicians walk the catwalk with Pablo Picasso painted policies..”

Jazz Town is a new spoken word and music album by poet / lyricist and Coventry archiver Trev Teasdel, out on Bandcamp. Listen free via the Bandcamp app on here and read the words via the PDf below. 

For more of Trev’s books and music visit here https://trevteasdelpoet.blogspot.com/2021/01/books-by-trev-teasdel.html

Trev Teasdel – Jazz Town – A New Album

 Review by Pete Clemons

It quite often seems that, the image of a poet in modern day Britain, is seen as being

condemned to the sidelines and the outer reaches of expression.

The fact is though that Trev Teasdel has
been writing poetry for years and has long been engaged in a war of his own,
against the rich and powerful elements in our society, and against all that
threaten our freedoms and expressions.

Trev’s poetic style is very much abstract
and oblique. He doesn’t seem to favour neatly structured four liners and rhyme.
His writing is more complicated that that. His work is challenging, cryptic and
witty. Trev’s poems tend to carry the insistence that life is to be lived and
that two fingers can  be given to the
establishment as and when you feel.

This album appears to cover a wide range of
topics from the fears and pleasures of complete freedom to the intellectual
morose of the masses. And, yes, a lot of words are of a more idealistic nature.
But it has been released at a time when, at more than any other time in our
lives, many of our ideals are becoming eroded or even derided.

The music that accompanies the words is
minimal. There is a lot of bass guitar. But, at the same time the accompaniment
is intense and frenetic. Yet strangely, it seems to compliment the words
perfectly.

I guess the words take you where you want
them to. I personally found it all very much old wave. And that is meant in the
sense that you are thrown back a few decades to the bars that lingered with
smoke and filled with the mellow sounds that keep you company in the ambience.
Difficult nowadays to imagine that that 
places like those once existed.

At the same time however, there are also
occasional feelings of the current. Which, lets face it, is not the most
inspirational of places right now. I suppose though that the clue is in the
albums title – ‘Jazz Town’.

 In a world where human beings have become so
extraordinarily aggressive and violent, not only in their own personal
relationships but also in their relationships with both the world and with each
other then this album is the complete antitheses.

 Thoughts can create all kinds of situations.
Complete freedom to think gives you work like this. You could certainly do so
much worse than to lose yourself within this album for the time it lasts.

………………..

Jazz Town – The Album – Listen to the 10 track home recorded album here on this player for free. Poetry and music by Trev with 3 blues instrumentals. Read the words below in the PDF book Jazz Town.

Jazz Town (Spoken Word with Music) by Trev Teasdel

Jazz Town by Trev Teasdel the PDF book – scroll down to read or click the arrow to enlarge and read / download on Google drive for free.