Tomorrow's Warriors: An Education by Mark Doffman
This is a recent post from the Black British Jazz project website:
One of the developing interests on the project is the work of Tomorrow’s Warriors, the educational project within Dune Music that Gary Crosby and Janine Irons have set up to provide a platform for young aspiring jazz musicians. While the focus of their educational work is with young musicians of the African diaspora, the ethos of the project is one of inclusion and diversity. Young players come from many social and musical backgrounds, sharing their passion for jazz.
The Tomorrow’s Warriors project has yielded some spectacular results.Tomorrow’s Warriors Biggish Band, a septet of school age musicians, won the Yamaha Jazz Experience competition earlier this year and their prize for coming first is the opportunity to play at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club in November opposite the legendary Jon Hendricks. Rather more experienced TW alumni have also been in the news; Empirical carried off the 2010 MOBO award for Best Jazz Act. These are just two examples of many groups and individual players who are within the TW umbrella or have recently emerged from it – other notable players include Binker Golding, Duncan Eagles, Alex Ho, Eddie Hick who are all in their different ways contributing to the London jazz scene.
