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Uzbek government fights corruption
All levels of government must embrace reform, analysts say
By Shakar Saadi
TASHKENT – Uzbekistan has resolved to fight corruption in 2011.
In his Constitution Day address to the nation December 8, Uzbek President Islam Karimov called corruption the state's number-one enemy, adding "the time has come to fully uproot these unlawful practises."
Nine days later, Karimov dismissed Samarkand Oblast Governor Uktam Barnoyev, citing his complicity in corruption as a major reason.
Soon afterward, the Foreign Economic Department of the Prosecutor General's Office (corruption division) was told "to start working in that direction without delay," Khoidar Dzhamshudov of the department said.
"For 2011 there are plans for a series of operations and measures to uproot corruption," he said. "If, until recently, corruption was fought at the lower levels of government, now we may expect really serious change."
Commission will review performance this year
An ad hoc commission will review the performance of government bodies this year, and hotlines for reporting corruption will open, Dzhamshudov said.
Political scientist Khatam Makhkamov sees the acknowledgment of widespread corruption as the first step on the road toward eradication.
"It's still too early to speak about uprooting corruption, which is in full bloom in Uzbekistan – rather, one may speak of the first steps to fight it," Makhkamov said.
But the task will be difficult.
That is exactly how Uzbekistan plans to tackle the problem, Dzhamshudov said. "The latest international indices of corruption caused us to sit down and think hard."
Transparency International rated Uzbekistan low
For 2010, Transparency International ranked Uzbekistan 172nd in its Corruption Perceptions Index. Only Iraq, Afghanistan, Burma and Somalia fared worse.
Since 2001, the government has established special anti-corruption units under the Prosecutor General's Office, National Security Service and Ministry of the Interior, Deputy Prosecutor General Alisher Sharofutdinov said.
This year, special commissions within those units will examine government agencies and institutions for potential corruption, he said.
The phenomenon is not new to the public.
"We need to propagandize the people that this is wrong. That's why we've ordered a series of public service announcements to be shown on TV, telling people they must fight corruption."
One can hope to enrol a child in a kindergarten, college or university only by offering a bribe, Mirkomil Aripov of Tashkent said.
"The amounts keep growing with the child," he said. "Getting my son admitted to kindergarten cost me US $100; my other son to college, US $400; and my daughter to university, US $2,000."
"That's why we'll act very resolutely in 2011: anyone receiving a bribe will either be fired or go to jail," Dzhamshudov said.
Corruption is the chief enemy of small- and medium-sized businesses. The number of documents and inspections required to register and run a private business has decreased by two-thirds since 2001, with 12 such procedures cancelled. This year, document-processing requirements will become even simpler, Dzhamshudov said.
"Ten years ago, I might have people come to my office to carry out an unannounced inspection, which ended in their demanding a sum of money from me," Tashkent-based entrepreneur Sayidakmal Sayidazizkhonov said. "Today, the number of such inspections is restricted under the law." Uzbekistan joined the U.N. Convention against Corruption in 2008, and in 2009 it began drafting a National Plan of Action to Combat Corruption, a work in progress.
Laws proposed to thwart corruption
In endorsing the UN Convention, the country must redouble its efforts to thwart corruption, Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Ulugbek Vafayev said.
To topple bureaucratic barriers and uproot corruption, the People's Democratic Party has proposed a law "On Public Monitoring of Measures to Enforce the Law and Other Government Decisions," and amendments to the laws "On Local Governments," "On Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organisations," "On Public Associations" and "On People's Self-Government Bodies."
The Adolat Social-Democratic Party has suggested broader use of e-government project facilities to promote the dialogue between the government and society.
"That project will enable people to directly contact government officials, who in turn will be required to quickly respond to existing problems," Adolat parliamentary faction leader Ismail Sayifnazarov said.
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If anybody is interested, they should contact us, and we will tell them where the problem lies. In Uzbekistan, there is a large corrupt industrial company, they deceive the state and make billions annually, and the government protects them because it has an interest in it.
June 22, 2011 @ 08:06:00AM жасур -
With all our aversion of corruption, there is a positive aspect about it: Money can solve the problem of overcoming bureaucratic hurdles. Sometimes it's the only way to move on!
February 28, 2011 @ 11:02:00AM Марина -
Until they are required to fill out income statements, it will be all useless, but it will be necessary to bring 70 percent of prosecutors, cops and judges to justice and ask them where their fortunes come from.
February 25, 2011 @ 12:02:00AM nika -
It would take at least 300 years to defeat corruption in Uzbekistan, it is necessary to change the nation's mentality. Karaganda.
February 18, 2011 @ 11:02:00PM Бисаут -
Our Kazakh people have a saying: the foundation of a nation begins at the cradle. So, do not cast blame on anyone and do not leave anyone with hard feelings. Let us live with calm hearts, my compatriots.
February 16, 2011 @ 11:02:00PM Игор -
Every stick has two ends! People are to blame for the thriving corruption. As long as people do not realize that corruption is as deadly sin as a murder, a robbery, perjury, and lust, it will continue until the end of the world. The humankind is lost to all sense of shame. People do not distinguish between a grave sin and a petty crime. Of course, they are provoked by officials, as they say, stolen waters are sweet.
February 16, 2011 @ 05:02:00PM jakebay -
And I have an idea how to raise the state budget without problems and harassment. I wrote twice already to the press service's site, but they would not reply. Meanwhile, I am eager to boost state coffers, so that they pay more to retirees, doctors and teachers. Nor will they take bribes out of despair. What should I start with, who should I write and where should I go to express myself?
February 15, 2011 @ 05:02:00AM LEGIONER -
We should follow Egypt's example or Uzbekistan will be a country of slaves in a few years.
February 13, 2011 @ 01:02:00PM Тайыр -
As soon as they seriously start fighting corruption in Uzbekistan, the state apparatus will collapse completely. Corruption, regionalism and profiteering are the three whales that support our state. That is what we rest on!
February 12, 2011 @ 12:02:00PM Петр -
Well done! It is high time!!!!!!
February 11, 2011 @ 10:02:00AM Алишер -
• With bad laws and good officials, it is quite possible to run the country. But if officials are bad, the best laws will not help. Otto von Bismarck
February 11, 2011 @ 10:02:00AM nikas2300 -
This is all empty talk rather than fight against corruption. Where is the key step? I'm talking about income statements. The step was promised by top officials many years ago. Then, all efforts were limited to a few officials who were punished for luxury POI. And now it will be the same because the same corrupt officials are fighting corruption. They do not care about the result, they think the process is important so that the president will be satisfied. Finally, how can a small civil servant with a salary of 300,000-400,000 sums transferred to the debit card, a salary that is below the subsistence level, combat corruption if he can make more money in a day in bribes?
February 11, 2011 @ 10:02:00AM Andrew -
It is necessary to put the small-scale corrupt officials in jails first and find their bosses afterward.
February 11, 2011 @ 05:02:00AM Коррупция -
Corruption is harmful to all, it is like a cancerous tumor, and any citizen in the country is defenseless, and many do not understand it. All of us, even with a huge amount of money protected by fences and a pack of dogs, are defenseless in the face of a servant serving tea. He can pour boiling water on you or stick a fork in your eye. And while the poor are offering bribes, Karimov will issue a decree to cancel the use of cash, and that is it, everybody will be serviced in one bank, of which Rais is also a client.
February 11, 2011 @ 12:02:00AM иван -
If all goes as planned, then entrepreneurs will breathe easily. As for now, they have to pay a tax of $50 to $100 per month, and is it still continues. They have recently deployed the so-called tax police in the bazaars, I do not understand why, you have to pay anyway, but now they say they represent the city tax inspectorate, while the district is a separate matter. What has changed? Nothing here, so how can I believe in fight against corruption?
February 10, 2011 @ 01:02:00PM aleks -
It is hard to believe that they can fight corruption with decrees, regulations, etc. "Experts" - "economists" should do the job.
February 8, 2011 @ 06:02:00PM laylo -
To fight corruption, one does not have to start from the top. As they say: The fish rots from the head. The fish, not the bosses, but the people came up with this proverb to divert suspicion from themselves. And if people are afraid of officials, the authorities are not to blame. I went to a district akim in Almaty today and told her everything straight with witnesses being present, her subordinates. And there is nothing to be afraid of. It means we have to work on ourselves. If we have fear, increased anxiety too is a symptom of mental disorder. Officials are people too, and by the way I've never worked as an official so I did not even have a habit, and it was the first time I went to a big boss. She understood everything, I think, at least she did not interrupt me after I told her politely that she must give every visitor some time under the rules to speak out, I said. Because she would not let you open your mouth. She sat back there angry and did not even ask me why I came. She rejected me immediately, but I did not come there to be rejected. Apparently, we also got at them with our requests and smiles, and she has already developed a reflex towards smiling people. She thinks: Aha, this one came to beg again. Set yourself a task to visit a high official with some sort of an issue. If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain, as they say. At the same time, do psycho training. But fear of the authorities is not a sign of the nation's health, as well as fearless knights, there are many among our people.
February 8, 2011 @ 10:02:00AM Алия -
Everything will be OK if everyone does his job properly and fair.
February 8, 2011 @ 10:02:00AM janona -
You think the president does not know about this? He simply can not deal with them anymore. Therefore, he must look for a person to replace him, a man of strong spirit, like Putin and Medvedev. This is a great team, that I can understand!
February 8, 2011 @ 06:02:00AM Кто то -
Good luck to everybody in the fight against corruption, it is high time!
February 8, 2011 @ 03:02:00AM афанди -
Shortly put, your fight against corruption is like "bees against honey."
February 8, 2011 @ 03:02:00AM Слава -
Don Quixote emerged in Uzbekistan. When we say an Uzbek, we mean corruption, and when we say corruption, we mean an Uzbek. How can one separate meat from the bones? Perhaps this is a new way to extort money. It is very interesting to see the result.
February 8, 2011 @ 02:02:00AM Muhammadlatif -
Look who is talking? It will take long and many heads will roll. I hope it is not just hot air as usual, it is only a law and cannot break the wall.
February 7, 2011 @ 01:02:00PM Лена -
A president fighting corruption is the same as a bee fighting honey.
February 7, 2011 @ 04:02:00AM Вася -
Long live our great president, Islam Karimov, he is a king of his people! Let there be justice and truth in our land.
February 7, 2011 @ 02:02:00AM Соломон -
As they say, the theater starts with a cloakroom. It is necessary to fight corruption from the top "echelons" of power - the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan, and the security forces of Uzbekistan. I often travel abroad and see that the international airport in Tashkent is stuffed with corruption, as well as all border checkpoints in Uzbekistan, how obstacles are created when one is going through border or customs controls. Tired air and bus passengers fall into the hands of corrupt officials and have to grease their palm to escape from the brothel where they find themselves as soon as possible.
February 6, 2011 @ 02:02:00AM Рустам -
Impunity breeds evil. When are we going to use punishment? Although, it is from the world of fiction. We will rather meet with aliens than tackle corruption.
February 5, 2011 @ 03:02:00PM temur -
Under Lenin's GOELRO plan Russia built 24 power plants in Uzbekistan helping the country achieve energy independence, whereas now they hold five-minute daily sessions of hate at the oppression museum. The country is riddled with corruption.
February 5, 2011 @ 08:02:00AM юра -
It is at least a step forward! Good job, Karimov! It is always easy to criticize, but look how much he has made and constructed. The laws are very good, but they are not properly enforced. I think someday all our laws will work properly. We're coming to this!
February 4, 2011 @ 03:02:00PM ирина -
Comments to: "Patriot Posted 22 days ago, but the NSS," and it also includes this organization. I do not think that they are clean, there are no clean people. They simply have more opportunities to cover up traces. On the issue, I can say: People are losing confidence in the law enforcement agencies, which implies a rise in corruption. To raise people's confidence, it is necessary to use the media more often to inform people about officials arrested. People should know and have trust in their law enforcement agencies to be confident that they will stand up for their security.
February 4, 2011 @ 02:02:00PM Али -
2011 has been declared the year of fight against corruption. President Karimov made a speech saying he does not promise anything but he will try to fight himself! Do not write anything needless at websites because you will be redirected to msn.com!!!
February 4, 2011 @ 03:02:00AM Алла -
Yaa.. all the persons whose stated (in article) here are corrupted from A-Z, I know them all very well , ashame them ...
February 3, 2011 @ 12:02:00PM Patriot -
Perseverance wins. We can do everything, more importantly, that there is justice, there is the law, there are patriots of all nationalities and there is the President, a real one who loves the people and his homeland.
February 3, 2011 @ 02:02:00AM -
It is all good. I am very glad that our head of state deals with the issue. I live in Almaty, it is an industrial city, and one has to pay $400 to $800 for a manual job at steel works. This is lawlessness, please sort it out(
February 3, 2011 @ 01:02:00AM Farruh -
February 2, 2011 @ 11:02:00PM Nodir -
I am very glad this is happening in our country and I would like to make my contribution. I have an idea how to eliminate traffic jams in Tashkent and make people drive better without compulsion. Who should I approach to discuss it? Maybe, they will like the idea and use it.
February 2, 2011 @ 12:02:00PM LEGIONER -
@Настя You are talking as if you were at his home.... I think, Our president is doing all well. You can easily see that by contrasting with other Central Asian countries. We are developing maybe not too fast but stably.
February 2, 2011 @ 10:02:00AM Jamshid -
All good decrees by the President are emasculated by officials in their respective instructions. They (officials) have been building a system to control everyone and everything. For instance, the Central Bank reports a shortage of currency. That means you can make money on the black market by converting currency for businesses. As a result, there is a shortage of cash (businesses can buy currency only on the black market) and mistrust for banks because one cannot exchange money there or get back one's sums with losses and difficulties. Again, this is an opportunity for taking bribes. Minavtoprom has created a shortage of cars and now one has to pay a $1000 bribe to buy a car. Check out the cynicism - some models are only sold for foreign currency that will be sold in the black market tomorrow to the next buyer who gives it back to the car dealer)))) Too much state control enables officials to make money. This is ridiculous, one production company earns foreign currency and sells a stipulated part of it to the state, while to buy raw materials for foreign currency the same company needs to obtain a lot of authorizing signatures. I think they will just replace disloyal officials with loyal ones. That's all. Well, they can put some small fish in prison, but the system will remain unchanged)
February 1, 2011 @ 11:02:00PM сергей -
February 1, 2011 @ 11:02:00PM работние -
For what it's worth (and it's like to believe), would not it be easier to set up a "board" where any user can write and post the name and position of an extortioner, a bribe-taker. Surely intelligence operatives read it. Then let them check it. I myself would be happy to write it. There are some "comrades" working on a grand scale.
February 1, 2011 @ 08:02:00PM Алексей -
In the strict sense only in words, Leo Tolstoy!
February 1, 2011 @ 06:02:00PM Хабиб -
I believe the Republic of Uzbekistan pursues the right policy to fight corruption, and our government's response inspires people. I express my gratitude to the Government and especially to our President for supporting small businesses and business development.
February 1, 2011 @ 03:02:00PM АНОНИМ -
The first step is to compare the salaries of officials with his life being, house, car, activities he holds, as well as the child of theirs, universities they go to and their vacation destinations! Here you have an elementary hint! We need to bring these embezzlers to the state of "Koreiko", here's an additional inflow of capital into the state budget! And trials should be held publicly in the media, television, radio, etc. Without it, all will be useless! Corruption is an obstacle to the improvement and development of the mankind! It has been proved for thousands years!
February 1, 2011 @ 01:02:00PM Абдумалик -
Corruption, too many words and sentences, but nothing in practice...
February 1, 2011 @ 05:02:00AM никто -
Karimov will use it as a pretext to leave potential candidates without money in order not to finance his rivals. He has jailed all merchants anyway and now he seeks to deal with officials. He has forced his people on their knees.
January 31, 2011 @ 07:01:00AM андрей -
What you say is OK. I bought an apartment in 2006, five years later a heir emerges. A notary public had assured that everything was OK. In 2009, the heir takes me to court to evict me with five children. In late 2010, the court ordered my eviction. I appealed to the prosecutor but to no avail, suffered a heart attack and now I have no more guts to fight. We are renting a home now in another city and soon we'll have to move to a new place again. Is this fair?
January 30, 2011 @ 10:01:00PM Саша -
Commentators, listen to me. Stop saying only bad things about the government, start with yourselves and your loved ones. There are no problems that cannot be solved. There are only cowards and babblers. In today's information war our brains are stuffed with nonsense. Uzbekistan will never be someone else's. Let's solve problems together.
January 30, 2011 @ 04:01:00AM davron.uz -
I agree with Ali! One cannot find a job without money, and even if you get a job and you are a smart guy, fools with connections make a career and get high pay anyway! This is the reason for poor performance and everything else! I would like to say that the same situation is observed not only in Uzbekistan but also everywhere, at least in Russia, for sure! So if they establish order here, then it will be perfect, therefore I want to live here and not run away somewhere to Russia, etc. So I support the measures! Let everything be arranged in a fair way, not for money!
January 29, 2011 @ 04:01:00PM Не важно -
The people have a saying, "The fish rots from its head". Our laws are fine, although some of them require adjustments and coordination with other laws and government decisions. But most importantly, they are not followed by the officials responsible for their enforcing and oversight (courts, prosecutors, public authorities, the constitutional court). Many people got used to giving formal replies, afraid to defend the law. For an ordinary citizen, an entrepreneur, it is difficult to ensure compliance with the law. You can call it a year of the fight against corruption, but if concrete steps are not taken towards the implementation of all articles of laws, decrees of the president and the government, it will remain on paper and people will laugh at decisions made. The loss of faith is the most important loss of the future. A special law is necessary to make officials responsible for formal replies, for deadline violations and violations of the legitimate interests of businesspeople and the population.
January 28, 2011 @ 10:01:00AM Мила -
It is high time to fight this evil.
January 28, 2011 @ 01:01:00AM Жасур -
"I'll not go to an anti-war rally, but I will go to a rally for peace all over the world," Margaret Thacher. So do I: "I am opposed to fight against corruption, I am for halol mehnat and halol daromad"
January 28, 2011 @ 01:01:00AM Шохмурод -
Corruption in Uzbekistan is systematic, and therefore it will be hard to deal with it because the whole system will resist. It is not enough to sack senior officials, a comprehensive approach is needed, including: increased penalties + public reprimand should exceed the benefits of a bribe. Creating an electronic database of all employees and records of all violations that could affect the career can influence the second item. Also it is necessary to conduct public hearings (in China, they show executions of corrupt officials on TV) and promote whistlers in a good sense of the word, this can also reduce the attractiveness of corruption. Finally, heavy fines for those who take and those who give will also help.
January 27, 2011 @ 08:01:00PM Alex -
If you cannot get a decent job without a bribe, what can you do? You have to pay. But it is right to fight it. If they send one corrupt official to jail, dozens of others will be afraid.
January 26, 2011 @ 03:01:00PM аноним -
I hope very much this will help us! I think there is no small or big corruption. Corruption is corruption and it is necessary to fight it!
January 26, 2011 @ 04:01:00AM -
01/21/2011 it was a complete mess in Tashkent city court, a panel of judges, Parpiev, Salikhov and Ziganshin, they were cheerful and happy for some reason, and prosecutor Bazarova walked out of the courtroom when it came to putting my objections and comments on the record. She never sits in her place during hearings, always on the run, this was not a trial, but a comedy show. It is impossible to reach the justice and prosecution helpline. They hid the prosecutor's motion in my favor from me and removed it from the case file to please the rich defendant.
January 26, 2011 @ 03:01:00AM Галя -
It is a common knowledge that people with a law degree are the most corrupt ones. Under the directive, they will fight themselves, so the right hand will be fighting the left hand. For instance, if a store charges 5-10 percent extra, they make much fuss about it. But if the Andijan district notary public charges 50,000 sums instead of 1,400 sums (3,000 times higher rate), we cannot do anything because she is married to the prosecutor. It is necessary to involve small and medium-sized business people in fighting corruption because they are the ones who suffer the most. Big businesses are doing well, while workers and peasants lack education. They will engage in populism.
January 26, 2011 @ 02:01:00AM махмуд -
The Uzbeks are bribe-takers, this is in their nature.
January 25, 2011 @ 06:01:00AM re -
Do not lie about doctors, they have villas and houses at least as luxurious as the officials!!!
January 24, 2011 @ 10:01:00AM аноним -
The UAT Uchkuduk management extorts a lot of money from honest drivers!
January 24, 2011 @ 06:01:00AM Николай -
Amid corruption growing by leaps and bounds in the country, it all looks banal. Yes, corruption is like a weed, and if the state wants to get rid of it, it is certainly a good thing, but there is a very important point - who and how will root out this weed. Those charged with rooting it out are part of this corrupted system and if so, what do you think the output will be like? A way out is probably, as all remember, people's control teams formed of ordinary people (teachers, doctors, farmers, workers) in Soviet times. The same option can be used at this stage, say forming such a group, but it should not operate in their area of residence, but in another neighborhood, where there are no friends and relatives, and I assure you the effect would be colossal. If they catch someone now, relatives and friends with money and power free the culprit, thereby committing another crime. There is another option, although Uzbekistan declared a moratorium on the death penalty, culprits should be punished or tried publicly as they do in China where, you know, they do not pay attention to your rank and all are equal before the law. In any case, as long as corruption is not contained in the country, there will be no progress whatever they say about prosperity. People are tired of the empty talk of stringent measures, the government needs to prove to the people that the country has the law and everyone is equal before it. Only then people will believe in the state and in the future.
January 23, 2011 @ 11:01:00PM Ulugbek -
Nastya is right ... first, they need to introduce proper order in their environment, and then maybe people will believe this ...
January 23, 2011 @ 05:01:00PM Каха -
... I can't stand laughing!!! Karimov should dismiss himself for corruption complicity and devastating the country=)
January 23, 2011 @ 01:01:00PM Русик -
Catch the thief!))))))))))))))))). This is ridiculous)))
January 23, 2011 @ 05:01:00AM -
It would be very nice if it were true! My poor Motherland.
January 23, 2011 @ 04:01:00AM Zafar -
Generally, everything that is being done in Uzbekistan to combat corruption is not fighting it, but aiding and abetting. Do you think it is possible in Europe to put a man in jail for taking bribes, say, after a year or two based only on a victim's testimony? In Uzbekistan, two witnesses are enough to point a finger and say that two years ago they gave an official a bribe amounting to N, and the latter will be sentenced to 10-15 years in prison without any material evidence (i.e. money or a video, or without applying special paint). You do not believe me? Come to Uzbekistan and ask prosecutors to publicly show case files, and you will see for yourselves.
January 22, 2011 @ 04:01:00AM Алишер -
It is impossible to buy a vehicle at GM dealership centers. The Uzavtoprom marketing department creates an artificial demand. This is the reason for bribery, or you have to buy with foreign currency, which not everyone has and which undermines the national sum's image, or you have to give a bribe. A man cannot save enough money for a car, and has to pay a bribe.
January 21, 2011 @ 11:01:00PM -
January 20, 2011 @ 12:01:00PM ЭВЕЛИНА -
Parkentsky and the rest are being demolished on the occasion of the year of entrepreneur?
January 20, 2011 @ 12:01:00AM -
It is necessary to fight corruption, then there will be a result.
January 19, 2011 @ 11:01:00AM san -
Damn it! Why are the teachers and doctors always the ones to be mistreated? How can one work for such a meager salary like this? They get by somehow... but the story does not say anything about officials building themselves villas...
January 18, 2011 @ 04:01:00AM анонимный -
As one comedian said, "Jokes are jokes, but there may be children!" This is the result. I have not achieved much yet but I was surprised that court proceedings took only three months. It was fantastic! But I am suspicious about the prosecutor's enthusiasm, is he going to investigate police officers as well?
January 17, 2011 @ 08:01:00PM Та Та -
All presidents should be checked for corruption first.
January 16, 2011 @ 12:01:00PM Махсуд -
Finally! They have become too impudent, you cannot get by without a bribe. My dad lost a lot of time trying to get his pension package. They overtly open boxes inviting people to give bribes, but if you pretend not to understand, they send you from one office to another so that people will get tired of waiting and offer a bribe themselves. The same thing in the passport office - those who pay get their passports without waiting in a short time, while those who do not pay wait for months. There are a lot of examples and everybody knows about it, but I do not understand why they keep silent.
January 15, 2011 @ 01:01:00PM насиба -
The fight against corruption in Uzbekistan cannot be completely eradicated because officials are mostly involved themselves surrounded by cronies. They are too tough to crack... They are connected with each other within state establishments. It is necessary to reshuffle the security and law enforcement agencies. That is why corruption is on the rise in the public sector. One can always talk about and discuss small bribes among the population. But people welcomed the dismissal by I. Karimov of the Samarkand region hokim amid a corruption controversy. Karimov should reshuffle the higher echelons of the government and small-scale corruption will disappear. I always support the president's orders and proposals, God bless our president with health and long life. He deserves respect and love of ordinary people.
January 15, 2011 @ 11:01:00AM Раззак -
The legend is good, but hard to believe in!
January 15, 2011 @ 08:01:00AM шарипова -
Gifts are given to kindergarten teachers on all possible and impossible holidays ... try not to give money, you'll have a hard time...
January 15, 2011 @ 06:01:00AM Николай -
January 15, 2011 @ 06:01:00AM Хасанбой -
The quote, "Thanks to this project, people can contact officials directly, and they, for their turn, can promptly react to problems." Officials are not that savvy to react to e-mails, let alone to react promptly.
January 14, 2011 @ 09:01:00AM trey -
I think we are mature enough to address this issue on our own without signing the UN convention. This should be normal for any official. Although I understand it may be difficult to overcome.
January 14, 2011 @ 06:01:00AM Равшан -
It is good that fight against corruption will be intensified. An order should be given to district departments to warn day care center and school employees against extorting money from parents for various non-existent foundations. Believe me, most of them will not take a single kopeck after signing a certain paper because they will be aware of possible punishment. I wish everyone luck in fighting corruption.
January 14, 2011 @ 05:01:00AM флюра -
It is necessary to start with officials such as prosecutors, courts, the police, except for the NSC. I have not ever heard of secret agents taking bribes in Uzbekistan. Good job! The whole world recognizes you. I congratulate you on having a good reputation. I think it is necessary to task the NSC with establishing order among these corrupt prosecutors and judges. Others would stop taking bribes out of fear. I wish you success in your noble intentions, come on guys, support our respected president!
January 13, 2011 @ 12:01:00PM Патриот -
Here we go again, the whole republic is mired in corruption. It will take decades to fight it. They ask for money everywhere, and it is necessary to talk to people more often so that these people will not be afraid of the authorities. And it is necessary to boost production beginning with education because they employ people with fake diplomas, and these students do more harm to the economy than good. But the government plans to shorten instruction from 11 to 9 years, so instead of developing, the nation becomes more stupid. Managers must also be educated. Recently, they have appointed Sanakulov K.S. as head of NGMK. He was responsible for the stoppage and bankruptcy of ANGMK. Do people who appointed him have any brain at all? He began with unpopular measures such as cutting leave allowances, working conditions have deteriorated, and people are working in hazardous conditions while they get paid as if they are working in normal conditions. That was the reason why many leading specialists fled abroad. The factory may stop, it is suffering heavy economic losses because they are replaced with people who used to work in the field planting potatoes and now they are driving heavy duty trucks and operate excavators. This causes a great damage to the equipment. So our state does not have a great future but a great past.
January 13, 2011 @ 05:01:00AM али -
If you are talking about corruption, start with the Mirzo-Ulugbek Civil Court. One will never have enough money. They are taking bribes without remorse, saying straight you gonna lose if you do not pay.
January 13, 2011 @ 03:01:00AM Даша -
I think you are making a step, but they will be discussing this law for 10 years. And again, it would be better to consider the issue of cash available to the population and the issue of fuel availability at gas stations.
January 12, 2011 @ 04:01:00PM zhandos -
It is high time to fight this evil.
January 12, 2011 @ 03:01:00AM Одил -
It is ridiculous that you say they are fighting. Their president should defeat corruption at home first, and if he overcomes his daughters, I will believe he can handle the country.
January 7, 2011 @ 10:01:00PM Настя -
Fighting windmills
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SIMON SPILLETT provides an
overview of the major British saxophone stylists from the early 1950s
through to the 1970s, a period when British jazz grappled with the bebop
sounds that emerged from the United States, and then came to create its
very own school of stylists ...
SWING TO BOP Now forgotten players like Johnny Rogers and Alan Doninger were among the first to get to grips with the vernacular of the new music, although their efforts, like those of many immediately post-war altoists, were hamstrung between the idioms of swing and bebop. It was only after the establishment of the ill-fated Club Eleven venture in 1949, which provided this country's first exclusive haven for modern jazz (as well as its first front-page headline detailing a drug bust), that real breakthrough was made - principally by Johnny Dankworth and Ronnie Scott. Both men had been lucky enough to have heard Parker and Gillespie in New York, courtesy of the quaintly titled "Geraldo's Navy" operation which provided musicians for transatlantic passenger liners. Nevertheless 'anglicising' bebop created problems; or, rather, attempts to perform the music exactly as the American model created problems. Even though performers like Dankworth and Scott had grown up musically during the traumatic years of World War Two, their music, like that of all other British jazz men, reflected little of the angst ridden characteristics of Parker and his contemporaries. The simple impasse of the 'Britishness' of what then passed for the local jazz scene impeded much of the emotional development of this generation of London jazz players. Unlike Parker, Dankworth and Scott had never really worked in a big swing band, and they therefore lacked the headstrong desire to move beyond the constrictions of one jazz form to another. The type of bands Dankworth and Scott apprenticed in were sometimes little more than overblown extensions of the 'palais band' tradition - which operated peculiarly both as a money making source of education, and as an artistic prison upon those performing in it. Even Ted Heath's band, of which Scott was for a time a star member and the closest Britain had yet come to having its own showy swing band, often teetered perilously close to the brink of the kind of nauseously saccharine attitudes which were beginning to consume popular music in the immediate post-war years. |
John Dankworth and Ronnie Scott - the first moderns Tubby Hayes and Joe Harriott - transatlantic equals Tommy Whittle, Don Rendell and Ronnie Ross - the mainstream modernists Joe Temperley, Tony Coe, Jimmy Skidmore and Bruce Turner - the neo-classicists Peter King and Dick Morrissey - the Hayes legacy Alan Skidmore - tribute to 'Trane Bobby Wellins - breaking the mould John Surman, Mike Osborne and Evan Parker - a truly English expression Lol Coxhill - maverick
Euphoria Ted Heath & His Music You've Gone To My Head Ted Heath & His Music |
No-one was yet thinking of playing the Americans at their own game, for no-one was yet proficient enough to do so; but also no-one had as yet envisaged a European musical independence free of America's leadership. Consequently the 1950s was a decade of emulation and eventual consolidation of the musical revolution that the beboppers had ushered in towards the close of the Second World War. |
Read Simon Spillett's essays on Tubby Hayes,
British jazz pianists, British
jazz trumpeters, and West Indian jazz musicians
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Derek Humble, like John Dankworth, was another English altoist much taken by Lee Konitz, and had a similar mix of reserve and cool eloquence; later in the sixties, as lead alto with the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland big band, his sound and approach toughened considerably. |
Ronnie Scott, on the other hand, fought a titanic struggle with his repeated attempts to maintain large bands which operated almost exclusively jazz-based policies, a much harder undertaking than might have been imagined back in the halcyon days of the 1950s. However, unlike Dankworth, his playing was always central to the groups he fronted, not surprising as he was the most competent of all the first generation British modernists; and if the local scene as yet lacked any real innovators, it was not short on individuals, of which Scott was undoubtedly the most prominent. Emulation of the existing American role models was still not only acceptable but enviable, and few musicians were as accurate in their absorbtion of the latest trends. During his Club Eleven period he resembled players such as Wardell Gray and Allen Eager, and by the early 1950s he had taken up the mantle of Stan Getz, then in the first flush of his romantic musical development and favouring a soft light tone and a severe but lyrical approach to phrasing. Eventually Scott countered the Getz influence with a much more muscular tone, and as the 1960s arrived he was balancing his interest in the white tenorist with his fascination with the work of Sonny Rollins and Hank Mobley, both of whom worked for him after the opening of his own nightclub in 1959. The passion and commitment that Scott conveyed as an improviser had always been remarkable, but the tell-tale signs of an obviously fickle allegiance to any one style began to manifest itself by this time. Indeed the running of his own club, and its intitial policy of almost exclusively booking American tenor saxophonists, may have been Scott's undoing. As late as in his forties, Scott's head was still being turned by some of his guests, and consequently there were periods in which his enthusiam for Getz would wane towards Mobley, and from Mobley to Joe Henderson or George Coleman. This ambivalence speaks as much for Scott's own lack of confidence in his own musical abilities, something that was as unfounded as it was unshakeable, as it does for the quality of his guests. During his last decade, even younger musicians like Bob Berg affected his outlook; and at this point Scott could have been forgiven for doing what few older jazz musicians do - to learn from someone younger. The enthusiasm for the art of improvising was never far from the surface of Scott's music, and could not be masked even by his legendary wit. Some of his best work can be found on recordings with Sonny Stitt and the Jazz Couriers. A rare album made under his own name, The Night Is Scott..., made in 1966, is probably the best place to get acquainted with this self-effacing yet remarkably consistent improviser. |
Ronnie [compilation] Scott Legacy The Jazz Couriers [1951-58] The First and Last Words The Jazz Couriers [1957] The Couriers of Jazz The Jazz Couriers [1958] |
Besides Joe Harriott, there were other Jamaican-born saxophonists making a mark in British jazz during this time. Harold McNair, equally gifted on both tenor and alto as well as the flute, was one - although ultimately he made more money as folk icon Donovan's accompanist than he did out of jazz before he died tragically in 1971; Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair was another, a powerful blues-hewn tenorist who eventually settled upon a life of session music contentment in Germany. McNair's eponymous 1968 RCA album is recommended, whilst Gaynair's near legendary 1959 Tempo session Blue Bogey has been reissued recently on CD and reveals a player with a sideling approach to hard bop orthodoxy. |
TUBBY HAYES and JOE HARRIOTT Tubby Hayes was something of a boy prodigy, having turned professional at the age of sixteen and having led his own band at twenty. His early work was tempered somewhat by vestiges of a dance band apprenticeship, but Hayes had the ability to reflect accurately the latest trends in American jazz without ever sounding like one particular player. His technical confidence too was unique amongst British modernists, and lacked any of the often hit-and-miss indecision heard locally; this enabled him to tackle the ridiculously fast tempos favoured in hard bop without any sense of panic or hysteria. Inevitably this virtuosity brought Hayes and Ronnie Scott together, Scott being the only other British player who could match truly the technique and intensity of Hayes blow for blow. Their co-operative quintet, The Jazz Couriers, operated for two years at the close of the 1950s, and produced arguably the most confident sounding British jazz records of the decade, none redolent of the usual faintly apologetic characteristic of much of what was then being played in London's clubs. The best was recorded fittingly for an American label and received the reversed title of The Couriers Of Jazz. In the early 1960s Hayes's reputation grew to the extent that he was playing regularly in the United States, recording with players such as Clark Terry and Roland Kirk, and being hailed as a genuine equal to the best saxophonists that worked across the Atlantic. The advent of the avant-garde and a series of illnesses changed him towards the end of the decade, forcing him to reconsider his approach. Towards the end of his life he was incorporating rock-rhythms and free improvisation into his world and taking interest in new players, like the tenorist Joe Henderson; but the core of his musical expression remained rooted in the work of the players who had exerted great influence over him in his formative years - Stan Getz, Johnny Griffin and Sonny Rollins. His death in 1973, after years of health difficulties, robbed British jazz of its untitled head, and had he lived his dominance may well have waned or disappeared completely, but to have witnessed him consolidate his earlier triumphs with a deeper maturity would have been fascinating. Hayes made countless records, both with his own groups and with others, but his greatest work is contained on two albums: 1959's Tubby's Groove on the Tempo label - a truly authentic slice of hard bop mastery, and a quartet effort to rank with the very best of such recordings made by Rollins and Getz - and Mexican Green, released by Fontana in 1967 - a gripping account of Hayes coming to terms with both the harmonic changes of John Coltrane and the free improvisation of Ornette Coleman, which contains also his signature and virtuosic bop playing. Joe Harriott originated from the West Indies and came to the United Kingdom in 1951. For much of the remainder of the decade he worked with drummer Tony Kinsey's musical (if polite) quartet before forming his own quintet. His group's first records reflected his interest in hard bop, and Hariott's own playing - an emotive and stinging mix of the methods of Parker and Sonny Stitt with his own brand of Caribbean fire - convey an understanding of the motives and mechanics behind bebop, despite being learnt second-hand. Set beside the work of fellow alto players like Johnny Dankworth and Derek Humble, Harriott was hot property. In 1960 he began to experiment with his own kind of free improvisation, independent of Ornette Coleman's efforts, and critics and fans of his previous music found this hard to take. Although his Free Form album received a five star rating in the prestigious Down Beat magazine - an endorsement virtually unheard of for a British jazz product at that time - it marked the beginning of the end for Harriott. His old fans deserted him and the critics were lukewarm, attitudes that did little to halt Harriott's increasingly frustrated sense of disenfranchisement. Similarly his slightly later marriage with Indian classical music, his Indo-Jazz Fusions, met with bemusement, even though it came at the same time that the Beatles were heralding the West's artificial procurement of all things sub-continental. Harriott died in 1972, exhausted but well aware of the importance of his innovations, which would ultimately serve others far better than they had him. Indeed, a short while before his death, he acknowledged that his free form ideas had come a decade too soon, a fact underlined by the likes of Dudu Pukwana and Mike Osborne, by then both exploring musical areas in which Harriott himself would have been happy. |
The Swinging Giant vol 1 Quartet / Quintet [1955] The Swinging Giant vol 2 Quintet / Jazz Couriers [1956] The First and Last Words The Jazz Couriers [1957] Tubby Hayes Portrait [1957-61] The Couriers of Jazz The Jazz Couriers [1958] The Eighth Wonder Quartet [1958] Night And Day at Ronnie Scott's [1963-66] Tubbs: A Tribute Quintet [1963] Quartet In Scandinavia Quartet [1972] Blue Hayes 2 CD set [compilation annotated by Simon Spillett]
Cool Jazz with Joe [on Bop' In Britain 2, 1954] Swings High [1967] Joe Harriott Genius Joe Harriott / Michael Garrick [1960s] Black Marigolds with Michael Garrick [1968]
Blue Bogey [1959] |
Ronnis Ross was by no means the first modern jazz baritone saxophoniist in Britain. That position fell to Harry Klein, who had switched from the alto in the early 1950s. Although his tone reflected the ubiquitous influence of Gerry Mulligan, Klein's general approach was less freewheeling, and his improvisatoing concentrated on a choppy articulation and an over-reliance on cliched devices for negotiating chord sequences. His finest hour on record came in 1960, by which time he had managed to throw off a great deal of the previously characteristic reserve that marred his earlier work, when the group he co-led with tenorist Vic Ash made the Tempo album The Five Of Us: Klein's snorting soloing threatens to steal the show. |
TOMMY WHITTLE, DON RENDELL and RONNIE
ROSS The Scottish tenorist Tommy Whittle, who had replaced Ronnie Scott with the Ted Heath band, was one such noteworthy player. Whittle's small groups during the period concentrated on the middle ground, which American musicians like Zoot Sims occupied and which was to become known as mainstream. Sims was a particular influence, easily discernable from the light feathery swing Whittle favoured, but his later influences included the soul-jazz tenor man Stanley Turrentine. A spell as a 'society' bandleader took Whittle away from jazz in the early 1960s, and the scene to which he returned found little room for him. In the 1970s, he played with Benny Goodman, and latterly his style has reflected the touch of an even earlier figure, Don Byas. Now in his seventies, he remains one of Britain's busiest veteran jazzmen. Of the big band apprenticed tenor saxophonists who emerged into prominence in the 1950s, Don Rendell's musical development was undoubtedly the most fascinating, largely because of his total preparation to pursue new avenues, even when a safer option lay open for him. Rendell had graduated from the rather sterile setting of the Johnny Dankworth Seven and had gone on to lead a series of well crafted small groups. His original inspiration was Lester Young, and in his own way he matured into as confident and convincing a stylist as any of the American 'brothers' who shared his passion for Young. Rendell also expressed great interest in using home grown resources, in the shape of compositions either by himself or his sideman, which in the mid-1950s made his group something of a rarity amongst British jazz units. In 1961, after a decade of building the kind of reputation that led to him touring with the bands of both Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, Rendell did an elaborate and incredibly brave about-face. He had heard John Coltrane on a Miles Davis album and also in concert with his own group, and the effect was cataclysmic. Gone were the polite facets of Rendell's playing, to be replaced by a sense of inexorable exploration that was surprising for a musician of his experience. New horizons required new musical partners and Rendell's 1960s bands included at various times pianist Michael Garrick, altoist Graham Bond and regular partner trumpeter Ian Carr. From then until today, Rendell has pursued this barrier breaking, and for a while in the 1970s it seemed that he alone amongst his generation of British improvisers was prepared to sacrifice what he already knew in order to exchange ideas with younger musicians. His skill as a musical communicator also opened educational doors for Rendell during this time, and he has established a reputation as an enthusiastic teacher on various jazz faculties and courses. The Rendell-Carr quintet records, long promised for reissue, are probably the best place to gauge the level of Rendell's mid-career playing renaissance, whilst his earlier efforts on the Tempo and Nixa imprints are valuable documents of his route through the music. An early Rendell discovery was Ronnie Ross, who had begun his career as a tenor saxophonist before switching, at Rendell's request, to the baritone. Ross was as close to Gerry Mulligan as any jazz baritonist, and the settings in which he found himself in the 1950s directly reflected this; Rendell's Jazz Six patterned itself on the Mulligan Sextet, and Ross himself led a carbon copy instrumentation of the American's pianoless quartet featuring Bob Brookmeyer, with Ken Wray taking the valve-trombone role. A tour opposite the Modern Jazz Quartet brought Ross to John Lewis's attention, and as a result Ross was not only guest with the MJQ, but recorded with the pianist and the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra on Lewis's suite European Windows in 1959. The free jazz revolution deeply offended Ross's musically cultured sensibilities in the next decade, which came ironically at the time when he was producing some of his finest work - such as the rare World Record Club album he recorded in 1963 with his long-time collaborator, pianist and vibraphonist Bill Le Sage. A retreat to the world of session musician was increasingly necessary from then on, and he received widespread acclaim (and nothing more than a flat session fee!) for his famous cameo solo on Lou Reed's A Walk On The Wild Side in the 1970s. |
Meet Don Rendell Quartet / Quintet / Sextet [1954] Playtime Don Rendell Jazz Six [1958] Roarin' Quintet [1961] Just Music Quintet with Barbara Thompson [1974] Live At the Avgarde Gallery [1974] Touch Links of Gold BBC tapes [1980/82] If I Should Lose You Don Rendell's Big Eight [1990/91] What Am I Here For? Quintet [1993/96] with Rendell/Carr Quintet :-
Rendell/Carr Quintet Live From the Antibes Jazz Festival [1964] Shades of Blue / Dusk Fire [1964/66] Live In London [1965] Phase III / "Live" [1968]
Meet Don Rendell [1954] | |||||
Skidmore's replacement in the Lyttelton band in 1960 was Danny Moss, a tenorist who, despite having had a lengthy association with Johnny Dankworth's band, was actually more out of the swing school led by Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins. With Dankworth he had frequently been partnered by Art Ellefson - a player of choppy eloquence who sounded much like Zoot Sims, but who nevertheless failed to break through into wider fame and was eventually to return to his native Canada. Moss himself emigrated to Australia but still returns regularly to the United Kingdom to tour. |
and BRUCE TURNER The Lyttelton band into which Temperley entered was a veritable hot bed of mainstream saxophone talent, when he joined a reed team of Tony Coe and Jimmy Skidmore. Skidmore's career had stretched back to before the Second World War, and he became one of the first convincing British jazz saxophonists gifted with an unpretentious swing-based style that took in the best, from Coleman Hawkins to Zoot Sims. This adaptable voice meant he was comfortable in settings as diverse as the modernistic Ralph Sharon Sextet and Humphrey Lyttelton's group. If he lacked anything it was the drive to push himself to become the star he genuinely was. The recording of the Hawkins-associated shibboleth Body and Soul, which he made with Lyttelton in 1960, remains a classic. Tony Coe shared Skidmore's adaptability, and when with Lyttelton underwent an amazing stylistic development. His alto playing always suggested swing stars like Willie Smith, but on tenor perhaps only Paul Gonsalves came anywhere close to what Coe was attempting. Building outwards from the mainstream settings in which he frequently worked, Coe began to experiment with atonality and bitonality in his improvisations, and his advanced outlook drew him and fellow maverick Kenny Wheeler together in the late 1960s. By this time Coe's workload was getting ridiculous; gigs with Johnny Dankworth, with his own quartet, with Wheeler and others went alongside frequent session dates and recordings and appearances with the international Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, wherein Coe successfully vied with fellow tenors Ronnie Scott and Johnny Griffin. In 1966 he was offered a job with Count Basie's band, and, although this was never realised, one cannot imagine that it would have stimulated Coe's musical inquisitiveness. He remains a truly sui generis player, one able to turn the tradition inside out when performing standards. Unfortunately, like as with others of his generation able to play both abstract and structured music equally well, Coe has been forced to work more often than not in continental Europe, and he is seen all too infrequently in Britain. Nevertheless his sound is known to millions through his tenor solo on Henry Mancini's Pink Panther movie score. Undoubtedly the most singular of the players who operated in the broad church of mainstream was the alto saxophonist Bruce Turner, a genuine eccentric who had reviled his contemporaries by largely ignoring bebop, studying with Lee Konitz, and then forming a 'Jump Band,' the kind of groovy swing group that had made stars of Louis Jordan and Earl Bostic in the 1940s. Critical brickbats flew at Turner for doing this, but anyone who bothered to listen would have heard a beautifully integrated alto style that married the best of swing era methodology with the less pretentious aspects of bebop. Further controversy haunted Turner when he joined the band of Acker Bilk in 1966 - jazz suicide, the purists thought - but again Turner remained resolutely himself and largely untroubled by other definitions of jazz. Tribute to this catholic yet individual outlook came in the late 1970s, when bassist Dave Green utilized Turner's considerable talent on his Fingers Remember Mingus album, a project which paired Turner with the outrageous Lol Coxhill on soprano sax, and which found him playing the music of Ornette Coleman with the same dedication as he had played middle-period swing. |
Read the first volume of Innovations in British Jazz by John Wickes, his survey of British jazz of this period. Mike Pearson's Conversations in British Jazz includes interviews with Peter King, Ronnie Scott, Evan Parker, Art Themen, Trevor Watts, Barbara Thompson, Don Weller, Don Rendell, Bobby Wellins and John Surman. Alan Robertson's Joe Harriott: Fire In His Soul; read our review of this book. Dick Heckstall-Smith's Blowing The Blues.
Humph Returns to the Conway [1961]
Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home [1962] Some Other Autumn [1971] | |||||
Once Upon A Time [1970] | ||||
BOBBY WELLINS Wellins is a rarity among British reed-men. He received the typical dance band training that most of his contemporaries had gone through, but he then eschewed the comfort of the session world to concentrate on improvisation. His first recording, made in 1960 under the leadership of drummer Tony Crombie, is startling. Already in evidence are the qualities which make Wellins stand out: the keen wounded tone, the long slow vibrato, the tactical use of space - highly novel coming at the time when most saxophonists aspired to the lightning dashes around chord sequences made by Tubby Hayes - and his amazing ability to disguise a song's harmonic framework by avoiding hackneyed cliches. This resilience and independence drew Wellins and pianist Stan Tracey together in the early 1960s. The pair pioneered free form improvisation (independent of Harriott or Coleman's models), and begun to illustrate that home grown resources could be as relevant as the American blues-rooted tradition. Wellins drew upon his Scottish ancestry and composed an impressive large scale free-scape Culloden Moor; while Tracey's Under Milk Wood suite, featuring Wellins, was, arguably, the first truly independent British jazz album. The haunting majesty of Wellins' solo on Starless and Bible Black from this session has been commented upon before, and deservedly so, although this has tended to sideline his incredible invention throughout this eight part work; A.M. Mayhem appropriated the blues in a way that no other British jazz artist had done before, and was an improvisation of stunning creation. However, familiar extra-musical problems blighted his career in the 1970s, and only of late has he gained the recognition he deserves. He has continued to work with Stan Tracey, as well as releasing a series of 'song book' projects which concentrate on interpretations of the work of artists such as Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, all of which are recommended. |
The Satin Album [1996] Under Milk Wood with Stan Tracey [1965] | ||||
Mirroring Osborne's intensity was the exiled South
African Dudu Pukwana - a Joe Harriott
for the 1970s - whose musical assertiveness was often a reflection of
his personality. Pukwana, along with fellow South African exiles, did
a lot to 'loosen up' British jazz in the 1970s, pushed it closer to
its African roots than would have been thought possible a decade before,
and created a melting pot where very different inspirations and disciplines
were forced to find common ground. WEB LINK FOR JOHN SURMAN: www.serious.org.uk www.abrsmpub.co.uk |
and EVAN PARKER Just as Hayes, Morrissey and King had taken their cues from the hard bop of the 1950s, these new men were inspired by the recent experiments of John Coltrane and by mavericks like Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy. The influence of all three could be felt in the work of those saxophonists involved in the group led by drummer John Stevens, The Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Altoist Trevor Watts was perhaps the first saxophonist in this country to understand the methods of Ornette Coleman, and tenorist Evan Parker made enviable inroads into the often-confusing soundworld of late-Coltrane. However the difference between Watts and Parker from the players of Tubby Hayes' generation, was their ability to go beyond a mere synthesis of their inspirations into the creation of their own musical identity. By the late 1960s, Parker in particular - through his technical skill, interest in multiphonics (simultaneous notes played on a monophonic instrument), overtones and circular breathing - was going beyond what even Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders had achieved. Because of its lack of reliance on the jazz tradition, this was a significant breakthrough that went almost unnoticed; and as the 1970s progressed it became impossible to place Parker within any jazz school, other than that of the European free improvisers, whose methods and rationale often differed substantially from that of their American counterparts. Parker nevertheless continues to see himself as part of the jazz tradition and points out frequently that, by its very nature, tradition must embrace all facets of jazz performance, and not just those favoured by the Wynton Marsalis retro-school. His appearance with various line-ups led by the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts since the 1980s has made it possible to hear his intense curlicue collages of sound alongside classic stylists like Danny Moss and Peter King, a veritable mini-history of British jazz saxophone development. His boldest move on record, indeed something of a manifesto for his whole approach, was the 1975 album entitled simply Saxophone Solos, which, without resorting to over-dubbed trickery, is a welter of overwhelming sound from his unaccompanied soprano. This independence of thought was not peculiar to Parker. Baritone and soprano saxophonist John Surman and altoist Mike Osborne made similar independent achievement away from the pervading influence of the Americans. John Surman's achievements were all the more notable for having been pioneered on the baritone, never the front runner in the saxophone family and the instrument that had produced some of the most conservative and reserved musical voices of British jazz. His mastering of the harmonic overtone - the high notes outside the 'written' saxophone range - meant that he could soar well into the range of Coltrane's tenor playing; and this was matched with an intense, passionate sound and a formidable technique. By the late 1960s Surman had become something of a new age Ronnie Ross. He was working with both the best local players and American musicians of similar stylistic tastes, a situation that has not abated to this day. The recordings he made as part of The Trio, comprising bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Stu Martin besides the Englishman, are perhaps his finest early work. The more pastoral side of Surman appeared when he utilised his home resources, such as his Devonian ancestry and his love of the work of Thomas Hardy, making him a genuinely 'English' performer. Unlike Evan Parker, he probably sees himself as outside the jazz tradition, at least as defined by American parameters. If anything he is more aligned to the European school, particularly to those performers under the aegis of the ECM record label, for which Surman has recorded much of his best work. Indeed, Surman joins Tony Coe as one of the musicians who seem to work less in the land of their birth. But whether his work is on soprano or baritone, or whether leading a brass ensemble or solo, or as a composer, there is little denying the individuality of Surman's approach. Mike Osborne was Surman's partner in the saxophone section of Mike Westbrook's band of the mid-1960s. A player of immense physicality, intensity and passion, he had been originally a disciple of Jackie McLean, a similar fiery performer who had played with Mingus in the 1950s; but the impression of Ornette Coleman altered his outlook radically. His finest moment on record came in 1970 with the album Outback - a two performance classic which partnered him with trumpeter Harry Beckett, and a record as blazingly alight as anything recorded then in the United States. The dark demons that fuelled his music ultimately were too much for "Ossie," and he has been hospitalized since his mental collapse in the early 1980s. |
John Surman [1968] Tales Of the Algonquin [1971] Westering Home [1972] Morning Glory [1973] Upon Reflection [1979] Such Winters Of Memory [1983] Withholding Pattern [1985] Road To St Ives [1990] Adventure Playground [1992] The Brass Project with John Warren [1993] Stranger Than Fiction with John Taylor [1994] Proverbs And Songs with John Taylor [1997] Coruscating [2000]
Outback [1970] Shapes [1972] Border Crossing / Marcel's Muse [1974/77]
Prayer For Peace Amalgam [1969] Innovation Amalgam [1974] Another Time Amalgam [1976] Samanna Amalgam [1977] With One Voice Trevor Watts' Moire Music [1988] | ||||||
Dick Heckstall-Smith © BRIAN J. DAVIES |
LOL COXHILL Coxhill, perhaps more than any other player represents the total independence that British saxophonists had achieved finally by the 1970s. His 1971 LP The Ear of the Beholder is unlike anything being produced across the Atlantic at this time, and has little connection with any tradition in jazz. The trio recording in which he participated with Evan Parker and the American sopranist Steve Lacy has no suggestion that the two Englishmen are deferential junior partners to Lacy, which reflects the hard won respect that Britain's saxophone improvisers had worked for since the Second World War. Coxhill in particular has never hidden the 'Englishness' of his music, and has made an asset out of the very thing the bebop generation sought to escape. Ironically it was the revelatory discovery that drawing upon their own traditions - the 'being yourself' which the American jazz musicians had always less of a problem with - that finally evened out the scales for British improvisers. © SIMON SPILLETTJuly
Coxhill On Ogun [1977/1978] Tsunami Burt/MacDonald 4 and Lol Coxhill [2001] |
With grateful thanks to Mr Brian J. Davis for his permission to reproduce photographs of Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes and Dick Heckstall-Smith. back to previous page |
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Two men have been arrested in relation to metal theft after being pulled over by police officers.
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[Proposal] Create a Qt USA Group.
I just joined the forum and hoped to meet of with some fellow Qt Developers in the USA, but found there is no group yet. Hope to see one soon. :)
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It is just a couple of points that are needed to be able to request groups. So just become involved here and you will soon be able to request your own group!
PS: Why do you think a US group is needed? I understand people who are not fluent in English to ask for their own groups, but Americans usually do not fall into that category, do they? :-)
In some discussion, people said, they want language groups, some wanted regional groups, e.g. for finding other Qt Developer sin their region or for local events etc.
That was my thinking, yes. Hence a US group would make sense.
The forums however, I try to keep to language rather than countries or regions.
Honestly, whether it's language or region is not of concern to me; I suppose I just felt left out when browsing the available groups. My thoughts on the Qt US group was to look for developers close to myself. Also to see what other Americans were sharing related to the common interest specific to the Us region. Though I know the forums are geared towards Qt development in general.
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LIZ FOX is as concerned as anyone else about current tensions among the oil-producing states of the Middle East. But the Cambridge-based specialist in energy-efficient construction sees a slight silver lining to these tensions. They just might knock a ``little sense'' into new-home buyers. ``Everyone who looks ahead further than next week,'' she says, ``knows that our current good fortune in low-priced oil won't last more than five or 10 years even if the Middle East stabilizes.'' She is aware, for instance, that industrialist Armand Hammer forecasts oil at around $100 a barrel by the turn of the century.
What bothers Ms. Fox are the tales builders bring to the ``residential building science'' seminars she organizes around the country. Too many are saying the same thing: When the homeowners have to decide between a better insulation package or an oak staircase or a Jacuzzi, ``the staircase and the Jacuzzi win out most of the time.''
Leon Trueman, who manages Hancock Building Materials Inc. in South Paris, Maine, concurs. Hancock markets a passive solar home designed to cope with the rugged winters of northern New England, and time was when Mr. Trueman would sell six or more of these homes in a year. Now he's down to half that number.
When energy prices were high, the first priority in a new home was energy performance, followed by good looks, Trueman says.
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Ads in major magazines devoted to home construction (Practical Homeowner and New England Builder excepted) tend to run 20 to 1 in favor of amenities and cosmetic options over energy efficient ones.
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Kyle Durham Brannock Pickens, SC Funeral services to honor Kyles life will be 3:00 PM Saturday in the Liberty Mortuary Chapel. Burial will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 1:00 until 3:00 PM. Kylan Kyle Scott Durham Brannock, 23, of 262 Concord Church Road, died Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at Greenville Memorial Hosptial. Born in Easley he was a son of Mickey Wesley Durham of Six Mile and Eve Whitlock Sheriff of Pickens. He was a member of Secona Baptist Church, and during his free time he loved to be outdoors and spend time with his friends and family. Surviving in addition to his mother and father are his great grandfather who raised him, Loyd Breazeale of the home; two sisters, Tiffany C. Durham of Six Mile, and Haley Brannock of Easley; his grandmother, Anna Rose Garrett of Pickens; two nieces, Tiffany Jade Smith and Mya Manley; his fiancé, Tabitha McDonald of Pickens. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Casey and Courtney Brannock, his grandfather, Terry Butch Whitlock, and two great grandmothers, Marie Breazeale and Eva Whitlock. Flowers will be accepted or memorials in Kyles honor may be made to the charity of ones choice. The family will be at the home of his grandmother, Anna Rose Garrett, 300 Concord Church Road, Pickens SC. Memorial messages may be sent to the family by visiting www.libertymortuary.com Liberty Mortuary is handling arrangements.
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