Michael Gibbs receives an honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire, 13 November 2025. 📷 JLW
Big band at the Eastside Jazz Club at Birmingham Conservatoire playing Mike Gibbs’s chart ‘Knees Up’. 📷 JLW
One of several wall displays celebrating the life and work of jazz composer, arranger and bandleader Mike Gibbs.
Photo of me (John L. Walters) and Mike Gibbs at Birmingham Conservatoire by Mike’s daughter Nikki. Thu 13 November 2025. I have known Mike since I was a student, and produced his 1988 album Big Music for Virgin / Venture. At the time it was his first album for 13 years. Not yet available via streaming, you can hear the album on YouTube, https://youtu.be/ojvmI0XOybk
Great day in celebration of Michael Gibbs’s honorary doctorate at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Friends, family, staff, students and lots of music inc. a terrific student big band at the Eastside Jazz Club.
Big thanks to Ed Puddick.
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