About Jazspeak

Jazspeak was first conceived and formed in 1988, in Newquay, Cornwall. Starting as a guitar and piano duet and later developing to include a variety of other musicians and instruments, and the early recordings of Jazspeak reveal the roots of the compositional style that now utilises entire computerised orchestras.

The music of Jazspeak has been made available on the Internet through a number of sites including Pump Audio, Primetones, Garageband, and Download.com. Audio CDs of the music of JAZSPEAK are also available through Peaceworkmusic.net, in USA and Ukraine, and So Rock Records, in the Peoples’ Republic of China.

Jazspeak CDs and CD-ROMs are available direct from the band through this web site. The first thirteen albums are on the Bakers Dozen CD-ROM as mp3 accessible directly from the disc via the m3u playlists on the disc.

JAZSPEAK is a Registered Band Name (ISBN Code 20056627).

About the Composer

P.S.Belcher is best known as a Jazz guitarist having performed with a wide variety of bands and ensembles in the UK and Europe, including recitals with Bobby Wellins (formerly tenor sax in the Stan Tracey Quartet), and The New Society Jazz Band.
Attended Chichester College of Arts, Science, and Technology (CCOAST) to study both Jazz and Popular Music, which led to an interest in Academic studies of music, moving on to study at

University College Chichester.

In the summer of 1999, P.S.Belcher was commissioned by University College Chichester to research and compose a piece of music depicting a history of Jazz from Blues to Bebop. The research report that accompanies the composition traces a history of the development of the original work songs and field hollers of the slaves to the sophistication of chromatic theories in Jazz. The influence of Western European music on the slave song-styles has been clearly documented in the report, which seeks to describe a lineage of the development of Jazz from the apparently simplistic Blues and field hollers to the obviously complex and sophisticated chromaticism of Bebop.
Also created and produced a multimedia composition, Phototropism, as part of a collaborative project with University College Chichester and Queen's College (New York) in 1999. The collaboration was performed at the Chichester Fringe Festival, and in New York, in 1999.

From 1999 to 2001, P.S.Belcher was engaged in Graduate and Postgraduate research at University College Chichester, including researching the Semiotic of Music and the possible prenatal origins of the language of Music. These studies have found a correlation between Music and Zipf's Law of Human Languages. In addition to the Academic work, P.S.Belcher has composed, recorded, and released fifteen JAZSPEAK albums and a number of multimedia videos. More recently, in 2011-2012, saw the Resident Jazspeak Composer working on a project with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare for the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of Jamaican Independence.