moochin' about

Moochin’ About

About Moochin About

 

Moochin’ About was launched in early 2011, by producer, musician, DJ, Jason Lee Lazell. The label initially started out producing the critically acclaimed Jazz On Film series and has so far re-issued some classic and forgotten masterpieces, including 1950’s Film Noir scores such as Elmer Bernsteins  “Man With The Golden Arm’ & ‘Sweet Smell of Success’, Duke Ellington’s  “Anatomy Of Murder’, to lesser known gems like Charles Mingus’s “Shadows’, Freddie Redds ‘The Connection and Krzystof Komeda’s, sumptuously bright, yet cool and nuanced jazz score to Roman Polanski’s directorial debut ‘Knife in The Water’, which featured on the first volume of Jazz On Film…The New Wave, a comprehensive look at French New Wave and the films influenced by this movement…Moochin’ About has also gained the appreciation and admiration by a number of  radio personalities and has appeared and been played on shows such as  Cerys Matthews, Iggy Pop, Giles Peterson, Huey Morgan, Stuart Maconie – (Freak Zone ) all on BBC6 Music, The Jamie Cullum Show~ BBC radio 2, 

The Johnny Trunk Show ~ Resonance FM and Robert Elms ~ BBC London ~ to name but a few…

the label has currently been working with critically acclaimed singer songwriter perry blake, and manchester icons, the chameleons... 


the label is based in arnside cumbria and has taken up residency promoting gigs on at the local sailing club, where we’ve had appearances from poet laurette simon armitage and his band lyr, spear of destiny frontman – kirk brandon, the chameleons, jay aston from gene loves jezebel and ian mcnabb…