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John
Law Art of Sound Trio (With support from Tom McCredie Quartet) Christine Tobin Band featuring Phil Robson Deirdre Cartwright double bill – Duo Remembering Emily and Quartet featuring Sarah P Empirical (v. 2.1) (With support from the Lee Jones Trio) Carlos Lopez-Real - Mandorla (With support from the Friday Lunchtime Project) Dave Newton All Star Sextet Loz Speyer’s Time Zone Steve Melling Septet |
Special Summer Series 2009 Nicki
Allan Jazz Sextet |
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John
Law Art of Sound Trio Reuben
Fowler - tpt / flgl John
Law Art of Sound Trio John
Law - piano |
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Christine
Tobin Band featuring Phil Robson Dublin-born
Christine has finally, with her seventh CD release, found a style which
resonates with the wider jazz community. Respected as a performer and
a song-writer for nearly 20 years, she performs music on “Secret
Life” which melds all her influences into a serious and entertaining
medley of songs. Christine has been nominated twice in the BBC Jazz Awards
and last year achieved the Best Singer accolade. "She has clearly assimilated into her own style the music from apparently disparate fields. The strength, control and purity of her voice, and the telling contribution of her band ensure a satisfying artistic whole." - (Chris Parker, BBC Music Magazine) Christine
Tobin - vocals Web:
www.babellabel.co.uk/Babel
Artists - Tobin.htm
and www.myspace.com/ctobes |
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Deirdre
Cartwright double bill – Duo Remembering Emily and
Quartet featuring Sarah P How
many female jazz guitarists do you know? Well they’re both at Wakefield
for this gig and paying tribute to the great American who died tragically
young - Emily Remler. Kathy Dyson, who has known Deirdre for 20 years
or more, joins her to show how the achievements of Emily’s mere
10-year career through the 80s made an indelible impression on the world
of guitarists and jazz. Latest
CD: Tune Up, Turn On, Stretch Out (Blow the Fuse) |
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Empirical
(v. 2.1) (With
support) When
Jay Phelps and Kit Downes left Empirical to pursue their own projects
a radical shake-up was inevitable. The immensely successful, award-winning
band needed to fulfil a string of gigs already booked and convince that
their heart was still sound. To reform in two new groupings and vary the
style of music each performs suggests a marketing savvy beyond their years.
To ditch the piano and bring in Lewis Wright (seen with Clark Tracey)
on vibes is another major step. Latest
CD: Out but In (to be released 2009) |
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Carlos
Lopez-Real - Mandorla Olivia
Dobson - Alto Carlos
Lopez-Real - Mandorla Latest
CD: Mandorla (F-IRE) Release April / Launch 21 May |
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Dave
Newton All Star Sextet This
band was constructed at the request of John Sims from Darlington to showcase
one of his favourite musicians. We were delighted to do so, especially
as he has such exquisite taste. That everyone was available and happy
to come to Wakefield is both lucky for us and a tribute to John. Dave
O’Higgins - tenor sax Latest
CD: No recordings exist of this unique band |
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Loz
Speyer’s Time Zone Loz first brought his music to Wakefield four years ago. Since then he has boosted the band by adding the authentic congas of Colombian Alejandro Martinez and Jez Franks on guitar, until recently Leeds-based. He has also spent more time in Cuba where his musical inspiration comes from. TIME ZONE plays high-energy jazz with a strong undercurrent of Afro-Cuban rhythms, and rhythmical changes which open up the music in unexpected directions. This is fresh, individual and contemporary music brought together by a composer, whose work reflects the experience of living for periods of time in Santiago de Cuba, his wife’s home city. Taking elements from Cuban music and reassembling them differently in a jazz context, the music expresses some of the surreal complexity of real life in, and of an outsider’s close relationship with, Cuba. It also draws fully on the capabilities of six great musicians who rise collectively to the challenge with enthusiasm, ‘panache’ and good humour! “Trumpeter
Loz Speyer specialises in a mix of mutated American hard-bop and classic
Afro-Cuban music... that turns out to be a vigorous display of independent
character... Speyer has done things his own way and the result is a contemporary
Latin-Jazz of considerable muscle.” Loz
Speyer - trumpet/flugel Latest
CD: Five Animal Dances (Inner Space Music) |
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Steve
Melling Septet Another high quality band to close our main season - if there’s no Appleby Festival to go to then we’ll have to bring it to us. Steve has been writing fine music for bigger groups for some time but it is usually only festivals which can afford to put on bands worthy of the music. Here we have the definitive collection of artists who will interpret his scores to perfection. They’ll also be sure to provide solo excitement at the same level as their leader does. This will be a night to remember and savour until our new season begins in September - don’t miss it. Simon
Allen - alto sax Latest CD: Solar (recorded at Appleby) Web:
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Special
Summer Series 2009 This
is an addition to our normal programme in which we feature local musicians,
especially young ones, to fulfil our desire to nurture the up-and-coming
talent of the region Her
band is a collection of the cream of local musicians with several band
leaders among them. Tony
Burkill - tenor |
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Leeds
Youth Jazz Rock Orchestra (LYJRO)
(Friday 3rd July 2009) The latest version of a long-standing band (since 1991) run by Brendan Duffy. The musicians are drawn from many Leeds Secondary Schools. Web: www.lyjro.org.uk Top |
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