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Neon
A bit of a mouthful - an evening with Ian Shaw
Geoff Eales and Isorhythm
Sarah Gillespie band featuring Gilad Atzmon
Tournesol Trio
Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble with the Sigamos Quartet
Cecilia Stalin band with Tony Kofi
Whitehead / Gee Quartet
Aubin Vanns Trio
Kim Macari Sextet
Tom Thorp's Mercury Quartet
(Friday 9 March)
Damon is a very active trumpeter based in Paris and linked through his European playing with an international rang e of Jazz stars including Steve Grossman with whom he runs a quintet. He's also a member of popular funk band Push. His award-winning band Killer Shrimp with Ed Jones has always gone down well at Wakefield and we can expect similar post bop melodious music tonight.
However the range of influences deriving from the foremost Japanese pianist, German bass player and three Brit.s will be various and interesting. Matt Skelton is drummer of choice for the John Wilson Orchestra (among others) - he therefore had a gig at last summer's Proms.
Damon Brown - trumpet
Yutaka Shiina - piano
Christian Brewer - alto / soprano sax
Martin Zenker - bass
Matt Skelton - drums
Latest
CD: Sincerely Whatever (33 records)
Web: www.damonbrown.co.uk
Damon Brown
(Friday 16 March)
With Support from Michael De Souza Quartet
This chamber jazz quartet has been running for 10 years or so and has Jim and Stan as immutable members. With Kit Downes' freewheeling piano and Tim Giles' impressionistic drums the quartet has moved further into the realm of contemporary melodic jazz where the interaction of the members is as important as the soaring solos which are played. The lyrical sounds they produce yield one of those rare experiences in jazz; the truly moving moment when the beauty of the music overwhelms the means of its production. Very sophisticated playing in any genre aspires to this but rarely achieves it. Three of its members write for the band and so original "purpose-built " tunes are the mainstay of its presentation.
"An
enjoyable, power-packed and inventive session by a band comprising some
of the most individual talents on the British scene… It's top-drawer
contemporary jazz" - YORKSHIRE POST
Stan Sulzman - tenor sax
Jim Hart - vibraphone
Kit Downes - piano
Tim Giles - drums
Latest
CD: Catch Me (Edition Records)
Web:
www.editionrecords.com/artists/neon-quartet
Michael
De Souza Quartet
Michel De Souza - guitar
Ben Smith - alto sax
Tom Wheatley - bass
Harry Pope - drums
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Neon
Supported by the Ben Mallinder Band
(Friday 23 March)
Ian Shaw is one of the world's leading Jazz Singers and a National Treasure. You may not know that he started his career on the comedy circuit with the likes of Julian Clary and Jo Brand. Recently he has revived that area of his talent and done a tour with Rory Bremner and Hattie Hayridge known as "Rory Bremner and Friends" . It is a development of that material with extra songs, some from the solo album "Somewhere towards Love" ,that we will be treated to tonight.
Many of us who are used to his "asides" , often in the middle of a song, have wondered how the full on comedy persona would work, with little doubt that we'd be rolling in the aisles. So for Jazz singing of the best, piano playing to match and a built-in comedy show Wakefield Jazz is the place to be tonight.
"a high-class performance of timelessly high-class songs ... technically immaculate" - The Guardian
Ian Shaw - piano, vocals and innuendo
Latest
CD: The Abbey Road Sessions (Splashpoint records)
Web:
www.ianshaw.biz
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Ian Shaw
(Friday 20 April)
If you wonder how jazz developed after Weather Report - this could be it.
This genre-busting band lifts Geoff past modern towards avant-garde . He has shaken off any mustiness left from his long years at the BBC, indulged his creative curiosity and is rocking again.
Geoff has been waiting 30 years to get this band together. He has challenged himself by teaming up with new musicians Carl Orr and Ben Waghorne, gutsy and imaginative players in their own right. He now has a hard-hitting outfit with bass and drums to match.
(Geoff Eales) "...is a thoroughly mature and versatile musician, and this vibrant album is a welcome addition to his impressive discography." - Chris Parker
Geoff
Eales - piano & Fender Rhodes
Carl Orr - guitar
BenWaghorne -saxes & bass clarinet
Fred T Baker - electric bass
Mark Fletcher - drums
Latest
CD: Shifting Sands (33JAZZ26)
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Geoff Eales
(Friday 27 April)
Committed singer with a story to tell; words and music in harmony.
Described as delivering "...a melting-pot mix of urban-folk stamped with her trademark lyricism that knits everyday banter with raw poetry." Sarah's compositions demand to be supported by an accomplished musician to match the power of her words. This is exactly what Gilad provides.
We may be given a taste of "The War on Trevor", her new PRS-commissioned narrative piece of music, just-launched.
In a fifteen date tour this is your ONLY chance to experience this British-American artist in the North.
"Gillespie, who joins Bob Dylan's lyrical bite and languid delivery to the forthrightness of Joni Mitchell, with a little rap-like percussiveness thrown in, is an original." - John Fordham
Sarah
Gillespie - guitar and voice
Gilad Atzmon - clarinet and accordion
Ben Bastin - electric bass
Eddie Hick - drums
Latest CD: In the Current Climate
Sarah Gillespie
Sarah Gillespie band
(Friday 4 May)
Totally lyrical modern playing from young chamber jazzers.
Will Butterworth, pianist from Dylan Howe's Stravinski project teams up with like-minded altoist Séb Pipe to give a performance with many classical overtones. This is not cross-over or fusion, just beautiful music.
The drum-free sound of this trio reveals and enhances the intimate interaction of the musicians as they weave a magical tapestry of impressions.
Séb
Pipe - alto sax
Will Butterworth - piano
Marcus Penrose - bass
Latest CD: First CD "Tournesol" (Kelsey records - CMKD 1102)
Web:
www.myspace.com/tournesoltrio
Tournesol Trio
Gilad
Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble with the Sigamos Quartet
(Friday
11 May)
Parker with strings inspired this, now Robert Wyatt
influences the material.
Whether
honking for the Blockheads, soaring with this project, emoting in the
Orient House or accompanying Sarah Gillespie, Gilad never gives less than
his whole self when playing.
Commitment comes naturally to him in all aspects of his life.
As well as arranging some of his own pieces for strings Gilad now adds
new work from a collaboration with Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine, Brian Eno,
Bjork, David Gilmore) from "For the Ghosts Within"
"(Gilad) ...succeeds in conveying Bird's
mercurial genius, as well as accurately re-presenting what counts as some
of the most profoundly beautiful music ever made." - Phil Johnson
We are particularly grateful to a sponsor for underwriting this concert.
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Gilad Atzmon - saxes and clarinet
Frank Harrison - piano
Yaron Stavi - bass
Eddie Hick - drums
Sigamos Quartet led by Lizzie Ball
Latest
CD: The Tide has Changed
Web:
www.gilad.co.uk
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Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble with the Sigamos Quartet
(Friday 18 May)
The most successful of the new wave of European bands.
Just selected for the International Jazz Festival Organization (IJFO) new talent support programme over the next three years.
This European tour promotes the fourth CD by this remarkably intuitive group and follows "Alive" voted album of the year 2010 in Jazzwise and MOJO magazines.
The Phronesis sound incorporates tight rhythmic patterns and exploratory openness to create music that by turns drives with urban energy and resonates with sheer delightful abstraction.
Led
by Dane Høiby, with Swede Eger and Brit Neame who, heard on alto
sax with Gemini, plays his first instrument with totally fluent vibrancy.
Ivo Neame - piano
Jasper Høiby - bass
Anton Eger - drums
Latest CD: Walking Dark (EDN1031)
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article
Web:
www.phronesismusic.com
Jay
Davis Trio
Declan Forde - piano
Tom Wheatley - bass
Jay Davis - drums
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Phronesis
(Friday 25 May)
Swedish import sings the music of John Coltrane
Another first for Wakefield Jazz - Cecilia had an illustrious career in Stockholm before moving to London where she quickly made a name for herself too.
She is particularly notable for her own lyrics to, or arrangements of, Coltrane numbers - an ambitious project for a singer which was encouraged by Reggie Workman while she was working with him in New York. Her performance of Waltz for Koop with the nu-jazz duo Koop was included in the soundtrack for Woody Allen's film Match Point
Tony Kofi will spice up the mix and we introduce Peter Edwards musical director of Tomorrow's Warriors Jazz Orchestra and pianist for Abram Wilson.
Cecilia
Stalin - voice
Esben Tjalve - piano
Tony Kofi - saxes
Ben Hazelton - bass
Rod Youngs - drums
Latest CD: Coltrane Away
Web:
www.ceciliastalin.com
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Cecilia Stalin
(Friday 1 June)
Return of a highlight band from the Gemma Sykes tribute concert.
This gig is the climax of Wakefield Jazz's 25th year. To celebrate this, Jonathan Gee has been commissioned to write a piece (working title Wakefield Silver) to be premiered on this occasion. We are delighted he has agreed to do this and look forward immensely to hearing it.
This group of musicians came together for a short set in May 2011 when a charity concert placed them on the same bill. Their interaction was so electric that they had to be asked back for a full gig. Amazingly they agreed and were available tonight - a coup for Wakefield Jazz.
All are band-leaders in their own right. They can co-operate at the drop of a hat and their combined experience makes marvellous music inevitable.
Come and encourage them to recreate the magic once more for a full two hours.
Jonathan Gee - piano
Tim Whitehead - saxes
Arnie Somogyi - bass
Winston Clifford - drums
Latest CD: n/a
Web:
http://www.timwhitehead.co.uk
Web:
http://www.jonathangeetrio.co.uk
Web:
http://www.arniesomogyi.com
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Tim Whitehead
Jonathan Gee
Arnie Somogyi
Winston Clifford
Featuring the most promising of the new musicians with great bands from the nearby region.
Aubin Vanns Trio
(Friday 15 June)
Aubin Vanns - guitar
Martin Longhawn - piano
Steve Hanley - drums
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Kim Macari Sextet
(Friday 22 June)
Kim Macari - trumpet & flugel
Riley Stone-Lonergan - tenor
Ant Law - guitar
Declan Forde - piano
Tom Wheatley - bass
Steve Hanley - drums
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Tom Thorp's Mercury Quartet
(Friday 29 June)
Tom Thorpe - saxophones
Daniel Brew - guitar
Tim Langstone - bass
Jim Molyneux - drums "Mercury build the excitement and the beauty of improvised music into more modern feels and musical languages without losing the sophistication of compositional techniques, resulting in a whirling sound that sits somewhere in the space between contemporary jazz and popular music, and reflects their love of ECM, Rock and Electronica." - Manchester Jazz Festival
Debut album "Impetus" released June
Web: http://www.mercuryquartetmanchester.co.uk
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