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Whitehead
/ Gee Quartet (support: Lorraine Cowburn and Gary Boyle) Aubin Vanns Trio Kim Macari Sextet Tom Thorp's Mercury Quartet The Sam Gardner Quartet Yoruba with support: The Andrew Linham Quartet The Kate Peters Septet Katie Patterson's Allsorts |
Alan
Barnes Art Trip Nigel Price Organ Trio Ben Crosland's Brass Group The John Law Trio Tina May Band Tim Lapthorn Trio Enrico Pieranunzi Trio Nicolas Meier Quintet |
Whitehead
/ Gee Quartet
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supported by singer Lorraine Cowburn accompanied by guitarist Gary Boyle (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 Top |
![]() Tim Whitehead ![]() Jonathan Gee ![]() Arnie Somogyi ![]() Winston Clifford |
Summer
Festival of Green Shoots 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 Top 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 Top 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 Top |
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Autumn
Festival - best new regional bands Tickets
available on the door.
Jamil
Sheriff - piano |
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Tickets
available on the door.
(8.00pm start) Andrew
Linham - tenor sax |
![]() Yoruba |
Tickets
available on the door. |
![]() Kate Peters |
Tickets available on the door. Canadian girl drummer leads a hard-hitting quartet. Katie
Patterson - drums |
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Alan
Barnes Art Trip
(Friday 5 October) The ever popular Alan plays the music of Art Pepper with the Craig Milverton Trio. One of the greatest alto players of the 50s 60s and 70s, Art had a troubled career which was interrupted by drug addiction and consequent prison sentences. Nevertheless some of the most memorable albums of the time - "Art Pepper + 11", " Smack Up", "Living Legend", "Meets the Rhythm Section" - are his legacy. Alan revisits and revoices that music. Craig was voted Jazz Pianist of the Year at the 2010 British Jazz Awards. Alan Barnes - alto sax Craig Milverton - piano Al Swainger - bass Nick Millward - drums Latest
CD: Two for the Road (with Martin Taylor) (WVCD 133) |
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Nigel
Price Organ Trio
With support from the Caterina Comeglio's Quei Due at 7:30pm Best Jazz Ensemble 2010 (APPJAG awards). (Friday 12 October) One of the country's leading guitarists Nigel specialises in compositions based on standard jazz forms. His exhilarating funky playing adds to the instantly likeable nature of his jazz. Anyone who digs the Hammond organ sound will also be bowled over by its role in this brilliant band. Nigel Price - guitar Pete Whittaker - Hammond organ Matt Home - drums Latest
CD: Heads and Tales (Woodville) Web:
www.nigelprice.biz Caterina
Comeglio - voice |
![]() Nigel Price ![]() Caterina Comeglio's Quei Due |
Ben
Crosland's Brass Group
Suite inspired by works at Yorkshire Sculpture Park rouses sponsorship. (Friday 19 October) The Brass Group has grown out of Threeway, Crosland's trio which explores the possibilities in a group without drums. It was formed in 2010 to record and perform Ben's new set of compositions, "An Open Place" commissioned for the 20th Marsden Jazz Festival and inspired by sculptures at the Y S P. We are grateful to a sponsor who has made this concert possible for us. This stellar sextet retains the same intimacy and subtlety as the trio whilst the larger instrumentation provides Crosland with a broader compositional palette to develop the colours and textures of his pieces with rich voicings and imaginative ensemble writing. The improvisational skill and creativity of these great soloists are a given. Ben Crosland - bass Steve Lodder - piano and keyboard Steve Waterman - trumpet and flugel Marti Shaw - trumpet and flugel Mark Nightingale - trombone Barnaby Dickinson - trombones Latest CD: An Open Place (JazzCat) Web: www.jazz-cat.com |
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The
John Law Trio
Remarkably popular pianist returns for another exceptional performance. (Friday 26 October) John Law is back with a trio on the Three Leaps of the Gazelle tour playing a mixture of his own compositions and clever arrangements of others - his first collaboration with Yuri Goloubev. "World class pianist John Law's new trio is as melodic, accessible and catchy as anyone in the crowded piano trio sector." - Phil Johnson, Independent on Sunday. This gig is supported by a Jazz Services touring grant. John Law - piano Yuri Goloubev - bass Tim Giles - drums Latest CD: Three Leaps of the Gazelle (33 Jazz) Web: www.myspace.com/johnlawmusic |
![]() John Law - photo by Bob Meyrick |
Tina
May Band
As
popular in France as she is in the UK, Tina has also recorded in the USA
with Ray Bryant among others. Tonight she brings her life-long friend
and musical partner Nikki Iles to present an exemplar of the art of jazz. Latest
CD: No More Hanky Panky (with her Paris quintet) (33 Records 33JAZZ220) Louise
Gibbs with the Mark Donlon Trio: |
![]() Tina May with Nikki Iles ![]() Louise Gibbs and Mark Donlon |
Tim
Lapthorn Trio
(Friday
9 November) Web:
bobbywellins.co.uk
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![]() Tim Lapthorn and Bobby Wellins |
Enrico
Pieranunzi Trio
(Friday 16 November) - Ticketed gig Italy's world famous equivalent to Keith Jarrett comes to Wakefield. Enrico has had an illustrious career in Classical music and Jazz since the 1970s when he recorded the first of over 70 CDs. He has played with all the Jazz greats and in venues such as Birdland and The Village Vanguard where he also recorded. He was given "Best European Musician Award" (1997), and his CD "Live in Paris" is included in Downbeat's best CDs of the decade 2000 - 2010. Yet he is almost unknown in the UK. This is a rare opportunity to hear him in a local club setting - not to be missed. "Pieranunzi is a pianist of intense lyricism, able to swing with energy and freshness and, at the same time, never losing his poetic capacity. His music sings." - Nat Hentoff. Enrico
Pieranunzi - piano Web:
www.enricopieranunzi.com
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Nicolas
Meier Quintet
(Friday 23 November) Amazing Swiss guitarist returns to promote his new CD. Nicolas has the facility to play fluent music in acoustic or electric guitar styles and to replicate that on related instruments. His entertainment value is terrific as his last appearance at Wakefield attested. This band can only enhance our enjoyment as we have a trio of superlative musicians to drive him along. The occasional addition of Pat Bettison's harmonica and Demi Garcia's percussion are superb bonuses. Nicolas Meier - acoustic guitars, glissentar and baglama Lizzie Ball - violin Pat Bettison - bass & harmonica Asaf Sirkis - drums Demi Garcia - percussion Latest CD: Breeze and Journey but new CD will be ready for this tour. Web:
www.meiergroup.com |
![]() Nicolas Meier |
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