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Scarborough Jazz festival – UK 2017 Jazz Venue of the Year!

Posted on 11 October 2017 by Steve Crocker

So the north has done it again – the second year running a NorvolJazz network promoter has won the jazz venue of the year in the prestigious Parliamentary Jazz awards. And our warmest congratulations to Mike and Marion Gordon who Continue reading Scarborough Jazz festival – UK 2017 Jazz Venue of the Year!→

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Wakefield's January programme

Pigfoot 31 Jan

From Pete Rosser

Happy New Year to everyone from Wakefield Jazz!

We return this Friday 17th Jan with Alina Hip Harp, the new quartet led by the remarkable Ukrainian harpist Alina Bzhezhinska, with a more electric angle on jazz, funk and trip-hop, with Mikele Montolli (bass), Adam Teixeira (drums) and Joel Prime (percussion).

Friday 24th Jan we welcome SogoRock (a Northen Line/Jazz North supported sextet from Leeds) - led by Hungarians Bela Horvath and Ferenc Lakatos, they promise elements of jazz, fusion, funk, rock and gospel, with Nic Svarc on guitar, plus sax/synth/keyboards/bass/drums.

And on Friday 31st Jan, the acid trad phenomenon that is Pigfoot, a quartet of UK jazz luminaries deconstructing tunes everyone knows with irresistible good humour and irreverence. Chris Batchelor (trumpet), James Allsop (Bari sax), Liam Noble (piano/keyboards) and Paul Clarvis (drums).

A storming start to the new year - book tickets and food at www.wakefieldjazz.org

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: January 19, 2020, 10:23 pm

35th Wigan International Jazz Festival line up announced

Electric Lady Big Band (pic J Bentley @JazzLeeds Fest 2019)

Lineup for 35th Wigan International Jazz Festival has just been announced - Ruby Turner, Grace Kelly, Electic Lady Big Band and more will be appearing .

Festival will be held 9-12 July at a new venue The Village on the Green at Aspull. See wiganjazzfest.co.uk Ian Darrington the festival director asks if we can spread the word & RT & help us generate a healthy, long-term future for the event!

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: January 19, 2020, 11:44 am

Sheffield Jazz this Spring

Jean Toussaint quartet 24 January

It’s not too long to wait for the Sheffield Jazz Spring 2020 programme. It's a great opening to the season at the Crucible on Friday 24th January when we welcome the international stars of the Jean Toussaint quartet. We can expect seriously exciting music from both Jean himself and his acclaimed pianist Andrew McCormack, who impressed so much in Jean's last Sheffield appearance. They're followed by the phenomenal young pianist Fergus McCreadie and his trio at Crookes on 31 January - one of the hottest, most exciting young bands in European jazz at the moment, his Scottish-inflected jazz winning rave reviews.

The international flavour continues as Swedish vocalist Emilia Martensson and her band arrive at Crookes on 7th February with a fine reputation. A truly original artist, her personal compositions are firmly rooted in the folklore and countryside of her native Sweden. On 21st February one of UK's most creative and fluent sax players Martin Speake plays at Crookes with a brilliant quartet, featuring Ethan Iverson (Bad Plus) on piano, Calum Gourlay on bass and Jeff Wiliams on drums. February closes with a visit to the University's Firth Hall where the Barry Green trio play - a welcome return after his stand-out gig a couple of years ago at the Crucible and who has played with stars such as Ian Shaw, Chris Cheek, Gerald Cleaver and Bobby Wellins.

Sheffield-based saxophonist, composer and record producer Martin Archer brings his Anthropology octet to Crookes on 6th March to revisit the electric period of Miles Davis. After a short break, the 20th March at Crookes sees the welcome return of Ant Law and his very talented guitar-led quartet, to perform music from their third album "Life I know", currently receiving 5 star reviews. To close March, on the 27th Nikki Iles brings her 18 piece orchestra, a superb big band featuring Julian Siegel, Tori Freestone, Karen Sharp and Gareth Lochrane which will demonstrate the depth and range of her compositions.

After Easter we're back at Crookes on 17th April with Trish Clowes' My Iris - thought provoking music with driving grooves, distinctive melodies and inventive shifts in tempo. This is followed by the visit of Alan Barnes +11, here to celebrate his 60th birthday with a collection of tunes from 1959 - an exceptional and iconic year for jazz with Kind of Blue, Giant Steps, Mingus' Ah Um, Thelonius Monk at Town Hall and Dave Brubeck's Time Out all likely to feature in Alan's repertoire. We return to Firth Hall on Thursday 30th April when Jason Rebello brings the trio that played such a brilliant gig at the Crucible in 2017. Finally, our last gig of the before the summer break is Yazz Ahmed's Hafla Band at Crookes on 8th May - an eagerly awaited return after her hugely popular gig last year and here to play her new album "Polyhymnia", a celebration of female creativity. Expect colourful melodies resonant with the sounds and sensations of the Middle East with her sonorous trumpet lines.

Full details of our Spring 2020 programme are given here http://www.sheffieldjazz.org.uk/

Author: Steve Crocker

Posted: January 6, 2020, 11:55 pm