EASTSIDE JAZZ CLUB
WHAT’S ON THU 9 JAN
DECEMBER ’19 - JA NUA RY ’20 0121 331 5909 | BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS /RoyalBirmCons
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PAUL DUNMALL
Birmingham City University
THU 5 DEC
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ridging jazz fans from 2019 into 2020, herewith our latest offering of incredible listening experiences at Eastside Jazz Club. In December we hope you join us for our Christmas “Knees-Up” which by now has to include Ellington’s Nutcracker and the Afro-Cuban band. Also watch out for a new theme, African Tour, featuring our own Township Band and special guest Tony Dudu. We are also delighted to start to open up the Monday Big Band nights to the community as the famous Birmingham Jazz Orchestra takes up its residency with us on Mon 9 Dec.
GRADUATE DOUBLE-BILL: TOM NIBLOCK QUARTET AND THE DAVE FERRIS / CHRIS YOUNG QUINTET 6.30pm Support 7.45pm Set 1 9pm Set 2 £15 (£12)
In the New Year, amidst Student Presents nights and new Jazz Canon themes, master trombonist John Fedchock appears as guest artist working with our students, and Mike Williams returns for a quartet appearance.
At Eastside Jazz Club we like to present all the staging posts of the musical journey for improvisers, from the novice to the master. All levels can be equally inspiring and particularly that of our recent graduates. Tonight, well on their way and already reaching great heights, we have two superb examples of the music created by jazz musicians in early career stage. Niblock, Ferris and Young lead excellent bands of the new generation.
Jazz music is inherently about inclusion, celebrating diversity and curiosity of other cultures and this is epitomised by one of our last dates in January with Tom Bancroft’s In Common that links British folk traditions with Indian music and jazz. But perhaps the most significant new offering from Eastside Jazz Club is the Paul Dunmall Invites series that promotes a world class artist from our area as well as the burgeoning professional jazz scene of our great city. Jeremy Price Head of Jazz, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Jacky Naylor
Tony Dudu
Charlie Bates
Ornette Coleman
MON 9 DEC
TUE 3 DEC
BIRMINGHAM JAZZ ORCHESTRA
JAZZ CANON: THE MUSIC OF ORNETTE COLEMAN 6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8) In this series we choose artists of indisputable significance to the development of jazz music and present various student jazz combos to perform their repertoire. Acknowledged masters in previous themes have included Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and our latest theme is the music of Ornette Coleman.
6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8)
FRI 6 DEC
AFRICAN TOUR: TONY DUDU AND THE GUMBE JAZZ
We welcome The Birmingham Jazz Orchestra to start a bi-monthly residency as part of our Monday night Big Band Series.
6.30pm Support 7.45pm Township Band directed by Riaan Vosloo 9pm Tony Dudu and Gumbe Jazz (DJ from 6pm and between sets) £15 (£12)
The Birmingham Jazz Orchestra is made up of internationally renowned musicians based in, or associated with Birmingham, many of whom are key creative voices on the Birmingham music scene. The ensemble aims to showcase the composing and improvising talents of its members, as well as featuring guest artists.
Tony Dudu was born in Bambadinca, Guinea Bissau, West Africa. In 2007 he moved to the UK and formed Gumbe Jazz, a fusion between rhythms of West and South Africa blended with Latin grooves.
For this concert, they will be featuring original music from two of the best young pianists and composers in the country, Jacky Naylor and Charlie Bates, both of whom have won the acclaimed Dankworth Prize for Composition.
Sid Peacock curates the evening while Riaan Vosloo is director of the Township Band. FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS
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Josh Landsburgh
THU 12 DEC
Paul Dunmall
JAZZ DEPARTMENT CHRISTMAS “KNEES-UP”
JAZZ CANON: THE MUSIC OF ORNETTE COLEMAN
6.30pm Support 7.30pm Main show 9.30pm Finish
6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8)
£10 (£8) Free to staff and students
A second outing for the hugely influential music of Ornette Coleman.
Our way to sign off the academic term and see out 2019 together. Some informal Christmas fun, side by side with some serious music making in one long segue set that includes Jazz Orchestra playing the Mike Gibbs classic Knees-Up and special Christmas arrangements, vocalists, Ellington Orchestra playing Nutcracker and finishing with our Afro Cuban band.
MON 6 JAN WED 11 DEC
JOSH LANDSBURGH PRESENTS: SONGS FROM NORTH OF THE WALL 6.30pm Thorpe and Morrison 7.30pm JLQ featuring Sean Morrison £10 (£8) Josh Landsburgh woodwinds & composition Sean Morrison fiddle Lucas Kelly piano Antonio Mura double bass Tom Bevan drums Senior student and internationally touring multiinstrumentalist Josh Landsburgh presents a night of celtic jazz fusion. With his group JLQ, Josh presents Songs from North of the Wall, an original suite of music inspired by the traditional music of his home in Scotland. They are joined by special guest Sean Morrison – fellow Scot and fiddle player for Birmingham folk band Juniper, who have recently released their debut EP, So Here’s the Thing…
TUE 14 JAN
RBC JAZZ ORCHESTRA: SOFT LIGHTS, HOT MUSIC 6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8) This is your second chance to hear our Jazz Orchestra perform the music of Mike Abene, Kenny Werner and Jim McNeely from the famed recording Soft Lights, Hot Music by the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra of 1988.
WED 8 JAN
TOM BEVAN PRESENTS 6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8) Tom is an up-and-coming drummer with influences ranging from Youssou N’Duor to Tim Berne. Here he presents a trio and a septet featuring some of his favourite Birminghambased musicians.
John Fedchock photo by: AJ O’Reilly
THU 9 JAN
A NEW SERIES: PAUL DUNMALL INVITES 6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show £15 (£12)
JOHN FEDCHOCK: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
Eastside Jazz Club is delighted to host this brand-new series of monthly concerts from one of the most exciting and innovative performers in jazz today. Tony DudleyEvans says “Paul Dunmall is quite simply one of the finest improvising saxophonists in the world. He has a rare ability to create totally original improvisations whatever the context, and this ability arises from a serious concern for the music and a keen ear for what is happening around in any musical situation.” Paul approached Eastside Jazz Club and the Conservatoire with a proposition of a regular night in which he would invite guests from the broad range of his musical experience to perform spontaneously improvised sets. We are pleased to reciprocate and help to make this contribution to cultural life in Birmingham. A collaboration with TDE Promotions.
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THU 16 JAN
John O’Gallagher sax Percy Pursglove trumpet Steve Tromans piano Chris Mapp bass Miles Levin drums
6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show - Set 1 9pm Set 2 £15 (£12) John Fedchock’s illustrious career in jazz has spanned over three decades. Since his emergence on the scene in 1980, Fedchock has established himself as a world-class trombone soloist, a heralded bandleader, and a Grammynominated arranger. An in-demand performer and writer in New York City, his multifaceted talents have led him to become one of NYC’s premier jazz artists. John has kindly accepted our invitation to have him here as guest artist-in-residence where he will be working with student bands, giving masterclasses and directing a jazz orchestra rehearsal. The concert tonight will be a culmination of his brief stay with us and feature student bands playing his sextet music, with John sitting in with each band.
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MON 20 JAN
Mike Williams
RBC JAZZ ORCHESTRA: MIKE GIBBS VOCAL PROJECT 6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2
In Common
£10 (£8)
THU 30 JAN
Our new theme for Jazz Orchestra is vocal big band jazz, with Mike Gibbs as guest arranger and composer. This first concert is directed by Jeremy Price as a prelude to Mike Gibbs’s arrival in February to direct the band in person. Mike Gibbs was born in 1937 in what was then Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, before moving to Boston Massacheusets in 1959 to study at Berklee College of Music. Mike Gibbs is a composer, arranger and trombonist and has worked with many of the leading lights of the music world including Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Michael Mantler, Mike Stern, Joni Mitchell, Whitney Houston and Peter Gabriel. This selection of vocal jazz music is taken from projects Mike has done with NDR Big Band and Norma Winstone and BBC Big Band with Christine Tobin. Tonight’s vocalists will be selected from the Conservatoire’s jazz department.
THU 23 JAN
IN COMMON: A BAND LED BY TOM BANCROFT
MIKE WILLIAMS QUARTET WITH SIMON PURCELL, PERCY PURSGLOVE AND JAMES MADDREN Gabriella Liandu
WED 22 JAN
GABRIELLA LIANDU PRESENTS: JUNTOS A LA PAR 6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8) Gabriella Liandu voice Will Crawford classical guitar Matt Hollick double bass Mike Anning sax Jonno Gaze drums Stanley Newman piano Tuz-Jo Huang percussion Andrey Kushchinsky featured singer A showcase of classical music derived from Latin America wed to modern and classic Jazz infused song, with an overarching Bossa Nova vibe. An evening where two worlds meet, together side by side.
6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show - Set 1 9pm Set 2
6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show - Set 1 9pm Set 2
£15 (£12) Sharat Chandra Srivastava violin Gyan Singh tabla Tom Bancroft bodhran & drums Graeme Stephen guitar & loops Sophie Bancroft voice Gina Rae voice Inge Thomson voice & electronics
£15 (£12) Mike Williams alto sax Simon Purcell piano Percy Pursglove bass James Maddren drums Mike Williams is a highly celebrated musicians’ musician who has been an integral part of the Conservatoire’s Jazz department since its inception in 1999. We welcome him and his quartet’s return to Eastside Jazz Club after their sold out performance this time last year.
This new project by Tom Bancroft starts with the bodhran and the tabla and a drone, adds Indian classical violin and improvising jazz guitar, and continues adding layers and voices from different traditions, in a creative new project that focuses on the common ground between Scottish music, jazz, Indian music and electronica.
TUE 28 JAN
A collaboration with TDE Promotions.
JAZZ CANON: THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE
FRI 31 JAN
AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2
6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show - Set 1 9pm Set 2
£10 (£8) In this series we choose artists of indisputable significance to the development of jazz music and present various student jazz combos to perform their repertoire. Acknowledged masters in previous themes have included Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, Ornette Colman and our latest theme is the music of John Coltrane.
FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS
£15 (£12) Keep your last Friday of the month free for what is proving to be one of the best nights out in Birmingham. A collaboration between the jazz and percussion departments, this large ensemble will play a night of salsa music for dancing!
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EASTSIDE JAZZ CLUB MONDAYS BIG BAND NIGHTS
THURSDAYS GUEST NIGHTS
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra, Birmingham Jazz Orchestra and Ellington Orchestra perform.
International jazz artists and bands drawn from the immediate jazz scene.
6pm Doors 6.30pm Set 1 - Repertoire selection 7.30pm Set 2 - Themed repertoire
6pm Doors 6.30pm Support Set 7.45pm Guest Artist Set 1 9pm Guest Artist Set 2
WEDNESDAYS EJC PRESENTS
FRIDAYS FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire guest artists or students present contemporary jazz projects.
From singer-songwriters to our Afro-Cuban Band and anything from folk-jazz, gypsy and swing.
6pm Doors 6.30pm Set 1 - Jazz Combo 1 7.30pm Set 2 - Jazz Combo 2
6pm Doors 6.30pm Support Set 7.45pm Friday Night Session 1 9pm Friday Night Session 2
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WANT MORE? For full information on our upcoming gigs, including biographies and backgrounds on our esteemed line-ups, visit bcu.ac.uk/concerts Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 200 Jennens Road B4 7XR
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