Jazzland may aug 2011

Latin Perspective

The Impossible Gentlemen

Latin Perpective is a sensational Latin and Salsa Band.

Great vocals from Alicia Hooper, hot brass section and percussion to bring a taste of Cuba to Swansea!

Admission Price: Standard £10 Jazzland Members £7

Gwilym Simcock Steve Swallow

Wednesday August 24th

Peter King with Dave Cottle Trio

LIVE JAZZ EVERY WEDNESDAY

8.30pm - 11pm - Doors open/Drysau ar agor 7.30pm

Mike Walker Adam Nussbaum

Peter King in the words of one critic, “is the finest alto saxophonist that Britain has ever produced, and one of the finest in the world today” (Dave Gelly, ‘The Giants Of Jazz’, Aurum Press, 1986). He has been a major influence on the British Jazz scene ever since he played (at the age of eighteen!) the opening of Ronnie Scott’s Club, London’s internationally famous Jazz Mecca.

Admission Price: Standard £10 Jazzland Members £7

Wednesday August 31st

Berry Ray Bank Holiday Guest Night

Berry moves from the door to take centre stage for the night. He will be playing the sax and singing in his Louis Armstrong style voice. Expect some surprise guests also!

Admission Price: Standard £10 Jazzland Members £7

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Swansea

PROFESSIONAL LIGHTWEIGHT Music stands : stand out from the crowd and make set up and transport a breeze!

june 1st Vincent Herring & The Earth Jazz Agents june 29th SHAKATAK

Available in 3 sizes - with full colour graphics

All Day Masterclass & Workshop @ Swansea RFC, St Helen’s, Bryn Road Swansea SA2 0AR

Tickets for all above events on sale from Swansea Jazzland & also at Derricks Music 221 Oxford Street, Swansea SA1 3BQ T: 01792 654226 and online @ www.derricksmusic.co.uk Members priced tickets are only available from Swansea Jazzland Tel: 01792 380615 or 07501 928438 e: swanseajazzland@btinternet.com

Customers include:

Laurence Cottle Big Band BBC Strictly Come Dancing Tour Band Michael Bolton Brass Section Steve Waterman Jazz Orchestra Jeff Hooper Swing Easy Big Band

Brussells Jazz Orchestra Ian James Orchestra Abu Dhabi Big Band Warner Leisure Hotels Biggles Big Band Amsterdam Morriston Big Band

www.bigbandstands.com - Stand out!

Programme Designed & Produced and donated by RocketCreative.co.uk

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May - August 2011 Mai - Awst 2011 JAZZ BYW BOB DYDD MERCHER

july 20th Laurence Cottle / Ian Thomas

july 27th MYJO - Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra

Swansea

Friday 17th June, 7.30pm Tickets £15/£14 concs 01792 60 20 60 www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk

Swansea Jazzland: St. James Social Club 38 St. James Crescent Uplands, SWANSEA SA1 6DR Clwb Sant Iago Cilgant Sant Iago ABERTAWE SA1 6DR

Tel: 01792 380615 or 07501 928438 e: swanseajazzland@btinternet.com

www.swanseajazzland.co.uk

Wednesday August 17th

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Programme information correct at time of going to press.

Programme subject to change without notice.

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www.swanseajazzland.co.uk - WALES’ PREMIERE JAZZ VENUE - May - Aug 2011 Wednesday May 4th

Wednesday June 1st

Wednesday June 29th

Wednesday July 20th

Gethin Liddington Quartet

Vincent Herring & the Earth Jazz Agents *Ticketed Event*

Shakatak *Ticketed Event*

Gareth Williams Power Trio

Wednesday May 11th

Vincent Herring & the Earth Jazz Agents play at Swansea as part of a European tour. Pianist Anthony Wonsey, a Berklee graduate has recorded and toured with Nina Freelon, Kenny Garrett, Clark Terry and Elvin Jones.

Bass player Richie Goods has recorded and toured all over the world with a variety of big-name music acts, ranging from Milt Jackson and Stanley Turrentine to Will Smith, Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys. Drummer Joris Dudli is a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra and the Art Farmer Quintet from 1979 to 1985. After moving to the US in 1986, he has performed and recorded with many of the great jazz musicians of the world: The Zawinul Syndicate, Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Johnny Griffin, Mullgrew Miller, Clifford Jordan, Joe Lovano, Joe Henderson, George Garzone and many more.

Tickets: Standard £15, Jazzland Members £10

Trumpeter Gethin’s Quartet features pianist John Critchinson, Ronnie Scott’s pianist for many years.

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Julie Edwards & Kevin Dearden with Dave Cottle Trio

Derbyshire born vocalist Julie Edwards and saxophonist-turnedguitarist Kevin Dearden have been together for over a decade.

They have played to enthusiastic audiences all over the UK at many festivals and venues.

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Wednesday May 18th

Tommaso Starace Quartet

Saxophonist Tommaso Starace cites Cannonball Adderley and fellow Italian Rosario Giuliani as two of his favourite players, and the Charlie Parker legacy is also evident in his playing.

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Wednesday May 25th

Lee Goodall Quartet

Exciting saxophonist Lee Goodall joins forces with pianist Dick Roberts and will be featuring Horace Silver numbers in the set. Tom Cottle (drums) and Chris Hysen (bass) complete the line up.

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Tuesday May 31st

Vincent Herring Jazz Master Class

followed by monthly jazz jam session - 7pm FREE Admission Vincent Herring is an American Hard bop saxophonist and flautist. Vincent has developed into a virtuoso and is considered one of the premier saxophonists of his generation. He first toured Europe and the US with Lionel Hampton’s big band in the early 1980’s. He worked with Nat Adderley for nine years. Along the way he worked and recorded with Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Larry Coryell, The Mingus Big Band, Kenny Barron, to name a few.

As an educator he is currently on staff at William Patterson University as well as conducting master classes and jazz workshops at Juilliard. Vincent has also conducted master classes on jazz improvising at Duke and Cornell Universities.

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Wednesday June 8th

Simon Spillett with Dave Cottle Trio

A favourite performer at Swansea Jazzland, Simon will be blowing a storm in the style of the great Tubby Hayes.

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Mention the words jazz-funk and there’s really only one name that springs to mind – Shakatak! The multi-talented quartet exploded onto the UK music scene right at the start of the 80s immediately encapsulated the sound of the decade and gave birth to Britfunk! The fact that they are still enjoying global success to this day is a testament to the unique space the band fills.

Since their first release in 1980 the band have never been far away from the charts, scoring top 10 hits with the 1982 single Night Birds and the 1984 single Down on the Street. The classic Shakatak line-up – vocalist Jill Saward, Bill Sharpe on keyboards, Roger Odell on drums and George Anderson on bass – can also lay legitimate claim to be one of the hardest working bands in show business.

Since the new millennium Shakatak have continued to record and tour the world producing at least one new album every year since. They’ve recently taken centre-stage at concerts and festivals as diverse as Indonesia’s Jakarta International Jazz Festival, Moscow’s Svetlana Concert Hall, Canada, Tokyo, Switzerland, Germany and Wigan.

Tickets: Standard £20, Jazzland Members £15

Tuesday June 28th

Monthly sitters in Night

Come along from 8pm onwards and join in playing some jazz!!

Free Admission

www.swanseajazzland.co.uk LIVE JAZZ EVERY WEDNESDAY JAZZ BYW BOB DYDD MERCHER

Tuesday July 26th

Monthly sitters in Night Wednesday July 27th

John Law Opt Trio

The Magic Hat Ensemble is a five piece jazz group who formed in Manchester in 2006. They take tunes from the standard jazz repertoire and use them as a vehicle for high energy, elaborate arrangements, often delivered with a tongue in cheek approach Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Admission Price: Standard £12, Jazzland Members £8

Tom White with Dave Cottle Trio

Wednesday July 13th

The Magic Hat Ensemble

Gareth Williams - Piano

Come along from 8pm onwards and join in playing some jazz!!

Free Admission

Wednesday June 15th

Wednesday June 22nd

Laurence Cottle - Bass

Wednesday July 6th Tom played lead trombone with Dave Cottle’s Power of Gower big band gig last Christmas at Swansea Jazzland. A chance to hear more from this exciting young trombonist Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

John Law started this new trio project at the end of August 2010, with a brilliant first concert at London’s 606 club. John conceived this trio as a contrast to his on-going Art of Sound trio. The standards based trio explores the area of playing other peoples tunes (Opt!) and to give himself different options with rhythm sections. John Law, piano, Tom Farmer, bass, Jon Scott, drums Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

One of the most intensely creative, dynamic and exciting jazz performers on the UK scene, Gareth Williams has been receiving increasing critical and public acclaim since becoming a professional musician in the early 90s. Described as “jewel of a player... spinning out luminous introductions and codas” by Jazziz Magazine (USA), he has dazzled audiences not only by his virtuoso approach to the jazz piano, but also by his multi-instrumentalist talents on guitar and vocals.

Ian Thomas – Drums

MYJO * Ticketed Event* Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra

Wednesday July 20th

The Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra is now widely acclaimed as one of the U.K’s top big bands. Its reputation has been founded on a consistently high quality of performance over two decades. In addition, audiences find they are infected by the enjoyment which band members bring to performances, and the excitement which the band generates.

These qualities have helped bring the band success in the BBC National Big Band Competition, initially during the eighties winning the Youth Section, but latterly being successful in the senior Competition. In fact the band has been unbeaten in the BBC competition since the mid-eighties, although, because of it success, it is now barred for two years from entering, following a win! MYJO has also been a winner in the Dutch National Big Band Competition, beating adult bands from The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.

Tickets: Standard £15, Jazzland Members £10

Laurence Cottle & Ian Thomas

Wednesday August 3rd

Capital City Jazz Orchestra

The Capital City Jazz Orchestra was formed in 2008 by some of the best jazz and big band players in South East Wales. A brilliant performance at Jazzland last December was frustrated by poor weather so we have brought them back soon for those who were stuck in the snow for last Decembers gig!

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Bass & Drums Masterclass and workshop at Swansea Rugby Club 10.30 am – 4 pm * Ticketed Event* Two of the UK’s most in demand bass and drum players present this all day master class and workshop The morning session will be presented as a Jazz Master Class with Laurence and Ian. Afternoon session will be a jazz workshop for all to participate led by Laurence and Ian.

Jean-Paul Gard “Cookbook”

All day refreshments & Lunch is included.

‘As far as I am concerned there can never be too much Lee Gibson…whether she is singing with the BBC Big Band or Holland’s vast Metropole Orchestra, or with a simple jazz trio, she lights up any song with her musicality.’ (The Observer). ‘She is, without doubt, the best jazz singer this country has produced in the last 40 years.’ (Digby Fairweather) Admission Price: Standard £10 Jazzland Members £7

Tickets need to be reserved, Limited places!

Tickets: Standard £15, Jazzland Members/Students £10 Includes discounted admission voucher for Power Trio gig!

Brilliant Hammond Organist Jean-Paul Gard is joined by Gethin Jones (Drums) and Alex Hutchings (guitar). The band will be featuring numbers from George Benson’s cookbook.

Admission Price: Standard £10, Jazzland Members £7

Wednesday August 10th

Lee Gibson with Dave Cottle Trio

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