– SOUTHPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL 10 – 12 MAY 2013 –
THE ATKINSON – SOUTHPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL 10 – 12 MAY 2013 –
We’re thrilled to invite you to the 2013 Southport Jazz Festival which, for the first time, is being held at The Atkinson. This year’s festival is a busy one, with The Atkinson’s headline programme, The Jazz Festival Hub in the Town Hall Gardens and The Fringe Festival taking place throughout the town. The headline programme sees old favourites rubbing shoulders and trading licks with the new, up and coming sounds of future jazz. Our aim is to bring jazz and music enthusiasts into the town to be part of something really special. Three amazing days of top quality jazz in the new multi art-form venue that we’ve been itching to share.
This year we’ll be raising a glass with the good folk of CAMRA who have organised a fantastic beer festival to run alongside the music programme. They’ll be showcasing a selection of real ales and perries, adding yet another special ingredient to the festival’s atmosphere. Jazz House Records will be on hand during the festival to offer the best jazz at the best prices, vinyl and CD, new and secondhand. Drop in and have a look at their selection, including the line-up of this year’s festival. All that’s left to say is we hope you have a great time and we can’t wait to share some amazing memories with you…let’s jazz!! #southportjazz
Tickets
Map Session Tickets
Weekend Tickets Advanced Early Bird Weekend Tickets (Available until 31 March) Full Price Weekend Tickets
£88.00 £98.00
Day Tickets Friday Saturday Sunday
£27.00 £40.00 £40.00
Friday Nicola Farnon Quartet The Al Wood Nine James Morton’s Porkchop Saturday Go Go Penguin Bateman Brothers Jazz Band Gabby Young and The Other Animals Sector 7 Sunday Milestones play to the Silent Screen Kairos 4tet Joe Stilgoe Trio James Morrison with Swingshift Big Band
Booking Information The Atkinson Lord Street Southport PR8 1DB Call: (01704) 533333 Online: theatkinson.co.uk Facebook: The Atkinson Twitter: @AtkinsonThe
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Friday 10 May Nicola Farnon Quartet Time: 2.30pm Location: Studio Tickets: £11.00 Nicola Farnon: vocals / double bass Chris Walker: guitar Andy Cholerton: piano Phil Johnson: drums
Friday 10 May Nicola Farnon and her quartet have really been making waves in the UK jazz scene of late. The niece of the highly acclaimed arranger/composer Robert Farnon (arranger for Sinatra and Tony Bennett amongst others), Nicola inspires us with music from artists as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Bill Evans, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix and Aretha Franklin. “What a fine group of musicians, an absolute joy” Robert Farnon nicolafarnonmusic.com
The Al Wood Nine Time: 7.00pm Location: Theatre Tickets: £15.00 Al Wood: leader / trumpet / saxes Jim Corry: alto James Russel: alto Stuart MacDonald: tenor Simon Kaylor: tenor Sam Thornton: baritone Graham Hearn: piano Gary Jackson: bass Bob Howard: drums
Count Basie, Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Kenton, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, Cedar Walton, Dizzy Gillespie...Be-bop, Swing & All That Jazz! Former Maynard Ferguson sidesman, fantastic arranger, band leader and multi instrumentalist Al Wood brings this new exciting band. Somehow creating the music of the big bands with his nine piece talent packed outfit. “This was real music played by real musicians” Ian Darrington, Wigan Jazz Festival
Friday 10 May James Morton’s Porkchop Time: 10.00pm Location: Studio Tickets: £11.00 James Morton: alto Dan ‘Pinstripe’ Moore: hammond organ Ian Matthews: drums Denny Ilett: guitar
Saturday 11 May A funk, soul-jazz, and gospel sound from this great, critically acclaimed collective lead by altoist James Morton with Dan ’Pinstripe’ Moore (hammond organ), Ian Matthews (drums) and the great Denny Ilett (guitar). The intention, James says, is to “bring the music back to the people...and jazz back to the dance floor.”
Go Go Penguin Time: 11.00am Location: Studio Tickets: £9.00 Chris Illingworth: piano Grant Russell: double bass Rob Turner: drums
The expansive, brilliant piano trio of Chris Illingworth (piano), Grant Russell (double bass) and Rob Turner (drums) went down a storm at last year’s fringe programme. They make up one of the most exciting contemporary instrumental groups on the circuit. Drawing on a heady brew of influences from Aphex Twin to Brian Eno, Debussy to Shostakovich and Massive Attack to EST. gogopenguin.co.uk
Saturday 11 May Bateman Brothers Jazz Band with special guests Time: 2.30pm Location: Theatre Tickets: £17.00 Alan Bateman: trumpet / vocals Ian Bateman: trombone Craig Milverton: piano John Day: bass Nick Millward: drums Maggie Reeday: vocals
Saturday 11 May This all-star band led by brothers Ian and Alan Bateman, play the great hits that made Louis Armstrong a world superstar, from Hello Dolly, Cabaret and the movie High Society. With Alan Bateman (trumpet / vocals) Ian Bateman (trombone) Craig Milverton (piano) John Day (bass) Steve Rushton (drums) and Maggie Reeday (vocals). Special guests: Enrico Tomasso, one of the top jazz trumpet players in Europe, and Spats Langham (banjo) who performs frequently with the world-renowned master of vintage jazz, Keith Nichols.
Gabby Young & The Other Animals Time: 7.00pm Location: Theatre Tickets: £13.00
Likened to Florence & the Machine and Kate Bush, Gabby Young and The Other Animals are leading the Circus Swing musical movement. A fusion of Swing Jazz, Eastern European beats and English Folk – created with the horn, wind and percussive instruments. Be sure to see her here first as Gabby is set to be a household name by the end of 2013. A quintessentially British knees up, festival circus extravaganza. “The woman who invented Circus Swing” Time Out “Terrific live, really big wall of sound, we are playing this because we love it!” Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2 giftofthegabrecords.com
Saturday 11 May Sector 7 Time: 10.00pm Location: Studio Tickets: £11.00 Sarah Ellen Hughes: vocals Emma Smith: vocals Paddy Clarke: vocals Billy Boothroyd: vocals George Moore: piano Tim Thornton: bass Chris Draper: drums
Sunday 12 May A unique line-up of four exceptional singers and jazz trio, Sector 7 takes jazz and soul to a new level with exciting, vocal harmony-centred arrangements. Presenting a wide repertoire from Gershwin and Chick Corea to traditional folk song, to Stevie Wonder and Jill Scott, this septet combines its musicians’ considerable individual talents for a fresh take on favourite tunes. “They blew me away, well worth checking out’ Brian Blain, Jazz UK “Sophisticated & classy – An impressive piece of work” The Jazz Mann sector7.org.uk
Milestones play to the silent screen Time: 11.00am Location: Theatre Tickets: £11.00 Martin Shaw: trumpet Alan Barnes: alto / baritone / clarinet Ian Price: tenor / clarinet / bass clarinet Terry Seabrook: piano Paul Whitten: bass Alex Eberhard: drums
Terry Seabrook’s Milestones, known for their fulllength performances of the Miles Davis landmark album, Kind of Blue, perform a new film score for the show at this year’s festival. Inspired by the Miles Davis soundtrack Lift to the Scaffold, Milestones perform Seabrooks’ own full-length jazz soundtrack for Buster Keaton’s 1924 film Sherlock Jr. with improvisation as the film is screened. Other material with an audio-visual dimension makes up the second half of the show. milestonesjazz.co.uk
Sunday 12 May Kairos 4tet Time: 2.30pm Location: Studio Tickets: £13.00 Adam Waldman: saxophones / composition Jasper Høiby: bass Jon Scott: drums Ivo Neame: piano
Sunday 12 May The 2011 MOBO award winning and nationally fêted, spectacularly exciting cutting edge band make their first appearance at Southport Jazz Festival.
Joe Stilgoe Trio
MOBO Award Winners 2011 - Best Jazz Act #2 - MOJO Magazine Jazz Albums of The Year 2011 #14 - Jazzwise Magazine Albums of The Year 2011
Joe Stilgoe is one of the world’s finest singerpianists. Touring constantly with his band and as a solo act, and appearing at a plethora of music’s great bastions including Ronnie Scott’s, the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican, the London Jazz Festival, and Edinburgh Festival. In 2012 he released his second album ‘We Look To The Stars’, which went straight to the top of the jazz charts while pulling in rave reviews from the national press. “…a truly remarkable singer songwriter, not to mention outstanding piano player…I thank you for creating that most exciting of moments when, as a lover of good music, you know you have seen and heard something remarkable.” Sir Michael Parkinson
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joestilgoe.com
“Under the leadership of saxophonist Adam Waldmann, Kairos 4Tet have found a melodious medium between traditional Jazz and the forward facing nature that typifies so much young British Jazz. The band’s compositions are open and accessible, but there’s no compromise when it comes to intuitive, intelligent playing and adventurous arrangements” The Mercury Prize
Time: 5.00pm Location: Studio Tickets: £14.00
Sunday 12 May James Morrison with Swingshift Big Band Time: 8.00pm Location: Theatre Tickets: £17.00
World famous Australian jazz super star and multi instrumentalist James Morrison (trumpet, flugel, trombone, euphonium, tuba, sax and piano) has been honored by Royalty and political leaders and has played in the world’s top venues. We are delighted that he was able to accept our invitation to close the festival with Southport’s very own Swingshift Big Band. The 18-piece band plays many styles of big band music, from the likes of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton and Buddy Rich, to more modern arrangements from musicians such as Tom Kubis, Jay Chattaway, Pat Metheney and Gordon Goodwin. Swingshift pride themselves on bringing big band music into the 21st Century. jamesmorrison.com.au
Jazz Festival Hub
Fringe Festival
The Southport Jazz Festival continues throughout the town with the Festival Hub at the Town Hall Gardens, providing free outside music throughout the weekend from local and regional musicians.
From day time to night time the entertainment doesn’t stop, with many of Southport’s cafés, restaurants and bars hosting a variety of lunchtime, teatime or night time gigs at the Southport Jazz Fringe Festival. Enjoy a meal while soaking up the music or dance into the night, either way you’ll find it hard to go home.
Grab a deck chair, sit, relax and watch Southport being brought to life with the different styles of jazz.
Log on to southportjazz.com for regularly updated listings. Online: southportjazz.com Facebook: visitsouthport Twitter: @southportjazz
Friday 10 May 2.30pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm
Nicola Farnon Quartet Trio Gitan The Al Wood Nine Dan Forshaw Duo Mike Smith Quartet Credo Chameleon James Morton’s Porkchop
The Atkinson - Studio Café D’Art, Formby The Atkinson - Theatre Pizzeria Mamma Mia, Southport The Victoria, Southport The Sandgrounder, Southport The Coronation, Southport The Atkinson - Studio
£11.00 free for diners £15.00 free for diners free concert free concert free concert £11.00
The Atkinson - Studio Town Hall Gardens, Southport Town Hall Gardens, Southport The Inn Beer Shop, Southport The Atkinson - Theatre Christ Church, Southport Wayfarers Arcade, Southport Christ Church, Southport The Atkinson - Theatre
£9.00 free concert free concert free concert £17.00 free concert free concert free concert £13.00
Casa Italia, Southport Café D’Art, Formby The Coronation, Southport The Atkinson - Studio
free for diners free for diners free concert £11.00
The Atkinson - Theatre
£11.00
Wayfarers Arcade, Southport Town Hall Gardens, Southport
free concert free concert
Monument Café, Southport The Atkinson - Studio Town Hall Gardens, Southport The Atkinson - Studio Bella Italia, Southport Pizza Express, Southport The Atkinson - Theatre
free for diners £13.00 free concert £14.00 free for diners free for diners £17.00
Saturday 11 May
11.00am 11.15am 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 7.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm
Go Go Penguin The Billionaires The Cottonhouse Shakers Modjango Bateman Brothers Jazz Band Jamie Safiruddin Trio Trio Gitan Mercury Gabby Young & The Other Animals Annie Long Duo Forty4 The Cottonhouse Shakers Sector 7
Sunday 12 May
11.00am 11.30am 1.00pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 5.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8.00pm
Milestones play to the silent screen Perfectly Frank The Dub Jazz Soundsystem & Marley Chingus Twin Frets Kairos 4tet Savoy Jazzmen Joe Stilgoe Trio Vernon Fuller Modjango James Morrison with Swingshift Big Band
The CAMRA Beer festival – 1.00pm til late Friday and 11.00am til late on Saturday and Sunday
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At A Glance
– SOUTHPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL 10 – 12 MAY 2013 –
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