What's On at Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Feb - Mar 2020

THU 26 MAR

PETER BERNSTEIN

END OF TERM JAZZ GALA

6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show

6.30pm Set 1 7.45pm Set 2

£12 (£10)

£12 (£10)

Peter Bernstein guitar Bruce Barth piano Mark Hodgson bass Stephen Keogh drums

Join us to sign off the Spring term with our Gala Concert featuring highlights of the year so far. Jazz Orchestra and our jazz vocal department will be prominent, and we will close with our customary “for dancers only” session from our very own Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra before we segue to a collapse and a well earned Easter break.

Guitarist Peter Bernstein has appeared in groups led by Sonny Rollins, Bobby Hutcherson, George Coleman, Lou Donaldson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Fathead Newman, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Diana Krall, Lee Konitz and Jimmy Cobb.

EASTSIDE JAZZ CLUB MONDAYS BIG BAND NIGHTS Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra, Birmingham Jazz Orchestra and Ellington Orchestra perform.

6pm Doors 6.30pm Set 1 - Repertoire selection 7.30pm Set 2 - Themed repertoire

WEDNESDAYS EJC PRESENTS Royal Birmingham Conservatoire guest artists or students present contemporary jazz projects.

6pm Doors 6.30pm Set 1 - Jazz Combo 1 7.30pm Set 2 - Jazz Combo 2

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THURSDAYS GUEST NIGHTS International jazz artists and bands drawn from the immediate jazz scene.

6pm Doors 6.30pm Support Set 7.45pm Guest Artist Set 1 9pm Guest Artist Set 2

FRIDAYS FRIDAY NIGHT JAZZ From singer-songwriters to our Afro-Cuban Band and anything from folk-jazz, gypsy and swing.

6pm Doors 6.30pm Support Set 7.45pm Friday Night Session 1 9pm Friday Night Session 2

EASTSIDE JAZZ CLUB

WHAT’S ON

WED 25 MAR

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FEBRUARY - MARCH 2020

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WED 25 MAR

PETER BERNSTEIN Birmingham City University

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Paul Dunmall

his latest schedule takes you to the end of our spring term and has a fantastic array of top international stella artists alongside high level senior student work. You’ll also see some exciting programming for the Monday Night Big Band nights, including Mike Gibbs directing the Jazz Orchestra, Ellington Orchestra playing Afro Bossa and Birmingham Jazz Orchestra playing the music of contemporary Big Band composer Tom Haines.

We are delighted that the Paul Dunmall series is going from strength to strength and is reaching out to new audiences for us. New audiences will doubtless be arriving also for the festival known as Punkt, courtesy of our PhD student and significant bass player on the Birmingham scene, Chris Mapp, who is pulling the whole project together for us.

Michael Janisch of Whirlwind Records is bringing us Joel Harrison and Dave Binnie as well as UK trumpet player Andre Canniere and as we race to a close for the Easter break we are capping it all with a special guest appearance from the legendary guitarist Peter Bernstein, brought to us by Mark Hodgson.

If you have energy left after all that, come and join us for our end of term Gala Concert which features student highlights of the term closing with the customary “for dancers only” session with our very own Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra

JAZZ CANON: THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE 6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8)

TUE 4 FEB

TUNDE JEGEDE KORA 7.30pm £10 (£8) Tunde Jegede is one of the few composers in the world steeped in both Western Classical Music and the Griot Tradition of West Africa.

The programme will feature new works by RBC composers: Kailan Barton-Porter, Millicent James, Yuqian Zhang, Adam Parry-Davies and works from Tunde Jegede’s repertoire.

WED 5 FEB

MON 3 FEB

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8) The album Afro-Bossa was the first release of Ellington’s Reprise Records, newly contracted in 1963, and was part of an Ellington/Strayhorn continuing exploration of world music sounds.

Jazz Combos perform music of the masters and luminaries of jazz such as Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Herbie Hancock

Tunde Jegede

Jeremy Price Head of Jazz, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA: AFRO BOSSA

TUE 11 FEB

JOE CARNELL PRESENTS: TEPHRA £10 (£8) Steve Saunders guitar/FX Stella Roberts piano/synths Jonno Gaze drums Matt Hollick bass Mike Anning saxes Joe Carnell trombone Tephra is a collective of improvising musicians, inspired by contemporary jazz, classical, ambient music and prog rock. The band released its debut album keiyona in 2019 and will be performing music from their recent second release.

FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS

THU 6 FEB

Ethan Iverson

PAUL DUNMALL INVITES 6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show £12 (£10) Liam Noble piano John Edwards bass Mark Sanders drums/percussion This is the second in a new monthly series in which Paul showcases great players based in the Midlands to give Birmingham audiences the opportunity to hear these different groups.

A collaboration with TDE Promotions.

THU 13 FEB

MON 10 FEB

ETHAN IVERSON & MARTIN SPEAKE

BIRMINGHAM JAZZ ORCHESTRA

6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show

6.30pm Support 7.30pm Main show

£12 (£10)

£10 (£8) 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 music scene. The ensemble aims to showcase the composing and improvising talents of its members, as well as featuring guest artists. For this concert, they will be featuring original music from the lead alto chair in the orchestra, Mike Fletcher.

Pianist, composer and writer Ethan Iverson was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King. He is joined by saxophonist Martin Speake formerly of sax quartet Itchy Fingers.

A collaboration with TDE Promotions.

FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS

Andre Canniere Photo: Carl Hyde

Mike Gibbs Photo: John Watson

Jazz Combos perform music of the masters and luminaries of jazz such as Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Herbie Hancock.

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8)

FRI 28 FEB

Directed by Mike Gibbs

AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA

The Jazz Department is honoured to enjoy a special connection with composer arranger Mike Gibbs who has generously provided some absolutely beautiful repertoire for this next Jazz Orchestra project. Mike Gibbs himself will direct the Jazz Orchestra to include repertoire such as You Go to My Head, So in Love, Daybreak, Ladies in Mercedes and Jitterbug Waltz.

6.30pm Support - Louis Stringer Quartet 7.30pm Main show £10 (£8) Ashton Smith trumpet and flugelhorn James Romaine alto saxophone Michael Anning tenor saxophone David Sear trombone Francis Tulip guitar Will Markham piano James Owston bass Nathan Jones drums Further Afield is a contemporary jazz project led by Birmingham-based trumpeter and composer Ashton Smith.

This gig will première a new suite of music inspired by Ashton’s travels outside of England.

Each movement of the suite represents a different place in the world.

JAZZ CANON: THE MUSIC OF HERBIE HANCOCK £10 (£8)

JAZZ ORCHESTRA: MIKE GIBBS VOCAL PROJECT

ASHTON SMITH PRESENTS: FURTHER AFIELD

Josh Landsburgh

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2

MON 17 FEB

WED 19 FEB

TUE 25 FEB

6.30pm Support - Louis Stringer Quartet 7.45pm Main show £12 (£10)

WED 4 MAR

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.

JOSH LANDSBURGH PRESENTS: ANOTHER OPENING, ANOTHER SHOW

THU 20 FEB

ANDRE CANNIERE QUINTET

MON 2 MAR

6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show

ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA: AFRO BOSSA

£12 (£10) Andre Canniere trumpet George Crowley tenor saxophone Rick Simpson piano Tom Farmer bass Andrew Bain drums The US-born, London-based trumpeter and composer Andre Canniere is touring the UK in 2020 to promote his latest release on Whirlwind Recordings. The new album, entitled Ghost Days, features an all-star UK rhythm team of Rick Simpson (piano), Tom Farmer (bass) and Andrew Bain (drums).

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 £10 (£8) Featuring the RBC Jazz Orchestra, Josh Landsburgh presents: Another Opening, Another Show – a modern jazz take on the contemporary musical.

£10 (£8)

THU 5 MAR

PAUL DUNMALL INVITES 6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show £12 (£10) Howard Cottle saxophone Olly Brice bass Tony Bianco drums Paul Dunmall’s third gig in this series celebrates the music of Coltrane’s Sun Ship album, released in 1971.

FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS

TUE 10 MAR

Liam Brennan

Trish Clowes

THU 19 MAR

JAZZ CANON: THE MUSIC OF HERBIE HANCOCK

STILLEFELT WITH SPECIAL GUEST JAN BANG

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2

REMIX BY STUDENTS FROM RBC AND UNIVERSITY OF AGDER

8pm Recital Hall

£10 (£8)

8.50pm The Lab

A second outing for the significant repertoire of Herbie Hancock.

TRISH CLOWES & LOUISE MCMONAGLE 9.30pm Recital Hall

Joel Harrison

REMIX BY ERIK HONORÉ, EIVIND AARSET AND ARVE HENRIKSEN 10.20pm The Lab

WED 18 MAR

LIAM BRENNAN PRESENTS: THE CASTLECOVE SUITE 6.30pm Support - Cam Sheehy 7.30pm Main show £10 (£8)

THU 12 MAR

GUEST ARTIST: JOEL HARRISON 6.30pm Support 7.45pm Main show £12 (£10) Joel Harrison guitar David Binney alto sax Michael Janisch double bass Gerald Cleaver drums Acclaimed American jazz guitarist Joel Harrison returns to Europe with a stellar band. The night in part focuses on Harrison’s new Whirlwind Recordings album, Still Point: Turning World with new arrangements of the album material, alongside a range of his compositions from his 20 solo recordings.

Saxophonist and composer Liam Brennan presents the Castlecove Suite, inspired by the Irish village Castlecove, Co. Kerry. The suite, written for a full-scale Big Band, draws on the memories of people and places Liam encountered during holidays throughout his childhood.

TUE 24 MAR

FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS

8pm Recital Hall

Over the last 15 years Punkt has gained an international reputation as an exciting, progressive and musically inclusive festival. Artistic directors Jan Bang and Erik Honoré present a programme which combines Norwegian invention with British creativity throughout. This unique collaboration is sure to please die-hard Punkt fans, experimental music lovers and inquisitive minds alike.

REMIX BY ANDREW WOODHEAD AND MARK SANDERS 8.50pm The Lab

THE HEIGHT OF THE REEDS - ARVE HENRIKSEN, EIVIND AARSET, JAN BANG, JEZ RILEY FRENCH AND ERIK HONORÉ 9.30pm Recital Hall

REMIX BY ANNIE MAHTANI AND CHRIS MAPP

6.30pm Set 1 7.30pm Set 2 The final Jazz Canon concert will celebrate all of this year’s featured composers, presenting selected works

by Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock.

THALLEIN ENSEMBLE PLAYS THE MUSIC OF MAJA SK RATKJE

FESTIVAL

JAZZ CANON: A RETROSPECTIVE £10 (£8)

FRI 20 MAR

THU 19-FRI 20 MAR

10.20pm The Lab Punkt Birmingham is supported by

& TDE Promotions FURTHER PROGRAMME DETAILS AVAILABLE AT WWW.BCU.AC.UK/CONCERTS