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Welcome back to the 31ST SWANAGE JAZZ FESTIVAL! Having had to postpone Swanage Jazz Festival two years running because of Covid-19, we are thrilled and relieved to bring you what we hope you will agree is a fabulous programme of outstanding music for our 31st Festival. We hope it meets the quality of those many Festivals run by Fred Lindop, Mel Norris and John James et al, that many of you will have attended in the past. Not to mention Nigel Price’s excellent 2018 Festival. And we are grateful to our funders for rolling their grants forward and also to some generous donors. We are bringing you a wide range of the very best UK Jazz artists which we hope will more than reward your patience and satisfy your eclectic Jazz interests. The programme includes a mix of some old favourites and some of the outstanding newer talent that just keeps on emerging. The Festival has maintained its tradition of staging programmes of both Traditional Jazz and Contemporary Jazz by the best artists we can find and afford. So at Swanage you get a chance to enjoy
the whole jazz spectrum. This year we have been able to re-instate the Friday Jazz Train and Dance which has sold out over a month in advance. We have also reinstated the Festival Bus to get you from venue to venue. Plus we have also added some new attractions including A Friday Jazz film programme, and a Jazz Photography Exhibition. Details are in this programme. We have also developed a sizeable Fringe Festival utilising many of the more local artists that were a backbone of the 2019 Festival. We know some of you will still long for a return of the Sandpit Field Marquees. We have not abandoned Sandpit Field. But to reinstate that aspect of the Festival is rather expensive. After some uncertainties about the Festival’s future followed by two enforced postponements, the
current Festival Committee’s prime task is ensure long term sustainability. Swanage Jazz Festival is the oldest and largest pure jazz Festival on the South Coast of England and our aim is to keep it that way – and to gradually grow the Festival in the years ahead. Watch this space! We are delighted to welcome you back to this 31st Swanage Jazz Festival and hope you have a thoroughly enjoyable weekend. We are always happy to receive suggestions. But if you do have ideas, comments or criticisms, the best way to reach us is by email – info@ swanagejazzfestival.co.uk. We’ll be all ears, as I am sure you will be this weekend. Paul Kelly Chair – Swanage Jazz Festival
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Chris Walker’s Pedigree Jazzband “A Salute To Trad Jazz” Friday 8 July Harman’s Cross Village Hall 2.15pm – 4.15pm Don’t you just love it when something does exactly what it says on the tin? Lovers of the 50’s and 60’s music of the likes of Chris Barber, Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball won’t be disappointed as the band revives the excitement of those “Jazz Boom” years. Clarinettist Chris Walker takes time out from his long running Swingtet to bring us Trad Jazz as we’ve come to expect it. Chris’s expertise as a broadcaster and lecturer ensure that his audience is never disappointed. Tony Mann plays the trombone in the band but you may find him equally at home on the double bass or the sousaphone; wouldn’t it be good if he were to play the sousaphone at the Swanage Jazz Festival? Trumpeter Andy Chislett comes ashore from his 9 years at sea playing on NCL, Cunard and P & O cruise ships. Now that sounds like hard work to me. John Noddings looks after banjo and guitar in the back line, sure to keep your feet tapping to that trad jazz rhythm. Still in the back line, Ken Ames used to play banjo but moved to playing double bass so that Tony Mann could move to Trombone. Sy Gorelick completes the rhythm section on drums for the band’s Swanage Jazz Festival appearance. Apparently Sy is an aficionado of several sciences which I have never heard of and couldn’t spell even if I had. Chris Walker: Leader, Clarinet Andy Chislett: Trumpet Tony Mann: Trombone John Noddings: Banjo & Guitar Ken Ames: Double Bass Sy Gorelick: Drums
The Salamanda Swing Band Friday 8 July Swanage Methodist Church 7pm – 9.30pm
Few small seaside towns can boast two big bands but The Salamanda Swing Band has now become part of the fabric of music in Swanage. To have such a sought after set of musicians right on the doorstep, has meant that Swanage Jazz Festival is able to field two local big bands, the other being the Swanage Big Band for this year’s Jazz By The Sea. Specialising in big band arrangements of songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Glenn Miller and Irving Berlin and special arrangements of more contemporary hits, Salamanda manage to re-create that true 1930’s feel. Demand for this style of dance music has never been greater and the band is often to be seen providing fun evenings to their audiences who feel like having a dance away from the disco floor. Their membership is drawn not only from Swanage but across Purbeck giving each musician a chance to indulge in this much loved musical genre. Chris Dawe: Trumpet Bob Lovett: Trumpet Brian Vickery: Trumpet Joanna Swallow: Alto & Soprano Sax Peter Curtis: Alto Sax Liz Roberts: Alto Sax Dave Cook: Tenor Sax Amanda Jensen: Tenor Sax & Clarinet Mike Wickens: Baritone Sax & Clarinet Jacqui Murray-Brown: Valve Trombone Moira Purver: Trombone Gary Austin: Bass Trombone Gerard Jensen: Guitar Angus Murray-Brown: Musical Director & Piano Steve Dumble: Double Bass Dave George: Drums Laura Jolly: Vocals
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The Sound Of BlueNote Friday 8 July Swanage Conservative Club 8pm – 10.30pm This concert is not to be missed by all aficionados of the iconic BlueNote records of the 50’s and 60’s. Entitled “The Sound Of BlueNote play Herbie and Wayne,” The band will be playing two of the Label’s legendary albums. “Takin’ Off” which was released in 1962 by Herbie Hancock and “Speak No Evil” which was released in 1966 by Wayne Shorter. The Sound of BlueNote are a five piece who are known for their meticulous re-creations of the music of the legendary artists who recorded on the BlueNote record label, capturing all of the spirit, nuance and swinging intensity. They are, Andy Urquart on trumpet, Terry Quinney on saxophones, Phil Doyle on piano, Ben Taylor on bass and Andy Chapman on drums. Looking back to an era dominated by the Beatles and the Mersey sound, the other musical influences of the day may easily be overlooked and this nostalgic tribute to the musicians who forged this inimitable style which still sounds so exciting sixty years on. Will any of the younger up and coming musicians who are playing at this year’s Jazz By The Sea make the same lasting impression as the BlueNote Legends to whom this band pays tribute today? If so, we would like to think that you’ll remember that you saw them first at Swanage Jazz Festival. Andy Urquart: Trumpet Terry Quinney: Saxes Phil Doyle: Piano Ben Taylor: Bass Andy Chapman: Drums
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John Maddocks’ Jazzmen Saturday 9 July The Centre 2pm – 3.15pm Inspired by the legendary clarinettist George Lewis and influenced by the equally legendary Johnny Dodds, John Maddocks co-founded the much loved Black Bottom Stompers which were a key feature in British traditional Jazz in the 1960s John formed his Jazzmen after moving from London to Dorset 50 years ago. He plays the clarinet with a forceful style that encompasses influences from all over the traditional jazz spectrum. Although there have been changes of personnel over the years, the overall band sound and style remains the same. The Band is well known for its drive and cohesiveness and the inclusion of some seldom heard tunes from the repertoire. John Maddocks: Reeds Tom Connor: Trumpet Chris Gower: Trombone Chris Satterly: Piano Kevin Scott: Banjo Peter McCurrie: Bass John Hall: Drums
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James Emmett’s Ragtime Revellers
Saturday 9 July Promenade Performance, Shore Road 10.15am The Centre, 7 Chapel Lane 12.15 – 1.30pm Swanage Jazz Festival is one of the few in the country to feature both Traditional and Contemporary jazz. Whilst on the Contemporary front it is easy to find individuals and groups pushing forward the music’s boundaries, it is harder to find quality Traditional jazz groups who bring love and care to the music, especially if they are also asked to perform a la promenade. It has been Swanage’s custom to kick the Saturday programme off with a Festival parade and for many years this was nobly undertaken by Dave Brennan’s Band both before and after his untimely death in 2018. We are delighted to have found a more local equivalent who, we are sure, will revive the Brennan spirit and quality Initially formed in 2012. James Emmett had a vision to bring live traditional good time jazz back into the public eye and into the gardens and organisations of all those who love live music. Now in its very successful 10th year, the Revellers have survived the pandemic and are raring to go. The trumpet-less line up features former cornet player James Emmett leading the band on Tuba, and wife Steff Emmett keeping time on Washboard. The line up includes Ukranian saxist Oleg Zaremskyi features two saxes and trombone with the full line up as follows: James Emmett: Tuba Oleg Zaremskyi: Clarinet and soprano Sax Graham Majin: Vocals and Tenor Sax Mike White: Trombone Tom Ward: Banjo Steff Emmett: Washboard We are delighted to welcome them to their first Swanage Jazz Festival performances.
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Nigel Price’s Wes Re-imagined Quintet Saturday 9 July The Mowlem Theatre 1.30pm – 2.45pm
Nigel Price makes a welcome return to the Swanage Jazz Festival this year with a programme dedicated to one of Nigel’s early influences, Wes Montgomery. A true friend of the festival and instrumental in its survival, Nigel took over and ran it in 2018 and worked tirelessly to help make it such a success. Nigel’s third decade in the industry has seen his journey take him from the reggae and funk of his early days to being one of the most sought after and hard working jazz guitarists on the circuit. Along with his regular outstanding sax player Vasilis Xenopoulous, Nigel is joined for this concert by saxophonist and flute player Tony Kofi who has not only won awards for his playing, but he teaches and composes as well. Tony attributes his success to a work accident as a teenager which resulted in a head injury in which he saw himself playing an instrument on stage. From the Jazz Warriors of the early 90’s to Nu-Troop and Jazz Jamaica, Tony continues to play for an extremely wide range of Jazz artists. Ross Stanley adds his talent on the Hammond organ to the quintet for this concert for ‘Jazz By The Sea.’ After leaving Marlborough College, he studied classical and jazz on piano and organ at London’s Guildhall. Ross is regularly to be seen as part of Jim Mullen’s Organ Trio, and the Jacqui Dankworth Band. The line up is completed by Vasilis Xenopoulous on tenor saxophone and drummer Joel Barford. Nigel Price: Guitar Vasilis Xenopoulous: Tenor Sax Tony Kofi: Alto Sax Ross Stanley: Hammond Organ Joel Barford: Drums
The Xhosa Cole Quartet Saturday 9 July The Mowlem Theatre 3.15pm – 4.30pm Critically acclaimed saxophonist, flautist and composer, Xhosa Cole is an embodiment of the success of numerous community outreach arts programmes in Birmingham. Xhosa started playing Tenor Saxophone at the late Andy Hamilton MBE’s Ladywood Community Music School. Xhosa has now established himself among the long legacy of Birmingham Saxophonists including Soweto Kinch and Shabaka Hutchings. Xhosa’s early career was shaped by a number of musical mentors including the likes of Sid Peacock, Jean Toussaint, Mike Williams, John Ruddick and Percy Purseglove, giving him a varied outlook on his approach to development and a deep connection to the lineage and tradition of Jazz music. In 2018 he was winner of the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award and has since performed alongside artists including Monty Alexander and Courtney Pine and as a soloist for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In 2020 Xhosa received the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Newcomer as well as having been nominated for the Jazz FM Breakthrough act. In January 2020, Xhosa completed his inaugural 23 date UK tour with his quartet featuring Trumpet virtuoso Jay Phelps, Birmingham veteran drummer Jim Bashford and fellow BBCYJM finalist James Owston. The band recorded his debut album K(no) w Them, K(no)w Us alongside featured guest artists, saxophonist Soweto Kinch and Pianist Reuben James. His new quartet substitutes guitar for the more usual piano. We are intrigued to hear the sonic outcome and are delighted to welcome Xhosa and his band to their debut Swanage Jazz Festival performance. Xhosa Cole: Tenor sax and flute Josh Vadiveloo: Guitar Nathan England-Jones: Bass Steve Saunders: Drums
The Alan Barnes Octet Saturday 9 July The Mowlem Theatre 5pm – 6.15pm
This long established octet has always been a showcase for Alan’s arranging and composing skills. His compositions include “The Sherlock Holmes Suite,” and “A Jazz Christmas Carol” as well as two collaborations with playwright Alan Plater “The Seven Ages of Jazz” and “Songs for Unsung Heroes.” With 30 years on Clarinet, Alto, and Baritone saxes, playing with among others, Stan Tracey, John Dankworth, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber and Humphrey Lyttleton, Alan has picked up 25 awards. He has been leader and co-leader on 30 albums. Trumpeter Bruce Adams, an Englishman who moved to Glasgow, took up the trumpet 40 years ago and toured with his father and sometimes his mother too. In the mid 1980’s, Bruce could be found playing with visiting jazz artists like Dick Hyman, Benny Carter and Bib Wilber. Mark Nightingale on trombone has been on stage with such greats as Frank Sinatra, Cleo Laine, London Brass, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sting and Shakatak. Clark Tracey on drums has another amazing pedigree having moved from playing piano and vibes originally, he played drums for his father Stan Tracey for 35 years. Clark has been voted best drums in the British Jazz Awards 6 times most recently in 2018. David Newton on piano was with Alan at Leeds College of Music in 1979 and was made a fellow in 2003. David has been voted Best Jazz Pianist an amazing 16 times. Alan Barnes: Saxophone, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Bruce Adams: Trumpet Mark Nightingale: Trombone Robert Fowler: Saxophones and Clarinet Karen Sharp: Saxophones and Clarinet David Newton: Piano Simon Thorpe: Bass Clark Tracey: Drums
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The Yazz Ahmed Quintet
Saturday 9 July The Mowlem Theatre 8pm – 10pm Through her music, British-Bahraini trumpet player, Yazz Ahmed, seeks to blur the lines between jazz and electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage in what has been described as ‘psychedelic Arabic jazz, intoxicating and compelling’. Over the last decade, Yazz has led her ensembles in performances across the UK & Europe, and further afield in Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Tunisia, Turkey, and Ukraine. She has also enchanted audiences at major festivals such as WOMAD, and Love Supreme. Yazz’s career is studded with high profile collaborations with the likes of Radiohead, Lee Scratch Perry, Transglobal Underground, Arturo O’Farrill, and Natacha Atlas, and a world tour with These New Puritans. Her second album, La Saboteuse made a global impact including Jazz Album of the Year in The Wire magazine. Her 2015 suite, Alhaan al Siduri, is influenced by her Bahraini roots, drawing from the folk music of the Bahraini pearl divers and traditional wedding songs sung by the women drumming groups. Yazz’s 2019 album, Polyhymnia, (Ropeadope Records) built on her growing reputation as a notable composer with a strong individual voice, a figure at the heart of the exciting UK scene. Evolving from a performance on International Women’s Day in 2015, commissioned by Tomorrow’s Warriors, the music takes the form of a suite written in celebration of courageous and inspiring women and features an extended ensemble of 25 musicians. At the 2020 Jazz FM Awards Polyhymnia was voted Album of The Year, with Yazz also winning UK Jazz Act of the Year. The year culminated with the receipt of the highly prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Innovation. We are thrilled to have Yazz and her Quintet headlining our Saturday night programme. Yazz Ahmed: Trumpet and electronics George Crowley: Bass clarinet Ralph Wyld: Vibes Dave Manington: Bass Martin France: Drums
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Nigel Williams Jazz FM Saturday 9 July The Showbar, Mowlem Theatre DJ Set 10pm – 11.30pm Sunday 10 July Mowlem Theatre Compere The voice of Nigel Williams has become familiar to many, thanks to an illustrious career in broadcasting. Nigel Williams has been at Jazz FM for almost 13 years and its Breakfast Show host for almost 12 and he interviews the biggest names in Jazz. Before joining Jazz FM he was at Smooth Radio and was Anchor Presenter of News and Current Affairs programme for Surrey and Hampshire at the BBC. He’s also worked for Chiltern Radio, Virgin Radio and Radio City. He was turned on to Jazz by Joe Sample’s Rainbow Seeker album and inspired by Robert Glasper’s Black Radio. We are delighted that he has agreed to compere our Mowlem Sunday programme.
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The Alex Clarke Quartet Saturday 9 July Swanage Conservative Club 1.45pm – 3pm
J Fashole Luke Trio Saturday 9 July Swanage Conservative Club 12pm – 1.15pm J Fashole-Luke is a multi instrumentalist who is in high demand particularly for live piano performances. He has performed all over Europe at Festivals including Montreux, Vienne, North Sea and Vienna Jazz Festivals and in UK at Glastonbury, Bestival, Boomtown, Shambala and Isle Of Wight Festivals. He has been seen at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and on BBC2s ‘Later With Jools Holland’. He has also had the opportunities to play live with jazz luminaries such as Marcus Miller, Roy Hargrove, Gary Crosby and Soweto Kinch. The J Fashole-Luke Trio draws on a vast range of influences including Bill Evans, Hiromi, Herbie Hancock, Esbjorn Svensson, Robert Glasper and many others. This is a piano trio that truly offers something for everyone! When Swanage Jazz Festival scouts caught the Trio in Southampton we were immediately struck by the originality of J Fashole-Luke’s compositions and the precision of Sian Unwin’s bass lines. She had been drafted in at short notice and fitted the trio perfectly. We are pleased to give a platform to such rising regional talent as this. J Fashole-Luke: Piano Sian Unwin: Bass Ben Kill: Drums
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Saxophonist Alex Clarke may seem young to be leading her own quartet but as the British Jazz Awards Rising Star of 2019, a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2020 and as a nominee for the Parliamentary Jazz Awards of 2021 She is no stranger to such deserved acclaim. Influenced by New Orleans and Bebop, she has quickly become much in demand with her Jazz Quartet. Alex brings with her the almost Legendary David Newton, one of the most sought after accompanists in the UK. Having attended Leeds College of Music in 1979, he was made a fellow in 2003. With a recording career which started in 1985 and his first solo album released in 1988, David has been voted Best Jazz Pianist an amazing 16 times. Dave Green plays Bass for the Quartet and brings with him nearly 60 years experience having played with Keith Ingham, Pete Shade, Don Rendell, Benny Goodman, Humphrey Lyttleton, Stan Tracey, Michael Garrick and Henry Lowther.He headed his own group Fingers back in the 80’s and more recently has played in the Chris Barber Band. Clark Tracey completes the line up on drums with another amazing pedigree having moved from playing piano and vibes originally, he played drums for his father, Stan Tracey for 35 years. Clark has been voted Best Drummer in the British Jazz Awards 6 times most recently in 2018. Alex Clarke: Saxes David Newton: Piano Dave Green: Bass Clark Tracey: Drums
Adam Glasser’s South Africa and Beyond Saturday 9 July Swanage Conservative Club 3.30pm – 4.45pm Adam Glasser was born in Cambridge but grew up in his parents’ native South Africa, influenced by his father Stanley ‘Spike’ Glasser’s involvement as musical director of the legendary South African musical “King Kong” (1959) which featured many key South African jazz musicians. After time as a teenager hanging out with leading South African musicians Adam moved back to University in Britain. He spent a semester at Berklee College in Boston USA and in the 1980s was working regularly with legendary South African alto player Dudu Pukwana. He did UK tours with Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and Jimmy Witherspoon. He went on to spend 16 years as MD of the Manhattan Brothers, with performances that included the Wembley Concert celebrating the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990. His specialisation in the chromatic harmonica included work on film soundtracks and the West End production of “The Postman Always Rings Twice” featuring Val Kilmer. He worked with Joe Zawinul on a Manhattan Brothers collaboration with performances in Vienna and London and worked with Sting depping for Stevie Wonder on ‘Brand New Day’. Steeped in South African jazz Adam leads an exceptional group in a Swanage debut which is bound to fill the Conservative Club with joy. Adam Glasser: Piano and Harmonica George Crowley: Saxophone Rob Luft: Guitar Steve Watts: Bass Corrie Dick: Drums
Tom Waters’ Electric People Saturday 9 July Swanage Conservative Club 5.15pm – 6.30pm
Few 21 year old saxophonists can boast such a remarkable start to their career. Dorset-born Tom Waters has recorded with music legends such as The Rolling Stones, Ray Davies, and Ronnie Wood and of course his Boogie pianist Dad, Ben Waters. He’s also made a name for himself on the touring circuit playing with bands such as The Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Mick Taylor, Mungo Jerry, and Nine Below Zero. If Ray Charles was still around and looking for a sax player to replace maybe Hank Crawford or David ‘Fathead’ Newman, we’ve little doubt that Tom Waters would be in the frame. Tom’s new band, Electric People, is a high energy jazzy roots and blues revue steeped in groove and hugely inspired by Derek Trucks and Bonnie Raitt. The quartet comprises of soulful saxophone, bluesy organ, sultry slide guitar, and relaxed ‘phatback’ groove which presents a truly unique sound. When Tom appeared at Swanage in 2019 with Derek Nash for logistical reasons he only fielded half a band. This time promises to be different. Tom Waters: Alto Sax Artie Zaitz: Organ Marcus Praestgaard-Stevens: Guitar Jack Thomas: Drums
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The Craig Milverton Quartet
– Tribute to Oscar Peterson Saturday 9 July Swanage Conservative Club 7.30pm – 8.30pm If there is one word to summarise pianist Craig Milverton it is ‘versatile’. A skilled self-taught pianist who started performing at the tender age of 10, Craig has worked in R&B Bands, Rock ‘n Roll and Jazz Funk groups, with traditional jazz masters like clarinettist Pete Allen, and trombonist Roger Marks, with mainstream supremos like Digby Fairweather and with modern exponents like Martin Dale and Julian Stringle. There aren’t many jazz pianists who can comfortably and skilfully embrace the worlds of Traditional and Contemporary jazz. Craig is one of the very few. Yet in spite of his Traditional Jazz expertise, Craig’s main influences are Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans and the first of those, that master of tasteful and inventive jazz Oscar Peterson, is the subject of Craig’s 14th performance at Swanage Jazz Festival. So for those fans of straight ahead no-nonsense swinging jazz piano with some familiar tunes and probably a few less-well known ones, this is a session you are bound to enjoy. Craig Milverton: Piano Dominic Ashworth: Guitar Sandy Suchodolski: Bass Nick Millward: Drums
Greg Abate with The Craig Milverton Quartet Saturday 9 July Swanage Conservative Club 9pm – 10pm
Following his Oscar Peterson tribute, Craig Milverton is joined by the much-loved saxist Greg Abate for session that is bound to be full of drive and excitement. A native of Rhode Island, USA, Greg Abate was first heard in Swanage in 2004. Following four years at the famed Berklee Music College in Boston Greg secured the lead alto chair in the Ray Charles Orchestra, a position he held for two year criss-crossing the world with the band. In the late 1980s he performed with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra before venturing out as a soloist specialising in a post hard bop style. His recordings have included guests like the celebrated alto saxist Phil Woods and a backing trio of pianist James Williams, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Kenny Washington. A fluent and passionate player, Greg Abate is bound to set your pulses racing and is a perfect act for the Saturday closing session in the Conservative Club, backed of course by the excellent Craig Milverton Quartet. Greg Abate: Alto sax and flute Craig Milverton: Piano Dominic Ashworth: Guitar Sandy Suchodolski: Bass Nick Millward: Drums
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Tad Newton’s Jazz Friends Saturday 9 July The Centre 3.45pm – 5pm
Tad Newton’s Jazz friends are now established as one of the most popular groups on the UK and international jazz entertainment scenes. The Jazz Friends specialise in lively always swinging jazz. Within this framework, also reside the sounds of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Count Basie making the band ideal for concerts, clubs, dances, festivals (especially Swanage Jazz Festival,) riverboat shuffles or indeed any functions where happy, lively music is required. Whilst concentrating on the jazz sounds of the 20’s 30’s 40’s and 50’s, the Jazz Friends do not resign themselves to re-runs of “golden oldies” and can combine their traditional repertoire with more contemporary blues material. The band features within its show, a flexibility of approach enabling it to spotlight delightful interludes of vocals, novelties, rhythm and blues as well as fine solos by it’s respected and noted individual musicians. Always in demand at Jazz clubs both at home and abroad, the band have played such prestigious events as The Royal Festival Hall, Royal Ascot, Henley Royal Regatta and the British Grand Prix. Tad Newton: Trombone/vocals Gary Wood: Trumpet/vocals Mike Wills: Clarinet/sax Alan Haughton: Piano Tomas Pedersen: Bass Nick Millward: Drums
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Mike Denham’s Sunset Café Stompers Saturday 9 July The Centre 5.30pm – 6.45pm
Following a performance by his Riverboat Four in 2019, we are very pleased to welcome pianist Mike Denham back to Swanage with his larger Sunset Café Stompers band. Introduced to the piano by his father, who needed someone to accompany his violin, mandolin and guitar playing, Mike Denham’s music career suffered an early setback when he was asked to leave the school madrigal group – for including too much syncopation. His jazz initiation came at Exeter University and then, moving to Leicestershire, he cut his teeth with bands led by Eric Dolby and Ron Radford, both very fine trombonists. Back in Dorset, he co-founded the Sunset Café Stompers with the late Alan Potton. Drawing on fine musicians from Dorset, Devon and Somerset, The Sunset Café Stompers’ music is rooted in the bars and bordellos, the dance halls and the street parades of New Orleans in the 1910s and 20s, and later in the clubs and speakeasies of Chicago and New York, as musicians migrated to the big cities to find work. Despite heartless criticism, Mike Denham is still determined to eventually master - some fine day - the Swanee whistle, and (thanks to a Covid-19 ‘Lockdown Project’) the piano accordion... Whether they will appear at Swanage is a well kept secret! Mike Denham: Piano Steve Graham: Trumpet Trevor Whiting: Clarinet, Sax Pete Middleton: Trombone Keith Hall: Banjo, Guitar John Coad: Drums Hamish Maxwell: Vocals
Ma Bessie and Her Blues Troupe
Saturday 9 July The Centre 8pm – 10.30pm Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith was regarded as one of America’s greatest Blues singers. Recent research suggests that her tragic death in 1937 at the age of just 43 was the result of medical neglect on account of her race. Its timing means she missed out on modern post-war recording technology and as a result Bessie Smith is perhaps increasingly overlooked. Yet she was one of the most popular female blues singers of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on other Jazz singers. This concert derives from a narrated theatre show featuring music from the era and showcasing many of Bessie‘s hit songs. The theatre production chronicles her life from a one-room shack in Blue Goose Hollow, through to becoming the highest-paid black entertainer of that time, to the tragic accident on Route 61 in September 1937. Much of the music in this concert will reflect that era and Bessie Smith’s significant achievements. With a lifelong love of reggae and the music of the Caribbean, Julia Titus aka Ma Bessie has been performing live and in the studio for over 20 years. Her rich warm vocals and engaging stage persona are always a winner with audiences. She brings with her a fine band including the exceptional Jazz trumpet playing of South African Claude Deppa and the British Saxist Clare Hirst. You can expect a steamy night of 1920s Jazz and Blues. Julia Titus (Ma Bessie): Vocals Clare Hirst: Sax/clarinet Claude Deppa: Trumpet Dom Barnett: Piano Tony Qunta: Guitar Marianne Windham: Double bass Sam Kelly: Drums
Pigfoot Saturday 9 July Swanage Methodist Church 12pm – 1.15pm Pigfoot burst onto the London scene in 2013 with their highly original take on New Orleans jazz ‘21st Century Acid Trad’, recorded live at the Vortex. At their ongoing Vortex residency ‘Pigfoot Play’ they have been extending their repertoire in all directions, with gigs dedicated to Opera, Motown, Elvis, Bacharach and the music of 1972, all spontaneously transformed by the band’s wild musicality and wry humour. Here they turn their genre-bending skills to re-workings of a range of classic material; Led Zeppelin’s raucous “Black Dog”, the 70’s funk of Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman”, the South African township transformation of a Mozart aria from “The Marriage of Figaro” and, typically, a medley of Elvis Presley and Wagner material. The Pigfoot sound has also developed, with the introduction of Liam Noble’s creative and individual keyboard setup, which allows Chris Batchelor and James Allsop to combine as a flexible and powerful frontline, egged on by the inspired eccentricity of Paul Clarvis’ sparky and spiky drumming. Anything can happen. Pigfoot performed at Swanage Jazz Festival in 2016. We are delighted to welcome them back. Chris Batchelor: Trumpet James Allsopp: Baritone Saxophone Liam Noble: Piano Paul Clarvis: Drums
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Martin Speake’s Charukesi
Kate Westbrook and The GRANITE Band
Saturday 9 July Swanage Methodist Church 2pm – 3.15pm
Saturday 9 July Swanage Methodist Church 4.30pm – 5.45pm
Martin studied classical saxophone at Trinity College of Music where he met some future jazz musicians including pianist Simon Purcell, saxophonist Mark Lockheart and the members of saxophone quartet Itchy Fingers who were studying at the Royal Academy of Music. He toured Europe, South America, Africa and the USA with Itchy Fingers appearing at major jazz festivals and playing on their first two CDs and winning the Schlitz Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award, which was televised by the BBC. For over 20 years Martin has led various projects exploring his interest in Indian, Arabic and Turkish music and blending it with his jazz sensibilities. Charukesi features Alyson Cawley on tenor saxophone, Rob Luft on guitar and Adam Merrell on drums and percussion alongside the leader’s alto saxophone and compositions. The groove-based and trance like music reflects Martin’s interest in improvising with rhythm and melody rather than harmony. The melodic framework of ragas taken from Indian tradition and rhythmic cycles from the Arabic and Turkish musical world is combined to make an original sound, featuring four generations of players bringing their own unique interpretations to the whole. Martin last performed at Swanage in 2012. His return is overdue and we are thrilled to welcome him back.
Kate Westbrook has had a long and distinguished career as a visual artist, teacher, singer, musician, lyricist and now bandleader. Born in Britain she spent much of her childhood in the USA and Canada before an education at Dartington in Devon, Bath Academy of Art and Reading University. Kate’s vocal range embraces Contemporary Music, Opera, Music Hall and Cabaret as well as Jazz and Popular Song. She has appeared in many different contexts. She has sung the role of Anna in The Seven Deadly Sins by Brecht and Weill with the London Symphony Orchestra, arias by Rossini with the Mike Westbrook Orchestra in Big Band Rossini at the BBC Proms, and songs by the Beatles with the Westbrook Band in Off Abbey Road. The GRANITE Band is the result of Kate’s fascination with Dartmoor and its granite quarries. The 7 piece band comprises some of the best South West jazz musicians and now has two albums to its name the ‘GRANITE’ album and ‘Earth Felt The Wound’. It is slightly surprising that neither Mike Westbrook, one of the pioneers of British Jazz, nor Kate has appeared at Swanage Jazz Festival before. We are thrilled to rectify that longstanding omission and welcome their debut performance.
Martin Speake: Alto saxophone Alyson Cawley: Tenor saxophone Rob Luft: Guitar Adam Merrell: Drums
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Kate Westbrook: Voice Roz Harding: Saxophones Jesse Molins: Guitar Matthew North: Guitar Mike Westbrook: Piano Billie Bottle: Bass Coach York: Drums
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Alyn Shipton In Conversation
Sunday 10 July The Showbar, The Mowlem Theatre 10.30am – 11.30am Alyn Shipton is an award-winning author, musician and broadcaster, who has written on jazz for over twenty years for The Times in London and is a presenter/producer of jazz programmes for BBC Radio including BBC Radio 3’s popular ‘Jazz Record Requests’. He was Consultant Editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and has a lifelong interest in oral history, including editing the memoirs of Danny Barker, Doc Cheatham, George Shearing and Chris Barber. His first biography, the life of Fats Waller, published in 1988, has scarcely been out of print since. His life of Bud Powell (written with Alan Groves) was the first English language biography of the pianist, and his book Groovin’ High, the life of Dizzy Gillespie, won the 2000 ARSC award for the best research of the year. His monumental New History of Jazz, published in 2001, and revised in 2007, was the Jazz Journalists’ Association Book of the Year, and won Alyn the coveted “Jazz Writer of the Year” title in the British Jazz Awards. He is currently a lecturer in Jazz History and a research fellow at the Royal Academy of Music Alyn is also a well-established DoubleBass player working mainly in the traditional to mainstream area of the music including The London Ragtime Orchestra and coleading The Buck Clayton Legacy. In “On Jazz: A Personal Journey” Alyn recalls friendships with legendary musicians, while revealing fresh discoveries about such luminaries as Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Abbey Lincoln and Geri Allen. Alyn Shipton will be in conversation with Bruce Evans and Paul Kelly
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The Nicola Farnon Trio Sunday 10 July The Mowlem Theatre 11.30am – 12.45pm There aren’t many people who can sing and play swinging double bass at the same time. There aren’t many people who have gorgeous jazz voices made for Great American Songbook tunes. Nicola Farnon has all of the above. Why she isn’t better known is a mystery. In addition, Nicola Farnon has a remarkable musical pedigree. Both parents were professional classical musicians and her great uncle no less than the late Robert Farnon a master of light music and TV theme music including The Prisoner and Colditz, none of which feature in Nicola’s repertoire. Nicola started singing and playing double bass in her twenties and has played and recorded with such Jazz luminaries as Digby Fairweather, Jim Mullen, Bruce Adams and Alan Barnes and alongside class jazz acts as diverse as Eliane Elias, Courtney Pine, Georgie Fame, Tony Kofi, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Humphrey Lyttleton and Acker Bilk. When we asked her who she wanted in her trio at Swanage, she said ‘Dave Newton’. A booking was a no brainer. Our Sunday morning jazz sunshine starts here. Don’t miss it! Nicola Farnon: Bass and vocals David Newton: Piano Phil Johnson: Drums
Mark Kavuma and The Banger Factory
The Mowlem Theatre Sunday 10 July 1.15pm – 2.45pm Born and partly raised in Uganda, Mark Kavuma is a prominent new Trumpet player on the British jazz scene. As well as leading his own bands he has played with Jean Toussaint’s Young Lions, Jazz Jamaica, the Nu Civilisation Orchestra and also one of the brass leaders at London based carnival band Kinetika Bloco. In 2012 and 2016 Mark was featured as guest soloist with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra having been voted best soloist at the very first ‘Essentially Ellington’ competition in the UK. He has played a support slot for Wayne Shorter at the Barbican and has toured the world featuring in Peter Brooke’s production of ‘The Suit’ and in 2015 went on the road with the legendary Salif Keita and Les Ambassaduers. Mark’s main outfit, The Banger Factory, is a collective that is contingent upon bringing the people a good time. From a weekly residency in Brixton’s POW, over the last seven years, the band has developed and nourished a truly unmistakable group sound based loosely in a post-bop style. It attracts and features some of the most gifted and engaging musicians on the scene today. The band’s pianist, Deschanel Gordon won the 2020 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year award. The rest of them are scarcely less talented. We are delighted to welcome Mark and The Banger Factory to Swanage. Mark Kavuma: Trumpet Mussinghi Brian Edwards: Tenor Sax Artie Zaitz: Guitar Deschanel Gordon: Piano Jack Garside: Bass Will Cleasby: Drums
The Nat Steele Quartet’s Tribute To The MJQ Sunday 10 July The Mowlem Theatre 3.15pm – 4.45pm Vibraphone specialist Nat Steele has gained a reputation as a formidable player and has been described by Clark Tracey as “one of the best vibes players this country has ever produced.” Principally self-taught, Nat is strongly influenced in his technique and stylistic approach by Milt Jackson, although his influences also include other musicians such as Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt and Victor Feldman, among others. Nat is in fact a multi-instrumentalist learning violin, clarinet, piano, Javanese Gamelan, drums and Cuban percussion as a youngster before finally settling on vibraphone and drums in his late teens. He’s regularly featured as a performer at Ronnie Scott’s where he has sat in with Benny Green and Wynton Marsalis. In 2017 he launched his debut album, “Portrait of the Modern Jazz Quartet”. The album received rave reviews in the jazz press, and the subsequent UK launch tour led to a live performance of the classic Prestige album “Sonny Rollins and the MJQ” with NYC saxophonist Grant Stewart at the 2018 London Jazz Festival, which was reviewed in Forbes Magazine as “easily one of top gigs of [the LJF].” In 2015 Nat co-founded his own jazz festival with saxophonist Allison Neale, BopFest, as a way to feature more straight ahead jazz and bebop programming alongside the official London Jazz Festival. BopFest has subsequently grown into a large and successful annual festival in its own right. Nat brings with him a superb trio featuring Gabriel Latchin, Dario di Lecce and Steve Brown who those attending Swanage in 2019 may remember as Sara Dowling’s trio. Nat Steele: Vibraphone Gabriel Latchin: Piano Dario di Lecce: Bass Steve Brown: Drums
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The Simon Spillett Big Band plays The Music of Tubby Hayes
Hampstead Jazz Club presents
Jo Harrop – ‘The Heart Wants’ Sunday 10 July The Mowlem Theatre 5.30pm – 6.45pm
Born in Durham and raised on a heady musical diet of Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Aretha Franklin, Jo Harrop cut her teeth as a session singer, working with a host of iconic artists including Neil Diamond, Rod Stewart and Gloria Gaynor. After moving to London, she quickly established herself as one of the most unmistakable voices in British jazz. Beyond the mellifluous perfection of her chocolate and cream voice, there is always a beautifully bruised intimacy at the very heart of Jo Harrop’s music. It’s almost as if she’s staring directly into your soul when she sings. ‘The Heart Wants’ may only be her second LP, yet she sounds as if she’s already lived a thousand lifetimes. “When I was a teenager, my dad took me to see Tony Bennett live in Newcastle,” she recalls. “I was so moved and so inspired, I realised that I needed to sing. I wanted to be able to touch people with my music in the same way. These songs feel timeless, but they also reflect where we are here and now, caught up in life’s bittersweet journey. Music has been my whole world for as long as I can remember; it has always had the power to transport me and to move me deep inside, and I want to create the same emotional connection with people who hear my songs.” Swanage Jazz Festival is extremely pleased to be working with Hampstead Jazz Club to present Jo Harrop at this year’s Festival. Jo Harrop: Vocals Freddie Gavita: Trumpet Paul Edis: Piano/MD Jamie McCredie: Guitar Jihad Darwish: Double bass Pete Adam Hill: Drums with The Kate Keats String Quartet
Sunday 10 July The Mowlem Theatre 8.15pm – 10.15pm Admission by separate ticket When we read on Facebook that Simon Spillett was making tentative enquiries about forming a Big Band to play the music of Tubby Hayes, we thought, ‘that would be so perfect for Swanage’. We made a booking enquiry and then sadly nature intervened and we’ve had to wait two years to get them here. But whilst we may no longer be first in the queue, that has meant that the band have got a few gigs under their belt which actually ups the fizz-factor. Let’s wind back a little. Tubby Hayes was arguably Britain’s finest jazz Tenor Sax legend who had no difficulty in holding his own against or alongside the best Americans in the field, let alone his British compatriots. He suffered the misfortune to emerge when Jazz was losing out to the newly emergent British Blues, R&B and Rock musics. So in the wider sphere of things he never quite got the popular recognition that was his due and he didn’t have a club named after him to keep him in the public eye. Tubby might have become a fond memory in British jazz if it weren’t for the passion and skills of Simon Spillett. An exceptional self-taught Jazz Tenor sax player, Simon has also become a superb historian and writer about Jazz producing the definite biography of Tubby Hayes as well as many perceptive articles and blogs about the music. Simon has recruited an all star band to recreate Tubby’s Big Band music which includes familiar and much loved names like Mark Armstrong (MD of NYJO) Alan Barnes, Mark Nightingale, Alec Dankworth and Peter Cater to name but a few. This is a band capable of raising the roof with its mix of precision ensemble work and exciting solos. We are thrilled to have them as our closing Mowlem Theatre Festival act. Simon Spillett: Tenor sax, leader Nathan Bray , Mark Armstrong, Freddie Gavita, George Hogg: Trumpets Mark Nightingale, Andy Flaxman, Ian Bateman, Pete North: Trombones Sammy Mayne, Pete Long, Alex Garnett, Simon Allen, Alan Barnes: Saxes Rob Barron: Piano Alec Dankworth: Bass Pete Cater: Drums
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EVENT TIMETABLE Friday 8th July
The Mowlem Theatre
Swanage Conservative Club
Jazz Train and Harman’s Cross Hall
Swanage Methodist Church
Train: 1.30pm Performance: 2.15pm Jazz Train and Chris Walker’s Pedigree Jazzmen Presents “A Salute To Trad Jazz” SOLD OUT 5pm to 10pm Jazz Films 5pm Soul 8pm The Birth of The Cool
8pm – 10.30pm Sound of Blue Note play Herbie and Wayne
7pm – 9.30pm The Salamanda Swing Band
Saturday 9th July Swanage Conservative Club
The Centre
12pm – 1.15pm The J FasholeLuke Trio
12.15pm – 1.30pm James Emmett’s Ragtime Revellers
1.30pm – 2.45pm The Nigel Price Quintet Wes Reimagined
1.45pm – 3pm The Alex Clarke Quartet
2pm – 3.15pm John Maddocks’ Jazzmen
3.15pm – 4.30pm The Xhosa Cole Quartet
3.30pm – 4.45pm Adam Glasser’s South Africa and Beyond
3.45pm – 5pm Tad Newton’s Jazz Friends
5pm – 6.15pm The Alan Barnes Octet
5.15pm – 6.30pm Tom Waters’ Electric People
8pm – 10pm The Yazz Ahmed Quintet
7.30pm – 8.30pm The Craig Milverton Quartet
10pm – 11.30pm Show Bar Nigel Williams Jazz FM DJ set
9pm – 10pm Greg Abate and The Craig Milverton Quartet
The Mowlem Theatre
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Purbeck House Hotel
12pm – 1.15pm Chris Batchelor’s Pigfoot
2pm – 3pm Terri Quaye
2pm – 3.15pm Martin Speake’s Charukesi
4.30pm – 5.45pm 3.30pm – 4.45pm Kate Westbrook Artist to be and The announced GRANITE Band
5.30pm – 6.30pm 8pm – 10pm Mike Denham’s The Alan Barnes Sunset Café Quartet Stompers 8pm – 10.30pm Ma Bessie and Her Blues Troupe
Swanage Methodist Church
Sunday 10th July Swanage The Mowlem Conservative Theatre Club
The Centre
Purbeck House Hotel
Swanage Methodist Church
St Mary’s Church, Swanage
1pm – 2.15pm Babelfish
1pm – 2pm Salvator Mundi With Mark Lockheart and Simon Lole
Showbar 10.30am – 11.30am ‘On Jazz A Personal Journey:
author and musician Alyn Shipton in conversation 11.30am – 12.45pm The Nicola Farnon Trio
12.15pm – 1.30pm The Simon Spillett Quartet
1.15pm – 2.45pm 2pm – 3.15pm Mark Kavuma The Alison and The Rayner Banger Quintet Factory 3.15pm – 4.45pm The Nat Steele Quartet’s Tribute to the MJQ
11.30am – 12.45pm Tony Waller’s Prohibition Jazz
1.15pm – 2.30pm Hotsy Totsy
1.30pm – 2.45pm Hampstead Jazz Club presents Paul Edis
2.45pm – 4pm The QOW Trio with special guest Alex Hitchcock
3.45pm – 5pm 3pm – 4.15pm Art Themen’s The TJ New Johnson Directions Band Quintet
3.15pm – 4.15pm Hampstead Jazz Club presents Jo Harrop and Jamie McCredie
4.30pm – 5.45pm Trevor Watts’ Eternal Triangle
5.30pm – 6.45pm Hampstead Jazz Club presents Jo Harrop ‘The Heart Wants’
5.30pm – 6.45pm Henry Lowther’s Still Waters
8.15pm – 10.15pm The Simon Spillett Big Band plays the music of Tubby Hayes
8pm – 10pm Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers
4.45pm – 6pm The Harlem 5pm – 6.15pm Meercats Thokozile 6.10pm – 6.50pm Julian Phillips 8pm – 10pm The Little Devils’ Tribute To Keith Nichols
8pm – 10pm The Nigel Price Group
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Swanage Jazz Fringe Fri 8th
Sat 9th
Sun 10th
White Swan
Red Lion
8pm – 10.30pm Spiral
7.30pm – 10.30pm Sarah Bolter Not Just Sax
8pm – 10.30pm Ian Ellis Trio
8pm – 10.30pm Zoe Schwarz and Rob Koral
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2pm – 3.30pm Rob Palmer and Veronique Joly 8pm – 9.30pm Tom Gwyther Kind of Blue
1pm – 4pm Sarah Bolter Not Just Sax
Black Swan
Grand Hotel
Bandstand
8pm – 10pm The Terri Quaye Trio 2pm – 3.30pm Tom Gwyther 4pm – 5.30pm Jazz Knots 6pm – 7.30pm Bossa Definitiva Trio
3pm The Swanage Big Band
8pm – 10pm Mambossa 2pm – 3.30pm Dave Marchant 4pm – 5.30pm Chantoozy 2.30pm 3pm – 4pm 6pm – 7.30pm The Dorset The Sara Harris Sara Harris Youth Trio 8pm – 10pm Jazz Orchestra The Damian Cook Quartet
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The Alison Rayner Quintet Sunday 10 July Swanage Conservative Club 2pm – 3.15pm
Simon Spillett Quartet Sunday 10 July Swanage Conservative Club 12.15pm – 1.30pm A big welcome back to Simon for this year’s Festival. His love of 50’s and 60’s British Jazz especially the work of Tubby Hayes has earned not only acclaim as a soloist but an award from the BBC’s Rising Jazz Star in 2007 and an honour in the 2016 British Jazz Awards for Services to British Jazz. As a band leader, recording artist, author, historian, record producer, archivist, magazine columnist, social media commentator and blogger, he jokes of himself “I went from rising star to jazz veteran in just nine years.” Alec Dankworth was always destined to be a Jazz player and composer, touring with mother and father Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth. He has become a sought after and award winning bass player leading several groups of his own, Alec has played alongside many other top names such as Van Morrison, Stephane Grappelli, Abdullah Ibrahim Dave Brubeck. Drummer Peter Cater was voted one of the world’s top 5 jazz drummers by Rhythm magazine and has spent many years playing with Elaine Delmar and just about every big band in London. Pianist and composer Rob Barron has accompanied many top names , Jacqui Dankworth, Stacey Kent and Claire Martin to name but a few. Simon Spillett: Tenor Sax Rob Barron: Piano Alec Dankworth: Bass Peter Cater: Drums
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Led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, multi award-winning quintet ARQ are widely celebrated from several years of extensive UK and European touring – and critically acclaimed for three album releases August (2014) , A Magic Life (2016) and Short Stories (2019). Their music combines richly nuanced compositions, rhythmic interplay and folk-infused melodies; this, along with their love of improvisation, creates a strong sense of narrative and cinematic quality. ARQ play ‘songs without words’ and are lauded for their vibrant, communicative performances. Alison was, with fellow ARQ band member Deirdre Cartwright, a member of the celebrated 1980s Latin-jazz group The Guest Stars touring all major international jazz venues and festivals across seventeen countries and recording three albums. She has co-run Blow the Fuse, an artistled partnership in London since 1989, running jazz club nights, promoting tours, larger scale events. She has played on around 30 albums and performed with artists such as American guitar legend Tal Farlow, New York jazz poet Jayne Cortez, Denardo Coleman, Peter King and John Etheridge. Guitarist Deirdre Cartwright has played with the legendary Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, founded Blow the Fuse with Alison Rayner and presented on BBC Radio 3. She is also well-remembered for BBC TV’s ground breaking series Rockschool and has written seven books on guitar playing. Originally a Cambridge organ scholar, ARQ keyboards player Steve Lodder has worked with Naná Vasconcelos, George Russell’s Living Time orchestra, Carla Bley and Andy Sheppard. He was musical associate with Paul McCartney on the Standing Stone and Ecce Cor Meum projects and musical arranger for the Zappatistas. Alison Rayner: Bass Diane McLoughlin: Sax Deirdre Cartwright: Guitar Steve Lodder: Keyboards Buster Birch: Drums
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Art Themen’s New Directions
Sunday 10 July Swanage Conservative Club 3.45pm – 5pm Art Themen is a phenomenon. His career has spanned sixty years and he has played with all the key figures in British jazz. Growing up over a fish and chip shop in Salford, as a child Art saw Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, and Stan Kenton in performance. But it was a Danny Moss performance that made him switch from clarinet to Tenor sax. He studied Medicine at Cambridge University where he encountered pianist Colin Purbrook and Tenor saxists Dick Heckstall-Smith and Dave Gelly. Moving to London he joined Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated with Phil Seamen on drums. Later he worked with Long John Baldry and, Rod Stewart. He did a session with Bing Crosby and played on Joe Cocker’s hit ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’. Art worked with Graham Collier who left him generous solo space in his compositions and went on to spend 20 years working with Stan Tracey particularly in a memorable quartet with Dave Green and Bryan Spring. He also worked with Stan Tracey’s sextet, octet, big band, working alongside Tony Coe, Guy Barker, Peter King, and Don Weller. Visiting Americans Nat Adderley, Red Rodney, and George Coleman also enjoyed his company on tour. Art’s duo performance with David Newton at the 2019 Swanage Jazz Festival was one of the hits of the weekend. We are delighted to welcome Art back with his own full band featuring the stellar talents of trumpeter Steve Fishwick and pianist Gareth Williams. And New Directions? Well Art is only 82. Art Themen: Saxes Steve Fishwick: Trumpet Gareth Williams: Piano Arnie Somogyi: Bass Winston Clifford: Drums
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Henry Lowther’s Still Waters Sunday 10 July Swanage Conservative Club 5.30pm – 6.45pm It’s a fact that could be useful in a pub quiz; Henry Lowther is the only British Jazz musician to have played the celebrated 1969 Woodstock Festival. He was a member of the blues-rock Keef Hartley Band at the time. It is one of the salient points in an incredibly diverse career as a go-to trumpet player that stretches back 60 or so years. Henry’s sparkling trumpet sound has featured in an extraordinary array of large and small ensembles over the years including the Big Bands of John Dankworth, Kenny Wheeler, Stan Tracey, Mike Westbrook, Mike Gibbs and Neil Ardley. He has worked in smaller ensembles with Tony Coe, Gordon Beck Michael Garrick, Graham Collier and John Taylor. In the rock and pop world he’s played with Manfred Mann, John Mayall, Elton John and performed the haunting introduction on Bryan Ferry’s memorable reworking of ‘These Foolish Things’. All of this stellar activity has rather overshadowed his own distinctive band leadership. His 1970s band Quarternity is in the process of being re-discovered. And his Still Waters Band is not seen anywhere near as often as it should. Henry is not just a superb trumpet player, he is also a fine composer. Last seen in Swanage in 2001 this appearance is long overdue and we are delighted to welcome him back with his superb band. Henry Lowther: Trumpet Pete Hurt: Saxes Barry Green: Piano Dave Green: Double Bass Paul Clarvis: Drums
Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers Sunday 10 July Swanage Conservative Club 8pm – 10pm
Dreamers is the new project from British saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart featuring Elliot Galvin (Dinosaur, Elliot Galvin Trio), Tom Herbert (Polar Bear, The Invisible) and Dave Smith (Robert Plant). Stylistically free and slightly psychedelic in nature, the formation of dreamers signals a new trajectory for Mark Lockheart who has already featured on a wide ranging and diverse catalogue of albums including Radiohead’s Kid A and Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen. As a founding member of Loose Tubes and Polar Bear, Mark Lockheart has often remained ahead of the curve and has constantly explored new directions in his own music. Dreamers epitomises that adaptation and evolution, allowing the music to speak beyond the boundaries of genre. Lockheart’s multifaceted outlook on music is explored through a new set of original compositions with this bold and unique sounding group. Expect urgent, exciting grooves and textures all cleverly crafted together within Lockheart’s unique and memorable melodies. There’s a wide range of influences here, from Ellington and Shorter to John Zorn, the Beatles and even Kraftwerk! Mark was last seen at Swanage in 2013. We are thrilled to welcome him back with this exciting new quartet. Mark Lockheart: Saxophones Elliot Galvin: Keyboards Tom Herbert: Bass guitar Dave Smith: Drums
Tony Waller’s Prohibition Jazz Sunday 10 July The Centre 11.30am – 12.45pm
Hands up anyone who wants to hear some great jazz as it used to sound in the 20’s and 30’s. Well look no further, it’s right here courtesy of Tony Waller’s Prohibition Jazz. Having attended the Trinity College of Music in London, Tony who played for many years as a freelance trumpeter, deputised in orchestras like Syd Lawrence, Glenn Miller, Joe Loss and The Pasadena Roof Orchestra (who he still plays for.) If that wasn’t enough, he toured with stars like Jack Jones, Alison Moyet and Gene Pitney. Tony decided to start his own band specifically to play the music of the 20’s and 30’s and some of his own re-arrangements for the new six piece of some 40’s tunes. If you like Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Fats Waller (there’s a coincidence,) Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington and Kenny Ball, you’ll appreciate the versatility of Prohibition Jazz. We know how many of you still appreciate these classic tunes and who better to perform them than these guys. Swanage Jazz Festival is pleased to welcome some familiar faces back to Swanage for this year’s Jazz By The Sea. Peter Rudeforth: Trumpet and Vocals Terry Quinney: Clarinet and Saxophone Geza Molnar: Trombone Phil Doyle: Piano David Waller: Drums Tony Waller: Sousaphone and Vocals
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Hotsy Totsy
Sunday 10 July The Centre 1.15pm – 2.30pm A few years ago the all-female band The Creole Belles received much acclaim. Hotsy Totsy emerged from that popular band and you can expect a variety of styles from the 20s, 30s & 40s with fresh arrangements of popular standards. In addition they incorporate a super feature of three part harmonies akin to the Boswell Sisters style. Rachel Hayward who is not the band’s leader but is probably its best known member, learnt classical piano until, moving to Kidderminster, she heard New Orleans jazz for the first time, and fell in love with it. She bought a banjo and joined Stan Allsopp’s Ragtime Band. Following a spell playing with Norman Thatcher’s New Orleans Jazz Band, she has worked with saxophonist Sammy Rimington as well as leading her own group Rachel’s Dream. She developed her guitar playing with Paul Munnery’s Swing Street. She has also been involved with the organisation of the Bude and Upton upon Severn Jazz Festivals where she is Artistic Director. Sax player Zoe Lambeth works in a duo with guitarist Steve Dow and is a member of the splendidly named ‘Men Behaving Tradly’. While Hotsy Totsy is usually known as an all-female band, this performance features the robust piano playing of Malcolm Hogarth who in another life works with The Merseysippi Jazz Band, the DeeSide Dixies, Bunter’s Imperials and Dennis Armstrong’s Great Northern Jazz Band, all names to be conjured with. We are chuffed to welcome Hotsy Totsy to their first Swanage Jazz Festival in 12 years. Welcome back! Zoe Lambeth: Reeds, vocals Debbie Arthurs: Drums, reeds, vocals Malcolm Hogarth: Piano Isabel Toner: Bass Rachel Hayward: Banjo, guitar, vibes, vocals
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The TJ Johnson Band
Sunday 10 July The Centre 3pm – 4.15pm A wide and varied repertoire is an asset to any artist in the world of jazz and is a by product of a long career playing and touring with other great musicians. TJ had already been singing for several years before he joined the Max Collie Rhythm aces aged just sixteen, touring Europe and the UK. His career moved on when he continued to tour with with the “New Orleans Mardi Gras Show.” The year 2000 saw him in London playing the 100 Club, Dover St. Wine Bar, Ronnie Scotts, Pizza Express, The Concorde Club and many Festivals. TJ picked up the Best Blues Singer award at the Boisdale Music Awards which was presented by Jules Holland. More recently he has released his album “Songs From The Jazz Country.” He has his own jazz club where he lives in Hampshire and has a monthly online gig on Facebook. We’re keen to hear how TJ’s repertoire has been influenced by the people, places and songs he’s come to know along the way. And we’re pleased to have TJ and his band here at Swanage Jazz Festival. TJ Johnson: Piano Al Nicholls: Sax James Kitchman: Guitar Simon Read: Bass Clark Tracey: Drums
The Harlem Meer Cats Sunday 10 July The Centre 4.45pm – 6pm
Formed in 2015, the Meer Cats is made up of six of the finest early jazz specialists in London, playing the music of Duke Ellington’s bands of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Much of what they play is in the famous “Jungle Style”, with growling trumpet and trombone, haunting clarinet, swooping sax and African drum rhythms. However there is much in the Meer Cats repertoire for swing dancers. All the Meer Cats music has been arranged by Ned Bennett for six-piece line up. With each piece, he has transcribed the essence of the original recording, and distilled it down to fit a streamlined six-piece line up. All the melodies, harmonies and rhythms are carefully replicated; it’s just that the musicians have to do the job of two in the Duke Ellington. Although the Harlem Meer Cats play with authenticity, they treat every performance as a Jazz gig. This means their priorities are high energy playing, great improvised solos, and a swing feel to rank with the very best. We are delighted to bring the New York Cotton Club sound to Swanage. The band have just recorded a new album ‘The Ghost of Smokey Joe’ and will doubtless have you swinging your socks off. Enrico Tomasso: Trumpet Ned Bennett: Alto sax/Clarinet/Vocals Jeff Williams: Trombone Colin Good: Piano Martin Wheatley: Banjo/Guitar Jerome Davies: Bass Nick Ball: Drums
Julian Phillips Sunday 10 July The Centre 6.10pm – 6.50pm Longstanding piano supplier to Swanage Jazz Festival, Julian Phillips has played a crucial role in preventing the deadly disease of ‘air piano’ reaching the town and afflicting the many skilled and expert pianists the Festival books each year. Julian taught himself how to play the piano at the age of fourteen by listening to and interpreting the music of the great Boogie Woogie pioneers including Jimmy Yancey and Pinetop Smith. His love and knowledge of the music is infectious and whether playing solo or performing with other musicians, his enjoyment of the music shines through. Julian has played concerts and festivals in Europe and America and is highly esteemed by his fellow players. As a teacher, Julian has inspired many young people to follow his example (many of them playing at the UK Boogie Woogie Festival, founded by Julian himself in 2005 and held annually in Dorset). Julian Phillips: Piano and vocals
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The Little Devils’ Tribute to Keith Nichols Sunday 10 July The Centre 8pm – 10pm As Swanage regulars will know, pianist Keith Nichols was an expert in the early jazz styles of Dixieland, Chicago and 1920s swing. From 1995 onwards he gave about 25 performances at Swanage over the years, some solo, many with his Blue Devils Band and occasionally with a Quartet or Quintet. He was a Festival favourite. Born in Ilford Essex, Keith was a child actor and learned the piano-accordion, becoming the 1958 junior accordion champion of Great Britain. He moved into jazz playing the trombone in Mike Daniels’s Delta Jazzmen before studying at The Guildhall School of Music. For seven years he toured with The Levity Lancers playing piano, trombone and tuba before co-founding The New Paul Whiteman Orchestra with American trumpeter Dick Sudhalter which performed in both Britain and the USA. He also formed and ran New Sedalia Band and co-founded the much-loved Midnight Follies Orchestra with arranger composer and sax player Alan Cohen. We had hoped to present Keith and his Little Devis Band at Swanage in 2020. Sadly we had to postpone that Festival and Keith very sadly succumbed to Covid-19 in January 2021. This tribute features many musicians that Keith worked with over the years, including regulars from The Little Devils. They bring with them great expertise, a passion for early jazz, many fond memories of a great player and maybe even some stories. Enrico Tomasso: Trumpet/vocals Michael McQuaid: Sax/clarinet Alistair Allan: Trombone/vocals/bandleader Martin Litton: Piano Martin Wheatley: Banjo/guitar Jerome Davis: Bass Nick Ball: Drums
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Hampstead Jazz Club presents
Paul Edis Sunday 10 July The Purbeck House Hotel 1.30pm – 2.45pm
Pianist Paul Edis is one of the leading creative musicians in the UK today. As a performer, composer and educator, he has built a reputation for consistently delivering new and original ideas, seeking to innovate within his work whilst always paying respect to both the Jazz and Classical music traditions. In whatever genre or musical context he inhabits, Paul is passionate about melody and expression. He has released several critically acclaimed recordings of new music in recent years, regularly receives commissions from a wide variety of organisations, and is known for his communication skills and breadth of knowledge, working as an educator for organisations including Sage Gateshead, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Collective. As well as leading his own sextet, trio and performing solo engagements, Paul works regularly with vocalist Jo Harrop, saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos, and he has performed alongside leading jazz names including Jon Faddis, Alan Barnes, Bruce Adams, Nigel Price, Jim Mullen, Tim Garland, Julian Siegel, Tony Kofi, Steve Waterman, Iain Ballamy and Mark Nightingale. His music has been played on the radio in the UK, US and in Europe. We are very pleased to feature Paul Edis’ debut Swanage Jazz Festival performance. Paul Edis: Piano
Hampstead Jazz Club presents
Jo Harrop and Jamie McCredie Sunday 10 July Purbeck House Hotel 3.15pm – 4.15pm
Thokozile
This a chance to hear Jo Harrop in an intimate setting with guitarist Jamie McCredie who co-produced her first album. We’ve written about Jo Harrop in her ‘The Heart Wants’ entry. But what of her collaborator? Jamie McCredie is a highly experienced guitarist working in the a wide range of areas including West End musicals (‘The Book of Mormon’ and ‘Beautiful’) pop and rock music – Melody Gardot, Jules Holland, Roisin Murphy, Will Young and Simple Minds and Jazz. As a composer and artist in his own right, Jamie also leads his own band and performs frequently as a soloist around the UK. These vituosic live shows explore his interest in the gaps between jazz, rock & classical harmony, and focus on modern, memorable melodies and flawless command of the guitar. Jo and Jamie will be performing material from their duo album ‘Weathering The Storm’, with Jamie’s dynamic, blues-jazz guitar playing perfectly complementing Jo’s smoky, velvet voice. Their repertoire is a journey of swinging jazz standards, soulful blues & a hint of folk.
We are pleased to welcome Thokozile back to the Festival after their 2019 performance. The band was established back in 2010 and named after a 1986 hit by the South African mbaqanga group Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens. The UK version has developed a growing following with its upbeat, melodic, and powerful world/jazz sound that draws on West African rhythms and harmonies as much as the South African version. Over the years, Thokozile has appeared opposite the likes of Arun Ghosh, Grupo X and the Township Comets. The band was originally formed as part of an exchange project with South Africa and retains strong influences from there as well as broadening its sound to incorporate some ‘tasty’ originals. With a CD release on the cards, this is a band to get you up and grooving.
Jo Harrop: Vocals Jamie McCredie: Guitar
Sunday 10 July The Purbeck House Hotel 5pm – 6.15pm
Terry Quinney: Saxes Dan Somogyi: Keyboards and Guitar Rob Palmer: Guitar Jack Shaughnessy: Bass Neil Evans: Drums
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The QOW TRIO Babelfish
Sunday 10 July The Methodist Church 1pm – 2.15pm The Babel fish, is a fictional species of fish that translates speech from one language to another. It was invented by Douglas Adams in 1978 and features in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The Babelfish at Swanage Jazz Festival is a collaboration between Turkish-British singer Brigitte Beraha and British pianist Barry Green. Melodic, playful, multi-lingual Babelfish is described as “a source of joyful and cross-genre experimentation, showcasing an ability to convey heartfelt emotion in multiple languages and, indeed, with no language at all.” Brigitte Beraha was born in Milan to a Turkish father and Turkish-British mother. She grew up on the Côte d’Azur in France where her first music memories are of sitting and listening to her dad play piano and sing. She has absorbed a wide variety of music influences and genres, from jazz and latin to classical and, more recently, electronic. Her sound is free and fluid with an emphasis on exploration and expression, testing the limits of the voice as an instrument. Babelfish Is completed by the pianist Barry Green who “effortlessly sustains a graceful Bill Evans-like lyrical swing, but also massages the ideas of the others.“ On Bass is the legendary Chris Laurence (Tony Coe, John Surman, Kenny Wheeler, Bryan Ferry, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Peter Gabriel) and the highly imaginative drummer and percussionist Paul Clarvis. Brigitte Beraha: Voice Barry Green: Piano Chris Laurence: Double Bass Paul Clarvis: Drums/percussion
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Sunday 10 July Swanage Methodist Church 2.45pm – 4pm The QOW TRIO (pronounced ‘cow’) is a generation-spanning trio of diverse players who’ve come together, united by a love of the jazz tradition, to explore the freedom that opens up within the three-way saxophone-bass-drums format. Their influences reach back across the history of the music, and look forward into its future, drawing inspiration from its constant evolution, from Lester Young to Charlie Parker to Sonny Rollins to Joe Henderson to Dewey Redman to Seamus Blake to Bill McHenry and beyond, creating a wide-open trio sound that tells a host of exciting stories. Together QOW TRIO’s playing experience encompasses a span of sixty years across three generations. For this performance the fast rising young Tenor sax player Alex Hitchcock is guesting in place of Riley Stone-Lonergan. Multigenre bassist and bandleader Eddie Myer is a familiar figure on the Brighton scene and draws inspiration from Wilbur Ware and George Tucker. British drum legend Spike Wells has enjoyed an astonishing career, playing with everyone from Dexter Gordon to Stan Getz to Joe Harriot. He is best known for his long and close association with two of the greatest British tenor legends, Tubby Hayes and Bobby Wellins. The TRIO have an album out on Ubuntu records and if you enjoy the laid back harmonically free and swinging style on albums like Sonny Rollins’ ‘Way Out West’, then you are going to love The QOW TRIO. We are excited to bring them to Swanage for their debut SJF performance. Alex Hitchcock: Saxes Eddie Myer: Bass Spike Wells: Drums
Trevor Watts’ Eternal Triangle
Sunday 10 July The Methodist Church 4.30pm – 5.45pm Trevor Watts is one of Britain’s most pioneering and iconoclastic saxophonists. An improvising musician with jazz sensibilities, his music sits a considerable distance from the American-based Great American Songbook style of swinging Jazz and closer to American saxophonists like Eric Dolphy and John Tchicai. In the 1960s he cofounded with drummer John Stevens the radical Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) and went on to form and run Amalgam and then the 14 piece Moiré Music which combined loose themes, improvisation and African percussion. Trevor’s latest venture, ‘Eternal Triangle’ plays compositions originally inspired by rhythmic structures from Africa and South America as well as jazz and European musical forms. The trio is built on two duos: pianist Veryan Weston and Trevor first played together in Trevor’s “Moiré Music” in the early 1980s and since then have had a long collaboration in the ‘Dialogues’ project where their work as open improvisers was explored together. The second duo consists of drummer Jamie Harris and Trevor where Jamie was involved in Trevor’s ‘Celebration Band’ in the 2000s and later in a very successful duo touring worldwide and recording several CDs. The third duo with Veryan and Jamie is yet to be explored! In July 2021 the three musicians began working together on some new pieces specifically conceived by Trevor. The development of these compositions, for instance, can happen during rehearsals or during a concert. Any player in the group can discover something new within each piece, and therefore the compositions are ever changing. This is a music with a depth that is both expansive and honest. Trevor Watts: Alto/Soprano/Composer Veryan Weston: Piano/Synthesiser Jamie Harris: Congas/Percussion
Salvator Mundi Sunday 10 July St Mary’s Church 1pm – 2pm
Salvator Mundi is the majestic and atmospherically-rich project from saxophonist Mark Lockheart and organist Roger Sayer (Organist of Temple Church). Their musical partnership came about through Mark’s close friendship with the eminent composer/arranger John Ashton Thomas, who had arranged some renaissance music for saxophone and organ. The project features works by English composers including Charles Villiers Stamford, John Blow, Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, alongside new pieces written specially for the project by the late John Ashton Thomas, Mark Lockheart, as well as a homage to Duke Ellington’s sacred piece Come Sunday. There is a poignant Swanage dimension to this performance. John Ashton Thomas played a small but significant role at our 2019 Festival. His son Jack is the drummer with Tom Waters’ Band that opened the Methodist Church programme on the Festival Saturday. When it was clear that part of Tom Waters’ band were stuck in traffic and unlikely to make the gig, John swung into action. With several helpers he manhandled an upright piano from a back room of the Church onto the stage and then sat down to dep on the instrument for an impromptu performance that could not be faulted for its style and quality. That was typical of the man, practical, generous and supportive. We were hoping to welcome John back to Swanage to play the organ in this performance of Salvator Mundi. Very sadly John died very unexpectedly last October aged just 60. Roger Sayers is unfortunately not available for this date, but we are delighted that St Mary’s organist Simon Lole has stepped in to play the piece for this memorial performance. Mark Lockheart: Saxes Simon Lole: Organ
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David Corio Photographic Exhibition Friday 8 – Sunday 10 July The Mowlem Theatre 11am – 10pm We are delighted to be staging this unique exhibition of distinctive Jazz photographs by David Corio. David began his professional career in 1978 at the age of 18 taking photographs for New Musical Express followed by The Face, Time Out, City Limits and Black Echoes. His freelance work features in The New York Times, The Guardian, Mojo and Rolling Stone. These jazz photos were taken for various publications or often just for pleasure over a 25 year period in London and New York. Most of the photos are hand-printed silver gelatin prints made by David Corio in the darkroom. His photographs have been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the I.C.A., The Photographers’ Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery and in museums and galleries around the world. His photos of black musicians were published in ‘The Black Chord’ with text by Vivien Goldman (1999 Universe/Rizzoli) which will be republished in 2023 by Hat & Beard Press.
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Swanage Jazz Films Swanage Jazz Festival Films in collaboration with the Purbeck Film Festival
‘Soul’
Friday 8 July The Mowlem Theatre 5pm Produced in 2020 but only released in 2021 owing to the pandemic, Soul is an animated film that follows pianist, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), who seeks to reunite his separated soul and his body before his big break as a jazz musician. The film examines the origins of human personalities and the concept of determinism. The film’s producers consulted various jazz musicians including Herbie Hancock and Terri Lyne Carrington, and animated its musical sequences using the sessions of musician Jon Batiste as a reference. Production on Soul lasted for four years, on an approximate $150 million budget. It is the first Pixar film to feature a Black lead. We are grateful to the Purbeck Film Festival for sponsoring this film
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Friday 8 July The Mowlem Theatre 8pm
Produced in 2019 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool was made for the PBS American Masters television series and premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It uses interviews that Director Stanley Nelson has done with people who knew Davis, and with scholars, as well as still photographs and film clips. The text of the voice-over narration (performed by Carl Lumbly) are Miles Davis’s own words. We are grateful to Purbeck Film Festival for securing these films for Swanage Jazz Festival. We are grateful to the Mowlem Theatre for sponsoring this film
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Swanage Jazz Festival Fringe The White Swan
Friday 8 July 8pm – 10.30pm
The Ian Ellis Trio
Spiral can be described as the ultimate late night groove experience although would sound equally at home in a concert hall, on a smooth jazz radio station or, performing in intimate surroundings! Taking the cream of jazz/funk fusion sounds created in the 70’s and 80’s by the likes of Jeff Lorber, the Jazz Crusaders, Lee Ritneour to name but a few, Spiral have reinvented these timeless classics and brought them right up-todate by adding a pleasing mix of melodic, rhythmic and sublime extemporisations making it a distinctly modern and highly fashionable vibe. A very popular band that excites with spontaneous grooves and improvisations!
Ian Ellis has worked as a professional jazz saxophonist since 1985 performing and recording all over the country, playing modern jazz. The Ian Ellis trio plays a mix of original material and reinvented standards, and have performed at venues both here and abroad including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre, Ronnie Scott’s Club, London’s 606 Club, Pizza Express Soho Jazz Club, Glasgow Jazz Festival and Saarbrucken jazz festival. He has performed live and recorded with Ruby Turner, Victoria Newton, Arturo Sandoval, Gwilym Simcock, and many others.
Spiral
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Saturday 9 July 8pm – 10.30pm
Zoe Schwarz and Rob Koral Sunday 10 July 8pm – 10.30pm Zoë Schwarz (vocals) and Rob Koral (guitar) are well known for their established band Zoë Schwarz’s Blue Commotion. They are equally at home as a duo playing a mix of classic jazz, blues and soul standards and original songs, mixing old school tradition with contemporary verve. The communication between these two fine musicians will be evident for all to hear as one might expect after twenty years of intense gigging together.
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The Rob Palmer/ Véronique Joly Duo Saturday 9 July 2pm – 3.30pm
Sarah Bolter’s “Not Just Sax”
French jazz vocalist Véronique Joly and guitarist Rob Palmer have been playing together for many years. They play a mixture of swing, latin and jazz/funk sung in English, French and Portuguese. Their great variety of sounds and styles ensure that their performances are always full of surprises with something guaranteed for every taste.
The Red Lion Friday 8 July 7.30pm – 10.30pm and Sunday 10 July 1pm – 4pm ‘NOT JUST SAX’ are a group of four musicians from the south led by Sarah Bolter on saxophones, flute, clarinet and vocals. The band was formed in 2001 and are bound together by a love of melodic, rhythmic jazz whilst enjoying pushing the boundaries of the idiom with a variety of well known favourites and originals composed by pianist Ray Shea. Ray Shea (piano) and Pete Maxfield (double bass) are original members with Dave Mayne joining later on drums.
Kind of Blue Live Saturday 9 July 8pm – 9.30pm
On April 22nd 1959 at Columbia’s 30th Street studio in New York City, Miles Davis completed his iconic album ‘Kind of Blue’. The album was released on August 17th 1959 and sixty-three years on is still one of the most successful jazz albums of all time, selling over 3.6 million copies. Now, you can experience this album recreated LIVE onstage with a cast of outstanding jazz musicians; Neil Doherty on trumpet, Paul Francis on bass, Tom Gwyther on piano, Tobie Muir on saxophones and Dave Mayne on drums.
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The Black Swan The Sara Harris Duo Sunday 10 July 3pm – 4pm
This experienced vocal & guitar duo have been performing their own unique arrangements of jazz, swing, latin, soul, motown and R & B classics since 2017, and are also members of Swing Easy, a local jazz, swing and latin band. Sara Harris started out as a singer/songwriter in the 1980’s. She performs regularly at many local venues as a solo artist, as a duo/trio and in a band. Sara has recorded an album of jazz standards and of soul & Motown covers. Simon Newton is an experienced all-round guitarist, teacher and accompanist who has performed extensively since the early 80’s with various rock, soul, jazz bands and duos.
The Grand Hotel
The Terri Quaye Trio Friday 8 July 8pm – 10pm
Terri Quaye is a veteran international jazz singer/pianist/songwriter/composer and former percussionist. She comes from the legendary jazz heritage emerging in the 1920’s. Her style embraces the genres of bebop, swing and avant-garde. Her career has seen her performing with jazz giants such as Archie Shepp, Richard Davis, Leo Wright, Johnny Griffin, John Stevens and Dudu Pukwana. Her influences include Bill Evans, Shirley Horn, Blossom Dearie and recent festival appearances have included London, Amsterdam, Christchurch NZ, Bolsano, Italy, Warsaw & Lublin, Poland. Playing luxury cruise lines/international hotels for the last decade, she has now relocated from London to Christchurch and is re-emerging onto the jazz scene.
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Tom Gwyther Saturday 9 July 2pm – 3.30pm
Tom started playing piano at the age of five and has continued ever since, playing solo and in groups around the UK, USA and Europe. Working in and around Portsmouth in his teenage years gave Tom a range of different musical acts to work with. A rock band ‘Cinder’, a 14 piece funk/ soul band who played all originals around London and the south. He also toured with the official INXS tribute band as well as a host of other groups, bands, solo performances and recording sessions. Throughout all of this, Tom Gwyther played with his own jazz group ‘Tomfoolery’ later renamed ‘Mista Blista’ A group which ran for around twelve years playing a variety of gigs, including support for the James Taylor Quartet.
The Bossa Definitiva Trio Jazzknotts Saturday 9 July 4pm – 5.30pm Jazzknotts are a group of local, young enthusiastic musicians who love performing live music. Their wide repertoire includes numbers from Herbie Hancock, Tom Misch, Dave Brubeck and many more. Their line up is Oscar Brady on keyboards, Jude Brady on guitar, Sam Capper on drums and Mason Arnold on bass.
Mambossa Saturday 9 July 8pm – 10pm
Mambossa are a unique and authentic latin extravaganza, transporting you straight to South America with sultry melodic lines and traditional rhythms that will see you dancing until dawn! Fronted by Bass player Joe Limburn, Mambossa have been playing in a variety of contexts in the South of England, and continue to delight a range of audiences.
Saturday 9 July 6pm – 7.30pm
The Bossa Definitiva Trio of French jazz vocalist Véronique Joly, saxophonist Terry Quinney and guitarist Rob Palmer, play the cool Bossa Nova sounds of Stan Getz and Astrud and Joao Gilberto. The Bossa Nova is a style of Samba originating from Brazil in the 1950’s, and is well suited to the atmosphere of an intimate venue. These 3 musicians effortlessly combine to bring these latin rhythms to life.
The Dave Marchant Duo Sunday 10 July 2pm – 3.30pm
Dave Marchant and Richard Bolton have been playing together as a duo for more than 30 years and will be presenting their unique take on bop, pop and Brazilian tunes on both electric and acoustic guitars.
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Chantoozy Sunday 10 July 4pm – 5.30pm
Singer Louise Gee and pianist Bruce Evans have recently teamed up to form Chantoozy, a duo with a love of cool jazz. Both are seasoned performers having played in bands around the country but are now indulging their shared passion for soulful Jazz and Blues. They not only play the Great American Songbook selection, but many original compositions arranged for piano and voice. Louise is the vocal powerhouse of the duo with Bruce adding his special blend of harmonies to give that smooth jazz feel. Chantoozy are quite at home in any hotel lounge or cocktail bar playing their smooth unobtrusive brand of jazz. Perfect with a glass of vintage red wine.
The Sara Harris Duo Sunday 10 July 6pm – 7.30pm This experienced vocal & guitar duo have been performing their own unique arrangements of jazz, swing, latin, soul, motown and R & B classics since 2017, and are also members of Swing Easy, a local jazz, swing and latin band. Sara Harris started out as a singer/songwriter in the 1980’s. She performs regularly at many local venues as a solo artist, as a duo/trio and in a band. Sara has recorded an album of jazz standards and of soul & Motown covers.
The Damian Cook Quartet Sunday 10 July 8pm – 10pm Award winning saxophonist Damian Cook makes his debut appearance at Swanage with his quartet, playing homage to some of the great tenor players from the Hard Bop era (Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter). The set will also include some of Damian’s arrangements of popular jazz standards, alongside some of Damian’s original tunes. The seriously swinging rhythm section features Graeme Taylor (piano), Joe Limburn (double bass) and Andy Chapman (drums), all incredible soloists in their own right, each with a resume that reads like a who’s who of British Jazz.
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Swanage Bandstand
Dorset Youth Jazz Orchestra
The Swanage Big Band
Sunday 10 July 2.30pm
Dorset Youth Jazz Orchestra (DYJO) is an intermediate to advanced youth jazz orchestra led by renowned local jazz musician Terry Quinney. Aimed at musicians of grade 4 and above the group has a busy gigging calendar with many performances at local music festivals and events. DYJO is made up of the big band instrument mix including trumpet, trombone, saxophone, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, drum kit, double bass and voice. They are developing new progression routes and learning opportunities within the big band and the contemporary jazz genre as part of the Creative Music Hub with many emerging new opportunities for 2022.
Saturday 9 July 3pm
The Swanage Big Band started in 2018 and is a community band made up of a mix of adults and students. It began with a generous grant from the Swanage Jazz Club (who previously organised the Jazz Festival). They play in and around Swanage and perform music ranging from in and around Swanage. They play music ranging from traditional big band repertoire to more modern styles. They meet once a month and are always on the lookout for new players, particularly for trumpet, guitar and piano.
The 32nd Swanage Jazz Festival Will take place on: 7 – 9 July 2023 Book your accommodation now!
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Thank yous and Acknowledgements Festivals take time to plan, money to ensure viability and partnerships. So first thank you to the Swanage Jazz Festival Committee for endless meetings, discussions and work: Paul Kelly (chair), Dave Roper (Treasurer), Tim Edgar, Amanda Jensen, Bruce Evans, Cathy Evans, Andrew Cannon, Peter Young and Mick Beck (now retired). We are grateful to our funders for their support: Arts Council England Dorset Council Swanage Town Council Thank you to Absolute Music for its sponsorship support of the Mowlem Theatre programme and for sound equipment. A number of people who bought tickets in 2020 donated their tickets to the Festival and some who bought tickets in 2022 gave us additional donations. You know who you are, thank you all for your generous support. Thank you to Hampstead Jazz Club for its contribution to the artistic programme and for bringing in JazzFM. Thank you to Purbeck Film Festival for partnership on The Film Programme. Thank you to The Mowlem Theatre and congratulations on making the Theatre look lovely! Thank you to our other four venues, Swanage Conservative Club, Swanage Methodist Church, The Centre and The Purbeck House Hotel and Swanage Pubs and Hotels that are hosting The Fringe Festival. Thank you to StageLightSound our PA suppliers and operators. Thank you to Julian Phillips Pianos for pianos and tuning without which some key harmonies would be missing. Thank you to Bob Payne and Swanage Disabled Club for the Jazz Bus and to Swanage Steam Train Company for the Train. If you would like to discuss financially supporting the Festival in future years then please contact the Festival Chair, Paul Kelly - chair@swanagejazzfestival.co.uk
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