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Zoe Rahman and the Where Rivers Meet Tour CBSO Centre 8pm £12 (£8 BJ Members and concessions) Pianist Zoe Rahman has long had great track record as a jazz pianist; she is now exploring her Bengali background and has recorded an album Where Rivers Meet with an excellent and distinctive blend of jazz and Bengali tunes. This group will develop that material plus new stuff and features a Bengali singer Ornob and brother Idris Rahman on saxophone and clarinet. |
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| Friday 7th November Andy Colman Quartet Rush Hour Blues Symphony Hall Foyer 5:30pm - 7pm £free |
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Gigbeth 2008: Chris Bowden & The Tomorrow Band and Zappajazz South Birmingham College, Digbeth 8pm Part of Gigbeth: Friday tickets £15, Weekend passes £20 www.gigbeth.com A Rehab Records/Cobweb Collective showcase, hosted by Birmingham Jazz as part of Gigbeth! All you really need to know is that this is a gig not to miss! |
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Ken Vandermark with Barry Guy and Mark Sanders CBSO Centre Three of the world’s top improvising musicians working together for the first time! The project comes about at the instigation of drummer Mark Sanders, now based in Birmingham and at the heart of many of the best contemporary jazz projects, in Birmingham, UK and Europe. It brings back to UK, the great saxophonist Ken Vandermark, the key figure in the Chicago contemporary jazz scene and Barry Guy, known both for his free jazz work and compositions
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| Friday 14th November Carole Westwood and Archie Cotterell Trio Rush Hour Blues Symphony Hall Foyer 5:30pm - 7pm £free |
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| Friday 21st November Edgar Marcias Latin Jazz Band Rush Hour Blues Symphony Hall Foyer 5:30pm - 7pm £free |
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Jazz Club The Rainbow 8pm £3.00 www.myspace.com/johnrandallmusic
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| Friday 28th November Sara Colman Rush Hour Blues Symphony Hall Foyer 5:30pm - 7pm £free |
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Portico Quartet Hare & Hounds Kings Heath 8pm £7
Portico Quartet are four young musicians from South London. Living and playing together they describe their ethos as like an Indie band that plays post-jazz, and their unique sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to Radio 4 and Notion to BBC Music Magazine . Knee-Deep was Time Out’s Jazz, Folk and World music album of the year for 2007 and is a Mercury Music Prize album of the year for 2008 Portico Quartet are Jack Wylie (soprano Saxophone), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), Nick Mulvey (Hang and percussion) and Duncan Bellamy (drums and Hang) , and it’s the mix of ethereal saxophone, flying saucer like Hang (imagine an otherworldly steel drum), clattering drums and earthy double-bass that gives their music it’s inimitable, beautiful sound. It was the chance purchase of the Hang by Duncan Bellamy, at a music festival, that inspired the young friends to start a band, and while their largely intuitive music references jazz and African music it’s the Hang inspired trance-like repetitive patterns of Duncan and Nick Mulvey that propel the band into stranger pastures: invoking Philip Glass and Steve Reich’s gamelan inspired minimalism.
www.myspace.com/porticoquartet
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Friday 28th November Randy Crawford & Joe Sample Symphony Hall |
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Stan Sulzmann 60th Birthday with The Heritage Orchestra CBSO Centre 8pm £14 In an event exclusive to Birmingham, saxophonist Stan Sulzmann celebrates his 60th birthday with arrangements of his material by Jules Buckley for the amazing Heritage Orchestra. Stan has been a stalwart of the British scene since the 1960s and has worked regularly with John Taylor and Kenny Wheeler. His style of tenor saxophone is quite distinctive with a blend of influences from Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson and John Coltrane; he also has a very attractive floaty style on flute. The Heritage Orchestra gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation
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