LJN’s Editor-at-Large Peter Bacon chooses ten gigs in Birmingham during this merry month that he reckons are worthy of your attendance. Source: LondonJazz: PREVIEW: Ten gigs for May in the Second City
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LondonJazz: PREVIEW: March live highlights in Birmingham and surrounding areas
Editor-at-Large Peter Bacon picks the choice jazz events close to his home. And remember, it’s often quicker to get up to Birmingham than to get to the other side of London… Here is a bunch of gigs worth getting to… Read More ›
LondonJazz: PREVIEW: February live highlights in the West Midlands
Editor-at-Large Peter Bacon picks the choice gigs close to his home. And remember, it’s often quicker to get up to Birmingham than to get to the other side of London. Source: LondonJazz: PREVIEW: February live highlights in the West Midlands
LondonJazz: INTERVIEW: Jeremy Price – (newly-formed Birm. Cons. Ellington Orch., launch concerts 3 Feb Birmingham, 5 Feb Southport)
I have an irrepressible grin standing in front of the Ellington Orchestra for pretty much every tune we are doing… That’s Jeremy Price talking about directing the new Birmingham Conservatoire Ellington Orchestra. Read my interview with Jeremy by clicking on… Read More ›
My top five West Midland gigs – December 2016
If you are going to try a few gigs in the English West Midlands this month, these are the ones I’d choose from first: Friday 2 Pilgrimage: Young Pilgrims, Rotunda Of Wonder, Gorillabot Jazzlines, Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath, Birmingham 8.30pm, £10 A… Read More ›
Not your everyday jazz instrument – hear it live on Friday
The French horn has a niche place in jazz, despite making some really famous appearances – in the Claude Thornhill, Gil Evans, Gunther Schuller and Carla Bley big bands. Its appearances as a strong solo instrument in a smaller combo are… Read More ›
Magic sparks at The Red Lion tonight
A bunch of good friends together generates positive energy, when they are musicians then their interactions will be more sophisticated, and when they have some music to play that is written and arranged specially for them the interactions will become more characterful… Read More ›
Tender buttons, Spike and Sharp – exciting events in Huddersfield
That jazz festival that’s about to start in the British capital might be drawing a lot of attention but there are some extremely exciting events happening further north that deserve your attention. They explore the region where jazz and the… Read More ›
Standards with a twist on Wednesday
Treating classic jazz standards to new and innovative treatments always makes for enthralling listening. Somehow there is a double pleasure: the old one of a song with the familiarity of your own home; the new one of finding that it… Read More ›
My top five Midland gigs – November 2016
If you are going to try a few gigs in the English Midlands this month, these are the ones I’d choose from first: Saturday 12 Andrew Bain Embodied Hope Quartet Jazzlines, CBSO Centre, Birmingham 8pm, £12.50 The drummer’s Transatlantic all-star band playing Bain’s… Read More ›
Big Manoeuvre time tonight
Birmingham-based trio Three Step Manoeuvre has its debut album coming out today and is celebrating this evening at the Dark Horse in Moseley, Birmingham. The band, which formed in 2013, has the classic organ trio line-up. But if you think… Read More ›
Hope embodied in the sound of drums
Andrew Bain, drummer, band leader and senior lecturer at Birmingham Conservatoire, is back on the road. This is the second of year of Andrew’s PhD – have you noticed that academic study is now not just a worthy undertaking in… Read More ›
Jazz singing with a Palestinian twist tonight
The acclaimed Palestinian singer Reem Kelani is performing for Birmingham Jazz this evening at The Red Lion in the Jewellery Quarter. And she is accompanied by a top-class piano trio. Reem, who was born in this country, has lived and… Read More ›
Good will be really good at the mac on Thursday
Vula Viel is the name of the band – it translates from the Dagaare language of Ghana as Good Is Good – and good is certainly a fitting description of the time the band and its audience has at its… Read More ›
Johnny Hodges tune turns into a band this evening
Squatty Roo is the name of the tune and now it’s the name of a quartet formed by Birmingham saxophonist Mike Fletcher with fellow saxophonist Tom Challenger, bassist Olie Brice and drummer Christian Lillinger with a performance this evening, courtesy… Read More ›
Drake, Dunmall and band on the radio tonight
“Style can be the cause of the death of creativity – if you think that your style is greater or better than any other style.” Those were the words of the late, great trumpeter Don Cherry, as related by drummer… Read More ›
Vicari and band hold up their Mirror in the Midlands
Pianist Andrea Vicari was commissioned to write a suite for the 2007 Music At Leasowes Bank festival in Shropshire, and The Mirror was the result. Nearly a decade later she has had the chance to record it and the suite is… Read More ›
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