Basil Hodge brings Jazz Africa, his new and exciting project to Birmingham. This all star band will perform a range of music from Africa so you will hear Jazz fused with Afrobeat
Members from the Birmingham Choral Union will be performing Christmas Carols & bringing Festive cheer to your ears. Join in or watch, bring joy and be merry.
Birmingham Jazz Presents- Levy/Robson International Quartet
This musical partnership was formed in New York City in 2017 between the highly acclaimed US saxophonist Jed Levy and multi-award-winning UK born guitarist Phil Robson who was living in NYC at the time.
Mick Foster is a saxophonist, woodwind player and composer, and is especially known as a baritone and bass saxophonist. Originally from Harrogate, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and has since worked extensively in the fields of jazz, commercial and classical music
Pete Hurt has quietly been part of the London jazz scene for almost four decades and has developed one of the most uniquely distinguishable sounds and styles.
Julian studied Music at U.E.A. majoring in Saxophone and Clarinet. He also studied orchestral conducting directing the Student Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Monsterosa emerged from a lockdown project to write new songs and instrumentals for five jazz musicians based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo collection.
Birmingham Jazz Presents- Chris Batchelor’s Strange Meeting
The band cover a range of Frisell’s stylistically varied output, including pieces from the albums In Line, This Land, Good Dog Happy Man, but with a particular focus on repertoire from the 1996 album Quartet.
Joe Steels Group draws together some of the most exciting musicians from the North East to perform an eclectic array of music that fuses jazz with elements of folk, rock and more.
As a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020, winner of the Rising Star category in the 2019 British Jazz Awards and three-time nominee in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards
The trio draws inspiration from classic jazz organ/guitar trios of the 1960s, like those featuring Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith, Grant Green & Larry Young, and Wes Montgomery& Melvin Rhyne.
The sextet perform original fusion/funk/afro beat/swing/latin inspired music and have an album Crisis Point to share too. Crisis Point boasts a stellar lineup of 6 talented Leeds and Bradford musicians.
A welcome return for Mark with his new trio project. Saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart first came to prominence in the mid 1980s with the influential big band Loose Tubes.
Tori Freestone has been creating a stir in the UK and abroad in recent years winning prestigious awards including the Ivor Novello for jazz composition and receiving rave reviews including Guardian Jazz album of the month for her ‘El Mar de Nubes’ 2019 trio release.
