Nel Begley at March’s Rush Hour Jazz – Wed 20 Mar 6-7pm @Seven Arts
Nel Begley is a jazz singer and songwriter who has been making a big name for herself on the UK scene. She has performed at festivals – Manchester Jazz, Latitude, Bestival and Boom Town and at last year’s Jazz Leeds Festival. She was one of the tutors on this summer’s Global Music Foundation London Jazz […]
Jack Wilson Quartet @Inkwell 17 March 1.30pm
Jack Wilson tenor sax, Hugh Vincent piano, Angus Milne double bass, Joshua Smout drums. Hard bop and hard swinging tunes from the likes of Monk, Stitt and Rollins from this Leeds young sax player. Tickets £9/7 concessions, under 25’s £5 in advance from www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzleeds
Jazz at Roundhay featuring Frank Brooker Fri 15 March 8pm
Veteran Leeds jazz sax and clarinet player Frank Brooker was originally from Portsmouth (as he jokingly says, on the south coast of Yorkshire!). He first began playing jazz in 1959 with a trad band in Surrey, then following year joined student band at Bristol University mostly playing New Orleans-styled jazz based on records by Kid […]
Adam Glasser’s Quintet: “South Africa & beyond” @Seven Arts, 14 March 8pm
Adam Glasser – harmonica/piano, George Crowley – saxophone, Rob Luft – guitar, Steve Watts – bass, Corrie Dick – Drums South African harmonica player/pianist Adam Glasser brings a great band of leading young British musicians to play his trademark township jazz. Adam’s unique harmonica sound combines his South African roots with many years immersed in […]
“Jasmine”@Seven Arts Sun 10 Mar 1.30pm
Jasmine Whalley alto saxophone, Ben Haskins guitar, George MacDonald piano, Owen Burns bass and George Hall drums. Jasmine are the creative outlet for sax player Jasmine Whalley, combining the influences of jazz and hip-hop into an exciting sound. Jasmine combine the influences of jazz and hip-hop, using Ableton Live to introduce layered horn parts over […]
Family Band @Inkwell – Sun 3 Mar 1.30pm
Kim Macari trumpet, Riley Stone-Lonergan sax, Tom Rivière bass, Steve Hanley drums. Chordless quartet run by trumpeter Kim Macari, featuring music from their new album, “Board of Origin” Comprising four long-term collaborators and friends originally based in Leeds, the Family Band takes as its starting point the freewheeling music of those musicians who, back in […]
JazzLeeds presents: Patchwork Jazz Orchestra @Seven Thurs 28 Feb 8pm
A melting pot of influences and characters with music ranging from luscious and sweet melodies to broad walls of sound, from drum and bass to funeral marches, from fairytale ballads to calypso. The musical glue binding it together are the 17 musicians that power the vibrations and their universal passion for improvisation. James Davison, Adam […]
Leeds University Union Big Band @Seven Arts – Sunday 24 Feb 1.30pm £10/8
The LUU Big Band plays a wide variety of dance band/big band repertoire including swing, funk and jazz. Formed in 1987 as part of the Leeds University Union Music Society they have moved from its humble beginnings to an independent, semi-professional band gigging around Leeds, the wider Yorkshire area and further afield. This 22 piece […]
Ben Powling, Rush Hour Jazz, Wed 20 Feb 6pm @Seven Arts bar
Ben Powling sax, Will Powell guitar, Steve Crocker bass, Dom Moore drums free (payf collection) Since graduating Leeds College of Music in 2013, saxophonist Ben Powling has been performing extensively as a sideman and leader across the UK, Europe and Asia honing a style based in a love of 60s jazz, West African musical styles […]
Derrick Harris’s Be-pop Quartet @Inkwell – Sunday 17 Feb
Derrick Harris guitar, Jez Platt piano/organ, Paul Chamberlain bass, Paul Smith drums. Guitarist Derrick Harris arranges seminal pop tunes in a jazzy format. As well as leading his own groups, Derrrick frequently guests as a soloist with bands up and down the country. He is also to be heard as part of the Ronnie Bottomley […]
