College Collection @Seven Arts Sunday 28 April 1.30pm
College Collection 2019 – Jazz Leeds presents the first of two afternoons, each with three stunning new jazz groups from the final year of the Leeds College of Music BAJazz course. Sunday 28th April – Emily Kent project The Emily Kent Project combines contemporary jazz with distinct grooves inspired by musicians such as Pat Metheny, […]
Ros Lewis’s Tailgaters @Inkwell, Easter Sunday 21 April 1.30pm
Traditional jazz for our Easter Sunday presentation from Chapel Allerton’s own jazz vocal star Ros Lewis and her band featuring Frank Brooker sax, Dave Lewis trombone, Ned Websdale on trumpet, Jim Wright on banjo, Steve Crocker on double bass and Keith Daniel on drums Ros Lewis’s Tailgaters @Inkwell, Easter Sunday 21 April £9/7 1.30pm Inkwell […]
Jazz at Roundhay – The Alan Barnes and Dave Newton Duo Fri 17 April 8pm
Sax player and jazz impresario Alan Barnes and award winning pianist David Newton have been playing duets together for over 40 years. These multi award-winners cover a vast repertoire from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea and play with an empathy that can only come with long experience. The emphasis, as always, is on swinging, accessibility […]
The Shadow Quartet @Seven Arts – Sunday 14 April “1.30pm
Unfortunately saxman Tony Burkill can’t appear as programmed but we’ve been able to arrange The Shadow Quartet for you to enjoy instead! The Shadow Quartet create spiritual soundscapes crossing cultures through epic journeys. A jazz sound of the sixties catapulted into the future with the immediacy of the avant-garde whilst sailing the hypnotic swell of […]
Jazz Leeds presents: US sax star Harry Allen @Seven Arts – Thursday 11 April 8pm
Jazz Leeds presents: Harry Allen @Seven Arts – Thursday 11 April 8pm £16/14 Harry Allen sax, Andrea Pozza piano, Simon Woolf bass, Anthony Pinciotta drums. American jazzman Harry Allen is one of the finest exponents of swing saxophone in the world today. An exceptional talent, able to play tunes such as Body and Soul in […]
Emily Brown @Inkwell – Sunday 7 April 1.30pm
Emily Brown @Inkwell – Sunday 7 April 1.30pm £9/7 Emily Brown vocals. Stuart Macdonald sax, Jason Scott piano, Fergus Quill bass Steve Green drums. Powerful Yorkshire-based singer Emily Brown is making a big name on the Northern jazz scene. She wowed us all at the Chapel Allerton Village Jazz festival last summer so good to […]
Spring Jazz Cafe and Jam session @Inkwell Sun 31 Mar 1.30-4pm
Spring Jazz Cafe and Jam session @Inkwell – Sunday 31 Mar 1.30pm £7/5 (free to performers). Come down and listen or join in at our Inkwell Jazz jam – always a fun afternoon. It’s Mothering Sunday too so bring your mum! Friendly and supportive (and free!) for performers whether instrumentalists or singers. Nice veggie food […]
Jazz Workshop and Big Band
Learn to play jazz at our Jazz Workshop! Our jazz instrumental workshops run at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm Barn – cost £10/£8 concession and then meet fortnightly. Tutor is Dom Moore If you know of someone who is interested to see what the workshops are like, do encourage them to come along; they can listen […]
Jazz Leeds presents: Tony Kofi’s “Portrait of Cannonball” feat. Deelee Dubé @Seven Arts – Thursday 28 March 8pm
Alto sax master Tony Kofi fronts this loving celebration of the jazz giant Julian ‘Cannnonball’ Adderley. The group traces the explosive music of Cannonball from his first session as leader in 1955 through work with Miles Davis to the soul-jazz of the late 1960s. Expect Adderley brothers classics like Things Are Getting Better, Sack o’Woe and Mercy, Mercy, Mercy – as well as […]
Sunday special with “The Jazz of Dudley Moore” @Seven Arts 24 March 1.30pm
Chris Ingham piano, Paul Higgs trumpet, Geoff Gascoyne bass, George Double drums. Dudley Moore the comic actor, we all know about. Fewer know of Dudley Moore, virtuoso jazz pianist, brilliantly exploiting the stylistic possibilities of Errol Garner and Oscar Peterson. Chris Ingham tells the musical story of this flawed genius. Beloved comic actor Dudley Moore […]
