The finale of JazzLeeds Reset 21– a weekend jazz festival at Seven Arts Leeds featuring some of the musicians you, our audience, have asked to see again… with an eclectic mix of jazz, funk, and world music from some of the region’s leading artists
Saturday 17 July 1 pm in the Seven Arts courtyard with jazz and blues from Joe Moore (vocals and guitar) and Nic Svarc (guitar)
Saturday 17 July 1.45pm Emily Brown Quintet
Emily Brown is an experienced jazz singer with a gift for harmonic risk-taking and accessing emotional depth in a song. You can expect to hear jazz, blues, soul & some ear-opening detours – all classics but delivered in Emily’s warmly alert & soul enlarging style.
Emily Brown – vocals with Jon Taylor – sax, Ed Barnwell – piano, Fergus Quill – bass Caroline Boaden – drums.
Saturday 17 July 3.00 jazz in the courtyard Jonah Evans group. Young Leeds drummer Jonah Evans leads a trio with Stan Brunt guitar and Tom O’Brien keyboards playing standards and original tunes.
Saturday 17 July 3.45pm Fergus Quill trio
Openly indebted to Derek Bailey, Pharoah Sanders & the classic piano trios of Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans, Fergus Quill Trio is equal parts swingin’ and disorientating, a dichotomy that’s come to define a subsection of the burgeoning Leeds DIY jazz scene.’
Fergus is a composer, musician and bandleader based in Leeds, UK His projects include Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, Fergus Quill’s Electric Noise Ensemble and the Fergus Quill Trio. With influences ranging from Sidney Bechet to Boredoms he aims to build on the cannon of 20th, 21st and 22nd century improvised music to find a way forward.
Fergus Quill – Bass, Nico Widdowson on Piano and Theo Goss on Drums.
Saturday 17 July 5.00pm jazz in the courtyard Terri Shaltiel solo
Saturday 17 July 6pm Dennis Rollins and Shri
A passionate performer and educator, British trombone player Dennis Rollins MBE has established a reputation as an artist of excellence, and has lent his unique and stylish talents to some of this country’s, and indeed the world’s, top jazz and pop personalities such as Courtney Pine, Maceo Parker, Jamiroquai, US3, The Brand New Heavies, Blur, Monty Alexander, Pee Wee Ellis and Jean Toussaint.
Shri Shriram is an award-winning bassist, composer, producer and arranger whose dynamic quest for new and collaborative ways of making music has taken him all over the world. From Indian classical music to electronica, from trip hop to jazz, from musical theatre to film scores, Shri’s superb musicianship and positive vibes are in constant demand from fellow musicians and producers, presenters and audiences everywhere.
They appeared recently as an improvising duo at Ronnie Scotts Club in London – here’s an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHawl9W5n0
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Sunday 18 July 1-1.45 pm jazz in the courtyard: Lady and the Tramps
Led by Miles Pillinger, a student from Leeds Conservatoire, Lady and the Tramps features Olivia Cuttill – trumpet, Liam Mason – keys, Woody Hayden – bass, Miles Pillinger – drums
Sunday 18 July 1.45pm Dudley Nesbitt and Pan Jumby
Pan Jumby bring their uplifting music here to Seven Arts .The British jazz scene has always had a close relationship with musicians from the Caribbean and Africa, revitalising itself with fresh energy and new musical ideas at every collaboration and Pan Jumby’s music is no exception. Featuring the pan skills of Dudley Nesbitt, this is a Caribbean pan band that plays jazz, ” Liz continued. “Dudley is an exceptional and unflagging advocate for the art and culture of the steel pan, and presents a blend of contemporary Trinidadian Calypso, Brazilian Samba and Bossa Nova, Soul tunes, Caribbean Jazz, Rumba and Cha Cha, all mixed together.You won’t fail to be smiling and dancing to their infectious music.” The group features Richard Ormrod on saxes, flutes, clarinets and percussion, Barkley McKay on keyboard and guitar, Kenny Higgins on bass and Sam Hobbs on drums.
Sunday 18th July 3.00 jazz in the courtyard: Lawrence Marshall solo
Sunday 18 July 3.45pm YSBRYD
“Ysbryd – Welsh meaning “Spirit”- is the exciting new project from saxophonist Helen Pillinger. In developing the music for Ysbryd Helen has gone back to her Welsh roots, exploring the links between jazz and folksong and the use of improvisation in both styles. The band features Helen on tenor saxophone, Helena Summerfield on soprano saxophone and flute, Simone Manunza on guitar, Rachel Gladwyn on harp, John Sandham on double bass and Miles Pillinger on drum kit. Expect to hear lyrical melodies and luscious harmonies played with a rhythmic lilt – music to please both your mind and soul.”
Sunday 18th July 5pm jazz in the courtyard ORB Trio – “improvisation, openness and interplay” Pete Rosser keys, Richard Ormrod saxes and Paul Baxter bass
Sunday 18 July 6pm Nicola Farnon Quartet featuring Jim Corry
Widely recognised as one of the classiest Jazz and Swing musicians in the UK, Sheffield resident, Nicola has a remarkable musical pedigree, both parents being professional classical musicians and her great uncle no less than the late Robert Farnon.
She has played and recorded with such Jazz luminaries as Dave Newton, Digby Fairweather, Jim Mullen, Bruce Adams, Roy Williams and Alan Barnes and alongside class jazz acts as diverse as Eliane Elias, Courtney Pine, Georgie Fame,Tony Kofi, Michael Garrick Jazz Britannia Orchestra, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Humphrey Lyttleton
A truly talented singer, Nicola is a class act with a passionate and swinging style, outstanding personality and a charismatic stage presence to match – with an uncanny ability to adapt her performance to captivate and embrace any audience.
UK based saxophonist and educator Jim Corry has toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, US, Japan, South America, South Africa, Russia and Australia and performed at many International Jazz Festivals including Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Nova Jazz and Blues Festival, Glastonbury Jazz Stage, Blue Note Milan and Cork International Jazz Festival.
Nicola Farnon – vocals/bass Jim Corry – alto sax Richard Wetherall – piano Phil Johnson – drums
Tickets for the Festival – day tickets and all festival tickets almost sold out – last few here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/jazzleeds
