Tickets for separate gigs: £15 Joint ticket: £25
freight train: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/67983
Alan Barnes and David Newton: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/67985
Local musicians Paul Froggatt (Luca Brasi Group/Povo) and Ben McCabe (Deep Cabaret/Off the Rails) are working together to bring a warm start to your gig-going year at The Gregson Centre on Saturdays 18th and 25th January 2025.
With support from Lancaster Jazz Scene who continue to promote an excellent series of events upstairs at The Gregson in the Olive Bar, Paul and Ben as Bookends Jazz are increasing the capacity by moving downstairs into the main hall and attracting internationally renowned artists to perform.
This first pair of Bookends Jazz gigs welcome ‘freight train’ on 18th January featuring singer Christine Tobin, pianist Liam Noble and drummer Paul Clarvis and Alan Barnes (saxes/clarinets) and David Newton (piano) duo on 25 th January.
Paul and Ben are hoping that people will choose to support both events by buying a £25 ticket that will gain access to both gigs.
18th January 2025 8pm – freight train
Out of lockdown reflection time, emerged this unique and exhilarating trio…the world of Irish folk meets jazz, mixed with Mose Allison blues. Tunes mostly selected by percussionist Clarvis to reference career moments he recalls with affection cover an eclectic list of compositions ranging over blues, folk, musicals and Ellingtonia.
Liam Noble and Paul Clarvis first met playing and touring in Moondog’s band and have collaborated on many joint projects since. Dublin born Christine Tobin and Liam have previously released a reimagined version of Carole King’s Tapestry to great acclaim.
Award winning vocalist and composer and jazz vocalist of the year 2014, Tobin, has been an integral part of both the New York and London scenes for many years. She can be a junkyard blues philosopher, snappy beat seductress, a conduit for exquisite zen-like harmonies and reflective Americana. “Everything is shot through with an unmistakable refinement, free-spirited earthiness and giddy romanticism, this singer-songwriter is in a field of one.” The Guardian
Liam Noble became Stan Sulzmann’s pianist on John Taylor’s recommendation. He went on to work in the bands of Anita Wardell, Harry Beckett, Tim Whitehead and John Stevens. He is also a member of the Randy Brecker English sextet and the Julian Siegel group. Paul Clarvis has collaborated with some of the world’s best composers and was Leonard Bernstein’s preferred percussionist in London. As a jazz musician his list of credits include Chris Batchelor on Pigfoot & Zoetic, Henry Lowther, Josephine Davies & Satori, Alan Barnes, Gordon Beck, Tim Garland, Jon Lloyd, Sam Rivers, Andy Sheppard, Stan Sulzmann, and he also formed Orquestra Mahatma who played an
incredible show at the Gregson in the 1990s!
25th January 2025 8pm – Alan Barnes and David Newton
Award winning jazz musicians Alan Barnes and David Newton have been playing duets for 47 years. These multiple award winners cover a vast repertoire from Louis Armstrong to Chick Corea and play with an empathy that can only come with long experience. David is one of the greatest solo jazz pianists this country has ever produced and Alan plays multi reed instruments - all the saxes, clarinet and bass clarinet. They have developed an empathy and telepathic sympathy which only playing together for many years can bring. The emphasis, as always, is on swinging, accessibility and interplay. Expect a hugely entertaining programme of straight-ahead jazz flawlessly played and interspersed with lots of anecdotes and peppered with humour.
Their latest and best album “Tis Autumn” is available on Woodville Records: “Newton continues to combine taste, touch and innate harmonic sense in the manner of the perfect accompanist while Barnes, whether piping a clarinet ballad or simply letting the majestic weight of his baritone sax’s sound carry a song plays with touching candour” Jazz Rag
Both nights will have doors opening at 7:30pm and two 45 minute sets with an interval from 8pm
Tickets for separate gigs: £15
Joint ticket: £25
freight train: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/67983
Alan Barnes and David Newton: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/67985
No comments:
Post a Comment