Summer Jazz: Chris Bowden / Hot 8 Brass Band / Oozells Square PLUS Autumn Progra

Welcome to the Birmingham Jazz height of the summer update! We have been busy this month listening out for live jazz to bring to Birmingham .This has included attending the BBC Jazz Awards on Wednesday 23rd July. Please click here to read Tony's thoughts on the prestigious awards night.

We were also invited to The Big Chill Festival last weekend and highlights included The Matthew Herbert Big Band featuring the amazing Eska. Also performing were Babel stars and Mercury Music Prize nominees Portico Quartet .Other great performances at the festival were two impromptu acoustic sets from Birmingham's own Lizzy Parks. This was in preparation for her album launch on Tru Thoughts on Friday October 3rd at Town Hall Birmingham alongside Big Chill headliners The Heritage Orchestra. See below for full details and tickets.

July also saw the first of the Jazz Club Summer Specials at The Rainbow. The first featured The Sub Ensemble performing in the outside stage area to a great crowd on a beautiful summer night. Just what the Jazz Club Summer Specials are all about!
Jazz Club will continue throughout the summer and autumn taking place on every last Wednesday of the month.The next one features Chris Bowden's The Tomorrow Band on Wednesday 27th August at 9.30pm.Entry is still only £3.

The Sub Ensemble, Wednesday 30th July, The Rainbow

August gigs

Summer Jazz at Brindley Place

Friday 8th August

Del Camino

In Oozels Square

www.thsh.co.uk

Friday 15th August

Tom Hill and Straitjackets

In City Cafe at City Inn

www.thsh.co.uk

Friday 22nd August

Steve and Ian Palmer with Friends

In Oozels Square

www.thsh.co.uk

Birmingham Jazz Supports:

Saturday 9th August 
Leftfoot Presents
Hot 8 Brass Band
(New Orleans)

with DJs:
Sam Redmore
Adam Regan

Hare & Hounds
106  High Street
Kings Heath
Birmingham
B14 7JZ

Tel: 0121 444 2081
info@hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk
www.hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk

9pm-2am
£10 Advance / MOTD  (50 early bird tickets available at £8 each)

2 for 1 ticket offer for Birmingham Jazz members!
For details on 2 for 1 offer please email info@hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk

Tickets available from:

www.theticketsellers.co.uk / 0844 870 0000

Polar Bear  0121 441 5202
Jibbering  0121 449 4551

HOT 8 BRASS BAND HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE UK OF LATE, WOWING AUDIENCES LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE WITH THEIR PUNCHY, ENERGETIC LIVE SHOW .

AFTER LAST YEAR’S RUNAWAY HIT COVER OF “SEXUAL HEALING”, THIS GANG OF BRASS REALLY GOT PEOPLE TALKING, BACKED UP WITH THE BRILLIANT LP %u2028“ROCK WITH THE…HOT 8 BRASS BAND”

THE TEN MEMBERS OF THE HOT 8 BRASS BAND ARE ALL FROM NEW ORLEANS AND FORMED IN 1995, THEY HAVE AN UNMISTAKABLE JAZZ SPIRIT AND A SIGNIFICANT STORY TO THEIR WORK. THEY RECENTLY APPEARED IN SPIKE LEE’S POIGNANT DOCUMENTARY ‘WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE’ (2006). THE FILM CAPTURES THE ANGER AND DESPAIR SURROUNDING ONE OF THE MOST HORRIFIC NATURAL DISASTERS IN US HISTORY.  HURRICANE KATRINA IN 2005 BROKE A LOT OF BOUNDARIES BETWEEN GENERATIONS AND CLASS DIVIDES. THIS IS APPARENT IN THE SOUND OF THE HOT 8 WHO BRING ELEMENTS OF MODERN, TRADITIONAL AND URBAN MUSIC TOGETHER AND CREATE A UNIQUE, NEW CLASS OF BRASS MUSIC. 

THE BAND EMBODIES THE HIP HOP CULTURE AND ENERGY IN THE NEW ORLEANS MUSIC SCENE FOR EXAMPLE, THEY ARE INVOLVED IN LOCAL SECOND-LINE PARADES. THESE ARE MUSIC BATTLES OR FACE OFFS WITH LOCAL JAZZ BANDS ON THE STREETS. BRASS BANDS FIGHT IT OUT FOR THE LARGEST CROWD LISTENING TO THEIR MUSIC, THE ONE WITH THE MOST FEET AT THE END WINS.

Jazz Club at The Rainbow

Wednesday 27th August
Chris Bowden's The Tomorrow Band
Jazz Club at The Rainbow
Band on at 9.30pm
£3 entry

Featuring originals and standards from ex Ninja Tune saxophonist Chris Bowden with Ben Markland on bass and Neil Bullock on drums.

www.rehabrecords.co.uk

Autumn programme highlights: book your tickets now!

Stan Tracey Hextad

CBSO Centre

(£10 to Birmingham Jazz Members & concessions)

Stan Tracey is without doubt the godfather of British jazz, now in his 80s but going strong.  He was one of the first UK  For us, some of his most attractive writing has been for his middle size groups, of which the six-piece Hextad is one.  It features Mark Armstrong on trumpet, Simon Allen and Mornington Lockett on saxes, Andy Cleyndert on bass and Clark Tracey  on drums. players to develop a distinctive voice different from the Americans.

CBSO Centre Box Office Hotline 0121-767-4050

Friday 3rd October

DJ Cro plus guests

The Town Hall

£15.00

Resonance events live club night with The Heritage Orchestra and Lizzy Parks Band launching her new album on Tru Thoughts.

Tickets available now at www.thsh.co.uk

Saturday 11th October
Finn Peters Finntet

The Polish Club

Tickets available to prebook with no extra booking fee from www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Critically acclaimed F-IRE Collective flautist and saxophonist Finn Peters perfoms music from his latest album "Butterflies" on Accidental Records

Finn Peters - Flutes, Saxophones, Seedpods
Dave Okumu - Guitar
Nick Ramm - Piano, Keyboards
Tom Herbert - Bass
Tom Skinner - Drums
Mathew Yee King - Computers

http://www.myspace.com/finnpeters
http://www.accidentalrecords.com/home/

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