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Sunday Double Bill

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Sunday 18th September 2011

Sunday Double Bill

2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

AJ Brown sings with Swingshift Big Band

Swingshift’s matinée gigs have developed into some of the most popular events in our jazz club calendar, with guest appearances from many of the UK’s leading jazz soloists. For this one we are delighted to welcome ‘AJ’ Brown, a young, handsome, Yorkshire born, extremely talented singer/songwriter/jazz saxophonist at the beginning of a professional career which shows considerable promise: with successful appearances already at Wigan IJF, our own Jazz on a Winter’s Weekend and Zeffirelli’s. He is currently on the Leeds C.O.M jazz course majoring on saxophones. AJ’s debut CD ‘On Song’ appears in July and this concert will feature some of its very well chosen tunes. His own distinctive singing style draws on a lifetime of listening to the masters of the idiom, from Sinatra, Bennett and Tormé, to the succeeding generation including Stevie Wonder, Michael Bublé and Diana Krall. This concert should appeal to all age groups. Do bring the youngsters. Accompanied under 16s get in free. They’ll love AJ. (Screaming and whistling is allowed between songs!)
Band leader:
Phil Shotton
Guest Musical Director:
Dr Ian Darrington MBE
Tickets:
£12

8 p.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Julian Siegal Quartet

The Julian Siegel Quartet released their second album Urban Theme Park in April 2011, the follow up to the debut album ‘Close Up’. Julian Siegel has chosen to work with some of this generation's most distinctive voices to create a group that is becoming one of the most in-demand quartets on the scene. He has established himself as a powerful player and individual writer on the flourishing European Jazz Scene, and was awarded the BBC Jazz Award 2007 for Best Instrumentalist. He has toured with bands led by Hermeto Pascoal and Andrew Hill and he is a member of the influential Jazz-Rock quartet Partisans. Liam Noble is one of the UK’s top modern pianists. His career has included recordings with musicians such as Phil Biscoe and Randy Robson, Tom Rainey, Drew Gress, Ingrid Laubrock, Stan Sulzmann and Chris Brecker. Bassist Oli Hayhurst moved to London in 1995 to study at The R.A.M. He has worked in a wide range of musical fields and played with, amongst others, Gilad Atzmon’s Orient house Ensemble, Zoe Rahman’s Trio and Jim Mullen. New Yorker Gene Calderazzo has been a long-term resident in the UK and has played with Sting, James Moody, Phil Woods, Benny Golson & lots more.
Saxes:
Julian Siegal
Piano:
Liam Noble
Bass:
Oli Hayhurst
Drums:
Gene Calderazzo
Tickets:
£14
SMJC members:
£13
NUS members:
£8