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Wakefield Jazz have been hosting top quality gigs for over 30 years at their Wakefield Sports Club home, and Friday night’s event was no exception. Following a successful performance at The Vortex on Wednesday, Alexander Hawkins and Marco Colonna brought [...]
This was special. In the magnificently restored former St Peter’s Church, the Dutch improvising trio Under the Surface presented a multi-media event of extraordinary power and beauty. Their music is inspired by folk, jazz, classical music and the musical traditions [...]
Amsterdam-based saxophonist and composer Sam Newbould, born and raised in rural North Yorkshire, deserves to be better known. His first two CDs ‘Blencathra’ and ‘Concrete Caterpillar’ dealt with his early life experiences, including cycling up and down the steep rocky [...]
‘We’re going to be playing some tunes from our new album as well as some tunes from our earlier albums’. Having opened proceedings with this statement, Fergus McCreadie followed up by telling the sell-out audience that he couldn’t say which [...]
A sell-out crowd at Café OTO on Friday night witnessed what to my mind is one of the finest and most moving concerts I’ve seen in many a year. Nat Birchall is a saxophonist and composer much better known in [...]
For the last couple of years, bass guitarist Ben Crosland has been promoting occasional gigs at the charming St. Stephen’s Church in Lindley, close to his Huddersfield home; on Saturday night it was the turn of John Etheridge Trio North [...]
This was so much more than a concert. It was a true celebration of the life and work of the great Bobby Wellins, with friends and family in attendance. The audience also included bassist Adrian Kendon (from Bobby’s Quartet) and [...]
