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March 21st - 25th 2007
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This was a highly successful celebration of 25 years of Derby Jazz.
Five days of top quality music, including three new commissions.
Full details below.
4 Star Guardian Review
Key Artist Information
Photo Gallery page 1
Photo Gallery page 2
Videos
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Derby Jazz Week was made possible with the support of:
| Arts Council England |
Derby City Council |
| EMJAZZ |
PRS Foundation for new music |
| Derby Dance Centre |
Derby Assembly Rooms |
| Derby College |
University of Derby |
| Creative Partnerships |
Friends of Derby Jazz |
Babel |
Rattle + Drum |
| Rolls-Royce |
Marketing Derby |
| Soul Deli |
West House Dental Practice, Belper |
| Clements Pianos |
Fresh Basil, Belper |
| Amberside Farm Shop |
GH Computers |
| + all our volunteer helpers |
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Wednesday March 21st 8pm
Tom Cawley's Curios
Darwin Suite, Assembly Rooms, Derby
 Currently London's hottest trio, Tom Cawley - piano, Sam Burgess -
bass and Josh Blackmore - drums have just released their first album,
"Hidden" - named "Jazz CD of the Week" in
The Observer
"They specialise in slow-building, even hypnotic pieces that
culminate in clattering three-way improvisation centred on Cawley's
percussive piano but drawing much of its polyrhythmic appeal from
the restless, probing drumming of Blackmore, who has Paul Motian's
gift for firmly propelling a band through the slowest and subtlest
of tempos via carefully controlled eruptions of sound, some of them
produced not with sticks, but with his hands." - The Vortex
Jazzwise Review
Curios MySpace
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Thursday March 22nd 8pm
Darwin Suite, Assembly Rooms, Derby
Double Bill
Oriole / Christine Tobin Quartet
 Guitarist
and bandleader Jonny Phillips and his band members - Seb Rochford,
Ingrid Laubrock, Ruth Goller, Ben Davis, Nick Ramm and Adriano
Itauna - are all members of the F-IRE collective. Like other
F-IRE
bands such as Polar Bear and Acoustic Ladyland, Oriole has deep Jazz
roots but refuses to be constricted by them. The group draws
on musical, visual, folkloric and contemporary influences from
across the globe to create music that has a strong emotional impact.
www.oriole-music.co.uk
Singer Christine Tobin's band comprises Phil Robson - guitar, Dave Whitford - bass, Thebe Lipere - percussion and Simon Lea - drums.
Her music has been described as authentic, streetwise, radical and romantic. Its rooted in a tradition that emphasizes storytelling
on a musical bedrock that creatively blends blues, folk and jazz.
"... a 24-carat voice" - John L. Walters, The Guardian
Christine Tobin's MySpace
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Thursday March 22nd
Wendy Kirkland & Pat Sprakes
SOUL, 26-28 Green Lane, Derby
Jazz cabaret with a 5 course set dinner.
More details and menus at: www.souldeli.com
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Friday March 23rd 7pm - 2am
Alex Wilson's Salsa R'n'B Night
Great Hall, Assembly Rooms, Derby
A night of hot salsa with music from Alex Wilson's Latino project
plus some of the UK's top salsa DJs.
Alex is Europe's most exciting young latin jazz pianists. His
unique sound developed from frequent stays in Cuba, Colombia and New
York. His 10 piece band fuses contemporary music's most dynamic
beats, latin rhythms and R & B. Salsa promoters Flipandbounce
provide the DJs and the dance teachers for a night of non-stop
salsa.
Watch live DVD concert footage of Alex's salsa band at :
www.alexwilson.net/salsa
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Friday March 23rd 8pm
Walt Shaw's Synaesthesia & Sym-Bio
Derby Dance Centre, Chapel Street, Derby
Walt's project SYNAESTHESIA draws together experienced experimental musicians, dancers, painters, photographers and film-makers
to simultaneously seed and respond to each other's creativity.
SYM-BIO brings together improvising musicians: Bruce Coates, Corey Mwamba, Graham Foster, Mark Sanders, Mike Hurley,
Oli Matthews, Rocco Francelli, Paul Dunmall, Trevor Lines, Walt Shaw and his regular collaborator Lol Coxhill
to make music using the visual products of the SYNAESTHESIA session as 'graphic scores'.
www.thevirtualvenue.co.uk/walt shaw.html
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Saturday March 24th 2pm - 5.30pm
Assembly Rooms, Derby
Triple Bill
Corey Mwamba Quintet / Julian Siegel
Quartet / Dave O'Higgins Most Wanted
Corey Mwamba's national star continues to rise. A recent London date
with Orphy Robinson earned excellent reviews and in October he was
awarded a place on the 2007 Jerwood / PRS Foundation scheme. Quintet
members Deborah Jordan, Robert Mitchell, Robin Mullarkey and Richard
Spaven are all major figures in the nu-jazz scene. To launch the
band we have commissioned some new music - Argentum - which develops
ideas around silver, 5 and 25 to reflect our anniversary.
www.coreymwamba.co.uk
Corey's MySpace
Reeds player Julian Siegel played for us during his college and
NYJO days nearly 20 years ago, and since then with Partisans, Kirk
Lightsey and his own bands. his quartet with Liam Noble,
Jeremy Brown and Asaf Sirkis is on course to become one of the
most important acoustic bands on the current scene
www.juliansiegel.com
Most Wanted is 3 horn players - Dave O'Higgins, Barnaby Dickinson
and Graeme Flowers and probably the hottest, funkiest band Dave has
ever had. The spark between the musicians is electrifying on
stage
www.daveohiggins.com
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Saturday March 24th 6pm
Phil Robson Six Strings + The Beat
Derby Dance Centre, Chapel Street, Derby
Phil Robson's excellent recordings on Babel concentrate on his trio
with New Yorkers Billy Hart and James Genus and with Partisans, but
with commissions from Derby Jazz he's been able to develop work for
bigger ensembles including an octet and the BBC Big Band. When
we commissioned him to celebrate our 25th anniversary he took it as
an opportunity to extend the scope of his music again with this
7-piece ensemble: Emma Smith, Jenny May Logan, Naomi Fairhurst, Kate
Short, Peter Herbert and Gene Calderazzo.
Phil's MySpace
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Saturday March 24th 8pm
Great Hall, Assembly Rooms,
Derby
Triple Bill
East Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra
with Alan
Barnes, Graham Collier, Harry Beckett, Dave O'Higgins and John Bailey
Partisans / Derby Jazz All-Stars
With the inspirational leadership of Jon Eno and a series of
creative collaborations facilitated by Derby Jazz, EMYJO's
reputation has soared. This concert will feature
music commissioned by Derby Jazz for EMYJO including Alan Barnes'
Railway Suite and a new piece from Graham Collier who, with Harry Beckett, played the very first Derby Jazz
date in 1982.
EMYJO
Harry Beckett
Graham Collier
Alan Barnes
Dave O'Higgins
John Bailey
Partisans - Phil Robson, Julian Siegel, Thad Kelly and Gene
Calderazzo - have thrilled audiences for over 10 years with their
blend of tight-knit themes and great freedom. One of the first
of the wave of UK bands to be influenced as much by Jimi Hendrix as
by Miles Davis or Sonny Rollins, they generate huge excitement and
energy
www.partisans.org.uk
Derby Jazz All-Stars - The evening ends with a jam session featuring most
of the star musicians from the week's programme - Dave O'Higgins,
Phil Robson, Julian Siegel, Alan Barnes, Helen McDonald, Corey
Mwamba - all backed by the
Richard Hallam Trio.
When Dave O'Higgins heard the line-up for the week he said it
sounded like a dream band, and the idea took root. You can imagine
the result.
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Sunday March 25th 2pm - 10pm
Rolls Royce Pavilion, Moor Lane, Derby
7 Bands
Dave Hamblett Band / George Hogg Band / Max
Johnson & the Bunting Band
/ John Bailey Trio with Julian Siegel / Josh Blackmore Band / Second
Nature with John Harvey / Sidewinder with Dave O'Higgins
7 bands with artists from every Derby jazz generation. Dave
Hamblett, George Hogg and Josh Blackmore are 1st, 2nd and 3rd year
Jazz students at the Royal Academy of Music and all lead bands of
their very talented fellow students.
The uniquely orchestrated settings of John Harvey's evocative
jazz poems from Second Nature - Mel Thorpe, Richard Hallam, Geoff
Pearson and Mike Say have been played all over the UK.
John Bailey with Julian Siegel and Sidewinder with Dave O'Higgins
are beneficiaries of RHYTHM-A-NING, a new EMJAZZ regional artist
development project; expect Bill Evans inspired lyricism from John
Bailey and funk/electronica from Sidewinder.
Max Johnson and Andy and Tom Bunting are up and coming musicians from the
EMYJO stable.
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