DERBY  JAZZ  PROGRAMME  WINTER & SPRING 2008
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16 - 18 May  2008
The 3rd Newark Jazz Festival

The East Midlands jazz weekend. 70 gigs at 30 venues - mostly free entry!
Headliners include Claire Martin with Richard Rodney Bennett, Chris Barber, Guy Barker, David Newton, Pete Long, Neil Cowley, Tim Kliphuis, Nathan Bray, EMYJO
Plus the East Midlands Youth Jazz Awards, a Jazz Parade, Jazz Violin Workshop and Jazz Trains from Lincoln and Nottingham.

Details and tickets from:  www.newarkjazz.co.uk
Friday 6 June 2008  8pm  £10
Janette Mason Trio
CUBE Cafe, Derby Dance, Chapel St., Derby
Tel: 01332 370911 to book

A versatile pianist and composer who has written for TV and film - Jonathan Ross's Saturday Zoo, Sex in The City, and performed with many leading pop and soul artists - Oasis, Pulp, Robert Wyatt, kd Lang, Mica Paris and Seal, Janette Mason is an outstanding jazz musician who refuses to stay in the jazz pigeonhole.

"Janette Mason's breakout album is a triumph of elegant themes, catchy hooks, fierce swing, classy execution and uncompromising openness to improvisation." John Fordham THE GUARDIAN

Saturday 5 July & Sunday 6 July 2008  Mid-day till late both days
Hot House Youth Big Band Festival
Assembly Rooms, Derby  Tel: 01332 255800
Weekend Pass £20  Day Pass £15 (conc. £10)
Individual concerts £10 (conc. £7.50)  Party Rate available

East Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra
Burton Youth Jazz Orchestra
Young Essex Jazz
Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra
with Alan Barnes and Alex Wilson


Youth Big Bands from throughout the UK will gather to take part in the first ever Hot House Youth Big Band Festival hosted by the award winning EMYJO (East Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra). There will be a series of workshops and concerts that will see BYJO (Burton Youth Jazz Orchestra), YEJ (Young Essex Jazz) and WYJO (Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra working with special guests Alan Barnes and Alex Wilson.

Hot House Summer Schools for Young People
July and August 2008

For details go to:  Summer Jazz School
 

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