Birmingham Jazz: Black History Month Festival
Schedule
Fri Oct 25 2024 at 04:45 pm to Sun Oct 27 2024 at 11:30 pm
Location
1000 Trades | Birmingham, EN
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This is our contribution to 2024 Black History Month (BHM) with a series of Jazz events that reflect the 2024 BHM theme of "Reclaiming Narratives" - acknowledging and appreciating the myriad contributions of Black individuals throughout history. Over the month we will present one gig a week culminating in a short festival over 3 days in the final weekend of October. Significant Jazz musicians will be celebrated and two new pieces of work commissioned by a mix of local, national and international stars. We are proud to have such a strong programme and this is generously supported by Arts Council England. Various ticket combinations are available either for the weekend, specific days or individual shows. Whole weekend tickets are great value and start from £20 for students, £40 members, £60 non-members.https://www.birminghamjazz.co.uk/black-history-month-2024
FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER
Xhosa Cole (5pm start)
Winner of the 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the year, Xhosa Cole is an embodiment of the success of numerous community arts programmes in Birmingham including the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra, Jazzlines Ensemble and Birmingham Music Service. This new project FreeMonk explores, abstracts and collages Thelonious Monk's compositions breaking his music out of convention and breathing new life into these timeless tunes. Joining Cole is Pat Thomas, a central figure in British and European improvised music.
Ineza (8pm start)
A triumphant return for this project to Birmingham Jazz after going down a storm at our 2023 Women in Jazz festival. In this words-and-music show entitled “Women’s Words, Sisters Stories”, Rwandan-born Belgian jazz vocalist Ineza and the Alex Webb Quartet explore the repertoire penned by the great female songstresses with a mostly female band.
SATURDAY 26TH OCTOBER
Lucy Anne-Daniels (2pm start)
With ‘a voice mature beyond her years’ (The Scotsman, Jim Gilchrist), recent Royal Birmingham Conservatoire alumnus Lucy-Anne’s is boldly making her mark on the UK Jazz scene and beyond. For this performance, she debuts a fresh body of work inspired by texts from Maya Angelou and James Baldwin, intertwined with traditional music from her Nigerian heritage and beloved songs by Black British and American artists.
Glowseeker feat. Heidi Vogel (5pm start)
Drawing from R&B, Hip-Hop, Electronica, Jazz and Brazilian Popular Music; Birmingham-based composer David Austin Grey’s Glowseeker paint sweet melodies and crisp, vibrant grooves, over a backdrop of lush keys, quirky samples and dreamy synths. David is developing a new short commission for the festival, using a mixture of arrangements of the songs of the legendary Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer and original compositions; all on a theme of Cuban Jazz for instruments and voice.
Byron Wallen (8pm start)
Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, trumpeter and composer Byron has travelled the world recording, teaching and performing alongside legendary musicians. Back in 2019 Filthy Lucre commissioned Byron to write music for 8 musicians responding to Peter Shenai’s "Hurricane Bells". Peter is a contemporary artist who has cast 5 bells, whose shapes are modelled on the structure of Hurricane Katrina. This piece is an exploration of the socio-political economic climate where their sound resonates.
Read more about the Hurricane Bells here: https://cargocollective.com/petershenai/Hurricane-Bells
SUNDAY 27TH OCTOBER
From Scratch (2pm start)
Band that literally started from scratch following the initiative of Birmingham Jazz to play one of our club nights. From Scratch is led by two musicians emerging from Andy Hamilton’s Blue Notes: Mark Hamilton, his son on saxes, and Ralf DeCambre on guitar. For this gig they perform a commission from Birmingham Jazz to recreate the legendary Hum-Dono album by Joe Harriott & Amancio D'Silva with a sax/guitar frontline.
Larry Bartley/Bruno Heinen/Winston Clifford (5pm start)
Larry Bartley is a bassist/composer who has been a staple of the London and international jazz scene since the 1990s, and has played and/or recorded in the bands of Abdullah Ibrahim, Courtney Pine, Bheki Mseleku, Stanley Turrentine, Bennie Maupin, Gary Bartz and many others. Larry currently works with a trio of pianist Bruno Heinen and drummer Winston Clifford, playing a mixture of original compositions written by each member of the group.
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Where is it happening?
1000 Trades, 16 Frederick Street, Birmingham, B1 3HE, United Kingdom,Birmingham, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays: