Friday 21.05; 8.30pm; £5 „A jazz rendez vous”.
In our constant effort to promote young Polish and international jazz talents, we present two bands from the Department of Music at the Thames Valley University in London: The Pennington and Veasey Quartet and The Excentric Trio. The Pennington Quartet plays mainly world fusion music influenced by Chick Corea and Hiromi and some jazz standards by Billy Evans. The Excentric Trio was formed by a Polish pianist Ula Szczepanek in 2009 and their repertoire covers a wide spectrum of jazz genres: classical, fusion, reggae, Latin and free jazz. They are all from different parts of the world, so their music is a mixture of different musical tastes. Their Latin and Slavonic background has contributed to creating an original sound and the band is already getting a lot of invitations from the London jazz clubs.
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Saturday 22.05; 8.30pm; £5 - Seb Pipe’s Life Experience
Talented altoist, Pipe has brought together forward-thinking musicians that share a desire to create improvised music with its own identity, music which reflects the group’s personalities and interests, as well as the world around them.
Life Experience’s music draws its inspiration from Romania, Cuba, India and Western Classical music and is forged from lyrical melodies, tight grooves and bold improvisations.
Friday 14.05; 8.00pm; £8 Salsa con Wódka
Next edition of our regular Cuban Fiesta. An excellent opportunity to learn one of the most popular Latin dances, which in recent years has swept the dance floors in clubs all over the world. The Cuban dancer Damarys Farres from The Cuban School of Arts will show you the basic steps and than you will be able to dance the night away to the live music of the Cuban band.
Saturday 15.05; 8.30pm; £5 - GPQ - Graham Pike Quartet
Featuring a unique, self styled Chromatic Harmonica player, utilising hybrid instruments to create a sound somewhere between Toots & Norton Buffalo. Mixing the harmonica with Trumpet/Flugelhorn and Vocals and a skilled band they mix 50/60’s Post-Bebop, cool, ambient, Latin and some originals..........
As a pianist and composer and musical director, Graham has decades of experience in TV and Theatre but for some years now has been concentrating on gradually achieving recognition playing the music he most loves.
Graham Pike : Vocals, Chromatic Harmonica, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Joe Bickerstaff : Piano, Jason Simpson : Acoustic/Electric Bass, Mike Searle : Drums
