Welcome to Seven Jazz
Corey Mwamba | Dave Kane | Alex Hawkins
This is a free improvising acoustic trio that creates living music for people, in the moment. The language they use mixes popular, folk and art music from all over the world. The cutting edge of British Jazz at Seven!
Corey Mwemba- As well as having made four electro-acoustic albums, Corey is on two albums made by Quantic, one by Arun Ghosh and one by Ty. He's worked with lots of people including The Heliocentrics, Orphy Robinson, Robert Mitchell, Andy Hamilton, Scanner and Tony Kofi. More information is on Corey's web-site.
Dave Kane - He's released a critically-acclaimed album called Eye of the Duck on the Edition Records label; plays with pianist Matthew Bourne and Stephen Davis and has a fantastic duo with the trumpeter Alex Bonney which performed with Ken Vandermark in 2008. Dave is also founder of a creative musicians' collective in Leeds called LIMA.
Alexander Hawkins - a pianist who mines a rich vein from the free jazz seam, mixing music from Steve Lacy, Roscoe Mitchell, Dudu Pukwana and Ornette Coleman with his own compositions. He has played concerts and festivals across the world, including in Belgium, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and elsewhere. Domestic performances have included at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; Purcell Room; Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Ronnie Scott’s, The Vortex, and elsewhere. He has been broadcast in various places, including on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music.
Listen at http://trio.coreymwamba.co.uk/ See them in action here
"absorbing, intriguing and at times downright exhilarating music" ~ Vortex Jazz Reviews
Alan Corey Mwamba | Dave Kane | Alexander Hawkins are at Seven on Sunday 29 January 1-4pm, cost £5/ £4 concessions kids under 16 free. Doors open 1pm, music 1.30-4pm
Zoe Rahman's Kindred Spirits
Zoe Rahman piano, Idris Rahman clarinet, US drummer Gene Calderazzo and bassist Davide Mantovani : Thursday evening 2 February
Popular and highly acclaimed pianist Zoe Rahman shot to wider public awareness when her luminous album Melting Pot was nominated for the 2006 Mercury Music Prize, returns to Seven with her fifth album Kindred Spirits, part of an extensive UK tour. Released on 23 January on her own Manushi label the music continues her vibrant exploration her English, Irish and Bengali heritage combined with her sparkling contemporary piano work and framed by her strong melodic composing style. Her brother Idris (best known for his own groove-heavy band Soothsayers) joins her on clarinet alongside her fine regular rhythm section of London-based US drummer Gene Calderazzo and bassist Davide Mantovani. Rahman has been busy touring with her own band as well as appearing on several other high profile projects that include international tours withCourtney Pine’s stunning Europa band (Pine also guests on her new album), as well as being a member of the expansive Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra, and the Way to Blue: the Songs of Nick Drake project that featured the likes of Danny Thompson and Vashti Bunyan.
Commenting on the album Rahman said: “We recorded this album after touring Ireland in 2011, a year that happened to coincide with the 150th birth anniversary of Bengali writer, musician, artist and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. These two events account, in part, for my choice of music. Mostly though, it’s a collection of my own compositions from the past couple of years and tunes that I love playing.”
Spring 2012 concerts
Here they are! Our Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon bands for Spring 2012. Get that season ticket bought for Christmas!
Here are our evenings
Evening concerts
Thursday January 19 8pm US saxman Scott Hamilton with Alan Barnes
and the Dave Newton trio
Thursday February 2 8pm Zoe Rahman's Kindred Spirits
Thursday February 16 8pm Jim Mullen Reunion band, with Gary Husband,
Gareth Williams and Mick Hutton
Thursday March 8 8pm Dave O'Higgins with Eric Alexander and the
Kristian Leth Trio
Thursday March 22 8pm Tina May with Nikki Isles trio
Thursday April 5 8pm Sue Richardson Too Cool - the music of
Chet Baker
Thursday April 19 8pm Michael Janisch and the New York
Standards Quartet featuring
Tim Armacost sax, David Berkman piano,
Michael Janisch bass, Gene Jackson drums
Thursday 3 May 8pm Dennis Rollins and Velocity Trio
Thursday 17 May 8pm Denys Baptiste Quartet: Denys Baptiste
tenor/soprano saxes, Andrew McCormack
piano Gary Crosby double bass
Rod Youngs drums
Saturday 23 June 8pm The Impossible Gentlemen: Steve Swallow
bass, Mike Walker guitar, Adam Nussbaum
drums, Gwilym Simcock piano
and here are our Sunday afternoons
Sunday afternoon gigs
Sunday January 9 1pm Hair of the Dog jam session
Sunday January 15 1pm Ben Lowman’s Django project
Sunday January 22 1pm Gary Boyle Quartet
Sunday January 29 1pm Corey Mwemba Trio
Sunday February 5 1pm Nikki Allen sextet
Sunday February 12 1pm Yoruba
Sunday February 19 1pm Fruit Tree band
Sunday February 26 1pm Centreline
Sunday March 4 1pm Leeds Jazz Orchestra
Sunday March 11 1pm Krzysztof Urbanski/Sam Gardner quartet
Sunday March 18 1pm Zoe Gilby and her quartet
Sunday March 25 1pm Stuart McCullum's "Distilled"
Sunday April 1 1pm Seven Jazz Spring Jazz Cafe
Sunday April 8 1pm Riley Stone Lonergan Trio
Sunday April 15 1pm "Kefaya" with Giuliano Modarelli
Sunday April 22 1pm Charlie Mingus's 90th anniversary tribute
Sunday April 29 1pm Jean Toussaint with the Dagda quartet
Sunday May 6 1pm LCM Contemporary Big Band
Sunday May 13 1pm Los Cameradas
Sunday May 20 1pm Kim Macari Big Band
Sunday May 27 1pm Al Macsween's sextet tribute to
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa
Sunday June 3 1pm John Taylor's DB Toots
Sunday June 10 1pm Sarah Brickel
Sunday June 17 1pm Michael de Souza quartet
Sunday June 24 1pm Beverly Beirne/Graham Hearn qut
Sunday July 1 1pm Brendan Duffy band
Sunday July 8 1pm Summer Jazz Cafe
Sunday July 15 1pm Louise Gibbs and the organ trio
Sunday July 22 1pm Declan Forde Quartet
Sunday July 29 1pm Leeds Youth Jazz Rock Orchestra
Sunday August 5 1pm Jazz Cafe
Sunday August 12 1pm Jazz Cafe