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Appleby Jazz 2006 Programme

Appleby Jazz 2006 Programme

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21st - 30th July 2006 ‘Basic Blues’ by Phil Morsman Phil by Blues’ ‘Basic I am very proud of the fact that the Appleby Festival has since its inception in 1989 remained true to its initial aims of promoting the UK’s finest jazz musicians. My programming policy has always been to create a weekend of music that I particularly want to hear. As well as enjoying the music of improvisers I have always had a keen interest in classical music and also classical forms of different cultures. I have for a while now been seeking the opportunity to promote an extra weekend of the music based around these other forms. Thanks to increased funding this year I have decided to take the plunge and try out this idea and have booked top improvisers from Turkey, India, Greece and Palestine in addition to some British names. Though you may not be as familiar with the names of some of these musicians as you are with our home-grown jazz legends, they are all household names in their own countries and are usually found performing in major European concert venues. Appleby visitors will be treated to the unique opportunity of hearing these top international stars in the small, intimate and presents meditative environment of St Michael’s Church, which is acoustically ideal for such st rd performances. Needless to say the now well established Appleby Jazz Festival weekend 21 -23 July will be the same as ever. I invite you to join me in experiencing two unique weekends Appleby International of improvised music by highly creative master musicians. Music Festival Neil Ferber - Appleby TRILOK GURTU PANDITS MISHRA March 2006 SULEYMAN ERGUNER ANDY SHEPPARD & ALAN HACKER KULJIT BHAMRA REEM KELANI SAVINA YANNATOU 28th-30th July

P.S. Many thanks to the Friends of Appleby Jazz Festival Appleby Jazz, who make all this possible. BEN HERMAN GWILYM SIMCOCK BRYAN SPRING STEVE MELLING st Appleby International Music Festival Friday 21 evening 20.00

The World comes to Appleby ... Trilok Gurtu with

Pandits Rajan & Sajan Misra The finest exponents of Eastern classical music leave their international Trilok Gurtu - percussion concert halls and arena venues to perform in a small intimate local Rajan Misra - voice church, acoustically ideal for these meditative and ancient forms of Sajan Misra - voice music. Trilok Gurtu is both a dazzling percussion virtuoso and an accessible entertainer who embraces jazz, Indian classical music, abstract improvisation and Asian pop music. ... a music lover’s dream comes true. He has worked with legends such as Don Cherry, , Jan Garbarek and John McLaughlin, whilst more recently Trilok has been performing and recording with Weather Report’s founder, Joe Zawinul as well as with his own trio featuring Zawinul and multi-Grammy Award winner, Pat Metheny. He uses a unique East-West hybrid kit of drums, gongs, cymbals, shakers, bells and chimes, and has an urge to communicate that transcends the intrinsic complexity of his music. Last year saw Trilok performing at ’s Royal Albert Hall in collaboration with and his guitarist Dominic Miller, and with the world famous jazz bassist Dave Holland at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Trilok is joined by Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra, who are two of the most loved and highly regarded Hindustani vocalists in India. Their use of the voice as an instrument and an art form together with their impeccable coordination and improvisational techniques have made them probably the most famous Khayal vocal duo of our time. Their perform- ances are always soulful in character, with the capacity to extract the spiritual side of any raag. Apart from their mastery of the musical syntax, the richness and depth of their combined voices creates a sublime tonal texture. In their develop- ment of the raag in duet performance, they are able to mold and transform the mood of the listener. They received the coveted Sanskrit Award for musical excellence from ‘Rune 1’ by Phil Morsman. the Prime Minister of India, and were selected unanimously to receive the prestigious Gandharwa National Award for their contributions to Indian classical music. nd Saturday 22 afternoon 15.00 evening 20.00

Folk Musicians from Rajasthan Tony Coe & Alan Hacker Suva Devi - kalbelia dancer Tony Coe - clarinet Nath Shesh - pungi Alan Hacker - clarinet Anwar Khan - voice Khete Khan - khartal Tony Coe began his performing career playing with Humphrey Lakha Khan Manganiar - sarangi Lyttelton’s band, and in 1965 Count Basie offered him a place in his Firoze Khan Manganiar - dholak & voice big band. He has since played with the Orchestra, Ghewar Khan Manganiar - kamaicha the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Band, Derek Bailey’s Company, Stan Tracey, Mike Kachra Khan - voice Gibbs, , Dizzy Gilespie and Bob Brookmeyer. Coe’s extensive session credits include the tenor solos in ’s music for the Pink Panther films. Fresh from the colourful deserts of Alan Hacker is not only a clarinetist of formidable reputation, but Western Rajasthan, traditional folk also a performer, teacher and conductor. At only 19 he joined the musicians perform vocal compositions LPO and was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. After of the great Sufi poets (such as Bule- becoming paralysed from below the neck in his late 20s he then shar and Shah Latif) accompanied on the beautiful sarangi and developed his solo career, championing new music and pioneering kamenche (bowed stringed instruments), a variety of vibrant the ‘authentic’ approach to earlier music. Tony and Alan collaborated percussion and also by the stunning kalbelia dancer, Suva Devi. in Matrix, with their repertoire of early, classical and contemporary Rajasthan, the ‘land of rulers’, is considered one of the most music, and more recently on their duo CD ‘Sun Moon and Stars’. romantic Indian states, and is also the home to some of the sub- continent’s most beautiful music. Alongside the magical palaces Süleyman Erguner Quartet of these princely rulers there developed a rich village tradition, with folk musicians performing both for themselves and their patrons, on all occasions. Their songs told Süleyman Erguner - ney of love and war, of longing and separation, of victory and in praise of God, and of Alev Erguner - kanun social issues such as the value Hasan Esen - rebab of their animals (especially Cenk Guray - baglama, divan sazi & fretless baglama camels) to their way of life. Süleyman Erguner is considered one of the world’s foremost ney (Turkish flute) players. A lecturer and author on the ney and its role in Turkish folk and ritual music, he has given many solo concerts. His CDs have received numerous awards in Europe, Japan and North America. The ensemble that he is bringing from Turkey especially for the Festival consists of highly accomplished and acclaimed internationally-known musicians playing traditional Turkish stringed instruments. The Ensemble appeared recently at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey performing the Sema, a spiritual ceremony developed by 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi. rd Sunday 23 afternoon 15.00 evening 20.00

Andy Sheppard & Kuljit Bhamra Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico Andy Sheppard - Savina Yannatou - voice Kuljit Bhamra - tabla Kostas Vomvolos - quanun & orchestration Yannis Alexandris - oud & guitar “The playing of soprano and tenor sax, tabla and multi-percussion filled the theatre with a Michalis Siganidis - bass mixture of haunting, sometimes familiar music and an impressively clever counter-balance Kyriakos Gouventas - violin & viola of different rhythms and sounds. The respect for each other was evident in the perfect fusion Leftheris Angouridakis - percussion of these two accomplished musicians who come from such very different roots.” January 2006 Kostas Theodorou - percussion Andy Sheppard has for 25 years been amongst Britain’s finest and fore- Haris Lambrakis - nay & recorders most jazz musicians and is respected for his individual style, character- ised by strong melodic themes, African and Latin American rhythms. Born in Athens, Greece, Savina Yannatou studied song at Amongst his numerous musical associations are the bands of , both the National Conservatory and then the Workshop of George Russell and Carla Bley, and he continues to tour with the latter Vocal Art. She later attended postgraduate studies at Guild- two. Composer, producer, tabla player and pioneer of hall School of Music and Drama, London. With a background that combines classical the Bhangra phenomenon; Kuljit Bhamra is perhaps the most influ- studies and ‘authentic’ traditional music with improvised music and jazz, beyond ential musician in the British Asian music scene. He has worked on her exquisite interpretive capacity Yannatou not only gives special emphasis to the several major film scores including the award-winning Bend It Like expression of the ‘music’ of each different language, but also uses her voice as one Beckham. He gave a much acclaimed on-stage percussion perform- more instrument in the ensemble. ance in ’s hit musical Bombay Dreams. Primavera en Salonico was formed in 1993 under the direction of Kostas Vomvolos for the production of the Sephardic Folk Songs with Yannatou, but before that its Reem Kelani members have been collaborating in various groups, recordings and music projects since the early eighties. The musical activity of the group members covers a broad Reem Kelani - voice Oli Hayhurst - bass range of styles: from European classical and old music to Byzantine music, traditional Samy Bishai - violin Fariborz Kiani - percussion Greek music and music from the Near East to jazz, with all of which a strong emphasis Idris Rahman - tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet on modern musical tendencies and improvisation. Insisting on acoustic instruments, half of which have their origin in the East, they exploit their specific sounds, often “She doesn’t sing the music, but lives it with her whole body and soul. The sheer emotional also exploring them to the limits of their possibilities. power of it hits you right in the solar plexus, but it’s totally controlled – she can switch instantly from anger to laughter, from grief to celebration.” Roger van Schaick, May 2003 Savina Yannatou and the musicians of Primavera en Reem Kelani sings Palestinian, Cante Jondo and jazz standards; she can perform Salonico find themselves like rope-dancers on the cord Persian chah-chahi-bulbuli sequences; she composes, writes, teaches and produces radio which connects the modal music of the East with programmes. Born in Manchester, brought up in Kuwait and now resident in London, the equivalent music of Western Europe, music of Kelani can apparently do anything, but her forte is in the gathering of Palestinian folk- the Middle Ages and the popular polyphonies of the loric songs, setting them to new musical arrangement and performing them. Mediterranean. th TrioRecords Thursday 27 evening 20.00 to 23.30 at the Appleby Jazz Festival in a great quartet in particularly fine form recorded at Appleby 2005. ‘...When The Sun Comes Out really does stand out’ Bev Stapleton, All About Jazz. ‘..his playing sounds as fresh and exciting as ever’ , The Observer.

“Salsa Celtica are a band that’s not only tight but that are firing on all cylinders with a big sound and joyous danceability!”

One of the highlights of last years Festival, a unique set by two brilliant pianists. ‘..one of those happy live occasions that turned out to be memorable.’ Ray Comiskey, The Irish Times ***** Just released, two new albums by The Stan Tracey Trio; a terrific live set recorded at Leighton Buzzard Theatre and a stunning session with trumpeter . DANCE Night !

“Salsa Celtica have now proven there are Celts among www.triorecords.co.uk us whose blood runs pure chilli...” th Friday 28 afternoon 12.00 to 17.30 evening 19.00 to midnight

Tim Lapthorne Trio with & Adrian Fry Kenny Wheeler Ensemble Tim Lapthorne - piano Kenny Wheeler - trumpet & flugelhorn Mark Nightingale - trombone Arnie Somogyi - bass Norma Winstone - voice Gwilym Simcock - piano Stephen Keogh - drums Stan Sulzman - tenor saxophone Phil Robson - guitar Mark Nightingale - trombone - alto saxophone - bass Adrian Fry - trombone Julian Arguelles - baritone saxophone - drums - trumpet Adrian Fry - conductor - trumpet with Don Weller Stan Tracey Trio In the late 1960s Kenny wrote the ‘Windmill Tilter’ suite which Don Weller - tenor saxophone he recorded with the John Dankworth Orchestra. With a few Stan Tracey - piano other notable exceptions such as the ECM release ‘Music for Andrew Cleyndert - bass Large and Small Ensembles’, his compositions have in recent - drums years been primarily for small bands. But now nearly forty years on from his seminal treatment of the Don Quixote story, Two of the greatest names in British jazz perform standards and Appleby Jazz presents his latest work for large ensemble. their own compositions in a small-band setting. John Donaldson / Mark Edwards Trio John Donaldson - piano, keyboards Troy Miller - drums Henry Lowther’s Still Waters Mark Edwards - piano, keyboards Henry Lowther - trumpet & flugelhorn Julian Arguelles - tenor saxophone This performance is a development from last year’s highly successful piano duo set by Pete Saberton - piano Mark and John and features music specially arranged for this unusual trio. Mark Hodgson - bass Paul Clarvis - drums Peter King / Quintet Peter King - alto saxophone St Michael’s Church Alan Skidmore - tenor saxophone Steve Melling - piano Mike Janisch - bass 17.00 Bryan Spring Trio - drums Bryan Spring - drums Mark Edwards - piano ‘Salute to Elvin’ featuring renditions of Andrew Cleyndert - bass Jones’ most famous recordings. th Saturday 29 afternoon 11.00 to 18.00 evening 19.00 to midnight Three Tenors Don Weller Quartet - tenor saxophone Mark Edwards - piano Don Weller - tenor saxophone Art Themen - tenor saxophone Andrew Cleyndert - bass Dave Newton - piano Don Weller - tenor saxophone - drums Andrew Cleyndert - bass Dave Barry - drums

Dave Newton Performing new arrangements written for this performance. Solo piano set from one of Britain’s finest exponents of the instrument. Aki Takase & Rudi Mahall Norma Winstone Sextet Aki Takase - piano Norma Winstone - voice Gwilym Simcock - piano Rudi Mahall - bass clarinet - saxophones Chris Laurence - bass Ben Davis - cello Martin France - drums Takase, a resident of Berlin since 1987, performs contemporary improvisations Norma’s new ensemble performs Gwilym’s arrangements with Mahal, her associate of ten years. of the music of . Stan Tracey Big Band Alan Barnes Quartet Peter King - alto saxophone Mark Armstrong - trumpet Alan Barnes - saxophones Nigel Hitchcock - alto saxophone Mark Nightingale - trombone John Donaldson - piano Mornington Lockett - tenor saxophone Adrian Fry - trombone Andrew Cleyndert - bass St Michael’s Church Simon Allen - tenor saxophone Andy Wood - tenor & bass trombone Spike Wells - drums Alan Barnes - baritone saxophone Stan Tracey - piano 13.30 Tracey / Spring Trio Nathan Bray - trumpet Andy Cleyndert - bass Stan Tracey - piano Henry Lowther - trumpet Clark Tracey - drums Alex Schlippenbach Trio Andy Cleyndert - bass Guy Barker - trumpet Alex von Schlippenbach - piano Bryan Spring - drums Evan Parker - saxophones The evening features the world premiere performance of Paul Lovens - drums ‘Chrysalis’, commissioned by Friends of Appleby Jazz. The 17.00 Themen / Newton suite is a joint composition by Stan and his son Clark, and Virtuoso contempo- Art Themen - tenor saxophone expands upon ideas first explored in their earlier small-band rary pianist performs Dave Newton - piano work ‘Continental Shift’. Now in his eightieth year, Stan’s stunning improvisa- creativity and enthusiasm are undiminished as he continues to tions with his like-minded long-term pan-European associates. build upon a most distinguished career spanning five decades. th Sunday 30 afternoon 11.00 to 17.00 evening 17.30 to 10.00

Reem Kelani Reem and her band Benjamin Herman / Guy Barker / Stan Tracey Quintet Reem Kelani - vocal will be performing Benjamin Herman - alto saxophone Idris Rahman - woodwinds music from their Guy Barker - trumpet Sami Bishai - violin newly-released album Stan Tracey - piano Zoe Rahman - piano ‘Sprinting Gazelle’, Andy Cleyndert - bass Oli Hayhurst - bass which has received Clark Tracey - drums Patrick Illingworth - drums much acclaim from press and audiences alike. Fariborz Kiani - percussion Herman is one of Holland’s most productive, ground-breaking and versatile jazz musicians who in 2005 recorded and toured with Paul Weller. This collaboration with Themen / Donaldson / Somogyi / Sirkis Barker and the Stan Tracey Trio promises to be a spectacular performance. Art Themen - tenor saxophone Each outstanding musi- John Donaldson - piano cians in their own right, Gwilym Simcock Quintet Arnie Somogyi - bass this ensemble is very much Gwilym Simcock - piano - drums a collective project. Stan Sulzman - tenor saxophone Chris Laurence - bass Clark Tracey Quintet Martin France - drums Clark Tracey - drums The band will be playing original “As a pianist alone, Gwilym Simcock would have deserved Simon Allen - tenor saxophone material from their latest album all the hype, but this performance confirms that he doesn’t see Mark Armstrong - trumpet ‘The Mighty Sas’, which was released his composer’s identity as his second string.” Zoe Rahman - piano in January this year on Clark’s own John Fordham, Guardian, 1st March 2006 Peter Billington - bass label TenToTen Records.

Steve Melling Undectet Three Altos Steve Melling - piano Martin Shaw - trumpet Peter King - alto saxophone Peter King - alto saxophone Andy Wood - trombone Alan Barnes - alto saxophone Nigel Hitchcock - alto saxophone Dave Powell - tuba Benjamin Herman - alto saxophone Alan Skidmore - tenor saxophone Arnie Somogyi - bass Dave Newton - piano Alan Barnes - baritone saxophone Stephen Keogh - drums Arnie Somogyi - bass Gwilym Simcock - horn Dave Barry - drums

Following on from his highly successful 2003 commission for this ensemble, Appleby The Festival ends with the potential for a three-alto roar-up, but there is always the Jazz have engaged Steve to write further material specially for this year’s Festival. possibility of Alan choosing another member of his saxophone menagerie ... St Michael’s Church Sunday 30th Booking Information Evan Parker’s Freezone Individual Event Ticket Prices Evan Parker - tenor & soprano saxophone EP Friday 21st evening £12 Friday 28th afternoon £10 Rudi Mahall - bass clarinet RM Saturday 22nd afternoon £8 evening £13 Paul Rutherford - trombone PR evening £12 Saturday 29th afternoon £13 Phil Wachmann - violin PW Sunday 23rd afternoon £12 evening £15 Alex von Schippenbach - piano AS evening £10 Sunday 30th afternoon £13 Aki Takase - piano AT Thursday 27th evening £10 evening £10 Paul Lovens - drums PL Note: Reserved Seating entitles the ticket holder to an individually named reserved seat in the marquee only for the duration of the Jazz Festival. Europe’s finest improvising musicians assemble for an Multiple Event Ticket Prices afternoon of performances in ensembles of various sizes. International Music Festival Weekend Ticket £45 Evan’s own playing style is distinguished by his creative Jazz Festival Weekend Ticket £65 use of circular breathing and false fingering. He generates broad textures of sound Jazz Festival Weekend Ticket with Reserved Seating £80 punctuated not only by furious bursts, screeches, bleats, honks, but also elegantly spiralling lines. The programme will be loosely based around the following timings and for Friends of Appleby Jazz only: and groupings: Friends Jazz Festival Weekend Ticket with Reserved Seating £70 Friends All-Event Ticket with Reserved Seating £100 13.00 - 14.00 EP / PW / AS trio, PR solo, AK / RM / PL trio

14.15 - 15.15 PW / RM duo, AT solo, EP / PR / AS / PL quartet Camping On-site camping with toilets, water supply and limited shower facilities is available for 15.30 - 16.30 AT / EP / PL trio, AS solo, PW / PR / RM trio the Jazz Festival weekend to ticket-holders only for a charge of £5 per night, per pitch (for a tent, caravan or van). 16.45 - 18.00 EP / PR duo, RM solo, PW / PL duo, AS / AT duo Booking Form If no loose-leaf booking form is found with this programme, one may be downloaded from the Appleby Jazz website www.applebyjazz.com

Ticket Sales Tickets will not issued until 29th May onwards. Cheque payment is preferred and Credit Card bookings will only be taken after 10th July. Box Office postal address: Appleby Jazz Society, St Michael’s Church, Bongate, Appleby, Cumbria, CA16 6UR Box Office telephone: 07817 118750. Admin Office telephone: 01768 351052. Appleby-in-Westmorland is an old and beautiful English market town built around a Norman castle and bounded on all sides by hills. It lies twenty miles east of the Lake District on the Settle to Carlisle Railway. Famed for its horse fair which has taken place each June since 1751, it was once the county town of Westmorland and sits on the river Eden, a salmon river that loops the town. Appleby has been inhabited for over a millenium and rule was transferred from Scotland to England in 1092, but in spite of its seemingly secure location, the town continued to suffer Scottish border raids and was all but destroyed in 1388. The ancient church of St. Michael - one of the Festival venues, is off the old A66 road opposite the Royal Oak public house, and the Jazz Festival marquee site is behind this, between the church and the river.

Appleby-in-Westmorland Town Council

Marquee piano supplied and tuned by Phil Taylor, Nottingham Church piano suppled by Omega Music, Brampton P A System suppled by Dave Bellwood, Leeds

Graphic design by Adrian Fry Artwork by Phil Morsman

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