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Wednesday April 26 • 8pm £10/8 Soweto Kinch Soweto Kinch saxophone • guitar • Neil Charles bass •Troy Miller drums

A graduate of the acclaimed Tomorrow’s Warriors programme (supported by the PRS Foundation), and current Soweto Kinch member of the award-winning All Stars, -based Soweto launched his solo career in 2002 when he won the International Saxophonist Of The Year award at the , followed a week later by the BBC Jazz Award for Rising Star.His debut album ‘Conversations with the unseen’was hailed by critics as taking jazz in an exciting new direction - proving that jazz, like other forms of music, can be updated without compromise of its traditional heritage. Soweto’s fresh approach is evidenced by his brilliant, organic fusion of jazz with hip hop, rap and ethnic rhythms on Conversations With The Unseen. Fearless in his creative spirit, he takes hold of his jazz roots and infuses them with other influences from the likes of De La Soul and . He brings and Q-Tip ‘into the zone'. BBC Radio Jazz Awards – Best Instrumentalist & Best Band 2004.An Album Of The Year 2003 – Mercury Music Prize “Fresh sound,aggressive virtuosity and raw,bluesy energy mark him out as an outstanding player”Jazzwise Magazine

Wednesday May 3 • 8pm £5 on the door Colin Byrne Big Band In February 2005 composer Colin Byrne posted an advertisement on www.jazzinleeds.co.uk where he stated his Colin Byrne intentions to form a jazz orchestra that would play exclusively original jazz music. Replies began pouring in and in a matter of weeks, Big Band Byrne was born.The quality of the musicians in the band was of the highest calibre and it was deemed that the band simply had to record.The band’s debut CD,Leaving for Home, was recorded in June 2005. Big Band Byrne is unique in that it is contributing to the essence of the jazz scene in Northern England by raising the profile of some of the region’s most talented players. Big Band Byrne is unique in that it produces and plays exclusively original jazz music. Big Band Byrne is the perfect outfit to raise the profile of with so many talented musicians playing high quality original music.

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Wednesday May 10 • 8pm £12/£10 for tickets for this event only call the fuseleeds06 box office on 0113 213 7700 Ken Vandermark Free Fall Ken Vandermark /bass clarinet • Havard Wiik • Ingebrigt Haker Flaten bass Ken Vandermark Free Fall Ken Vandermark is a leading light of Chicago’s contemporary jazz scene with his eclectic style encompassing everything from West Coast counterpoint to rock edge and free action. Having made his UK debut in 2001 for Leeds Jazz here at the Wardrobe, it seems only appropriate that he should represent Leeds Jazz in the FUSELEEDS06 programme. Now a regular visitor to Europe, his attitude to collaboration is refreshingly open and, while tonight sees him perform with two leading musicians from the Norwegian scene, tomorrow sees him immersed as a guest star with members of the Leeds based musicians’collective LIMA in their showcase (see elsewhere for details). Taking inspiration from the album FreeFall by with obvious parallels in the instrumentation, this is nevertheless most definitely not a Jimmy Giuffre“tribute band”.The music of this ensemble certainly has an openness akin to that expressed by Giuffre together with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow but nevertheless reflects the developments that have occurred in the years since that seminal recording.The members of FREE FALL are well aware of these developments, and the group is an application of their experience and ideas towards finding an answer to the question,“What Now?”in jazz. Steve Parry

Wednesday May 17 • 8pm £5 Steve Parry’s Big Band from Hell Multi-instrumentalist and composer/arranger Steve Parry first formed the Big Band From Hell in 1994 while still a 1st year student at the Leeds College of Music.This band, consisting of some of the best musicians from Leeds and Liverpool, plays hard hitting big band music with attitude written by Steve and also charts from the Buddy Rich library.

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Tuesday May 30 • 8pm £12/£10 Julian Arguelles/Ronan Guilfoyle/Jim Black Arguelles saxophones • Ronan Guilfoyle acoustic bass guitar • Jim Black drums Julian Arguelles’excellent trio date for Leeds Jazz featuring Drew Gress and Tom Rainey in June 2004 is well remembered as is his sterling work as a late replacement for Dave Binney in Joel Harrison’s ‘Free Country’later Julian Arguelles the same year. It was with some excitement that we were able to secure a sole UK appearance for another trio date; this time including the redoubtable Jim Black on drums and acoustic bass guitarist, Ronan Guilfoyle. Whist both Julian and Jim will be well known to jazz/improv fans, Ronan Guilfoyle may need introducing. A superb exponent of the relatively rare acoustic bass guitar, Ronan is a significant composer and educator. His compositional ability has brought widespread critical acclaim earning him victory in the 1997 ‘Julius Hemphill Composition Competition’. Over the past 10 years Ronan has become well known for the teaching advanced rhythmic techniques for jazz improvisation. His book,Creative Rhythmic Concepts for Jazz Improvisation which covers such areas as metric modulation and odd metre playing, is now seen as the standard text for this area. He teach this subject at many schools around the world including Berklee College of Music The saxophone trio has a long and important history in jazz and some of the most highly regarded live recordings in jazz have featured this format.Arguelles, Guilfoyle and Black’s Live in Dublin recently released on Auand (AU9009) continues this tradition while at the same time reflects the vibrancy of contemporary jazz.Live in Dublin captures the excitement and in the moment feel of three musicians at the very top of their game. “Recorded in front of a packed house in Dublin’s most famous jazz club, each member of the trio shows an Jim Black © Caroline Mardock almost telepathic response to the playing of the others and the music unfolds seamlessly with a great sense of swing and much rhythmic intrigue”. Sounds like a good one!

Wednesday May 31• 8pm £5 Saffron Beagley Debuting two inspirational jazz projects: THE SILHOUETTE ENSEMBLE The eight piece Silhouette Ensemble and Armchair Pyppet Theatre collaborate to create this delicate interface of jazz, cross cultural music, voice and shadow animating the enchanting story The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck. THE SAFFRON BEAGLEY JAZZ ORCHESTRA Graceful, sometimes raucous and always adventurous, Beagley’s innovative compositions are written for her seventeen outstanding Leeds area musicians.The performance will also include pieces by Mari Scheider and Kenny Wheeler. Saffron Beagley Jazz Orchestra more f