What’s On in Birmingham January/February/March 2020 JANUARY FEBRUARY 13 Friday 8:30pm £25 10 Friday 8:30pm £15 1 Saturday 8:30pm £15 Guy Chambers Adrian Cox ‘Now Is Spring’ The Snake Davis Trio ‘Go Gentle into the Light' World-renowned jazz clarinettist Adrian Cox and his Gorgeous mellow music, infused with jazz, soul and A selection of piano solo interpretations of some of #25 quartet present music from their brand new album. pop with Johnny Thirkell and Mark Creswell. his many hits from one of the most successful British songwriters of his generation. J 18 Saturday 8:30pm £25 8 Saturday 8:30pm £15 ANUAR Some Kinda Wonderful Katie Birtill ‘Something’s Coming’ 14 Saturday 8:30pm £15 Y Celebrating the life-time genius of Stevie Wonder, A night of jazz and musical theatre that aims to Jahméne Live FEB with mesmeric vocalist Noel McCalla & the award- both entertain and inspire. His voice possesses a unique blend of soul, RUAR winning saxophonist Derek Nash. gospel and RnB. Jahméne’s powerhouse vocal Y 14 Friday 8:30pm £25 talent is one that brings you to your feet. 23 Thursday 8:30pm £15 Imaani ‘Eclectic Acoustic Soul’ 2020 Crow Black Chicken Valentines special with original songs that 19 Thursday 8:30pm £40 Crow Black Chicken have earned a reputation as showcase the raw, soulful emotions that life can Merrill Osmond one of Ireland's top blues acts. bring sprinkled with a few classic covers. Performing all the big hits from The Osmond's plus talking about his experiences of growing up 24 Friday – 25 Saturday 8:30pm £27 15 Friday 8:30pm £30 within one of the worlds biggest bands. Shakatak Gareth Gates 40th Anniversary Celebrations: To mark this As well as being a faultless vocalist he plays piano 27 Friday 8:30pm £15 milestone the band will be releasing various and guitar to the highest standard. Gospel Music Takeover commemorative items including a special CD. Multiple Award Winning Choir brings Gospel 22 Saturday 8:30pm £16 music spanning 25 years all in one show. 30 Thursday 8:30pm £20 Bella and the Bourbon Boys featuring Aubrey Logan Amy Cat Walton 29 Sunday 8:30pm £14 A night that breaks all the traditional genre barriers Classy jazz band with a beautiful sound, jazz Powerhouse Gospel Choir www.jazzinbirmingham.co.uk as LA's Queen of Sass, combines her soaring jazz standards, originals & modern hits in a vintage style. Magical blend of their voices that is soulful, passionate, uplifting and utterly captivating. vocals with R&B, neo-soul, pop and a touch of rock. MARCH 31 Friday 8:30pm £18 7 Saturday 8:30pm £25 Down for the Count PizzaExpress Live - Birmingham Gig Guide: Bringing the music of Stevie Wonder, Aretha Raxstar The Water’s Edge, Brindley Place, Broad Street, British Asian rapper who first came to prominence in Birmingxham, B1 2HL Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and many 2005 with Keep It Undercover. Drawing from his more back to life with unrivalled passion and energy. influences of Bollywood and R&B. www.pizzaexpresslive.com 020 7439 4962 Second Cup Sunday Jazz@1000 Trades Club Bebop Ideas of Noise Festival Jazzlines Bournville Social Club Fizzle Silvershine Jazz Club FORJ’d Warehouse Sessions Eastside Jazz Club PizzaExpress Live Birmingham Jazz The Spotted Dog TDE Promotions The Blue Piano Tower of Song Cherry Reds Jazz at NAC

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PizzaExpress Live Big Bands Venues continued Moseley Community Hub The Spotted Dog Bringing the vibe of Pizza Express 496 Moseley Road B12 9AH 104 Warwick St B12 0NH London to Brum with jazz & other gigs. Fat Chops Big Band Corks Club/Silvershine Monthly Sundays 12.30pm at 558 Bearwood Rd Smethwick B66 4TT 0121 312 2163 www.spotteddog.co.uk www.pizzaexpresslive.com Moseley All-Services Club 0121 772 3822 0207 439 4962 Moseley All Services Club 0121 429 2091 fatchopsbigband.wordpress.com 91 Church Road, Moseley B13 9EA Symphony Hall/ICC Hall TDE Promotions The Edge 0121 389 3766 Broad St, Birmingham B1 2EA Kinda Dukish 79-81 Cheapside, Digbeth B12 0QH Tony Dudley-Evans promoting free NAC Newhampton Arts Centre www.thsh.co.uk/symphony-hall and improv jazz gigs and projects - Monthly gigs recreating the sound of 0121 772 6160 Dunkley Street Wolverhampton WV1 4AN 0121 780 3333 About often in collaboration with Fizzle. the great Ellington Bands. Check with Fletchers 01902 572090 The Tin tdepromotions.wordpress.com Mike E Fletcher for dates and venues. Jazz in Birmingham is produced by 7 York Road, Kings Heath B14 7SA newhamptonarts.co.uk Units 1-4 Canal Basin, Coventry CV1 4LY 07790 641633 [email protected] jazz promoters in Birmingham to help MYJO Hare and Hounds PizzaExpress Live 02476 230 699 106 High St Kings Heath B14 7JZ the vibrant scene in the city continue Other Regular Gigs Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra - top Water’s Edge, Brindley Place B1 2HL Town Hall hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk to grow. If you want your gigs in the young big band. www.pizzaexpresslive.com Victoria Square B3 3DQ 0121 444 2081 listing or want to advertise get in Things change so double check www.myjo.co.uk 0207 439 4962 www.thsh.co.uk/town-hall touch c/o 12, George St. Birmingham Regulars before travelling! Walsall Jazz Orchestra The Highbury Royal Birmingham 0121 780 3333 B19 1NX. Email: Mondays Regular gigs in Walsall and Lichfield. Dad’s Lane, B13 8PQ Conservatoire (RBC) Tower of Song [email protected] Jazz at Second Cup Modern big band music. www.highburypub.co.uk Eastside Jazz Club/Recital 107 Pershore Road South B30 3JX Editing/distribution: Nigel Holt Alternate weeks. 7-9pm Jam Session The Jam House Hall/Bradshaw Hall 0121 486 1300 Design/adverts: Brian Homer led by James Borland and guests www.b13jazz.co.uk/wjo 3-5 St Pauls Square B3 1QU 200 Jennens Road B4 7XR facebook: jazzatsecondcup/ The Walsall Arms Birmingham Jazz Venues www.thejamhouse.com/birmingham www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire twitter: @jazzatsecondcup 17 Bank Street, Walsall WS1 2EP Promoting national and international 0121 200 3030 0121 331 5901 7pm Free 1000 Trades 01922 626660 contemporary jazz, providing a Second Cup The Lamp Tavern 16 Frederick St B1 3HE Saint Pauls Church The Warehouse Cafe platform for new talent and offering a Wednesdays 157 Barford Street B5 6AH 0121 233 2693 St Pauls Sq., Birmingham B3 1QZ 54-57 Allison St Birmingham B5 friendly atmosphere. Club Be Bop www.stanwaybrewery.co.uk/lamp 1000trades.org.uk 0121 616 2444 07415 277068 www.birminghamjazz.co.uk @brumjazz With the Steve Ajao Quartet 0121 688 1220 Artefact Second Cup The Woodman 07887 526435 Fletchers Bar 8pm Free mac 1464 Pershore Rd Stirchley B30 2NT 64 New St B2 4DU 106 Albert St., Birmingham B5 5LG Bournville Social Club Jazz at Cherry Reds Cannon Hill Park B12 9QH [email protected] 0121 616 2444 0121 643 4960 Social club near Cadbury’s that puts Two Wednesdays per month at www.macbirmingham.co.uk www.artefactstirchley.co.uk on mainly mainstream, swing and 8.30pm. Alternates with Warehouse. 0121 446 3232 New Orleans-style trad. Tuesdays + facebook: cherryredsjazz/ The Black Horse last Sunday lunch time of the month. twitter: @cherryredsjazz 156 Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1AE Fizzle Cherry Reds 8.30pm £5 donation 01827 711522 The Simon Spillett Fornightly gigs at The Lamp Tavern, & Warehouse Sessions www.thebluepiano.co.uk elsewhere, free improv jazz with local, Semi-regular Wednesday Jam, run by The Blue Piano Big Band national and international performers. guitarist Tom Pountney and friends. 24-26 Harborne Rd B15 3AA Organised by Andrew Woodhead. instagram: warehousejazzsessions/ 0121 454 6877 Plays the Music of www.fizzlebirmingham.com twitter: @warehousejazzsessions www.thebluepiano.co.uk 1 % 07849 638218 Warehouse Cafe 8.30pm £3 donation The Bonded Warehouse Tubby Hayes TIC0KET S Jazz at the Spotted Dog Thursdays 2 Canal Street, Stourbridge DY8 4LU * Regular weekly gig with local and Silvershine Club at Corks 01384 395 216 February 7th 2020 7.30pm national musicians and a jam session. The best in Jazz music from the Bottega The Black Horse, Long Street, Atherstone CV9 1AE www.jazzatthespotteddog.co.uk region and beyond every Thursday. Unit 1 Arena Canalside B1 2AA @spotteddogjazz Corks Club 9pm £5 variable 0121 274 4199 A very special gig! Feb Jazzlines Fridays Bournville Social Club Simon brings his newly-formed Big Band, playing Xhosa Cole - Thu 6th Town Hall Symphony Hall’s dynamic Jazz@The Tower 91 Franklin Road Bournville recently-rediscovered arrangements of classics programme of live jazz performances Hosted by Pippa Done Trio. Monthly Birmingham B30 2DN by UK jazz legend Tubby Hayes. This 17-piece and education projects across (last Friday) jam session. Free to bournvilleworkingmensclub.co.uk band features many of the top UK players, and Birmingham connecting people to jazz. players/£5 listening only. 0121 451 3427 the setting of the Black Horse’s marquee is sure www.thsh.co.uk/jazzlines Tower of Song 8pm free Cafe Artum to make this an up-close-and-personal Mark Lockheart - Fri 17th Apr 0121 644 6003 Sundays 177 Corporation Street B4 6RG experience. Royal Birmingham Sunday Jazz @ 1000 Trades [email protected] All proceeds go to the musicians - this is a non- Conservatoire/Eastside Jazz Weekly Jazz roast. 2-4pm. Live duo Centrala profit promotion by Peter Playdon. Club playing chilled standards + 1000 Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St Promoting international guest artists, Trades’ famous roast dinners. B5 5RT 10% OFF the UK contemporary jazz scene & the Tickets £30 Under 18s £15 Last Sunday of the month guests + 0121 439 3050 Contact Peter at [email protected] or search best of young up & coming jazz talent. students, followed by jam session. Cherry Reds www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire events- on www.eventbrite.co.uk Bands and jam 6.30pm 88-92 John Bright St B1 1BN calendar 1000 Trades Roasts & piano jazz 2-4pm 0121 643 5716 0121 331 5901 www.jazzinbirmingham.co.uk 8 Saturday Trevor Watts with Dialogue of Strings #25 www.facebook.com/groups/21031815773/ Veryan Weston, Alison Blunt and Hannah Marshall J Experimental Organ & Keyboard, IoN Festival ANUARY/ F EBRUARY mac 8pm From £8.50 students £6 JAZZ202 0 IN BIRMINGHAM RBC students and innovative regional performers TDE Promotions January 2020 Shakatak St Paul’s Church 12pm Free 21 Friday 40th Anniversary Celebrations Vyamanikal + Redhead/Zaldua + Woodhead IoN Fest Alex Woods Quintet 6 Monday PizzaExpress Live Birmingham 8:30pm £27 Ft Kit Downes, Tom Challenger, church organ and bells International alto saxophonist RBC Jazz Orchestra: Soft Lights, Hot music ICC Hall 5pm Free 25 Saturday St Paul’s Church 7pm £10/7 Jazzlines Recreating the 1988 Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra record Notebenders – Sax in the City Katie Birtill ‘Something’s Coming’ 22 Saturday Eastside Jazz Club 6.30pm (support) 7.30pm £10/8 Big Band with their fun and uplifting sound A night of jazz and musical theatre Bella & the Bourbon Boys featuring Amy Cat Walton Birmingham 8:30pm £16 7 Tuesday Jazzlines ICC Hall 5pm Free PizzaExpress Live Birmingham 8:30pm £15 PizzaExpress Live Henry Newman Band with Fred Webb (vocs) Shakatak Birmingham Swing Festival’s Grand Ball 23 Sunday Modern-mainstream, standards & American Songbook 40th Anniversary Celebrations Social swing dancing, performances and competitions. Peter Carlton’s JazzStrata 8.30pm Free Mainstream, Swing and Dixieland Bournville Social Club PizzaExpress Live Birmingham 8:30pm £27 Town Hall 8.30pm £12.50 8 Wednesday 26 Sunday 9 Sunday Bournville Social Club 1.00pm, Free Tom Bevan Presents: John Turville Peter Carlton JazzStrata Waste Paper Opera + New Noise Collective, IoN Festival Open Jazz Jam Drummer Tom Bevan curates two sets of music. Mainstream, Swing and Dixieland Emerging experimental talent plus Opera group Hosted by some of Birmingham's finest 6.30pm £10 (£8) 7pm Free Entry Eastside Jazz Club Bournville Social Club 1.00pm Free Moseley Community Hub 4:30pm £10/7 Sunday Jazz at 1000 Trades 9 Thursday Open Jazz Jam Band TBA 25 Tuesday Paul Dunmall Invites: Hosted by some of Birmingham's finest. Original music from local talent curated by FORJ Jazz Canon: The Music of John Coltrane J. O'Gallagher, P. Pursglove, C. Mapp and M. Levin Jazz Combos perform music of the masters of jazz Sunday Jazz at 1000 Trades 7pm Free Entry FORJ’d Cafe Artum 5pm £5 Fizzle/ TDE/ Eastside Jazz Club 6:30(support) £15/12 28 Tuesday Beth Hart Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.30pm £10/8 10 Friday Jazz Canon: The Music of John Coltrane ... throws down her cards and shares her secrets New Orleans Wanderers ft Stan Stephens (tbn, vocs) Jazzlines Free Gigs Traditional jazz a la Crescent City Jazz Combos perform music of the masters of jazz Symphony Hall 7:30pm £43 Band TBA Eastside Jazz Club 6.30pm £10/8 10 Monday Bournville Social Club 8.30pm Free Jazzlines ICC Hall 5pm Free The New Orleans Wanderers with Stan Stephens Birmingham Jazz Orchestra Alex Woods Sam Jesson’s Magpie Trio Traditional jazz a la Crescent City Continuing their bi-monthly residency B'ham turned New York virtuoso returns to the Dog London drummer with James Allsopp and Tom Farmer 9pm Suggested £5 donation Bournville Social Club 8.30pm Free Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.30pm £10/8 Jazz at The Spotted Dog Birmingham Jazz 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 adv Kai Chareunsy Quartet Emilia Martensson 26 Wednesday Adrian Cox Quartet Recent Conservatoire drum graduate and band. Rooted in the folklore of her native Sweden Warehouse Sessions Now Is Spring album launch Relaxed Jam night run by Tom Pountney and friends. Jazz at The Spotted Dog 9pm Suggested £5 donation Jazzlines Symphony Hall Stage 8pm £10 PizzaExpress Live Birmingham 8:30pm £15 30 Thursday 11 Tuesday The Warehouse Cafe 8:30pm £3 donation 12 Sunday Mike Fletcher/Michal Wroblewski, IoN Festival Jazz Canon: The Music of John Coltrane 28 Friday Jonathan Silk’s FORJ with support Seminar plus lunchtime double saxophone concert Jazz Combos perform music of the masters of jazz Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Birmingham’s thriving Jazz scene curated by FORJ A salsa dance night out - booking recommended BCU Parkside/Conservatoire 10am Free Booking Required Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.30pm£10/8 FORJ’d - Cafe Artum 5pm £5 Writing with Noise: Riffs Journal & Nate Wooley (ION) Mercia Jazz Five with Tony Billingsley (tpt) Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.45pm £12/10 14 Tuesday Workshop followed by cross-artform duos Small Group Swing and Dixieland Karen Sharp Quartet Jazz Canon: The Music of Ornette Coleman Music from new album “The Sun The Moon and You” The Woodman 2pm/4:30pm Free Booking Required Bournville Social Club 8.30pm Free Jazz Combos perform music of the masters of jazz . Nate Wooley solo concert + support (ION) Eirik Svela Birmingham Jazz 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 Eastside Jazz Club 6.30/ 7.45pm £10 (£8) World class improv/new music trumpeter European Quartet ft. Ross Stanley (organ) Jazz at the Tower Mapp/Sanders/Musson + Marshall/Musson/Kjaer Jam session featuring Nigel Beer (guitar) The Woodman 7:30pm £8/5 Jazz at The Spotted Dog 9pm Suggested £5 donation 2 trio sets from some of the finest UK improvisers In Common: A new project led by Tom Bancroft Madi Saskia The Tower of Song 9pm Free/£5 listening only Fizzle The Lamp Tavern 7:30pm £7/5 Scottish music, jazz, Indian music and electronica Socially conscious R'n'B singer-songwriter Mercia Jazz Five with Tony Billingsley (tpt) March 2020 TDE/RBC Eastside Jazz Club 6.30(support) 7.45 £15 Jazzlines The Jam House 8:30pm Free Small Group Swing and Dixieland Aubrey Logan 12 Wednesday 3 Tuesday Bournville Social Club 8.30pm Free Jazz singing, trombone-slinging chanteuse Toby Boalch Trio Animal Society Scotish based fiery rock-tinged jazz. Percy Pursglove (TBC) PizzaExpress Live Birmingham 8:30pm £20 Pianist with Nick Jurd,bass and Euan Palmer, drums Birmingham trumpet hero and friends 9pm Suggested £5 donation 31 Friday Cherry Reds 8:30pm £5 suggested donation Jazz at The Spotted Dog Jazz at The Spotted Dog 9pm Suggested £5 donation Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra 13 Thursday 5 Thursday 15 Wednesday Salsa music for dancing. Booking recommended Ethan Iverson / Martin Speake Quartet Paul Dunmall Invites: The Sunship Quartet Cottle, Brice, Bianco play Coltrane’s “Sunship” Reed Bass Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.45pm £15/12 with Calum Gourlay and Jorge Rossy Versatile and charismatic Birmingham bass player 6.30(supoort) 7.45 £15 Richard Fairhurst Trio TDE/Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.45 £12/10 TDE/Eastside Jazz Club Jazzlines Bottega 8:30pm Free Powerful pianist with Dave Whitford and Tim Giles Parachute for Gordo/Mutes/Zygmund de Somogyi Chris Bowden Presents: Dave Ferris Incredibly inventive and musical pianist Matt Holmes trio ft. Percy Pursglove Birmingham Jazz 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 adv Improvised sets from experimental art rockers Drummer Matt Holmes with an exciting new trio. 8pm £8/£4 students Sound Object Seeing + Mammoth Beat Organ + Thinking/Not Thinking Centrala, 7.30pm, £5 The Blue Piano Cherry Reds 8:30pm £5 suggested donation Waste Paper Opera Company IoN Festival 14 Friday 6 Friday 16 Thursday Mechanical instruments/AV shows/films plus sci-fi opera Toby Boalch Trio Band TBA Jazzlines Free Gigs Chris Bowden Presents: The Tin Coventry 5pm £8/5 Composing pianist with Nick Jurd and Euan Palmer Tony Boalch, Jim Bashford & James Owston ICC Hall 5pm Free Jazz at The Tower Jazzlines ICC Hall 5pm Free Jazzlines The Blue Piano 8pm £8/£4 students Jazz jam: featuring Sandra Williamson (Vocalist) Iain Ballamy Quartet Tassos Spiliotopoulos Greek guitarist: “In the North” with Swedish band John Fedchock: Artist-In-Residence Tower of Song 9pm free/£5 listening only with Huw Warren, Percy Pursglove and Mark Whitlam World-class trombonist, arranger and bandleader 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 adv Birmingham Jazz 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 Birmingham Jazz Eastside Jazz Club 6.30pm (support) 7.45pm £15/12 February 2020 17 Monday 8 Sunday 17 Friday Jazz Orchestra: Mike Gibbs Vocal Project Jazz Connectives Special, acts TBC 1 Saturday Showcasing Birmingham’s vibrant Improv Scene Nifeco Costa’s Babock Jazz Ideas of Noise Festival (IoN) The maestro directs his own classic arrangements The Lamp Tavern 2pm £7/5 Guitarist and sweet voiced singer from Guinea-Bissau Joybang/Jazzlines/SWITCH Ensembles/3 Mile Radius 6.30 (support) 7.30pm£10/8 Fizzle Eastside Jazz Club Band TBA Jazzlines ICC Hall 5pm Free Youth Ensembles & Workshop + Stella Roberts’ new project 18 Tuesday Liran Donin – 1000 Boats 2pm Free Guest Curators: Lee Griffiths and Olivia Murphy FORJ curate jazz artists from the thriving scene Centrala Cafe Artum 5pm £5 Cutting edge Israeli born bass player leads quintet Festival Launch Party: Meesha Fones curates (IoN) The next generation of improv talent FORJ’d 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 adv University of Birmingham Jazz Orchestra Birmingham Jazz Queer Noise Night + Deathly Pale Party Fizzle The Lamp Tavern 7:30pm £7/5 19 Sunday 7pm £5 Frank Partridge’s Swing Session Juice Aleem, hip-hop and spoken word artist Scott Hamilton Centrala 7.30pm £10/£8/£3 students 2 Sunday Pianist Frank’s Mainstream Jam Session Hare and Hounds International tenor saxophonist with his UK Quartet Words For IoN + Pursglove/Dunmall/Brice/Williams 8.30, Free 10 Tuesday Bournville Social Club Ashley Allen & Rosie Tee Jazz at NAC 8pm £16.50/ Under 25’s £14.85 + Waste Paper Opera Tom Ford Band Part of the European Jazz Connective project Jazzlines 20 Monday IoN’s Stourbridge takeover featuring improv + more Ferocious modern guitar: one of Birmingham’s finest. RBC Jazz Orchestra: Mike Gibbs Vocal Project Hare and Hounds 7:30pm £10 Claptrap Stourbridge 2pm £10/7 Jazz at The Spotted Dog 9pm Suggested £5 donation Jazzlines Vocals originally arranged for Winstone and Tobin Festival/Fizzle 3 Monday 19 Wednesday Tickets Eastside Jazz Club 6.30pm £10/8 Ashton Smith Presents Ellington Orchestra Afro-Bossa Ticket prices are shown as a guide but check for accuracy 21 Tuesday 6.30 (support) 7.30pm £10/8 Trumpeter curates two sets of contemporary jazz Eastside Jazz Club and for availability of concessions and cheaper tickets Frank Partridge’s Swing Session 6.30 (support)7.30pm £10/8 4 Tuesday Eastside Jazz Club bought in advance including Student prices. Pianist Frank's Mainstream Jam Session Henry Newman Band with Fred Webb (vocs) Lieko Quintet Bournville Social Club 8.30pm Free Modern-mainstream standards & American Songbook Contemporary group from Manchester with new CD Eliott Sansom/ Ben Muirhead/ Nathan Jones Notes Bournville Social Club 8.30pm Free Cherry Reds 8:30pm £5 suggested donation Top Birmingham trio and guests. Jean Toussaint (TBC) 20 Thursday More information about each promoter is on the other side Jazz at The Spotted Dog 9pm Suggested £5 donation Legendary tenor player, returns to the Dog Andre Canniere Quintet of the leaflet. Also please check with promoters and/or 22 Wednesday 9pm Suggested £5 donation US trumpeter, UK resident recording on Whirlwind venues before travelling. We have a Jazz in Birmingham Warehouse Sessions Jazz at The Spotted Dog 5 Wednesday Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.45pm £12/10 Facebook Group where updates appear: Relaxed Jam night run by Tom Pountney and friends. Joe Carnell Presents: tephra www.facebook.com/groups/21031815773/ The Warehouse Cafe 8:30pm £3 donation Trombonist and his band tephra, play across genres Indigo and Band 6.30 (support) 7.30pm £10/8 Manchester born singer, songwriter and composer Eastside Jazz Club 6 Thursday Jazzlines The Jam House 8:30pm Free Paul Dunmall Invites: 23 Thursday Liam Noble, John Edwards, Mark Sanders Mike Williams Quartet Fizzle/TDE/Eastside Jazz Club 6:30pm (support) £15 A highly celebrated musicians’ musician on alto sax Xhosa Cole Quartet Eastside Jazz Club 6.30 (support) 7.45pm £15/12 with Jay Phelps tpt, James Owston, and Jim Bashford Tom Rainey Trio - Ideas of Noise Festival Jazz at NAC 8pm £14.50/ Under 25’s £13 New York trio ft Mary Halvorsen and Ingrid Laubrock Chris Bowden Presents: Wendy Kirkland TDE Promotions/Ideas of Noise mac 8pm from £8.50 Critically acclaimed pianist and singer 24 Friday 8pm £8/£4 students ISQ The Blue Piano 7 Friday London based Italian vocalist Irene Serra leads Band TBA Jazzlines ICC Hall 5pm Free Jazzlines Free Gigs Xhosa Cole Quartet Jazzlines ICC Hall 5pm Free First UK tour from BBC Young Jazz Musician 2018 Simon Spillet Big Band play Tubby Hayes Birmingham Jazz 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 adv First performance from a hand picked big band The Black Horse 7.30pm £30 (see advert) Jazz Journeys: Everyday Life Steve Buckley Stars in Zone B Documenting Jazz 2020: Exhibition at Centrala Very strong quintet from ex Loose Tubes saxist January 16th to February 1st 2020 Birmingham Jazz 1000 Trades 7.45pm £12.50 adv A photographic project on contemporary jazz Celebrating Sanctuary and Ideas of Noise Present… musicians’ lives in Birmingham by Germa Adan/Natalie Mason/Millicent Chapanda/Stella Roberts: Cutting edge intercultural collaborations Dr Pedro Cravinho (academic) Brian Homer (photographer) Open 12 - 8 pm Weds to Sat Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street Birmingham B5 5RT The Edge 8pm £8/5 0121 513 0240 www.centrala-space.org.uk