THE JAZZ RAG ISSUE 138 AUTUMN 2015 ART THEMEN UK £3.25 Photo by Merlin Daleman CONTENTS ART THEMEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY MERLIN DALEMAN AT THE BIRMINGHAM JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL. ART IS ONCE AGAIN NOMINATED IN THE TENOR SAX CATEGORY FOR THE BRITISH JAZZ AWARDS. 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All original material including advertising artwork remains the sole copyright of the Publisher and may not be reproduced without permission 2 THE JAZZ RAG THE JAZZ RAG 3 NEWS NEWS SAGA JAZZ AND Umbria near Huelva - music October highlights include JAZZ STEPS with Julian Siegel ‘Side by Side’ survived Auschwitz thanks to his Cassandra Wilson SWING supplied by the JB Jazz and Blues American flautist Ali Ryerson Nottingham’s excellent Jazz Steps with New Bag (October 8), Theo skills as a musician and embarked Band led by John Beckingham, (11), the Kate Williams Quartet Travis Double Talk (22), Julian on a successful career, playing Saga Holidays offer a large programme has three main two jazz talks and tours to featuring Stan Sulzmann (14), the strands: regular Thursday evening Arguelles Tetra (November 5), with such visiting notables as number of jazz packages, Huelva and Almonte included. In Peter King Quartet (17), concerts at the Bonington Pinski Zoo plus keyboard player Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald including four-night jazz breaks in May 2016 Laurie Chescoe’s emerging saxophonist/flautist Theatre, Arnold, occasional big- Wojtek Konikiewicz (19), Jim and Dizzy Gillespie and retiring different parts of the UK. Next Reunion Band takes New Watson Quartet (December 3) up is Channel Islands Jazz (from Chris Whiter with his quintet name concerts at the Djanogly only recently. Orleans Jazz to Croatia! and Led Bib (17). The Aaron October 19), four nights in St. (18), the Humphrey Lyttelton Recital Hall/Theatre on travel.saga.co.uk/holidays Parks Trio (Oct. 3) and three Helier with expert host Margaret Band with Tony Fisher (20), Nette Nottingham’s University campus Jazz Rag 139 will cover The Ghetto times Grammy nominated Afro Saddington, featuring a jazz Robinson (21), Art Themen (23), and a monthly series of Jazz in Swinger fully. OCTOBER AT THE Caribbean group Tiempo Libre performance each night, plus two Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio the Libraries, the same musicians (Nov. 18) appear at the Djanogly, jazz talks and two excursions. BULL’S HEAD Forcione (24), the Tony Kinsey appearing on three successive and the Library programme CONCORDE JAZZ Further afield Jazz and Blues in The Bull’s Head at Barnes is Quartet (28) and Zoot Money evenings at Worksop Library, features Stuart McCallum (Oct. Wednesday Jazz Nights at the Andalusia (7 nights from maintaining its great tradition of (29). Southwell Library and West 13-15), Shell’s Belles, an all-girl Concorde Club in Eastleigh February 25, 2016) is based in jazz, blues and soul music seven Tel.: 0208 876 5241 Bridgford Library. The Bonington 10-piece swing band (Nov. 10-12) continue with the Pasadena Roof the Hotel Barcelo in Punta days a week and twice on Sunday. www.thebullshead.com Theatre programme continues and Me and Mr. Jones with Orchestra (October 7), Evan Ali Ryerson Julian Arguelles Rachael Foster and Paul Deats Christopher’s Django a la Creole (Dec. 8-10). (14) and Lenor Raphael from www.jazzsteps.co.uk EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL It’s easy to run out of superlatives for the EFG London Jazz Festival (November 13-22), with its 2,000-plus artists, 300- plus gigs and 50-plus venues. The venues themselves are full of big names, presitigious historic halls and the best-known major jazz clubs: the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, Ronnie Scott’s, Kings Place, Wigmore Hall, the Pizza Express, the South Bank, the Vortex, etc., etc. Pretty much a random sample of musicians appearing comes up with the Average White Band, Cassandra Wilson, Jamie Cullum, Kurt Elling, Gogo Penguin, Melody Gardot, Terence Blanchard, Steve Gadd and many others. www.efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk GHETTO SWINGER REMEMBERS The Ghetto Swingers were part NEW VENUE FOR BIRMINGHAM of the infamous history of The Rumblestrutters Terezin, the ‘ideal’ showpiece Following on successful gigs in the city’s Jazz and Blues Festival, ghetto set up and duly filmed by Brindleyplace bar Le Monde has launched a regular Friday Jazz Club the Nazis to show their generous starting at 6pm. treatment of the Jews. Though most of the film was artificially Admission is free and upcoming bands include The Rumblestrutters staged and many of the from Mumbles in South Wales (October 16) a Memphis-style, jug musicians/actors/writers were band playing jazz, hokum, blues and ragtime; The Broombusters (23) soon transported to death fronted by Charlie Wolfman Sylvester, who once enjoyed camps, the artistic achievements worldwide fame and a bunch of hit singles as singer and front man of Terezin were absolutely of the J.A.L.N. Band - the Broombusters deliver a down home mix genuine. In recent years such of blues and reggae; Harpers Ferry (30) who individually hail from operas as The Emperor of Atlantis Los Angeles, New Zealand and Cheltenham, where they are now have been widely performed and based; Roy Forbes (November 6) a straight down-the-line jazz blues now Jazz Rag is delighted to singer in the Joe Williams mould, quite possibly the best male jazz welcome the imminent singer in the UK today; and the Whiskey Brothers (13) delivering rural blues from the 1920/1930s, currently riding high with their debut publication of a translation of album, Bottle Up and Go , on Big Bear Records. The Broombusters return on November 20 followed by the Rumblestrutters (27). Coco Schumann’s 1997 memoir, The Ghetto Swinger - A Berlin Jazz Tel: 0121 271 0600 Legend Remembers . After Terezin the half-Jewish Schumann 4 THE JAZZ RAG THE JAZZ RAG 5 NEWS NEWS Clare Teal TUESDAYS AT Afrodeezia , his acclaimed Blue Marcus Miller Ryan Quigley` WILMSLOW Note album, at Liverpool Philharmonic (19), the Sage Tuesday Night Jazz and Swing at Gateshead (20), Usher Hall, the Wilmslow Conservative Club Edinburgh (22), Bridgewater Hall, has some very tempting Manchester (23), Cork Jazz combinations on its weekly Festival (24), the Barbican, programme for the end of 2015. London (26), the Corn Exchange In November alone Steve (27) and Birmingham Town Hall Waterman and Mike Hall are (28). joined by the Andrezej Baranek Trio (3), Greg Abate teams with the Brownfield/Byrne Quintet SOUTHPORT (10) and Brian Dee and Len Skeat MELODIC JAZZ play a duo gig (17). Gilad Atzmon Southport Melodic Jazz’s pre- and friends (1) start a December Christmas programme at the programme that ends with a Jazz Royal Clifton Hotel features a panto with Rosie Harrison as Sunday afternoon concert Cinderella (22). Also promoted (November 8) by the Swingshift New York with Paul Morgan and no jazz on November 18. The Big by Graham Brook, the five-piece Big Band under Phil Shotton with Sinatra Swingers play the first Peter Ingham (21). The next Chris Barber Band (December 2) the theme All Around Maynard . Thursday of each month at the Guesting with the big band on Wednesday there is no jazz, but and the Clare Teal Christmas Cheadle Hulme Conservative the music of Maynard Ferguson the following evening (29) there Show (9) set the festive mood. Club, with a guest vocalist: Roy are trumpeter Ryan Quigley and is a Salute to Frank Sinatra with Sunday Jazz with well-known Forbes (Nov.