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Live Modern Jazz Nights

Downstairs at The King’s Head

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Tuesday 14 September. 8.30pm. Admission £8/£6

ALAN BARNES plays Alan Barnes

Alan Barnes saxes, Jim Hart vibes

Mark Hodgson bass, Paul Clarvis drums

“Whatever the instrument,Alan plays it hard and fast and with the sort of inventive ability that ensures he has his own sound and style and could not be confused with another player.”

Jazz Journal

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Tuesday 12 Oct. 8.30pm. Admission £8/£6

GOLDEN AGE OF STEAM

James Allsop ten.sax / bass clarinet, 

Kit Downes Hammond organ        Tim Giles drums

“The Golden Age of Steam” is a new trio featuring the compositions of multi -reed virtuoso James Allsopp. The band builds on his association with drummer Tim Giles, his co-leader of the award winning quintet “Fraud” (BBC Jazz Award for Innovation 2008) and is completed by young keyboard sensation Kit Downes, winner of the BBC Jazz Award for Rising Star 2008.

 Allsopp’s work is inspired by the combination of the anarchic playfulness and formal logic of Ligeti’s music, the joyous saxophone thunder of Coltrane and Ayler and the twisted lyricism of Captain Beefheart.

 These compositions create new structural spaces for improvisation by establishing sound worlds that explore the intangible area in between rhythm, tonality and total improvisational freedom.  The music is sometimes labyrinthine, sometimes eerily sparse, incorporating seismic riffs, limping marches and intricately woven contrapuntal textures into a multi-coloured world of improvised sound.

 The band played at the Cheltenham International Jazz Festival as part of the Jerwood Rising Stars programme and was recorded by BBC Jazz on 3. This was a continuation of Allsopp and Giles’s association with the scheme as “Fraud’s” 2006 performance at Cheltenham was the platform that launched their work to critical acclaim, culminating in their winning the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2008.

  “The Golden Age of Steam were on blistering form …and it was great to see young musicians so keen to venture further out” (Jazzwise Magazine review of Cheltenham Festival)

 “An evening of no-nonsense, full-on music from some of the scene's freshest talents” (Chris Parker, Vortex Review)

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Tuesday 9th Nov. 8.30pm. Admission £8/£6

"The Great Wee Band "  

Henry Lowther, Jim Mullen, Dave Green, Stu Butterfield.

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Tuesday 14th Dec. 8.30pm. Admission £8/£6

The Chris Biscoe Quartet

featuring Tony Kofi, playing Mingus and Dolphy.
Chris Biscoe, Tony Kofi, Larry Bartley, Stu Butterfield.