The second Leeds Jazz Festival was a bit bigger than the first, covering six days in July with six venues and around 50 bands. The finale, curated by Sally Coe, Xero's partner was "Celebrating Xero Slingsby" on 24 July at the Wardrobe. Xero was a punk jazz sax hero in Leeds in the 1980's, his music is now popular amongst young jazz musicians, especially Belgium where Xero played a lot so we were pleased to welcome Den Hoed over to take part. The event was brilliant from start to finish. Improv dancing in the ailes, Gina Southgate's painting (see attached) The Shuffledemons from Canada, Leeds Local Heroes like Tony Burkill , Maggie Somers, Den Hoed from Belgium and the Leeds local heroes - Tony Burkill, Maggie Somers, Paul Hessian, Louis Colan etc. A night to remember!
The Mingus Big Band at the Howard Assembly Room 13/10/18 (Simon Godley's review) "A nigh-on two hour performance – bisected by a short interval – the Mingus Big Band provided the sell-out crowd with a startling reminder of Charles Mingus’s genius as they shift easily from the swaggering invention of ‘Jump Monk’ (a song that first appeared on the 1955 live concert recording Mingus at the Bohemia) to a modern arrangement of ‘Invisible Lady’, cementing Mingus’s place in the vanguard of the Third Stream (a musical genre whereby jazz merges with classical music).
Charles Mingus’s generosity as a bandleader was well-regarded and this is replicated in today’s ensemble with ample time and space afforded each individual musician for what are some really quite incredible, improvised solos. Philip Harper is the first to step up to the plate during ‘Jump Monk’ with a raucous, rebellious blast of his trumpet whilst Helen Sung contributes a most phenomenal piano interlude during ‘Sue’s Changes’, a wonderfully spontaneous ballad-come-free jazz piece written by Mingus for his wife."
The Howard Assembly Room programme some lovely jazz led by the irrepressible Jo Nockels - they'll be missing from the Leeds Scene from March 2019 for a year through rebuilding and improvement works - so hurry back soon.
My third one is for the Leeds Jazz Scene as a whole- when I first came to Leeds in the 1980s there were maybe four venue playing jazz - now there are almost 30. Special mention to Richard at the Cafe Lento, Jack at the Hyde Park Book Club, Les and his team at Boston Spa, Mark at the Sela Bar, Ryan at the Domino and our two JazzLeeds venues at Leeds Jazz - Inkwell and Seven Arts. Not to mention the jazz appearing at nightclubs like the Brudenell, the Belgrave and elsewhere. Brilliant jazz place!
from NorthernJazzLive http://bit.ly/2EZukaP Jazz Honours 2019 from Leeds - Entrepreneur Generations
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