Jazz Cafe summer closure
The Jazz Cafe has just closed down for its summer break and will re-open
on Tuesday 1st September.
Advance ticket sales for September
This email is to give you details of three very special and musically
varied Jazz Cafe promotions in September for which tickets are on sale now at
the Details Art Materials Shop at Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road NE1
1SG. You can purchase tickets in person, or by phone to be posted by ‘recorded
delivery’ for a fee of £2.50 for any quantity. Tel. 0191
261 5999 office hours.
Revised License
As from September the Cafe will have a revised license allowing access
for young people up to 11pm when accompanied by a responsible adult. We will
also be permitted to serve draught beers on the bar: keg lager plus a guest
real ale.
Other events in September
For details of our free admission jam sessions and Saturday night duo
performances as well as of the regular monthly Jazz North East Schmazz
presentation please access our website at www.jazzcafe-newcastle.co.uk/
THE THREE MAJOR SEPTEMBER EVENTS
(1) Mark Pringle’s Moveable Feast Trio – Upstairs in the
Cafe 9.00pm Friday 11th September –. £6.00
/ £5.00 advance.
Pianist Mark Pringle, aged just 24, but already described by The
Independent as “Stupendously talented,” has recently
graduated from jazz studies at Birmingham Conservatoire and in
October begins two years further study in Berlin, Copenhagen and
Amsterdam on a highly sought after place on the European Jazz Masters (EUJAM)
Programme.
This year, thanks to a Peter Whittingham Award he has created and
recorded a 12-piece ensemble, “Moveable Feast,” which tours nationally in
September. The Moveable Feast Trio which he brings to the Jazz
Cafe on September 11th - Mark on piano,
James Banner double bass and Euan Palmer drums – is described by Mark as the
creative core of the 12-piece where his compositions are explored with greater
freedom and communicative energy.
The Independent described his piano duo album with John Law ‘This Is’ as “so
full of joy that it can renew your faith not just in jazz , but music itself.”
The late John Taylor, leading European jazz pianist and composer said of Mark “Mark
Pringle is an exceptionally gifted pianist and composer, and a remarkable
improviser. 'A Moveable Feast' is a striking example of his writing and playing”
Listen to Mark Pringle’s music at << sound cloud
.com/markpringle >> and at <<markpringle.bandcamp.com>>
(2) Alice Grace Quintet – Upstairs in the
Cafe 9.00pm Friday 18th September – £6.00 / £5.00 in
advance
Alice Grace’s career as a jazz vocalist began aged 12 with a local big
band in Kent, moved on to the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (as did Amy
Winehouse) and then to appearances with the house band at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz
Club. After all that, jazz studies at the London Guildhall School of Music and
the Amsterdam Conservatoire must have seemed almost an anti-climax!
Alice names Ella and Diana Krall as major influences and her career
post-graduation has been conventional enough for a “ jazzer”,
singing with jazz and soul ensembles in venues large – including London’s
Southbank Centre and Royal Albert Hall – and more intimate across the UK and
Europe and most recently in Dubai and across the Emirates where she co-founded her
own band. But this “jazzer” has another string to her bow. She lends her
soulful tone to producers of drum n bass, dubstep and house music and also
composes for these genres.
Upstairs at the Jazz Cafe Alice’s jazz side will be to the fore with an
evening of originals and classic jazz standards accompanied by a hand-picked
local band including another exciting recent incomer to the Northern jazz scene
like herself, the drummer Russ Morgan.
Alice Grace vocals; Peter Gilligan keys; Paul Gowland tenor & alto saxes;
Paul Grainger double bass; Russ Morgan drums
(3) Soundbone Plays Led Zep – Upstairs in the Cafe 9.00pm Friday
25th September– £7.00 / £5.00 advance.
Ex – Oz, now Edinburgh – based trombonist Chris Greive’s adventurous,
ground-breaking trio NeWt was renowned for its “satisfying clash of tone
colours” (Jazzwise) and “urgent but compact sound” (The Herald,
Glasgow) and played a number of times on Tyneside. Now Chris (trombone and
electronics,including octave – divider for bass lines!), with
NeWt’s outstandingly creative guitarist Graeme Stephen and drummer David
Carnegie from Barbados and Tyneside, have formed Soundbone to play
free – ranging versions of some Led Zep classics. The trio pays homage to the
massive riffs and weight of the originals, while bringing a prog-jazz approach
to each of the songs.
“a good number of the big guns are here : an emphatically riffing
Communication Breakdown, a superbly stylish Kashmir, a rattlin’ Moby Dick and
an Immigration Song that threatens the Jazz Bar’s foundations.” (The Herald
Glasgow) “More structured episodes are interspersed with bouts of fiery
free improv mayhem....Powerful and inventive music of a high order.” (The
List)
Mike Tilley, Dave Clarke and the Jazz Cafe Team
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