The Phoenix Collective is an educational project that Coventry Jazz Festival initiated in the year 2000. The project brings together young people from Coventry's schools for intensive tuition under the auspices of the local Performing Arts Services, led by Owen Dutton. This year the performance takes place in the Belgrade Theatre.
Co-leader of Partisans and a regular collaborator with Christine Tobin, guitarist Phil Robson’s latest project arose from a Derby Jazz commission. Six Strings and the Beat comprises music for guitar trio and string quartet. Guardian jazz critic John Fordham called it an “inspired crossover… a real achievement for Robson that should go down among the year’s jazz landmarks." Recorded for release on Babel in March 2008, this is an
opportunity to catch it live and in full swing.
- Phil Robson
- guitar
- Peter Herbert
- double bass
- Kate Short
- cello
- Naomi Fairhurst
- viola
- Gene Calderazzo
- drums
- Jenny May Logan, Emma Smith
- violin
ZZ Bop return with their own brand of swinging funk and blues. California bass man Tom Hill has played with the likes of George Shearing, Tal Farlow, Art Farmer, Joe Williams, Mel Torme and
many more. He held down the bass chair with Les Brown and the band of Renown for over nine years-recording at the famous Capital Records Studio in Hollywood. He gave all that up to settle
in Worcestershire with his British wife Jacqui and bring up their four children. Since then he has become an indelible part of the Midlands jazz scene and is also busy as a voice over specialist,
actor and radio presenter.
- Ian Ellis
- saxophone
- Tom Hill
- bass, vocals
- Nick Milward
- drums
- Phil Bond
- keyboard
Relentlessly dodging definition, Led Bib are both a maverick jazz band and an unlikely rock quintet. In the wake of fellow risk takers Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear, Led Bib are paving the way for an exciting new generation of jazz musicians, daring to rip up the rulebook and leap into the unknown blazing a trail with their fiery and gutsy live shows. Driving melodies roar at full throttle, powered by Holub’s pounding drums. The effect is exhilarating.
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- Mark Holub
- drums
- Liran Donin
- bass
- Toby McLaren
- keyboard
- Chris Williams/Pete Grogan
- alto saxophone
John Surman and organist and conductor Howard Moody have worked and toured together extensively. This concert, in the incredible setting of Coventry Cathedral, will feature music for
saxophones and pipe organ from their new CD Rain On The Window. Inspired as much by the landscapes and folk traditions of his native southwest England as by American jazz, Surman is a virtuoso improviser. His last appearance at the festival with Howard was performing the Mercury Award-nominated Proverbs & Songs making wonderful use of the Cathedral’s acoustic and its
magnificent organ. This concert will be equally exciting and will be appeal fans of all kinds of music.
- John Surman
- saxophones, bass clarinet
- Howard Moody
- cathedral organ
Award-winning Jazz Jamaica return with a brand new set. Tighten Up! returns the band to their Jamaican roots paying tribute to some of Jamaica’s greatest artists and record labels, playing some of your best-loved tunes of all time in the process
including – Skatalites classic, ‘Guns Of Navarone’, Prince Buster’s ‘Al Capone’, Harry J All Stars’ ‘Liquidator’, and Myrna Hague’s classic lovers rock, ‘What About Me’. So, don’t let life get you uptight. Loosen up, and come along to Tighten Up!
Joining Jazz Jamaica will be the legendary Earnest Ranglin.
As a session guitarist from Studio One in the 50s, 75 year old Ranglin helped give birth to the ska genre.
Ranglin played on many classic Jamaican recordings, and he performed with artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Monty Alexander, Prince Buster, The Skatalites and Eric Dean's Orchestra.
Some credit Ranglin with the invention of the style of guitar play known as scratching found in nearly all ska music. He is one of the few musicians to blend jazz and reggae successfully.
Don’t miss this unique chance to see one the all time great jazz guitarists playing a one off concert in the UK.
Breathtaking stuff. Britain has its own rival to the Buena Vista Social Club. See them now before the rest of the world grabs them.
The Guardian
- Gary Crosby
- double bass
- Rod Youngs
- drums
- Benjamin Burrell
- piano
- Femi Temowo/Robin Banerjee
- guitar
- Pete Eckford
- percussion
- Abram Wilson
- trumpet
- Nathaniel Facey
- alto saxophone
- Zem Audu
- tenor saxophone
- Harry Brown
- trombone
- Zara McFarlane
- vocals