Tag archives for Jazz Hastings
Matt Ridley’s Antidote at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM Watching this highly co-ordinated jazz performance, it’s difficult to imagine that the musicians don’t spend all their time together writing, playing, and living the tunes. But the members…
Jazz: Luft and Duni Reach for the Moon
VICTORIA KINGHAM Guitarist Rob Luft has been a regular visitor to Jazz Hastings, having appeared here with his own band and with other musicians celebrated for their originality: Byron Wallen,…
A New Jazz Festival
Now, just when the summer season is dying down, a big jazz day beckons, organised by Mike Willis, a musician and, it turns out, one of St Leonards’ prime movers. Jazz SambaJazz…
Musicof the Future, Music of the Past
VICTORIA KINGHAM One of the basic principles I have found invaluable is that comparison of one type of music with another, as a value judgement, has got to be invalid.…
Rod Youngs: New From Old
VICTORIA KINGHAM at Jazz Hastings It’s strange how musical appreciation changes over the course of half a century or more. What sounded to the majority uncompromising, unmelodic, on a first…
Jerry Bergonzi Quartet Return to Jazz Hastings
Jerry Bergonzi is becoming a regular fixture at Jazz Hastings. After two triumphant appearances in the last two years, this legendary American tenorist is back by popular demand. Bergonzi gained…
It’s About That Time…
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Darius Brubeck at Jazz Hastings Another packed night at the best jazz club this side of London. Chairs are brought in from everywhere, jazz club organisers meet…
Pigfoot Play Ellington
BEN THOMPSON at EHSAA “They never dance, some of them don’t tap their feet, some of them are actually asleep… but still it’s full every month?!” Such is the bewildered…
Sun Swells
VICTORIA KINGHAM is awed by the talents of Corrie Dick and his ensemble at this month’s Jazz Hastings gig. There’s always an element of the unexpected in the music of…
Fusion – Sounds, Cultures, Worlds
Deepak Ram defies limits at Kino-Teatr and Jazz Hastings VICTORIA KINGHAM Deepak Ram One of the earliest highlights of my auditory education was a 1966 album called Indo-Jazz Suite, an…
Structure, Swing, and Spirit at Jazz Hastings
VICTORIA KINGHAM enjoys the expert accomplishments of Nikki Yeoh’s Infinitum Nick White Photographer However you want to classify or define jazz, an important feature of the genre is its endless…
Freight Train to Éire
VICTORIA KINGHAM enjoys a recent gig at Hasting’s jazz club containing more than a few notes of Ireland. A recent Sunday saw another full and enthusiastic house at Jazz Hastings…
Arts Diary
In With the Old A year after his triumphant Jazz Hastings debut last February, legendary American saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi is back on stage at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association…
Arts Diary
Bodhran Art Jazz Hastings kicks off 2023 with “a unique musical collaboration between a major star of from the Irish folk/traditional music and two of the most sought-after UK jazz…
ARTS DIARY
It’s a Steal Fine artist and illustrator Robin Elliott-Knowles has a new exhibition Everyday Stolen Artefacts – at The Nest – High Street, Old Town until 27 October. He says…
Jason Rebello Trio at Jazz Hastings
Review by Victoria Kingham The jazz club at EHSAA is privileged to host Jason Rebello, one of the most gifted and long-established British jazz ; Influenced by the best of…
ARTS DIARY
KINO IS BACK The arts centre on Norman Road has reopened, after a short break, and has a wide-ranging programme of films, music and other assorted outpourings and will host…
Trypl Whammy at Jazz Hastings
By Victoria Kingham The East Sussex and Hastings Angling Association clubroom may not be the obvious place for Jazz lovers to look, if you are not in the know. But…
Witchcraft on the Stade
Review by Gareth Stevens It is always a ‘pinch yourself’ moment to sit in the East Hastings Angling Association club at The Stade and to realise that in such a…
NOVEMBER: Arts News In Brief
Hastings is bursting at the seams with inspiring and offbeat cultural events. Hard to keep up with it all! Here is a round-up of some of the best recent offerings:…