Tag archives for Jazz
Afrobeat legend Dele Sosimi to Galvanise White Rock Theatre
DAN MCCARTHY On 23 April, multiple award-winning Afrobeat ambassador Dele Sosimi is set to bring his signature grooves to Hastings’ White Rock Theatre. Hackney-born and UK-based, Dele has long been a…
Crowning it All…
TOM BLASS on the Cable Street Rag Band Jazz is a funny world. It has its deities of course: Coltrane, Miles, Bird, Monk, Billie and Ella et al, towering above…
The Eclecticism of Afrit Nebula
KEITH RODWAY, festival organiser, musician, and documentary filmmaker, explores the diverse influences of local band Afrit Nebula. Keith Rodway Ken and Elaine Edwards have been active on the Hastings alternative…
Two Ships Come Sailing In
BEN THOMPSON looks forward to a night of maverick shredding and skronk A Saturday night in Hastings generally promises a splendidly broad array of entertainment options, with the town’s various…
Jamming in the Summer Sun
VICTORIA KINGHAM interviews the indefatigable Max Baillie, violinist, viola player, virtuoso, musical powerhouse, Founder of St Leonards Concerts and leader of The Fritz Brothers and other ensembles, in the first…
Classical Music Special: Les Frères Fritz
VICTORIA KINGHAM visits St Leonard’s Crown House to review The Fritz Brothers – a Parisian inspired jazz/classical ensemble featuring director, arranger, and violinist Max Baillie, Ewan Bleach – clarinet and…
Let Them Call It Jazz
VICTORIA KINGHAM on Jerry Bergonzi (tenor), Jason Rebello (piano), Steven Keogh (drums), Mark Hodgson (bass) at the Hastings Jazz Club. Anybody who has read Jean Rhys’ magnificent, tragic, heartrending story…
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…
Jazz Abate-ment
Victoria Kingham enthuses about the unpretentious Greg Abate quartet at the Hastings Jazz Club. Greg Abate has been on the American (and international) jazz scene since the 1970s, having spent…
Even Legends Have Off Days
Victoria Kingham reviews Still Waters at the EHSAA jazz club on The Stade. Always competent, sometimes inventive, and occasionally powerful, trumpeter Henry Lowther has graced the UK jazz scene for…
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…
Ten Years on and Rye is still Jazzing the Blues
By Susan Desrosiers Just over ten years ago, Ian Bowden, musician, musical director and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, had an idea. His career as a musician was…
Listen to What the Man Said
By Nick Pelling Hastings and St Leonards is home to many ordinary people who are not ordinary at all. If you listen. One such is Reggie Hendrickse. Reggie has been…
Small, but perfectly formed
Introducing Le Petit Balcon, a new opening on Robertson Street. By Steven Short If you’ve ever dipped into George Street’s café culture you will know Nette Carter from Le Petit…
#Acoubomb – Round TWO!
By Andrew Myers HASTINGS Based Sax Legend Jason Yarde needs your help! Acoutastic Bombastic is a thirteen piece band of some of the top improvisers in the UK – all…
O’Higgins and Luft Play Monk and Trane
Jazz Hastings Session 17th December An established giant of the UK Jazz scene and a young ‘firebrand’ will be coming together at the East Hastings Sea Angling Association to promote…
Hastings’ Two Week Celebration of World-class Artists
Press release provided by Hastings International Piano FestivalThe Hastings International Piano Festival will run from 26th February – 8th March 2020 at White Rock Theatre and St Mary in the…
Mike Hatchard’s Jazz Workshop
Press Release provided by Soundwaves Community Choir On Saturday 16th November Sound Waves Community Choir are holding a one-day workshop with local singer Mike Hatchard. Mike is a fine jazz pianist,…
JAZZ HASTINGS
November 5th SessionJulian Norridge previews a performance of Jim Rattigan’s Pavillon Jim Rattigan is a rare thing in Jazz: a French horn player who for many years has also headed…
Arts Diary
Beacon Jazz Fans of avant-garde music are in for a double treat at the Beacon in October. Free jazz trio Somersaults are touring their new album ‘Numerology of Birdsong’ (West…
Two Of A Mind
Jazz Hastings’ October Session By Julian Norridge Two brilliant saxophonists, Chris Biscoe and Allison Neale, will revisit two classic albums first recorded 50 years ago by jazz legends Gerry Mulligan…
Milestones Play The Music Of Miles Davis
Kino TeatrSaturday 17th August By Andrew Myers Well, this is embarrassing. I had every intention of reviewing the Milestones: Kind of Blue 60th anniversary show at the Kino. I went…
Trevor Watts @80 – Musical Pioneer, Part 3
Trevor Watts, long-time Hastings resident and globally renowned pioneer of improvised music, turns 80 this year. Andrew Myers caught up with him for a couple of pints at the Jenny Lind.…
Trevor Watts @80 – Musical Pioneer, Part 2
Trevor Watts, long-time Hastings resident and globally renowned pioneer of improvised music, turns 80 this year. Andrew Myers caught up with him for a couple of pints at the Jenny…
Trevor Watts @80 – Musical Pioneer, Part 1
Trevor Watts, long-time Hastings resident and globally renowned pioneer of improvised music, turns 80 this year. Andrew Myers caught up with him for a couple of pints at the Jenny…
Live Music
EMMA HARWOOD As home to a vast array of talented musicians and with a reputation for its rich and diverse arts and music scene, it is hardly surprising that the…
‘A Little Jazzed Up’ for the Friends Of The Conquest £1M Scanner Appeal
A special concert intriguingly called ‘A Little Jazzed Up’ is going to be staged at the Hastings Centre on The Ridge on Saturday February 4 at in aid of the…
Obituary: Pete Burden – 4th April 1941 – 27th December 2016
by Marcus Weeks Hastings, and the world of music, is a quieter, sadder place with the loss of alto saxophonist Pete Burden, who has died aged 75. Perhaps the best…