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HELLO

As ever were breaking out into a whole bunch of things we havent done before in our
short and ambitious 4 year, volunteer led, history. Huge stuff that were giddy about are
obviously our headliners, UK jazz legends, Courtney Pine, at The Dukes on 18
September, and trombone genius Dennis Rollins in The Round at The Dukes on 20
September.
Friday night at the Brewery sees the first of our new Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz
events. It features musicians under the age of 25 who currently taking the jazz world by
storm - or maybe will be in the future! Artist submissions for this night were so strong
that some of the acts filtered into the rest of the festival - look out for Lancaster Jazz
Festival - Youth Jazz throughout the programme.
In addition to this we are presenting our first Lancaster Jazz Festival Youth Jazz
Commission which will premier at The Hall on Sunday afternoon. It is supported by the
Arts Council and has been awarded to composer/conductor extraordinaire Leo Geyer.
Saturday will find us in the beautifully redeveloped Sun Square in the heart of
Lancaster, where we have an exciting afternoon programmed to set you up nicely for
Dennis Rollins later that evening.
Other events include Jazz Breakfasts at the Gillow, a couple of post-headliner jam
sessions and a Jazz North Panel event on the Friday afternoon - entitled How Do We
Get More Gigs - a must for all musicians!
Thanks to our members, partners and the volunteers who keep us going throughout the
year and are now working non-stop to make this the biggest and best Lancaster Jazz
Festival so far - see you there!
festival directors /// Matt Robinson / Dave Shooter
festival manager /// Jen Benson
marketing and audience development intern /// Jack Bond
associate producer /// Leo Burtin
youth blogger /// Luke Adams
trustees /// David Fatkin / Paul Froggatt / Nicholas Gebhardt / Pete Hyde / Kathryn MacDonald
Follow the entire festival team throughout the festival on twitter (@lancasterjazz) or on the festival blog
(www.lancasterjazz.com)

CONTENTS
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COURTNEY PINE

PAGE 10 Off The Rails / Paul Edis Sextet

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The Initiative Open House

PAGE 11 Slowlight Quartet / Samuel Eagles

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Jazz Breakfasts / Swerve Trio

PAGE 12 DENNIS ROLLINS / Open Jam Session

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How Do We Get More Gigs?

PAGE 14 Pete Edwards Trio / Deep Cabaret /

LJF Youth Jazz Commission: Leo Geyer

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Tom Green Septet / Zeitgeist

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LRGS Big Band / Jam Experiment

PAGE 15 Elliot Galvin Trio

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and welcome to Lancaster Jazz Festival 2014

THU 18

LANC ASTER J AZZ FESTIVAL HEADLINE

C O U RT N E Y P I N E :
HOUSE OF LEGENDS
presented in par tner ship with The Dukes
Where:
The Rake , The Dukes
Moor Lane
LA1 1QE
When:
Thursday 18th September
Doors 7pm
Tickets:
20
Buy tickets:
the Dukes box office - 01524 598500
www.dukes-lancaster.org
in person from the Dukes

No musician embodies the dramatic

transformation in the British jazz scene
over the past twenty years more than
saxophonist Courtney Pine. The ground
breaking, multi-instrumentalist has led
a generation of exciting and innovative
players, who have broadened their styles
to take jazz out to a wider audience.
Fresh from sell out shows across the
US and Canada, and at Bestival, Love
Supreme and London Jazz Festival in the
UK, Courtney Pine headlines LJF with
his critically acclaimed House of Legends
set. Jazzwise album of the year, House
of Legends, features Courtney Pine
exclusively on soprano saxophone for
the first time.
Deeply steeped in the traditions of the
Caribbean, this very personal
project sees Courtney Pine on top form,
bringing together musicians from Africa,
the Caribbean and Europe for vibrant
exchanges that tell tales of life from a
truly multi-cultural view point.
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Expect an exhilarating mix of Merengue,

Ska, Mento and Calypso, played by a UK
born artist with strong, proud
Afro-Caribbean roots.
An exceptional labour of love. Never has
his intense power been deployed with
greater focus Evening Standard

Where:
Golden Lion
Moor Lane
LA1 1QE
When:
Thursday 18th September
10.30pm
Tickets:
FREE

Local Lancaster collective The Initiative

fuse elements of jazz, funk, rock and rap,
with tight, focussed tunes providing a
bedrock for inspired collective
improvisations.
They will be hosting this open house
session after the Courtney Pine gig,
theyll play some tunes and offer to take
whoever fancies blowing with them on
a sonic roller-coaster ridecome and
check out what happens!

C O U RT N E Y P I N E

T H E I N I T I AT I V E
OPEN HOUSE

FRI 19

JAZZ
B R E A K FA S T S

S W E RV E T R I O

Where:
The Rober t Gillow
64 Market Street
LA1 1HP

Where:
The Dukes Cafe Bar
Moor Lane
LA1 1QE

When:
Friday 19th September
Saturday 20th September
Sunday 21st September
9.30am each day

When:
Fr iday 19th September
1pm

Tickets:
FREE
Enjoy a tasty breakfast and live local jazz
at The Robert Gillow.

presented in par tner ship with The Dukes

Tickets:
FREE
soprano sax /// Nick Gebhardt
double bass /// George McKay
drums /// Richard Rushton
Reworked jazz standards from
modern backwards, the odd reggae or
pop classic, and some originals, given a
swerve, a twist, in a sonic exploration of
space, vibrato, percussive possibilities,
meanders, melodies, intervallic contrast
(soprano with bass?), chordless and
bible-black. For students and lovers of
jazz all around, for those who profess
improvisation, for fans of oxymorons: a
full sound with an aesthetic of emptiness. Tunes everywhere.

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J A Z Z N O RT H p r e s e n t s :
HOW DO WE GET MORE
GIGS?
presented in par tnership with Jazz
Nor th
Where:
The Dukes Galler y
Moor Lane
LA1 1QE
When:
Friday 19th September
2.30pm - 5.30pm

Jazz North presents How Do We Get

More Gigs? An afternoon of panel
discssussion and Q&As aimed at jazz
musicians.
A panel of highly respected industry
figures will discuss issues including
creating strong EPKs, building
relationships with promoters, booking
tours and sources of funding for jazz
musicians.

S U P P O RT E D E V E N T S

Tickets:
FREE
please sign-up via the webiste at
www.lancasterjazz.com

FRI 19

T H E L A N C A S T E R B R E W E RY
Y O U T H J A Z Z S TA G E
Where:
Lancaster Brewer y,
Lancaster Leisure Park,
Wyresdale Road.
LA1 3LA
When:
Friday 19th September
Doors 7pm
Tickets:
5
3 Concession

This event is the fir st dedicated

Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz
event, exclusively presenting and
suppor ting fantastic UK based jazz
musicians who are under 25.

tickets on the door

TO M G R E E N
SEPTET
Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz
7.30pm
trombone /// Tom Green
alto / soprano sax /// Matthew Herd
tenor sax /// Sam Miles
trumpet / flugelhorn /// James Davison
piano /// Sam James
bass /// Misha Mullov-Abbado
drums /// Scott Chapman
Jazzwises One to Watch 2014 and
winner of the 2013 Dankworth Prize for
Composition, London based trombonist
Tom Green is fast becoming one of the
most exciting and original arrangers on
the scene. His septet weaves together
influences as diverse as Brazilian Choro
to New Orleans second line, to form
tunes with striking melodies, colourful
harmony and propulsive grooves.

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ZEITGEIST
Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz
8.30pm
keyboards /// Aleks Podraza
bass /// Sam Quintana
drums /// Tom Higham
Zeitgeist formed on the jazz course
at Leeds College of Music. Drawing
eclectic compositional influence from
such artists as John Coltrane, Phronesis,
J Dilla, Portishead, Zakir Hussein and
even Meshuggah, they strive to create a
contemporary sound fusing together the
harmony and improvisation of jazz, the
robust and hypnotic rhythm of hip-hop
and the rhythmic complexity and
unusual structure of progressive rock.
Since their formation in 2011 the band
have established themselves on the
Leeds jazz scene, performing frequently in the city with a set of completely
original material.

JAM EXPERIMENT

Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz

Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz

9.30pm

Presented in par tner ship with Jazz

Nor th

conductor /// Paul Froggatt

The LRGS big band has a long and
distinguished history giving many young
musicians a chance to play serious
charts and develop into formidable
players. The band is a major feed for the
county big bands, some going onto
professional careers in the music
business.

10.15pm
trombone /// Ror y Ingham
saxophone /// Alex Bone
piano /// Toby Comeau
bass /// Felix Moseholm
drums /// Jonathan Mansfield
Winners of this years Jazz North
Introduces, the Jam Experiment
originally formed at school to play a
weekly jam and soon realised the
evident musical chemistry between them
was deserving of an on-going project.
Influenced by the likes of Christian
McBride and Gwilym Simcock and
playing exciting arrangements by band
members and other composers they are
definitely a group of young players with
a bright future. The band also features
Alex Bone - the first ever BBC Young
Jazz Musician of the Year.

L A N C A S T E R B R E W E RY S TA G E

tom green

LRGS BIG BAND

SAT 20

T H E S U N S Q U A R E S TA G E
Where:
Sun Square
Sun Street
LA1 1EW
When:
Saturday 20th September

A open air stage in the beautiful

surroundings of the newly renovated
Sun Square . In the event of rain we will
move into The Hall, China Street, making
ever y effor t to maintain the adver tised
schedule .

Tickets:
FREE

Check @lancasterjazz or
www.lancasterjazz.com for the latest
information

OFF THE RAILS

WORKSHOP

PA U L E D I S
SEXTET

11am

12.45pm

leader /// Ben McCabe

piano /// Paul Edis

trumpet / flugel /// Graham Hardy
tenor / bar itone sax /// Graeme B Wilson
trombone /// Chr is Hibbard
double bass /// Mick Shoulder
drums /// Adam Sinclair

Off The Rails open house session. Come

and join a section and work through
some great good time tunes from the
Off The Rails repertoire.
Lancasters community big band has
been running for 17 years and has
built up quite a pad of tunes working
alongside local composers including
Howard Haighs flamenco and Chas
Amblers ska. Visiting dignitaries: Steve
Berry, Paddy Steer and more have also
left behind a trail of interesting music
for the band to attack and mould into
their own.
As well as some simple arrangements of
jazz, funk and afrobeat well also play
some notation-free games and process
pieces.

Led by a brilliant young pianist (Alyn

Shipton) the Paul Edis Sextet is steeped
in the straight-ahead tradition,
reminiscent of the great Art Blakey
ensemble, but with an original and
contemporary edge. With some intricate
arrangements, solid grooves and
exquisite melodies, this group has
wowed audiences and critics alike with
their performances to date. With
influences as diverse as Schoenberg
and Paul Simon, Don Quixote and John
Prescott this is truly eclectic music
that manages to be both original and
accessible.

OFF THE RAILS PERFORMANCE

2.15pm
Building on their recent summit with Femi Temowo, Off the Rails Big Band team up with
Lancaster accordion supremo Ben Farmer to bring brand new arrangements of local
folk tunes.

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Arrangements will be built around Bens formidable squeezing and unavoidable

cross-genre creation will ensue: bossa polkas, afro-cuban jigs and afrobeat hornpipes all
look likely to emerge.

In par tnership with Jazz Nor th

3.15pm
drums /// Jonathan Marriott
bass /// Ian Paterson
keyboards /// Paul Lorraine
sax /// Tom Quilliam

samuel eagles

Comprising of four highly accomplished

musicians, each making beautiful sounds,
but the whole is bigger than the parts.
So its not a matter of just a locked in
rhythm section with a jaw droppingly
wonderful saxophonist, but a band
enmeshed in the communal groove.

SAMUEL EAGLES
Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz
5pm
saxes /// Samuel Eagles
vibraphone /// Ralph Wyld
double bass /// Max Luther t
drums /// Er ic Ford
This London based contemporary jazz
quartet will be supporting the release of
their debut album Next Beginning on
the renowned F-IRE Label. The band has
a fresh and exciting sound enhanced by
the inclusion of Ralph Wylds excellent
vibraphone stylings.
Samuel Eagles is rapidly standing out
from what is todays norm, with a fresh ear
for the music and an exciting approach to
improvisation, Samuel is set to make a big
impact - Jean Toussaint

S U N S Q U A R E S TA G E

SLOWLIGHT
Q U A RT E T

SAT 20

LANC ASTER J AZZ FESTIVAL HEADLINE

D E N N I S RO L L I N S V E L O C I T Y
TRIO
presented in par tner ship with the Dukes
sponsored by Lancaster Brewer y
Where:
The Round, the Dukes
Moor Lane
LA1 1QE
When:
Saturday 20th September
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets:
Downstairs Seated 12
Upstairs Seated 10
Cabaret 20
Standing 5
Buy tickets:
the Dukes box office - 01524 598500
www.dukes-lancaster.org
in person from The Dukes
trombone / effects /// Dennis Rollins
hammond organ /// Ross Stanley
drums /// Pedro Segundo

A daring and incredibly successful

endeavour from renowned band leader
and trombonist Dennis Rollins, featuring
the quirky instrumentation of the
trombone-led trio with Hammond
Organ and drums. With a new album
released in the summer, Dennis leads
the trio with his powerful and inventive
trombone, creating moods from funky
and groove to melodic and lyrical. Ross
Stanley, a true Hammond wizard, is
renowned for his highly creative,
intricate playing and Pedro Segundos
spectacular drumming is rich and
audacious.
They create a distinctive and rich sound
where each of the musicians individual
and exceptional skills combine with
Dennis remarkable composing and
arranging skills to produce an offbeat
and stylish mix.
Rollins composes and performs with his
customary panache, good humour,
sumptuous tone and enviable facility for
elegant yet catchy phrasing.
BBC Music Magazine
rarely can an instrumental trio have
produced such a rich and varied tonal
range.
London Evening Standard

OPEN JAM
SESSION
Where:
Golden Lion
Moor Lane
LA1 1QE

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Right next door to the Dennis

Rollins gig and starting only once
theyve finished is our annual open jam
session. Bring an instrument and play till
the early hours with the house band or
simply join us for a post gig beer or two.

D E N N I S RO L L I N S

SUN 21

THE HALL
Where:
The Hall
China Street
LA1 1EX
When:
Sunday 21st September
Tickets:
FREE

P E T E E DWA R D S
TRIO
1pm
Help Musicians Award winner Peter
Edwards has worked with Zara
McFarlane, Abram Wilson and Nicola
Emmanuelle. His broad palette of swing,
cinematic soundscapes, soulful ballads
and Afro Caribbean grooves gives brings
a fresh perspective to the piano trio
format. Expect acoustic interplay,
infectious rhythms and memorable
melodies.

DEEP CABARET
presents TLN
the music of an undiscovered countr y
2pm
Deep Cabaret, that ethnographer of
the imagination, has once more been
out wastelanding in the wildernesses.
This time hes returned with something
very precious. The unheard music of
Tln: whose reclusive, derivative, yet
insidiously influential, culture was first
brought to the worlds attention by
the great Argentine author Jorge Luis
Borges.

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LJF YOUTH J AZZ COMMISSION

suppor ted using public funding by Ar ts
Council England

LEO GEYER &

KHYMERIKAL

Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz

2.40pm
voice /// Rachel Maby
clar inet /// Sara Hall
piano /// Phillip Sharp
violin /// Tim Rathbone
cello /// Michael Newman
composer / conductor /// Leo Geyer
22 year old Leo Geyer studied on the
Joint Course at Manchester University
and RNCM before being awarded the
RNCM Gold Medal Award, CMU New
Ensemble Call for Works and the Phillip
Bates Prize. Recent projects have
included works for the BBC Singers,
Opera North and the Manchester
Camerata. Leo is also the Artistic
Director of the Constella Ballet &
Orchestra which he co-founded in 2011
and has started working as assistant
conductor for the Royal Ballet.
This performance, commissioned by
Lancaster Jazz Festival features brand
new material from his new ensemble
Kymerikal in a jazz-inspired operatic/
balletic/theatrical work and a new piece
from Michael Newman (cello). The band
includes musicians trained in both jazz
and classical music, notably Rachel Maby
(voice) who recently recorded with
Soweto Kinch on The Legend of Mike
Smith.

Lancaster Jazz Festival - Youth Jazz

3.30pm
piano /// Elliot Galvin
bass /// Tom McCredie
drums /// Simon Roth

elliot galvin tr io

The Elliot Galvin Trio, formed in 2012,

has quickly become one of the most
talked about young bands on the UK
Jazz scene. It features three like-minded
creative musicians, exploring the
possibilities of the traditional piano trio
line-up with a sense of playful

experimentation. The group play original

material written by Elliot, and
effortlessly juggle the musical worlds of
classical, jazz, pop and art music. This is
coupled with free-spirited
improvisation that pushes the sonic
capabilities and traditions of their
instruments to another level. The trio
deliver a performance that balances
technical virtuosity, a healthy dose of
fun and playfulness with moments of
captivating beauty.

THE HALL

E L L I O T G A LV I N
TRIO

THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
19:00 - 22:15 COURTNEY PINE
22:30 - 00:00 The Initiative Open House

The Dukes
Golden Lion

FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
09:30 - 11:00 Jazz Breakfast
13:00 - 14:00 Swerve Trio
14:30 - 17:30 How Do We Get More Gigs?
19:30 - 20:15 Tom Green Septet
20:30 - 21:15 Zeitgeist
21:30 - 22:00 LRGS Big Band
22:15 - 23:00 Jam Experiment

Robert Gillow
The Dukes
The Dukes
Lancaster Brewery
Lancaster Brewery
Lancaster Brewery
Lancaster Brewery

SATURDAY 20
09:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
12:45 - 14:00
14:15 - 15:00
15:15 - 16:45
17:00 - 18:30
19:30 - 22:15
22:30 - 00:00

Robert Gillow
Sun Square
Sun Square
Sun Square
Sun Square
Sun Square
The Dukes
Golden Lion

SEPTEMBER
Jazz Breakfast
Off The Rails Workshop
Paul Edis Sextet
Off The Rails
Slowlight Quartet
Samuel Eagles
DENNIS ROLLINS
Open Jam Session

SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
09:30 - 11:00 Jazz Breakfast
13:00 - 13:45 Pete Edwards
14:00 - 14:30 Deep Cabaret
14:40 - 15:20 LJF commission: Leo Geyer
15:30 - 17:00 Elliot Galvin Trio

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