Posts Tagged ‘Kings Heath’

Wednesday 21st July
Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath
Doors open at 8pm
£10 advance tickets ( MOTD)

Soil & “Pimp” Sessions is an energetic Japanese club jazz band that have started to receive international recognition. The band consists of six members: Shacho (“agitator”), Tabu Zombie (trumpet), Motoharu (sax), Josei (keyboards), Akita Goldman (double bass) and Midorin (drums). Soil & Pimp were last in Birmingham three years ago at the Jam House so it’s been a while and well worth a try for a lively night out!

Tickets are available at: http://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/

Ticket office : 0844 870 0000

This gig is a co-promotion with Leftfoot

Listen to Soil & Pimp sessions on Spotify:

Friday 26th February
The Hare & Hounds, kings Heath
8.30pm
£10 (£8 Members & Concessions)

A luminary in jazz electronica, Nils Petter-Molvaer has been releasing music under his own name since 1997. As a composer and trumpet player his style draws from a wide palette including jazz, ambient and house as well as hip-hop, rock and pop music. His latest album, Hamada, takes its name from the Arabian word meaning dead but refers to, in this context, impassable areas of desert. The music is angrier and darker than NPM’s previous work and will be perfectly suited to the intimate atmosphere of the Hare & Hounds. The gig features Stian Westerhus on guitar and Auden Kleive on drums.

Tickets available at Polar Bear Records, York Road, Kings Heath
0121 441 5202

Tickets also available at Ticketsellers:
https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10010011
or by phoning 0844 870 0000

Listen to Nils Petter Molvaer on Spotify:

Wednesday 16th December
Hare & Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
9pm
£7 (£5 Members & Concessions)

Fyfe Dangerfield leads this electro/improv’ offshoot of Mercury Award nominated pop group Guillemots. Fyfe has remained committed to improvisation whilst fronting Guillemots, and the line-up of Gannets reflects this aim. Clarinettist Alex Ward, bass clarinettist Chris Cundy, bassist Dominic Lash and drummer Steve Noble join Fyfe on a journey through their own version of jazz history; “in which 30’s swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades”. “The highlight of the London Jazz Festival” according to Time Out, hear more at: www.myspace.com/gannets

Thursday 29th October
Hare & Hounds, High Street, Kings Heath
8pm £8 (£2 for Birmingham Jazz Members and Student Members)

U.S. guitarist Joe Morris is joined by Brits Tony Bevan (sax) and Dominic Lash (bass), and Australian drummer Tony Buck of The Necks. This gig is promoted by The Polar Bear, who also have a fantastic record shop on York Road in Kings Heath. Birmingham Jazz Members and Student Members can get in for £2, yet another good reason to join. If you’re interested in becoming a Birmingham Jazz member, please check out our Membership page.

Listen to Joe Morris on Spotify:

Last saturday saw Grand Pianoramax arrive at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath to perform a red hot gig as explained by Peter Bacon, jazz writer at The Birmingham Post. Click here to have a read or see the article below.