Birmingham Jazz’s Last Gig of The Year
We come to the last gig of the year tonight with the Sub Ensemble on at the Rush Hour Blues session at Symphony Hall. We have promoted 94 gigs this year at all our various venues including 48 sessions at CBSO Centre, The Rainbow, The Jam House etc and 42 Rush Hour Blues sessions. It’s actually 46 RHB sessions if we add in the Brindley Place Summer Jazz sessions. We have had a good year with some excellent music reflecting the strengths of the contemporary jazz scene (see a good piece by John Fordham about the current scene in today’s Music Section of The Guardian; read it here). Particular highlights for me were the January gigs with Cuong Vu, the two concerts with The Outhouse Quartet, one with Hilmar Jenssen, the other with Outhouse Ruhabi, Sam Wooster Quartet at the Rainbow, the double bill with Sweet Billy Pilgrim and Portico Quartet at the CBSO Centre, and the recent visits by veterans Andrew Cyrille and Henry Grimes playing with Paul Dunmall in the Profound Sound Trio and Lee Konitz in duo with Dan Tepfer.
But let’s concentrate on the future. The Sub Ensemble are on at 5.30 tonight (Friday 18th December) and you can get details of our January, February March promotions elsewhere on this site.
Tony
PS I also loved Tord Gustavsen Ensemble!
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