Young 7 piece band with influences from broken beat to funk to jazz. Recently played alongside Gilles Peterson, Dom Servini and continuing to receive widespread aclaim this is club night jazz of the future!
Popular Jazz Trumpet player with a large following and accolades.Recent awards include:
Fellowship of London College of Music (Jazz – trumpet).
Jazz Serives Tour.
Poll Winners 2005 (Birmingham Jazz, Rush hour Blues) - Bryan Corbett Quartet.
Leamington Festival / Birmingham Jazz Commission for new works for performance.
Jerwood Rising Star (Cheltenham International Jazz Festival).
Kinch has won numerous accolades including the Rising Star Award at the 2002 BBC Jazz Awards and the prestigious White Saxophone prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 2003 he won the MOBO prize for Best Jazz Act. In the same year his debut album Conversations With The Unseen was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, but Kinch lost to grime MC Dizzee Rascal. 2004 saw Kinch win two BBC Radio Jazz Awards; Best Instrumentalist and Best Band along with the Peter Whittingham Award for Jazz Innovation.
In 2006, Kinch released his second album, A Life In The Day Of B19 - Tales Of The Tower Block, the first instalment of a two-part concept album documenting the lives of three inner-city Birmingham men. The album features narration from Moira Stuart.
Birmingham Improvisors Orchestra
Group of Improvising musicians with aims to create a focus for creative music making in Birmingham and the wider Midlands area. It will be made up of musicians who are concerned with improvisation regardless of their particular chosen area of musical activity. Although at the heart of its activities will always be improvisation it will also seek to encourage composition initially at least in the form of BIO-Activities provided by members of the group and a pool of pre-existing classics. It will also seek to generate creative partnerships with like minded people from across a broad range of disciplines whether they be musical or from art forms.
Band members
Mick Beck - Sax/Bassoon
Ray Butcher - Trumpet
Phil Cardwell - Trumpet
Bruce Coates - Saxes
Mark Davis - Tuba
Peter Dixon - Violin/Electronics
Paul Dunmall - Saxes
Barry Edwards - Guitar
Joe Egan - Trumpet
Stuart Estelle - Free Reeds/Dulcimers
Patrick Farmer - Drums/Percussion/Objects
Graham Foster - Guitar/electronics
Mike Green - Bass
Mike Hurley- Piano
Doug Hough - Drums
Ed Johnston - Saxes
Ed Lawes - Electronics/violin
Miles Levin - Drums
Trevor Lines - bass
Pete McPhail - Saxes
Colin Mills - Bari Sax
Frank Moon - Guitar
Joel Murphy - Guitar/Clarinet
Dan Nicholls - Sax/Keyboards/Electronics
Percy Pursglove - Trumpet
Phil Rowland - Trumpet
Mark Sanders - Drums/Percussion
Walt Shaw - Percussion/Objects
Jamie Smith - Guitar
Ryan Trebilcock - Bass
Noel Warr - Reeds
Nine piece Jazz Hip hop band combining MCing ans the beats and scratching of Hip Hop with jazz improvisation.