March
Program
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March 2012
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1st
Damon Brown - trumpet
Christian Brewer - saxes
Yutaka Shinna - piano
Martin Zenker - bass
Matt Skelton - drums
International
quintet plays hard-bop originals.
Damon (well known to Bonington
audiences for his work with Killer Shrimp) has toured Japan three times with
Yutaka Shinna and worked in Europe and South Korea regularly with Martin
Zenker. A special connexion has grown between the three of them over recent
years and led to the birth of this new project. All three contribute original
compositions to the programme and have a shared love of the great Hard Bop
composers and performers. The spirit and energy of the seminal recordings of
Art Blakey , Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter were the inspiration for the
groups name but the music is wholly of its own
Tickets £12 / £10
(concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free
3rd GBC
Presents
- with
one or two guests
Revival is
Over the years Revival has raised many thousands of pounds for charities and this performance is in aid of Help for Heroes.
Tickets £10 from the Box Office
5th
Organ Society presents
Tony Stace
I started entering competitions; my first was a Yamaha
Local Region Competition to be held at Teville Organs
at
After winning the local event, I was asked to compete in the National competition, which was held at The Library Theatre Solihull. I played the Yamaha HS8, i won £125! which, at that age, was like winning the Lottery! I then entered the Wersi competition, winning the local event. At that time, we didn't know but the competition was going to go further. A week after winning I got a call from Aura Sounds, Purley, to ask would I compete in the Wersi European finals to be held at FRANKFURT I was playing around 30 concerts for the year as well as a full time job in my Dad's Billposting company. I was working for Dad from age 17 to 21, because I still didn't have enough concerts to do it full time. When I reached 21, with four years manual labour and trying to play concerts in the evening, my hands were starting to suffer so Dad and I had a talk and decided that I should leave his Company and try to make my living solely from music - a good move.
Members admission: £5 Visitors admission:
£6
8th Jazz Steps presents
Marlene VerPlanck -
vocals
John Pearce - piano
Paul Morgan - bass
Bobby Worth - drums
Fine
Interpretations of the Great American Song Book.
Marlene VerPlanck returns to the
Bonington for an unmissable evening of jazz standards. She has almost
everything one could ask for in a singer of classic American songs: a gorgeous,
musically pliable sound, a solid understanding of the linkages between words
and story, a sure and steady feel for rhythm. In her early career she worked as
a backing singer for Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Tony Bennett, emerging as a
leading solo performer in the 1970s, playing Carnegie Hall to rave reviews. Her
previous appearances at the Bonington have been extremely well received and it
is a pleasure to have her back. John Pearce, Paul Morgan and Bobby Worth
provide superlative accompaniment.
"She may be the most
accomplished interpreter of popular material performing today...interpretive
sensitivity and perceptive choice of songs that can be matched only by a handful
of singers." The New York Times
Tickets £12 / £10
(concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free
11th North and Notts Photographic Federation presents
Their annual conference.
Tickets by invitation only
15th Jazz Steps presents
Centre-Line
Russell van den Berg -
saxophone/EWI
Darren Altman - drums
Jez Franks - guitar
Jon Harvey - bass
Classy
contemporary jazz with a personal stamp.
Centre-Line are a London based
quartet with a unique sound and a repertoire of original music, their instrumentation
of electric bass, Sax/EWI (Electric Wind Instrument), electric guitar and
drums, gives them a contemporary jazz sound that grooves and surprises - it's
the groove and melodies that open up their music to a wider audience.
Centre-Line is founded on a long-standing musical partnership between Darren
and Russell (over 17 years) and benefits from an ever growing repertoire due to
the prolific writing talents of the band members.
"This band sounds like a
unit. Aggressive but playful, this is the language of jazz, but not at the
expense of spontaneity." Tim Garland
Tickets £12 / £10 (concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free
16th -18th
Flying High
!
An evening of music, dance and drama from Fying High a range of styles, genres and tastes. The repertoire includes. Something for everyone!
20th –
21st New Youth Theatre presents
Tickets
22th Jazz
Steps presents
Chris Allard - electric
and acoustic guitars
Brandon Allen - saxophone
Ross Stanley - piano and keyboards
Oli Hayhurst - bass
Nick Smalley - drums
Energetic
guitar-led modern jazz originals.
The award winning
musician/composer, Chris Allard, has long been regarded as one of the UK's
finest contemporary jazz guitarists and the first choice of many top artists.
He has played extensively at major festivals and prestigious venues around the
world and performed with Carleen Anderson, Jamie Cullum, Jacqui Dankworth, Tim
Garland and Cleo Laine, to name a few.
The Chris Allard Band has existed
since 2004, and has developed an individual sound and approach in that time.
The group play in a dynamic and contemporary way, with interplay, improvisation
and energy. Comprising some of the very best and most in demand musicians in
the country, the band currently play a varied programme of original music,
mainly from recent album Open Spaces.
"Chris Allard
references, amongst others, Pat Metheny, Radiohead, Miles Davis and Kurt
Rosenwinkel....His tone is varied from warm 'jazz'..to rocking with bluesy
angular lines �somewhere between Scofield and Carlton
with a dash of fleet-footed Martino..... For fans of Pat Metheny, Pat Martino,
Andy Summers (with his jazz hat on)." Guitarist magazine (4 stars)
Tickets £12 / £10 (concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free
23rd – 26th New
Youth Theatre presents
Tickets
29th -31st New
Youth Theatre presents
Tickets