February Program

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February 2012

2^nd Jazz Steps presents

8.00pm Tribute to Michael Garrick "MJQ Celebration

Jim Hart - vibes
Barry Green - piano
Steve Brown - bass
Matt Ridley - drums

Celebrating the music of the Michael Garrick and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Pianist/composer Michael Garrick was one of the UK's leading and influential jazz musicians, and his most recent project involved top vibist Jim Hart, percussionist Steve Brown and bassist Matt Ridley in programmes which emphasized the more bluesy and swinging aspects of the MJQ's repertoire; classics like Django, Milano, Bags Groove, Delauney's Dilemma and Bluesology. The group drew the biggest audience at the Swanage Festival in July, receiving a standing ovation, and we were looking forward to their visit to the Bonington. Sadly Michael passed away in November and it was decided that we should fulfil the date as a tribute to him and his music

Tickets £12 / £10 (concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free

6^th Nottingham Organ Society presents

7.30pm Chris Powell

Chris Powell has firmly established himself as one of the UK’s premier ‘entertainment organists’ as well as a truly international ambassador in the field of electronic and theatre organ music. Born in Manchester in 1971, he emigrated to New Zealand with his parents when just 2 years old. Returning to England at the age of 5, his education and formative years while growing up in Lancashire saw him pursue his love of music with piano and organ studies culminating in a string of engagements for both local concerts and dances from the age of 14 onwards. By the time he was 18, he had successfully auditioned to join the team of organists playing for dancing at the Tower Ballroom Blackpool and began to be recognised for his musical talents leading to a succession of invitations to perform at electronic and pipe organ venues. Since then, he has gone on to become one of the most popular performers in the UK and intersperses his regular annual diary of engagements in Britain with frequent overseas concert tours with have included Holland, Australia and the US as well as NZ in recent years.

Tickets £5.50 [guests] £4.50 [Members]

9^th Jazz Steps presents

Jim Mullen Reunion Quartet

8.00pm

Jim Mullen - guitar
Gareth Williams - piano
Mick Hutton - bass
Gary Husband - drums

Bonington favourite re-unites classic quartet.

Jim Mullen is a truly original voice in contemporary jazz guitar. He has appeared at the Bonington many times, both as leader and as a sideman. His distinctive guitar style has been in demand with visiting US stars such as Mose Allison and Jimmy Witherspoon and UK greats such as Georgie Fame and Claire Martin. The other members of the band have appeared with many of the best musicians in the world, from Allan Holdsworth and John McLaughlin to Dave Liebman and Courtney Pine. In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Jim Mullen Quartet produced five CDs: We Go Back (1996), Live In Glasgow (1997), Burns (2000), Animation (2001), Somewhere In The Hills (2002). The band has reunited for a one-off tour, including three nights at Ronnie Scotts and the Southport Jazz Festival

Tickets £12 / £10 (concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free

10^th Hothouse Theatre present

Student DVD film Presentation

Further details to follow

11^th 11^th Session present

Student Showcase

Tickets available from the group and on the door

15^th – 18^th Prospect Players present

23^th Jazz Steps presents

8.00pm John Etheridge's Trio North

John Etheridge - guitar
Ben Crosland - bass
Dave Tyas - drums

Standards and originals from top UK guitarist.

John Etheridge is one of Britain's finest contemporary guitarists with an awesome technique and an extraordinary diversity of playing experience, having worked with, amongst others, Soft Machine, Yehudi Menuhin, Andy Summers, Nigel Kennedy, Stephane Grappelli, John Williams and Pat Metheny. Ben Crosland and Dave Tyas are well known to northern audiences, having worked for many years with many of the UK's finest jazz musicians, as well as visiting American soloists in a variety of contexts. The band plays an attractive and entertaining mix of standard tunes, rocky/bluesy material and original compositions. John invariably includes one of his engaging solo spots during a performance

Tickets £12 / £10 (concs.) / £5 (students) / kids go free

24^th Film Club presents

membership and tickets available on the door

25^th presents

Billy Roberts

An evening of clairvoyance

Billy Roberts is one of the UK’s leading Stage Psychics, and is a published author with fourteen books to his credit. He has been psychic since he was a child, and although he began his early life as a professional musician touring Europe with such names as Chuck Berry, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, The moody Blues, Small Faces, The Kinks, to mention but a few, he only became a professional medium when he was 34.

After serving Spiritualist Churches all over the UK, America and Canada, in 1983 he founded The Thought Workshop, the Northwest’s very first Centre for Psychic and Spiritual Studies and Alternative Therapies, opened by Billy’s friend, the legendary Doris Stokes, and where some of the UK’s top mediums worked. He has appeared on television all over the world, and has presented his own 26 week Cable television series entitled SECRETS OF THE PARANORMAL.

Tickets £15 concs £14