October Program

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October 2011

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2nd October

presents

Snake Davies

If there's one thing more credibility-sapping than honking one's instrument for the Eurythmics, it's doing so for M People. Chris Snake Davis, bless him, has done both. However, to paraphrase a saying, you don't shoot the saxophonist, and if backing Heather Small up with some tasteful parping has put the bread on his table, then good for him.

The sax-happy waters of AOR, MOR and 1980s pop (hello, Paul Young) may often have been Davis's playground, but he's also embellished records by Primal Scream, Motörhead and Soul II Soul, and as resident saxophonist on Tonight With Jonathan Ross, he's backed the not inconsiderable likes of James Brown.

The session man's life is not a romantic one, but it sounds like fun, and unsurprisingly for a man whose multi-genre expertise has kept him in demand for two decades, Davis has made some solid records of his own.

7.30pm start

Tickets

3rd October

Nottingham Organ Society presents

Byron Jones

An accomplished organist, Byron has also played most of the major theatre pipe organs in Great Britain, namely, Comptons, Christies and WurliTzers including the famous Blackpool Tower WurliTzer. He is a much-sought-after concert performer, and travels all over the country, giving concerts on many of the loved and cherished Theatre Cinema Organs that have been preserved and held in affection. He also cannot resist the temptation to sample all kinds of Church Organs when he has the opportunity. There are hundreds of Organ Societies around the country today having guest organists in concert, and Byron is among the tops, being sought after for these events, even as far as Spain and Jersey.

In recent years Byron has achieved an increasing international success, with many new friends in Canada and the USA who look forward to seeing him during his visits there. Never happier than when seated at the console of some of the world's finest organs, Byron's magic touch is appreciated all around the world.

7.30pm start

Tickets £6 members £5

6th October

Jazzhouse presents

Jure Puki Quartet

Jure Pukl - sax
Jim Hart - vibes
Michael Janisch - bass
Herbert Pirker - drums

Up-and-coming Slovenian saxophonist joined by Bonington favourites Hart and Janisch.

One of the most prolific and creative saxophonists of the younger Slovene jazz generation, Jure Pukl studied tenor sax with Joe Lovano and has worked with artists such as Maceo Parker, Esperanza Spalding and Marcus Gilmore, and orchestras like European Jazz Orchestra, European Movement Jazz Orchestra, Vienna Saxophone Quartet and many others. His music has won him many awards. What he creates is a unique type of modern jazz, impressionistic, contemporary music influenced by John Coltrane and Steve Coleman performed with a great deal of knowledge and love, giving prominence to the interplay between band members.

Start- 8pm tickets £12 cons£10

8th October

presents

Billy Roberts Clairvoyant

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.

Billy has always been regarded as an extremely radical medium whose work in the early days was greatly opposed by the different fractions of the Spiritualist movement. He has always stood by his beliefs, and although he has extremely strong views about the paranormal and the occult, his wealth of knowledge does make him stand out from his peers.

For the past two years, Billy and Ciaran O’Keeffe, parapsychologist off the television programme, MOST HAUNTED, have been jointly working on a book entitled THE GREAT PARANORMAL CLASH, to be published in July 2008 by Apex Publications. Although the two are good friends, and come from very different backgrounds, their combined efforts have culminated into an excellent read for all those interested in the paranormal.

7.30pm start

Tickets £

11th October

presents

Film

An affair to remember

A relentlessly heart-tugging tale of two soulmates whose love even great tragedy cannot tear asunder, An Affair to Remember tosses and turns the emotions but never descends into schmaltz; it stays compelling – partly down to its smart, surprisingly sassy script, which often holds back when it could go for the cheap weep, but also because it is brought to us by two of the classiest acts in Hollywood history: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.

7.30pm start

Tickets £2.50

13th October

Jazzhouse presents

Joonas Haavisto Trio

Joonas Haavisto - piano
Antti Lotjonen - bass
Joonas Riippa - drums

Nottingham International Jazz Piano Competition semi-finalist returns with trio.

Joonas Haavisto began his musical studies at the age of seven playing classical double bass and started playing the piano at the age of sixteen. From 2002 he studied in Stockholm, Helsinki, Miami and completed his Master of Music degree at Helsinki�s Sibelius-Academy in 2011. The Joonas Haavisto Trio released their debut album Blue Waters in October 2009 and with Joonas� strong compositions and formidable technique they look set to join the ranks of first-class European piano trios.

Start- 8pm tickets £12 cons £10

15th October

Class Act presents

7.30pm start

Tickets

Wednesday 19th – Saturday 22nd October

Bonington Players present

Dr David Mortimer is preparing to address a conference of neuro-surgeons with a speech certain to guarantee him a knighthood. In rushes a visitor. A nurse he had a fling with 18 years ago. Mortimer learns that as a result of their tryst she bore him a son. A son who is at this moment rampaging round the hospital searching for his wayward father! Attempting to cover up such a catastrophe on this important day sets the fibs fizzing. “If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a whopper,” yells Dr Mortimer as events begin to spin deliriously out of control. He enlists the help of hospital staff. In the ensuing chaos his best friend is passed off as the boy’s father! Fierce matron falls off the window ledge with a hypodermic needle in her rump! And several doctors end up in nurses’ uniform! There are more twists and turns in this outrageously funny farce than the Monaco Grand Prix. An evening of delicious and uproarious fun for all. By arrangement with Samuel French Ltd.

7.30pm start

Tickets £6.50

27^th October

Jazzhouse presents

John ARAM

John Aram - trombone, compositions
Graeme Blevins - sax/flute
Jason Rebello or Tom Cawley (tbc) - piano/Fender Rhodes
Phil Donkin - bass
Arthur Hnatek - drums
Joss Sessions - VJ, Visual/Photographs/Image manipulation

An imaginary jazz soundtrack to the classic work by Alan Sillitoe.

Nottingham-born, Geneva resident John Aram has worked and recorded with artists such as Phil Collins, Tim Garland, Kenny Wheeler, and Scott Stroman. Other band members have played with Gwylim Simcock, Kyle Eastwood and Guy Barker. For tonight's concert John brings his quintet to perform music inspired by the book/film "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", a project which enjoyed the support of Alan Sillitoe himself.

"Aram proves himself to be an inventive and technically impressive trombonist as well as a fine composer". JAZZWISE Magazine

Start- 8pm tickets £12 cons £10

31st October

Nottingham Organ Society presents

Chiho Sunamoto

Chiho Sunamoto, who has recently been described as the Vanessa May of the organ and keyboard world, brings a breath of fresh air onto the keyboard scene. Originally from Matsuyama, in the South of Japan, Chiho began by learning the piano at the age of 3, from there progressing at the age of 9 to the local Yamaha Music School to learn the art of organ playing.

During Chiho's time at St. Katerina University, where she studied opera singing, piano and classical organ, she became one of the youngest people to pass Yamaha's top exam, Grade 3 Music Diploma.

Twice Chiho was a finalist in the Yamaha Electone (organ) Festival, which led to offers of work from Yamaha as an overseas demonstrator and contracts with two of Japan's major TV stations where she composed and performed for a variety of shows.

7.30pm start

Tickets £6 members £5