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PAST CONCERT
JUNE 2019 Concert
Gareth Lockrane | Flute
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Saturday 22 June 2019
Clifton Cathedral
8.00pm
with
Gareth Lockrane | Flute
The Gareth Lockrane Quartet
and Special Guests | Dakhla Brass
GARETH LOCKRANE QUARTET
Gareth Lockrane | Flutes
Kate Williams | Piano
Will Harris | Double Bass
Dave Smith | Drums
DAKHLA BRASS
Sophie Stockham | Alto Sax
Charlotte Ostafew | Baritone Sax
Pete Judge | Trumpet
Liam Treasure | Trombone
Riaan Vosloo | Double Bass
Matt Brown | Drums
BRISTOL SYMPHONY
70-piece orchestra
William Goodchild | Conductor
Pamela Bell | Leader
For the third in its Jazz Meets Bristol Symphony concerts, conductor William Goodchild and the Orchestra are collaborating with two exciting and cutting edge combos. London-based jazz flautist Gareth Lockrane - his big band having just scooped Best Big Band in the 2018 British Jazz Awards - brings his quartet to Bristol and will be performing pieces especially arranged for Bristol Symphony from his latest album, Fistfight at the Barndance, which is available on Whirlwind Records. Also on the billing – and to open the night’s performance - is Bristol-based sextet, Dakhla Brass, who will join the Orchestra to play tunes from the band’s latest and highly acclaimed album, Murmur, (Impossible Arc Records). Come early and enjoy a drink on the terrace before this feast of Jazz Meets Bristol Symphony begins.
PROGRAMME
7.30 | Bar on the Terrace
7.30 | Box Office open
8pm | Dakhla
Meets Bristol Symphony
Zenith and Nadir
Heartache and Loneliness
One Wicker Wisp
Murmuration
The Last Host
Insomnia
5000 What?
8.40 | Bar on the Terrace
9.05 | Gareth Lockrane Quartet
Meets Bristol Symphony
Do it
We’ll Never Meet Again
One for Junia
Soon Enough
Spring is Here
Strange But True
TIMINGS
7.30pm - Terrace Bar / Box Office / Doors open
8.00pm - Concert begins
8.45pm - Interval (25 mins)
10.00pm - Concert finishes
ADULTS
£20.00 online - available in advance
or £22.50 on the door - on the night
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UNDER 16's
£10.00 online - available in advance
or £10.00 on the door - on the night
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PLEASE NOTE
Online tickets need to be printed.
Please print off and present your e-ticket at the event.
No transaction fees. All seats are unreserved
VENUE
Address and map below
Refunds Policy
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CLOSED!
Gareth Lockrane Quartet
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Gareth and Kate have been performing and recording together for over 10 years in various ensembles of Kate's, including quartet, quintet and septet line-ups.
For Kate, this is the second collaboration with conductor William Goodchild and orchestra, having launched Interplay Series: Bill Evans and The Impressionists for jazz trio and orchestra at the 2014 Bristol Jazz Festival.
A stalwart of the Bristol jazz scene, acclaimed double bassist Will Harris has performed with Andy Sheppard, Nikki Iles and David Newton, as well as legendary New York saxophonist Chris Potter, with whom he toured as part of the Inner City Ensemble.
Drummer Dave Smith is best known for his work with Robert Plant and the Sensation Space Shifters, Fofoulah and Afro-Blues group Juju. As co-founder of The Loop Collective, Dave is part of some of the most adventurous, and accessible, musical projects in the UK including Strobes, Cloudmakers Trio, Outhouse, MA and Splice.
The Music
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The programme will feature pieces arranged by Gareth and Kate especially for tonight's concert. Gareth has chosen three original compositions from his acclaimed big band album Fistfight at the Barndance.
Gareth says:
Do It is inspired by a lifetime of watching 70s cop movies, written to the exact tempo that Dirty Harry strides through the streets of San Fransisco, with a trail of wreckage behind him!
We'll Never Meet Again is a ballad that has always been a tune of mine that I like to revisit in the big band and I’m looking forward to giving it the orchestral treatment.
One For Junia is greatly inspired by the South African pianist Bheki Mseleku, one of my biggest influences and collaborators before his death in 2008.
Kate has arranged one tune from the American Songbook, the lush and beautiful Spring Is Here by Rodgers and Hart, a Bill-Evans-inspired original, Soon Enough, and a hard-swinging original Strange but True (from her album Atlas and Vulcana) which will feature Lockrane with all his brilliance and invention.
Press comment
"...crisp, incisive and totally at one with the rhythmic ebb and flow"
"Williams has a quality rare among jazz composers: a musical vocabulary that's all her own"
The Observer
“...Lockrane's flute work is exceptional, combining a relaxed fluidity on the one hand with an acute adventurousness on the other...” Peter Quinn, Jazzwise
“the formidable Lockrane...a stunning display of sharp-accented runs, earthy whoops and constantly refreshed melodic ideas”
John Fordham, The Guardian
Dakhla Brass
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The programme will feature Bristol-based instrumental sextet Dakhla Brass has a unique signature sound: a lattice-work of intricate brass lines over simmering drums. Tonight the band is delighted to be expanding its palette across the spectrum of an entire orchestra, in brand new arrangements of tunes from its latest album Murmur (Impossible Ark Records, 2018). From the poignant New Orleans funeral march of The Last Host, to the crashing anthemic riffs of 5000 What?, via the playful schizophrenia of Insomnia Somnia and the minimalist crescendo of One Wicker Wisp, this is music of power, craft, tenderness and wit, delivered with energy and poise by an indisputably unique musical collective.
Dakhla Brass | Bio
“Murmur has up’d their game; what was already a great band has up’d it even further!”
Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2
"A powerhouse. Talent, instinct and creativity make them a real force to be reckoned with"
Sound on Sound
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