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Russ’s pic of the week: 02-08-10
Mirror – James Allsopp on saxophone, Dave Smith on drums and Dan Nicholls on keyboards – at the July Jazz Club session, last Wednesday at the Rainbow. It’s Russ Escritt’s pic of the week. Russ has...
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Late reminder: Golden Age Of Steam tonight
Golden Age of Steam is reeds player James Allsop, drummer Tim Giles and Kit Downes playing organ. They are playing at the Jazz Club this evening. The venue is The Rainbow in Digbeth, the start time is...
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Russ’s pic of the week: Tim Giles
Tim Giles behind the drums with Golden Age Of Steam at The Rainbow last week. It’s Russ Escritt’s pic of the week. Russ has hundreds more pictures like this – in fact when it comes to jazz musicians,...
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The week ahead in gigs
Since jazz was first identified as a distinctive musical style, I guess there have always been some interesting practitioners in New York. And if the golden ages in the city’s jazz history ebb and...
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Late reminder: Trio VD tonight
They’ll be high fiving at the Rainbow in Digbeth this evening as Jazz Club celebrates its fifth birthday. Will there be candles? Who knows, but there will be two bands: Birmingham trumpeter Sam...
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Gig review: Trio VD and HUSK
Jazz Club @ The Rainbow, Birmingham UK 26-01-2011 Reviewed by JJ Wheeler Chris Sharkey still reminisces about the “review with quite a lot of imagery” from TrioVD’s last appearance at the Rainbow (from...
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The week ahead in gigs
The Delaware-born pianist Matthew Shipp has ploughed an original and probably sometimes lonely furrow from the start. He is one of those highly original jazz musicians who seems to have arrived on the...
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Paul Dunmall by Garry Corbett
Here is saxophonist Paul Dunmall in full cry at the gig at the Rainbow last Wednesday to remember his old sparring partner, drummer Tony Levin, who died earlier this month. It’s the latest in what I...
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Nick Jurd by Russ Escritt
Russ Escritt ‘s pic of the week is of Nick Jurd and Sam Wooster in support at the Tony Levin tribute gig last Wednesday at the Rainbow. Just click on the picture to find Russ’s website with loads of...
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Ruth Goller by Russ Escritt
The bassist who led her band Big Cat at the Rainbow last week is Russ Escritt’s choice for his pic of the week. Just click on the picture to find Russ’s website with loads of his other pictures plus...
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Three is the magic number
After a magical gig yesterday early evening from the Kit Downes Trio in the Symphony Hall foyer bar, tonight it’s the turn of another fine piano trio, The Gwilym Simcock Trio, at The Edge, the arts...
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Valentine’s Day massacre tonight
Startlingly full of men named Chris, and just, well, startling! – that’s Trio VD (yes, their name comes from Valentine’s Day, not the darker side of romance) and they will be filling the...
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Gig review: trio VD
The Rainbow Courtyard, Digbeth, Birmingham UK 24-02-10 It was just after 9pm, trio VD had just been introduced and were taking the stage, when somebody spoke and I went into a dream: There was a...
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Late reminder: Troyka tonight
Rising star of the jazz keyboard Kit Downes, who recently played a superb Rush Hour Blues gig in Birmingham with his acoustic piano trio, returns to the city this evening, this time plugged in as...
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Alex brings a fine band to Jazz Club tonight
Alex Merritt, Birmingham Conservatoire graduate and member of the Cobweb Collective, brings what is in effect the Kit Downes Trio to the Jazz Club at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth this evening. Alex plays...
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Russ’s pic of the week: 03-05-10
Here is drummer James Maddren, from the Alex Merritt Quartet, pictured last Wednesday by Russ Escritt at the Jazz Club at the Rainbow. It’s Russ’s choice for his pic of the week. Russ has hundreds more...
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Late reminder: Jazz Club tonight
It’s the last Wednesday of the month which means it must be Jazz Club at the Rainbow in Digbeth. On stage tonight is the Jonathan Bratoeff Quartet – Jonathan on guitar, Mark Hanslip on tenor, Tom Mason...
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Russ’s pic of the week: 31-05-10
Here is guitarist Jonathan Bratoeff with bassist Tom Mason in the background from their Jazz Club gig at the Rainbow last Wednesday. It’s Russ Escritt’s choice for his pic of the week. Russ has...
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On the highway to Jim
Drummer Jim Bashford will be familiar to anyone who has been going to interesting gigs in Birmingham over the last few years. Go back a few more years than that and he was building roads to earn a...
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Dan dares to be busy, busy, busy
Great to have keyboardist and composer Dan Nicholls back in the country again and, as usual, he has more than enough ideas for a handful of bands. He recently contributed to the groups of Rob Anstey...
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