Ken Vandemark Website

Tim Hill – alto and baritone saxophones

Dominic Lash – double bass

Mark Sanders – drums

Alex Ward – electric guitar, compositions

Video

Predicate Website

Troyka are three young musicians based in London whose intense live shows have seen them hotly tipped to follow in the foot steps of Polar Bear and Portico Quartet and become the next young band to explode from the capital’s fertile jazz scene.

A multi-textured trio with a febrile imagination where no role is pre-defined, their music twists and mutates in an ongoing dialogue inspired by a shared love of Aphex Twin, the angular world of iconclastic New York saxophonist Tim Berne and the blues-jazz-rock groove of legendary Steely Dan and Billy Cobham guitarist Wayne Krantz.

Chris Montague  -  guitars and loops

Joshua Blackmore  -  drums

Kit Downes  -  organ

Troyka Website 

Note  - this gig is not at our usual venue but is at the Central Bar Gateshead

Note this gig is at Cluny 2 – next door to the main Cluny Venue

We Free Kings Webpage

Video link  We Free Kings at Seven Jazz Leeds October 2011

Zsolt Bende: classical guitar

Cormac Byrne: bodhran, cahon, pandhera, cymbals, additional percussion

Five Countries Trio Web Page

Four Star review from John Fordham in The Guardian November 2011

Note that this gig is in Cluny 2 – next door to the main Cluny venue where we are usually

Paul Edis                      Keyboards

Mark William               Guitar

Graeme Wilson          Tenor & Baritone Sax

Andy Champion        Double Bass

Adrian Tilbrook         Drums

ACV website 

Eyes Shut Tight were finalists in July 2011 at the European Jazz  Contest in Rome.

Paul Baxter  (double bass)

Kristoffer Wright    (drums)

Johnny Tomlinson   (keyboards)

Eyes Shut Tight website

Charlie Mcgovern’s photos of the gig    ©

Charlotte Glasson – reeds, violin, musical saw

Mark Bassey – trombone

Dave Holdsworth – tuba, pocket trumpet

Mick Hutton – bass guitar & steel pans

Sam Glasson – drums

Charlotte Glasson’s website

Photos of the gig by Charlie McGovern   ©

Paul Harrison (organ) Graeme Stephen (guitar) Chris Wallace (drums)

BREACH is an exciting new project that brings together three of Scotland’s most progressive and versatile musicians. Each member composes material specifically for the group and all share the desire to look forward, fearlessly moving into new territory and unashamedly trampling over musical preconceptions. The band create a unique brand of music which is difficult to categorise. Modern jazz and improvisation provide the backbone of the Breach sound, with the trio always willing to explore new sonic language and rhythmic variations.

Graeme Stephen is a well known musician on the Scottish scene. Winner of Jazz Services prestigious Promoter’s Choice award in 2006 and selected for the Take Five professional development scheme in 2008 he has performed internationally as a member of various groups including NeWt, Fraser Fifield and his own Sextet.

Paul Harrison was improvising long before he was exposed to jazz. He settled in Scotland after entering Edinburgh University on a prestigious piano scholarship, where he was awarded the Tovey Memorial Prize. In 2009 Paul won the award for Best Pianist at the first Scottish Jazz Awards. He has performed internationally with a host of world class musicians and has led his own successful groups, releasing two acclaimed albums with Trianglehead. He also produces electronica under the alias “Phenoplastic”

Chris Wallace was born in Canada. Since arriving in Scotland, he has worked with many of the country’s top jazz musicians. Wallace is a member of the experimental trio NeWt, a group that has begun building international credentials via its recent collaborative work with Berlin saxophonist Silke Eberhard. His quartet Loose Grip recently released their debut album. Chris was one of five Scottish jazz musicians selected for the Air Time career development scheme in 2010.

Breach Trio Website