Manchester Jazz Festival: Mike Walker / Gwilym Simcock / Adam Nussbaum / Steve Swallow Quartet Concert Tickets, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

For the first of this year’s collaborations with mjf, we present a genuine ‘supergroup’ which brings together two of the UK’s finest musicians with two great stars of the US jazz scene. Gwilym Simcock has been name-checked as a ‘genius’ by Chick Corea and has worked extensively throughout Europe with top jazz artists, including Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz and Bill Bruford’s Earthworks. Mike Walker needs no introduction to…
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Jo McCallum / Andy Schofield Big Band Concert Tickets, Band On The Wall, Manchester

Saxophonists Andy Schofield and Jo McCallum have created a dynamic new 17 piece jazz orchestra. Â The line-up unites established artists with the finest of the region's young emerging talent, as they storm through a selection of original works by North West composers and arrangers. Their new project for 2010, supported by Arts Council England profiles two national guitar greats, Mike Walker (Jacqui Dankworth, Mike Gibbs, etc.) and Stuart McCallum (Cinematic…
Read more...Tags:Andy Schofield , Don Weller , Jacqui Dankworth , Jazz , Mike Gibbs , Mike Walker , North West , orchestra , Stuart McCallum
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