Friday, April 24th 2009 8.45pm – Orange Street Music Club
The crème-de-la-crème of Kentish jazz. KYJO is the county’s top youth Big Band with a repertoire ranging from Swing to Funk and Fusion.
Saturday, April 25th 2009 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
Oren Marshall is a pioneering player of acoustic and electric tuba who crosses between classical - jazz - improvised- world music. He has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, Keith Tippet, the Pan-African Orchestra and the London Philharmonic.
Sunday April 26th 2009 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
This exciting event takes the idea of the nocturne, the intimate form of night music so loved by Chopin, and updates it for 2009, the 160th anniversary of the composer's death.
Monday 27th April 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
Welcome to the multi-coloured world of Cibelle, a Brazilian chanteuse currently residing in Dalston, who's been tipped, alongside Portishead and Bjork, as one of the three most important live acts in her genre.
Tuesday 28th April 6.00pm - Orange Street Music Club
Evan Parker is one of the great legends of jazz and improvisation and Paul Booth is one of the most exciting jazz saxophonists to have emerged in recent years.
Wednesday 29th April 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
There's a fine line between the unique and the insane, and it's a line which New Yorker Thomas Truax straddles with his chin held high and ' The Hornicator ' firmly glued to his left ear
Thursday 30th April 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
Stilton is a mishmash of electronic and organic music concrete sounds. Created by composer Sam Dondi-Smith, Stilton has destroyed all boundaries of pop, dance, jazz, indie and D&B to create something original.
Friday 1st May 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
Syd Arthur is a band that hails from Canterbury. Taking their inspiration from the music of the 70’s ‘Canterbury Scene’ with bands such Soft Machine and Caravan, they fuse styles such as rock, jazz, folk and world music, creating an original sound that still ‘has its roots in all the right places’.
Saturday 2nd May 9pm - Orange Street Music Club
Poland’s pre-eminent Kletzmer band, Max Klezmer Band, was formed at the end of 1998 by its leader Max Kowalski. Their work fuses traditional Jewish music with jazz, linking traditional themes, improvisation and the band’s own compositions.
