Description

By public demand, Simmo's Pride re-roar Door/food 7.0 pm, music 8.30 Students £12 (see note below)

Geoff says about the band: "I'm delighted to have the opportunity to assemble this quintet with some of the most creative young improvisors in the UK, all of whom I first met while teaching at the The Royal Welsh College, The Royal Academy and Trinity Laban Conservatoires. They were all outstanding students and are now building impressive reputations in the wider jazz world, combining a love and respect for the tradition with fast-maturing personal voices on their respective instruments. We will be playing compositions by Lennie Tristano, Warne Marsh, Kenny Wheeler and Peter Bernstein, as well as some standards."

MATT ROBINSON (piano) is London-based and works primarily in jazz and contemporary music. He is much in demand as a sideman and recording artist and he performs in various collaborations including Snowpoet, Flying Machines, Emilia Martensson, The Magic Lantern and the bands of Nick Costley-White, Duncan Eagles, Sam Rapley and Corrie Dick.

TOM OLLENDORFF (guitar) won the 2015 Yamaha scholarship for outstanding jazz musicianship while at the Royal Welsh College and has recently toured with top US improvisors Bill McHenry and Ari Hoenig.

WILL SACH (bass) is a New Yorker who studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Linda Oh and is now completing his degree at the Royal Academy. He won the 2015 National Young Arts Foundation Merit award for jazz bass and is a regular performer at top London venues like Ronnie Scott's, Pizza Express and The Vortex.

CORRIE DICK (drums) graduated from Trinity Laban as a gold medal student, winning BBC's "young Scottish jazz musician of the year" in 2013 and he is now an integral member of bands led by Laura Jurd, Elliot Galvin and Rob Luft.

pianist Geoff Eales says about GEOFF: "Brightonian Simkins is one of the UK's finest alto saxophonists, very much in the Lee Konitz mould. His sound is pure and lovely, his execution clean and immaculate. Extolling the virtues of post-bop West Coast cool, he never over-blows and doesn't over-solo. Coltraneish sheets of sound and Ornette free-blow are out of bounds. Instead, everything is beautifully relaxed and lucid. The gig was a joy."

LINKS: Donna Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYfhHzXo0zQ Kind folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLRC4Du8N6Y Tom plays Bach: https://www.youtube.com/user/thedizzyhush

IF THIS BOOKING SYSTEM proves too difficult or fails, please email your reservations and surname to a.m.lavender@btinternet.com

NOTE. To avoid disappointment, guests are advised to book in advance via this site (up to 6.0 pm on day of gig). The earlier you book, the nearer the front your seat will be. If claiming a student discount, please bring valid student ID and you will be refunded in cash on the night. Please arrive in good time for the gig: it is difficult to hold seats once the music has started. In addition to the tickets allocated to this site, a certain number may be purchased in person from the cafe (not by phone, please) and at other jazz gigs. Remaining unreserved tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis from 7.0 pm on the evening of the gig. Tickets booked online cannot be refunded in the event of non-attendance.

Description

159 Edward Street,

Brighton,

East Sussex,

England,

BN2 0JB.