"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
- Louis Armstrong
OUR.JAZZ is a collaborative project between Ouroboros, Jazz in York and The Basement Jazz Club, with support from Help Musicians UK. OUR.JAZZ will focus on improving gender and racial diversity in Jazz, with a series of gigs, workshops and talks around York over the next year. Stay tuned for more!
For more information on the Basement Jazz Club please get in touch with Harkirit Boparai
We ask customers to keep noise to a minimum during the performance.
Age Restrictions 16+
OUR.JAZZ
2018 SHOWS
DEEP CABARET
DEEP CABARET is a thing of riffs and drones. And what drones!
Steve Lewis creates songs by taking fragments from leftfield pop, African, folk and jazz, channelled through a sextet of instruments rarely heard in jazz (hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, overtone vocals) and setting found texts from across science, literature and history: riffs and drones, curious and stirring.
"Gorgeous and stirring"
"Wonderful and invigorating"!
DEEP CABARET is:
Maja Bugge, cello
Steve Lewis, voice, guitar
Ben McCabe, drums
Matt Robinson, clarinets
Paul Sherwood, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes
Jayson Stilwell, overtone vocals, percussion.
In association with JAZZ NORTH
OCT 12TH
DOORS 8PM //
TICKETS £10 ADV / £12 OTD
ALISON RAYNER QUINTET
In ARQ, Alison Rayner has gathered a group of musicians who sympathetically support her music.
The group’s imaginative and assured playing are superbly suited to Rayner’s compositions and reflect a confidence inspired by working intensively together, touring their first album 'August'.
ARQ’s profile has risen rapidly in the past four years, with extensive touring and critical acclaim for their second album, ‘A Magic Life’. Described by the Guardian as ‘spirited, eloquent and graceful’ and by the Observer as ‘purposeful, full-toned and melodic, a beautifully integrated band’, their music is awash with infectious grooves, lyrical melodies and a music founded in jazz but with folk, rock, classical and other world music influences.
They have built a substantial and wide-ranging audience, receiving national and international radio play and four and five star reviews in jazz and national press.
Their recent 30-date ‘Magic Life’ UK tour concluded with a sell-out night at the Soho Pizza Express Jazz Club.
‘Inspired by real-world ideas, people and situations but infused with the kind of heady imagination that transforms their resonances into a series of vivacious musical adventures’ ***** BBC Music Magazine
‘A gorgeous album synthesising mood, melody and the interplay between musicians totally at home with each other.’ **** Jazzwise
‘A celebration of life itself ‘ LondonJazzNews
‘The quintet’s multi-faceted pieces are full of delightful colour and detail –but for all their sophistication remained wholly accessible and unfailingly melodic.” thejazzmann.com
NOV 23RD