FROME Jazz Club is rapidly gaining a reputation for the high energy and high quality of its gigs, held in the intimate setting of the Cornerhouse pub in Frome and all are free entry, so early arrival is advised if you want a seat.
On Thursday 4th January, Frome Jazz Club presents Music of the Soul, with Karen Street.
Dark, sensual, transporting, and supremely melodic – tango is the music of the soul. And its greatest exponent was the bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla, who reinvented tango for the 20th century by fusing it with modern classical music and jazz.
On Thursday 7th January, Frome Jazz Club celebrates Piazzolla’s extraordinary music with one of today’s greatest accordionists, Karen Street, appearing with the Keith Harrison-Broninski trio. Karen is well known for her performances of tangos, as well as waltzes and other passionate music of the night, and we may venture beyond Piazzolla to play a few other irresistible melodies.
Entry free, doors 8pm, and as always, early arrival advised. www.facebook. com/events/374452969681494
On Sunday 28th January, Frome Jazz Club presents Sam Crockatt in John Law’s Re-Creations.
Last heard at FJC in April 2017, John Law’s Re-Creations featuring Sam Crockatt is back by popular demand. Come along to hear masterful reworkings of favourite popular tunes from Sam Crockatt, saxophones, John Law, piano, James Agg, bass, and Billy Weir, drums.
Entry free, doors 7pm, and as always, early arrival advised. www.facebook. com/events/419182338484543
On Thursday 1st February – Frome Jazz Club presents Night Dreamer, with Craig Crofton Night Dreamer, Black Nile, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, Wild Flower, Witch Hunt, Yes or No, Infant Eyes, and so many more. As well as being one of the great and distinctive hard bop sax players, Wayne Shorter released a series of albums in the 1960s from which song after song immediately entered the jazz repertoire.
His elliptical melodies and magical harmonies are as fascinating today as they ever were, and on 1st February the terrific tenor player (and Frome Jazz Club favourite) Craig Crofton, returns to explore them with the Keith Harrison-Broninski Trio. If you love the classic Blue Note sound, you’ll love this.
Entry free, doors 8pm, and as always, early arrival advised. www.facebook. com/events/401261736979372
Then on Sunday 25th February, Frome Jazz Club presents the John Law Trio in Turn Out the Stars Frome’s resident jazz piano virtuoso regularly appears at FJC with different quartets, but here we’re giving him a chance to stretch out in trio format.
To explore the sublime music of Bill Evans, who reinvented the jazz piano trio in the 1960s and whose influence on jazz piano playing has barely diminished since then, John Law is joined by Yuri Goloubev, double bass, and Billy Weir, drums.
Entry free, doors 7pm, and as always, early arrival advised. www.facebook. com/events/1530168910352357
