Gigs

Hugh Turner Heavy Funk Quartet | Global Cafe | Reading

Sat 19 Jan | Come and watch electrifying guitarist Hugh Turner and his quartet with Frankie Tontoh (drums), Anatoliy Vyacheslavov (tenor saxophone) and Stefan Redtenbacher (bass) at the Global Café in Reading. Always a cool hang and full of vigour funk explorations! | Reading | Global Café | 10.00pm – 01.00am | £5.00

• Fringe Festival Jazz. We are again putting on a great gig at the Reading Fringe Festival on 23 July: Stuart Henderson’s Remix Jazz Orchestra playing ‘The Evolution of the Big Band – from the Birth of Jazz’. Details and tickets

• A must-watch ‘Jazz 625 revival’ recorded at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival on Fri 3 May, now available on BBC iplayer4. Musicians featured include Robert Mitchell (appearing at the the Progress on 17 May) and others you will have seen (or missed) who have been our guests, such as Jean Toussaint.

• Read here the first part of a piece by Jazz in Reading’s own Trevor Bannister about Soft Machine drummer, and University of Reading alumnus, John Marshall.

• What’s happening locally? We start a new series with news of The Definite Collective. Read the story here.

• Feed your jazz habit: there’s lots going on in the area. Check out the Jazz Gig Calendar.

• Make sure your party goes with a swing – see our Book A Party Band service.

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Hugh Turner Heavy Funk Quartet | Global Cafe | Reading

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