Sunday Nov 18th

Storey's Field Centre

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Times: 6:30-10:00pm

Tickets: £8 / £6 students and U18s

Unreserved seating available.

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Cambridge Jazz Youth Band hosts four entertaining sets of jazz standards, improvisation and new jazz and funk compositions.

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Josh Ison’s classic trio of bass, drums and sax will perform standards, new songs and improvisations. Also performing tonight are some of Cambridge’s finest Young talent: The Goods and Cambridge Jazz Youth Band with BBC Introducing Cambridgeshire featured artist, Ffion Rebecca.

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Josh Ison Trio

(6.30 – 7.15pm)

Josh Ison’s trio of bass, drums and sax will perform a tribute to American alto sax player and composer Ornette Coleman. At the forefront of jazz innovation over a 47-year career, Coleman pioneered free jazz and free funk. His album ‘Sound Grammar’ was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.

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Josh Ison (tenor sax) studied at Trinity College of Music. He recorded his free improvised album, ‘Perceive and React’ at the East Side Sound Studios in New York with bass legend Henry Grimes and Gerald Cleaver on drums.

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Huw V Williams (bassist and composer) studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music, his critically acclaimed album HON inspired a review headline ‘swaggering infectious energy,’ John Fordham, The Guardian.

 

Ffion Rebecca with the Cambridge Jazz Youth Band

(7.30 – 8.15pm)

Welsh singer song writer, Ffion Rebecca who is 18 years old, has performed ahead of concerts by Sam Smith, Brittany Spears and, in November, Florence + The Machine. Her exquisite vocal tone takes people to an emotional and spiritual place that only a great voice can. Ffion Rebecca’s debut release, ‘Love Away from Home’ reached number 2 in the i Tunes Blues Charts. As a BBC Introducing Cambridgeshire featured artist, Ffion Rebecca’s single, ‘Devil,’ was Number 1 for six weeks in the NMG charts. Ffion Rebecca has been nominated for the NMG awards 2018.

 

Cambridge Jazz Youth Band

(8.45 – 9.30pm)

This eight - piece band met at the Cambridge Jazz Coop, Josh Kemp’s jazz sessions at Cambridgeshire Holiday Orchestra, Saffron Centre for Young Musicians and in the Cambridge music shop, Wood, Wind and Reed. Since performing jazz standards at  last year’s festival, the band has established a regular slot at Hot Numbers, performed at Jazz and Brass in the Park and, in September, at the Old Riverport Jazz and Blues Festival, St Ives. The band members are: Jesse Lawson, piano; Ollie Talbot, drums; Dominic Howard, guitar; Gerard Marco, bass guitar; Simon Herberholz, Alf Timney and Oli Smith, saxes and Flora Timney, trumpet.

 

The Goods

(9.35 – 10.00pm)

The Goods was formed by the four youngest members of the Cambridge Jazz Youth Band to write and perform jazz and funk. Nat Adderley Junior, at 11 years of age,  famously wrote and arranged, ‘I’m on my Way’ for his uncle’s band, ‘The Cannonball Adderley Quintet.’ The Goods – Gerard Marco, bass guitar; Ollie Talbot, drums; Oli Smith tenor sax; and Dominic Howard, guitar – at 12 – 15 years of age are a little older but their songs confirm they too are ‘on their way.’ Attracting appreciative audiences when busking in Cambridge, the band has performed at Hot Numbers and in September with Ffion Rebecca at the Old Riverport Jazz and Blues Festival, St Ives.