Alan Barnes & Mark Nightingale Sextet
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About the Event
Alan Barnes and Mark Nightingale lead an all-star sextet in a programme of enduring jazz instrumentals from the great composers of the 20th century. These are handcrafted jazz classics, written as vehicles for improvisation and still central to the repertoire today, given fresh arrangements for the sextet.
Barnes and Nightingale are joined by young trumpet phenomenon James Davison, with James Watson on piano, Adam King on bass and Ian Thomas on drums. Expect straight-ahead jazz, inspired soloing and inventive arrangements, with anecdotes and humour along the way.
“I was relishing the prospect of Barnes’s casually consummate musicianship, deadpan humour (he could be a comedian, if jazz ever fails him), and indomitable belief in a respected place for the music’s rich history in this eclectic and often forgetful world.”
— The Guardian