CHRISTINE TOBIN | PELT - THURSDAY 01 FEBRUARY - 8:00 PM
Christine Tobin vocals, composer Richard Jones violin Kate Shortt cello, backing vocals Gareth Lockrane flutes Phil Robson guitar, electronics Steve Hamilton piano, keyboard Dave Whitford double bass Simon Lea drums
In 2012, Irish-born vocalist and composer Christine Tobin won a BASCA British Composers Award for her ninth album Sailing to Byzantium, her settings of WB Yeats poems. The award included a PRSF commission to write new music and Christine’s latest album PELT, her settings of poems and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, is the result. Although a continuation of her alchemy with fine words and music, PELT marks a new direction and a new musical soundscape. This special Turner Sims concert will also feature a guest reading by the acclaimed, multi award winning Brooklyn poet Eva Salzman, who has collaborated with Christine on past projects.
Standard: £20, Concessions: £19, Friends: £18, Students: £10
GARY HUSBAND | A MEETING OF SPIRITS - FRIDAY 02 MARCH - 8:00 PM
Gary Husband piano, in-piano percussion, vocals, bell
Internationally acclaimed pianist, drummer and composer (John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension, Allan Holdsworth, Jack Bruce) Gary Husband, performing music from his highly emotive and acclaimed new release, compellingly reimagining the music of John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti.
Standard: £20, Concessions: £19, Friends: £18, Students: £10
THE NECKS - FRIDAY 16 MARCH - 8:00 PM
Chris Abrahams piano Lloyd Swanton bass Tony Buck drums
Forming in Sydney Australia in 1986, over the last 30 years The Necks have built an international reputation as masters of their own musical language of long-form improvisation. Each night they step onto the stage with no pre-conceived ideas of what they will play – they and the audience go on a sonic journey that is created in the moment and in that room. Over their years together, they have honed an assured process of building around repeated motifs through subtle shifts and layering, to produce an extraordinarily dense and hypnotic effect which builds in a mesmerising, epic fashion… a trio conjuring an orchestral expanse. Every Necks performance is a singular event, entirely improvised and working with the acoustics of the room.
Standard: £20, Concessions: £19, Friends: £18, Students: £10
THE NECKS - FRIDAY 16 MARCH - 8:00 PM
Chris Abrahams piano Lloyd Swanton bass Tony Buck drums
Forming in Sydney Australia in 1986, over the last 30 years The Necks have built an international reputation as masters of their own musical language of long-form improvisation. Each night they step onto the stage with no pre-conceived ideas of what they will play – they and the audience go on a sonic journey that is created in the moment and in that room. Over their years together, they have honed an assured process of building around repeated motifs through subtle shifts and layering, to produce an extraordinarily dense and hypnotic effect which builds in a mesmerising, epic fashion… a trio conjuring an orchestral expanse. Every Necks performance is a singular event, entirely improvised and working with the acoustics of the room.
Standard: £20, Concessions: £19, Friends: £18, Students: £10
SYJO WITH YAZZ AHMED | SKETCHES OF SPAIN - SATURDAY 24 MARCH - 7:30 PM
Southampton Youth Jazz Orchestra Dan Mar-Molinero director Yazz Ahmed trumpet Corrinna Silvester percussion
Southampton Youth Jazz Orchestra are joined by special guest Yazz Ahmed to explore the sound-world of Miles Davis through his classic album and collaboration with arranger Gil Evans, Sketches of Spain. Acknowledged as one of jazz’s rising stars, Yazz’s career has seen her working alongside Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, as well as recording with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Transglobal Underground and Radiohead.
Standard: £18, Concessions: £17, Friends: £16.20, Students: £9
KEYON HARROLD - FRIDAY 13 APRIL - 8:00 PM
Keyon Harrold trumpet, vocals Shedrick Mitchell piano, keyboards Burniss Travis bass Charles Haynes drums Nir Felder guitar
Raised from the fires of (now infamous) Ferguson, Missouri, Grammy Award-winning Keyon Harrold has developed a reputation as one of the world’s most sought-after, emotionally electric young trumpeters on the scene. Keyon has toured and recorded with or produced for the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Common, Erykah Badu, and Lauryn Hill to name a few. He also has had numerous musical placements in film and TV including the 2015 Miles Davis biopic, Miles Ahead. Directed by Don Cheadle, Keyon is featured as the trumpet sound of Don Cheadle playing Miles Davis. Tonight he plays music from his 2017 album, The Mugician. As the word ‘Mugician’ is an impromptu hybrid of words, this album is an accumulation of Keyon’s eclectic tastes, with stylistic twists and turns everywhere taking cues from jazz, hip-hop, blues, rock, reggae, and rap.
Standard: £21, Concessions: £20, Friends: £18.90, Students: £11
MARK GUILIANA QUARTET - SATURDAY 28 APRIL - 8:00 PM
Mark Guiliana drums Jason Rigby saxophone Fabian Almazan piano Chris Morrissey bass
Mark Guiliana has become recognised as one of the world’s leading drummers, admired and in demand across the spectrum from jazz to rock to electronic music for his rhythmic sophistication, creative impulse, and individual sound. He has been in the vanguard of drummers creating a new vernacular on the instrument, blending virtuosity on acoustic drums with artfully deployed electronic beats and processing. Along with leading his own groups, Mark has appeared on a string of acclaimed recordings with others. The verve and precision of Guiliana’s drumming was a prime mover of Blackstar, David Bowie’s multiple Grammy Award-winning final album, and he has collaborated with artists such as Brad Mehldau, John Scofield, Donny McCaslin and Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer-songwriter Matt Cameron. Tonight he brings music from his most recent release Jersey, with his ever-compelling quartet.
Standard: £22, Concessions: £21, Friends: £19.80, Students: £11
BILL FRISELL & THOMAS MORGAN | SMALL TOWN - SUNDAY 06 MAY - 7:30 PM
Bill Frisell guitar Thomas Morgan double bass
Multiple Grammy Award-winner Bill Frisell has established himself as one of the most admired and influential musicians across contemporary music. With his unmistakable trademark sound, his collaborations with a staggering range of artists from jazz, rock, film, and beyond – including Paul Motian, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Charles Lloyd, Bonnie Raitt, and John Scofield – have produced dazzling results, as evidenced by Small Town (ECM), his acclaimed recent release recorded live at New York’s famed Village Vanguard with rising bass phenomenon Thomas Morgan. Tonight the duo bring their magical musical chemistry to the Turner Sims stage.
Standard: £25, Concessions: £24, Friends: £22.50, Students: £13
DOUBLE BILL: SNOWPOET & OLIVIA CHANEY - FRIDAY 11 MAY - 8:00 PM
Lauren Kinsella vocals Josh Arcoleo saxophone Matthew Robinson piano Nick Costley-White guitar Chris Hyson bass Dave Hamblett drums Alice Zawadski violin Francesca Ter-Berg cello
Snowpoet fuses together the writing duo of Jazz FM Vocalist of the Year Lauren Kinsella and composer / multi-instrumentalist Chris Hyson. One of the most innovative and creative new bands in the UK today, they bring melody, form and text to a new setting. Inspired in equal parts by artists such as Björk, Sylvia Plath, Joni Mitchell, EE Cummings, Tom Waits, Ólöf Arnalds and John Cage, the group’s music combines modern folk, jazz and ambient soundscapes, with original and inventive song writing at its core. Heavily influenced by alternative folk and indie genres, tonight’s performance coincides with the launch of their second album Thought You Knew, released on Edition Records.
Standard: £20, Concessions: £19, Friends: £18, Students: £10
MAMMAL HANDS + SUPPORT - SATURDAY 19 MAY - 8:00 PM
Nick Smart piano Jesse Barrett drums, percussion Jordan Smart saxophones
Captivating, ethereal and majestic, Mammal Hands has carved out a refreshingly original sound from a disparate array of influences: drawing on spiritual jazz, north Indian, folk and classical music to create something inimitably their own. All three members contribute equally to the writing process: one that favours the creation of a powerful group dynamic over individual solos. Tonight they perform music from their new release, Shadow Work; their third album and the first they have self-produced. The energy from their exhilarating live performances has fed into the writing process and yet there is a quiet reflective side to this album, giving it an expanded emotional range that draws the listener deep into Mammal Hand’s sound world. Their records are entrancing and beautiful affairs, while their hypnotic live shows have seen them hailed as one of the most exciting bands in Europe.
Standard: £20, Concessions: £19, Students: £10
