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UP & COMING
JULY
Steve King Big Band with Lynn Dawes (US)
We kick off July with a return visit from the fabulous Steve King Big Band. He will be accompanied by US vocalist Lynn Dawes, and if you don't know how good they all are check the videos below:


Oleg Kireyev (Russia)
The following week celebrates a quarter of a century of the Birmingham International Jazz Festival, and our contribution will be a return visit from Oleg Kireyev, "the revolutionary reedman from Ufa in the Urals". Oleg's powerful and exciting brand of Jazz makes him a great draw wherever he plays in Russia, the UK and beyond.
Oleg will be playing elsewhere in the Festival, but this will be your only chance to see him re-united with Andy Hamilton & The Blue Notes, the band he played with the first time he came to the West Midlands.
Delano Mills’
Not Strictly Jazz Quartet
The next guest spot in July is a return gig for Delano Mills' Not Stricly Jazz (below) on the 16th. They filled the Corks Club earlier this year playing the Music of Grover Washington and they're running the same theme this time. Once again band features the wonderful Alvin Davis on Saxophones along with Martin Trottman on keys and Wayne Scott on drums.
Henry Newman Quintet
Features Janice Williamson (ex-Black Voices)
The last guest slot on July 23 is the Henry Newman's Quintet who make their first visit to Corks. Hernry himself is sometimes seconded in by Andy Hamilton to play with the Blue Notes when Tim is away, while Ray Brown is the regular Bass player with the Blue Notes.
The rest of the band however are new to Corks. They are vocalist Janice Williamson, Fred Wisdom on guitar and Wal Warmington on drums. Janice is a former member of Black Voices, UK’s leading female a cappella group (I've even got a Black Voices vinyl LP with her on). Guitarist Fred Wisdom has a well received new album "Words of Wisdom" reflecting diverse influences which include Classical, Jazz, Famenco and Indian music.
Steve Ajao in August
We just have the one guest in August, but we're sure you'll enjoy Steve Ajao. Charismatic, entertaining and nuts about Bebop, Steve is one of those musicians you can't afford to miss. If you want to know what I mean just play the video below. It's now embedded in HD, but I can assure he's better in real life.
With all this and the regular Andy Hamilton gigs in between we can still put on a great show and offer great value for money in these challenging times (with social club prices behind the bar to boot).
We look forward to
seeing you!
IN THE PIPELINE
- Sept 10th - Simon Spillett (above)
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THE CLUB
At Bearwood Corks
Club we run Jazz every Thursday, and, as Corks Club is a Social Club,
the new venue makes for an affordable night out in a purpose built
Function Room. You'll find us on the corner of Bearwood Road and
Sherwood Road virtually opposite Aldi - watch out for our new
banner - see the picture on our Map
page.
We would like to thank everyone
who's attended and helped to spread the word. Let's keep the momentum going
or as Andy's Vocalist, Vic Evans, always says "tell you're friends and your enemies too". If you want to
know more about us and get regular updates on our programme click the Contact
button to join our mailing list,and, remember, if you like Jazz and you
haven't seen Andy Hamilton and the Blue Notes you've not been to
Birmingham or the Black Country.
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GUESTS & JAMS
Here's a photo With a nice Jazz mood. It's guitarist David Lloyd Henry performing with singer Indigo at Corks Club on 18th June. Click here to view a larger version.
Chris Murray Paintings from Andy’s Big Birthday Bash
This year at Andy's Birthday Party Artist, Chris Murray produced these two wonderful paintings. The top one is of Scott Hamilton playing with Andy Hamilton and the Blue Notes; and behind the two stars you can clearly see Tim Amann on keys and Paul Foad on guitar.
The one on the left is of Scott Hamilton on his own. All great stuff and it's amazing that we're able to get these images up on the net before any photographs. Anyone wishing to see or buy his art can see more of his work at www.onlinejones.co.uk/chrismurray
If he's got any sense he'll be whacking up the prices for these two little beauties.
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MIR Staff Set Up New Business
Most Instrumentalists who check out this site will probably know by now that MIR Musical Instrument Repairs has closed down. What you may not know though, is that their expert repairers have now set up their own business.
The business specialises in repairs with less emphasis on selling instruments; You may still want to visit them to buy more specialist and sought after instruments. They now call themselves Connolly Musical Instument Repairs and if you want to contact them here are the details:
Address: Connolly Musical Instrument Repairs
‘Beersheba’ Bustleholme Ave
West Bromwich
West Midlands
B71 3BA
Tel: 0121 588 5301 Mob: 07949 290 240
email: enquiries@connolly-mir.co.uk
URL: www.connolly-mir.co.uk
BEARWOOD JAZZ ARCHIVE
I've started an Archive Section to house old articles from our
front page to clear space for new information. The Archive currently
houses features on the David Murray / Hal singer gig and Andy Hamilton's
return to the Zaka among other things.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Fans of our “resident artist”, Chris Murray will be
pleased to see that there has been a major upgrade to his site and that
it has been moved to some ad-free webspace. You will find it at www.onlinejones.co.uk/chrismurray
and there are lots of recent paintings up there with more to come
shortly.
Photographer
Garry Corbett has been snapping away at Corks. He
amazingly got his photos that he took on the Silvershine night, where
David Murray and Hal Singer guested, up on his Flickr site by 11am the next day (or so I've been
told). This photo of Vic Evans hands drumming is one of his.
Dick Jones (that's me folks!) has painting,
sculpture, drawings and prints on the web, and now has a section
dedicated to jazz photography. The site now has the domain name www.onlinejones.co.uk
even if it's still hosted on free space.
Jazz
Photographer, Russ Escritt has a second website, http://www.russescritt.co.uk
.
This site features many photos of Andy Hamilton and the Bluenotes as
well as
images of the many stars who have guested with him over the
last ten years. Russ’s original site http://www.russpix.co.uk
has been
redesigned and now features many of the national and international jazz
names
Russ has photographed.
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