![]() Pete Long’s all-star group is the nearest we’ll ever get to actually being there when Goodman unleashed this infamous sextet on the musical world.įolk House - Sunday 29 March 4:30pm £15 + bf Complete with piano, vibraphone, bass and drums the music they produced is joyous and swinging with tight interplay featuring throughout. This particular Goodman group is famed also as it represents almost the entire recorded output of electric guitar pioneer Charlie Christian. This time he presents the music of Benny Goodman’s legendary 1940 sextet. Goodmania ’40 - Celebrating Benny GoodmanĬlarinetist/Bandleader Pete Long is the director of the Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra and Echoes Of Ellington who performed Long’s celebrated Jazz Planets suite at Bristol Jazz and Blues festival in 2019. Sprinkled throughout will be the trios original compositions that are carving a path for female-led blues in the 21st century.įolk House - Sunday 29 March 1:30pm £15 + bf Corcoran’s 7-piece band, complete with horn section, has been described by Guitarist magazine as “our favourite players of vintage blues” and led Germany’s Blues News to comment “the best ‘Texan’ blues guitarist, at present, isn’t from Texas, but from England!”įolk House - Saturday 28 March 9pm £15 + bfĪ trio of Bristol’s finest female blues/soul singers Victoria Klewin, Elles Bailey and Lady Nade join forces to produce a show that places the music of the early ‘Blues Queens’ such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Ethel Waters before moving along to the great female blues artists of the 1950’s - Etta James, Ruth Brown and Big Mama Thornton. Chris’ unique brand of instrumental Jump Blues is an exciting, dynamic and completely original presence in this world where Rock-flavoured blues tends to be the order of the day. This show takes us back to pay homage to the very artists that would have inspired both those acts, and many others, as youngstersįolk House - Saturday 28 March 6pm - 7:30pm £15 + bfĬhris Corcoran is the guitarist’s guitarist! He is one of the UK’s finest Blues and R&B musicians and has been performing across the UK and Europe for over 20 years. Guitarist editor-in-chief Jamie Dickson has previously produced shows for Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival honouring both Jimi Hendrix and Cream. This was the era of giants such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and T-Bone Walker who harnessed the power of the then new-fangled guitar amplifier and literally changed the musical landscape forever. Our good friends (and experts in all things guitar-related) at Guitarist and Guitar Techniques magazines have joined forces to produce this new show focusing on the period between the acoustic Delta Blues sound of the 1930’s and the advent of Rock ’n’ Roll in the 1950’s. ![]() Folk House - Saturday 28 March 3pm £15 + bfīright Lights Big City - a musical history of Urban Blues
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