Cheltenham Jazz Festival Concerts at the Xposed Club

30 April 2009, 8pm, Xposed Club, Pittville Studios
Kira Kira + Longstone + Akiko

1 May 2009, 8pm, Xposed Club, Pittville Studios
Ernst Reijsegar solo + The Convergence Quartet + Alex Ward/Chris Cundy duo

2009 Cheltenham Jazz Festival brings two concert to the Xposed Club. In the first concert Kira Kira + Longstone + Akiko Cheltenham meets Iceland in a feast of electronic experimentalism. The second concert will present an evening of the finest contemporary music with Ernst Reijsegar solo + The Convergence Quartet + Alex Ward/Chris Cundy duo.

The Convergence Quartet – Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), Harris Eisenstadt (drums), Alexander Hawkins (piano), and Dominic Lash (double bass) – brings together four of a new young generation of improvisers who draw on both US and European creative traditions in their playing. Despite the band’s youth, its members’ individual performance and recording credits already take in many of the seminal names in creative music (including Anthony Braxton, John Butcher, Lol Coxhill, Bill Dixon, Evan Parker, Sam Rivers, and Cecil Taylor).

The evening will include another outstanding Mark Unsworth set design and an interactive photography/image projection created by Photography students of University of Gloucestershire to delight and entertain you.

To reserve tickets please email Stuart Wilding swilding@glos.ac.uk.