We welcome back guitar ace Dan Messore as special guest at Septembers SJS.
Dan's guitar playing channels the greats like Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny, and reaches across to more rhythmic and latin genres like Charlie Byrd. Dan's collaboration with Iain Ballamy has set critics' hearts racing, his eclectic album with Little Arrows was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize 2013, and -as mentioned- he frequently plays with Stroud Jazz favourite Jake McMurchie in Michelson Morley.
Dan's bringing some originals and standards for his opening performance, which will be followed by our usual energeti-frenetic jam for all-comers to play, sing, or listen.
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Upcoming Events
Workshop
Wednesday 21st October 9.30am-12.30pm
Workshop with Michael Peters. Learn how to sculpt the raw recordings into usable drum and synth sounds that knock on a wall gets shaped into the actual kick drum of the finished song.
Live Performance
Friday 23rd October 7:00pm
The jam is hosted by Stroud Jazz Collective and Stroud Valleys Artspace and has been born out of the former Stroud Jazz Sessions, celebrated for over a decade in Stroud.
Mowat is a self-taught jazz composer, band-leader, trumpeter, improviser, promoter, curator, mentor and project creator, social-justice activist, spoken-word poet and tour organiser. He sees music as an expression of soul and a practitioner of the art of bringing diverse people together to create community through music.
Live Music
Saturday 24th October, 7:30pm
Blending the lyricism of folk traditions with the rhythmic drive of contemporary jazz, Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist Mali Sheard is a saxophonist and composer whose music is both evocative and adventurous.
Exhibition
30th October - 7th November
Along the way culture, particularly visual culture, drifted and became content which challenged old structures and allowed for new emerging opportunities.
This exhibition pitches ceramic objects made by and for May Darbyshire's Kingdom of Imagined Animals. These set before Mark Darbyshire's collection of found images, also of animals.
Our purpose: acknowledging we are content whilst detaching ourselves from the poverty of image streaming. All in the hope content will find at least a modicum of contentment.
Live performance
Saturday 31st October 7:30pm
Brunel Goods Shed
Synthesiser chamber ensemble perform classical transcriptions, new compositions and classic horror soundtracks for this special Halloween performance they will be reimagining John Carpenter’s iconic scores alongside Bach’s works and others.
Clubnight
Saturday 31st October 8pm
Haloweeeeeen! The hallowed season! And as always we will turn to our witches for spiritual guidance in ritualistic dance and cauldron grooves
Live Music
Friday 6th November, 7:30pm
Trombonist, composer, bandleader, and a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, Christ-Stéphane Boizi is already making his mark on the London jazz scene, but his reputation is set to soar with the news that he has signed to Mark Kavuma’s Banger Factory Records label, with his debut LP As The Spirit Leads scheduled for release later in the year.