21st - 30th July 2006

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ALAN BARNESBEN HERMANPETER KING

STEVE MELLING

EVAN PARKERGWILYM SIMCOCK

BRYAN SPRINGART THEMEN

STAN TRACEYDON WELLER

KENNY WHEELERNORMA WINSTONE

TRILOK GURTUSULEYMAN ERGUNER

TONY COE & ALAN HACKERREEM KELANI

PANDITS MISHRAANDY SHEPPARDKULJIT BHAMRA

SAVINA YANNATOU

28th-30th JulyAppleby Jazz Festival

21st-23rd JulyAppleby International

Music Festival

presents

I am very proud of the fact that the Appleby Jazz Festival has since its inception in 1989 remained true to its initial aims of promoting the UK’s finest jazz musicians. My programming policy has always been to create a weekend of music that I particularly want to hear. As well as enjoying the music of British jazz improvisers I have always had a keen interest in classical music and also classical forms of different cultures. I have for a while now been seeking the opportunity to promote an extra weekend of the music based around these other forms. Thanks to increased funding this year I have decided to take the plunge and try out this idea and have booked top improvisers from Turkey, India, Greece and Palestine in addition to some British names. Though you may not be as familiar with the names of some of these musicians as you are with our home-grown jazz legends, they are all household names in their own countries and are usually found performing in major European concert venues. Appleby visitors will be treated to the unique opportunity of hearing these top international stars in the small, intimate and meditative environment of St Michael’s Church, which is acoustically ideal for such performances. Needless to say the now well established Appleby Jazz Festival weekend will be the same as ever. I invite you to join mein experiencing two unique weekendsof improvised music by highlycreative master musicians.

Neil Ferber - ApplebyMarch 2006

P.S. Many thanks to the Friends ofAppleby Jazz, who make all this possible.

Trilok Gurtu with Pandits Rajan & Sajan Misra

Trilok Gurtu - percussion Rajan Misra - voice Sajan Misra - voice

Trilok Gurtu is both a dazzling percussion virtuoso and an accessible entertainer who embraces jazz, Indian classical music, abstract improvisation and Asian pop music.

He has worked with legends such as Don Cherry, Bill Evans, Jan Garbarek and John McLaughlin, whilst more recently Trilok has been performing and recording with Weather Report’s founder, Joe Zawinul as well as with his own trio featuring Zawinul and multi-Grammy Award winner, Pat Metheny. He uses a unique East-West hybrid kit of drums, gongs, cymbals, shakers, bells and chimes, and has an urge to communicate that transcends the intrinsic complexity of his music. Last year saw Trilok performing

at London’s Royal Albert Hall in collaboration with Sting and his guitarist Dominic Miller, and with the world famous jazz bassist Dave Holland at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

Trilok is joined by Pandits Rajan and Sajan Mishra, who are two of the most loved and highly regarded Hindustani vocalists in India. Their use of the voice as an instrument and an art form together with their impeccable coordination and improvisational techniques have made them probably the most famous Khayal vocal duo of our time. Their perform-ances are always soulful in character, with the capacity to extract the spiritual side of any raag. Apart from their mastery of the musical syntax, the richness and depth of their combined voices creates a sublime tonal texture. In their develop-ment of the raag in duet performance, they are able to mold and transform the mood of the listener. They received the coveted Sanskrit Award for musical excellence from the Prime Minister of India, and were selected unanimously to receive the prestigious Gandharwa National Award for their contributions to Indian classical music.

Appleby International Music Festival

20.00evening Friday 21st

‘Rune 1’ by Phil Morsman.

The World comes to Appleby ...

The finest exponents of Eastern classical music leave their international concert halls and arena venues to perform in a small intimate local church, acoustically ideal for these meditative and ancient forms of music.

... a music lover’s dream comes true.

Saturday 22nd

Folk Musicians from Rajasthan

Suva Devi - kalbelia dancer Nath Shesh - pungi Anwar Khan - voice Khete Khan - khartal Lakha Khan Manganiar - sarangi Firoze Khan Manganiar - dholak & voice Ghewar Khan Manganiar - kamaicha Kachra Khan - voice

Fresh from the colourful deserts of Western Rajasthan, traditional folk musicians perform vocal compositions of the great Sufi poets (such as Bule-shar and Shah Latif ) accompanied on the beautiful sarangi and kamenche (bowed stringed instruments), a variety of vibrant percussion and also by the stunning kalbelia dancer, Suva Devi. Rajasthan, the ‘land of rulers’, is considered one of the most romantic Indian states, and is also the home to some of the sub-continent’s most beautiful music. Alongside the magical palaces

of these princely rulers there developed a rich village tradition, with folk musicians performing both for themselves and their patrons, on all occasions. Their songs told of love and war, of longing and separation, of victory and in praise of God, and of social issues such as the value of their animals (especially camels) to their way of life.

Tony Coe & Alan Hacker

Tony Coe - clarinet Alan Hacker - clarinet

Tony Coe began his performing career playing with Humphrey Lyttelton’s band, and in 1965 Count Basie offered him a place in his big band. He has since played with the John Dankworth Orchestra, the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Band, Derek Bailey’s Company, Stan Tracey, Mike Gibbs, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gilespie and Bob Brookmeyer. Coe’s extensive session credits include the tenor solos in Henry Mancini’s music for the Pink Panther films.

Alan Hacker is not only a clarinetist of formidable reputation, but also a performer, teacher and conductor. At only 19 he joined the LPO and was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. After becoming paralysed from below the neck in his late 20s he then developed his solo career, championing new music and pioneering the ‘authentic’ approach to earlier music. Tony and Alan collaborated in Matrix, with their repertoire of early, classical and contemporary music, and more recently on their duo CD ‘Sun Moon and Stars’.

Süleyman Erguner Quartet

Süleyman Erguner - ney Alev Erguner - kanun Hasan Esen - rebab Cenk Guray - baglama, divan sazi & fretless baglama

Süleyman Erguner is considered one of the world’s foremost ney (Turkish flute) players. A lecturer and author on the ney and its role in Turkish folk and ritual music, he has given many solo concerts. His CDs have received numerous awards in Europe, Japan and North America. The ensemble that he is bringing from Turkey especially for the Festival consists of highly accomplished and acclaimed internationally-known musicians playing traditional Turkish stringed instruments. The Ensemble appeared recently at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey performing the Sema, a spiritual ceremony developed by 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi.

evening15.00 20.00afternoon

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico

Savina Yannatou - voice Kostas Vomvolos - quanun & orchestration Yannis Alexandris - oud & guitar Michalis Siganidis - bass Kyriakos Gouventas - violin & viola Leftheris Angouridakis - percussion Kostas Theodorou - percussion Haris Lambrakis - nay & recorders

Born in Athens, Greece, Savina Yannatou studied song at both the National Conservatory and then the Workshop of Vocal Art. She later attended postgraduate studies at Guild-hall School of Music and Drama, London. With a background that combines classical studies and ‘authentic’ traditional music with improvised music and jazz, beyond her exquisite interpretive capacity Yannatou not only gives special emphasis to the expression of the ‘music’ of each different language, but also uses her voice as one more instrument in the ensemble.

Primavera en Salonico was formed in 1993 under the direction of Kostas Vomvolos for the production of the Sephardic Folk Songs with Yannatou, but before that its members have been collaborating in various groups, recordings and music projects since the early eighties. The musical activity of the group members covers a broad range of styles: from European classical and old music to Byzantine music, traditional Greek music and music from the Near East to jazz, with all of which a strong emphasis on modern musical tendencies and improvisation. Insisting on acoustic instruments, half of which have their origin in the East, they exploit their specific sounds, often also exploring them to the limits of their possibilities.

Savina Yannatou and the musicians of Primavera en Salonico find themselves like rope-dancers on the cord which connects the modal music of the East with the equivalent music of Western Europe, music of the Middle Ages and the popular polyphonies of the Mediterranean.

Sunday 23rd

Andy Sheppard & Kuljit Bhamra

Andy Sheppard - tenor saxophone Kuljit Bhamra - tabla

“The playing of soprano and tenor sax, tabla and multi-percussion filled the theatre with a mixture of haunting, sometimes familiar music and an impressively clever counter-balance of different rhythms and sounds. The respect for each other was evident in the perfect fusion of these two accomplished musicians who come from such very different roots.” January 2006

Andy Sheppard has for 25 years been amongst Britain’s finest and fore-most jazz musicians and is respected for his individual style, character-ised by strong melodic themes, African and Latin American rhythms. Amongst his numerous musical associations are the bands of Gil Evans, George Russell and Carla Bley, and he continues to tour with the latter two. Composer, producer, tabla player and pioneer of

the Bhangra phenomenon; Kuljit Bhamra is perhaps the most influ-ential musician in the British Asian music scene. He has worked on several major film scores including the award-winning Bend It Like Beckham. He gave a much acclaimed on-stage percussion perform-ance in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical Bombay Dreams.

Reem Kelani

Reem Kelani - voice Oli Hayhurst - bass Samy Bishai - violin Fariborz Kiani - percussion Idris Rahman - tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass clarinet

“She doesn’t sing the music, but lives it with her whole body and soul. The sheer emotional power of it hits you right in the solar plexus, but it’s totally controlled – she can switch instantly from anger to laughter, from grief to celebration.” Roger van Schaick, May 2003

Reem Kelani sings Palestinian, Cante Jondo and jazz standards; she can perform Persian chah-chahi-bulbuli sequences; she composes, writes, teaches and produces radio programmes. Born in Manchester, brought up in Kuwait and now resident in London, Kelani can apparently do anything, but her forte is in the gathering of Palestinian folk-loric songs, setting them to new musical arrangement and performing them.

eveningafternoon 20.0015.00

Thursday 27th evening 20.00 to 23.30

“Salsa Celtica have now proven there are Celts among us whose blood runs pure chilli...”

“Salsa Celtica are a band that’s not only tight but that are firing on all cylinders with a big sound and joyous danceability!”

DANCE Night !

TrioRecordsat the Appleby Jazz Festival

Bobby Wellins in a great quartet in particularly fine form recorded at Appleby 2005.‘...When The Sun Comes Out really does stand out’ Bev Stapleton, All About Jazz.‘..his playing sounds as fresh and exciting as ever’ Dave Gelly, The Observer.

Just released, two new albums by The Stan Tracey Trio; a terrific live set recordedat Leighton Buzzard Theatre and a stunning session with trumpeter Guy Barker.

One of the highlights of last years Festival, a unique set by two brilliant pianists.‘..one of those happy live occasions that turned out to be memorable.’

Ray Comiskey, The Irish Times *****

www.triorecords.co.uk

Tim Lapthorne Trio with Mark Nightingale & Adrian FryTim Lapthorne - piano Arnie Somogyi - bassStephen Keogh - drumsMark Nightingale - tromboneAdrian Fry - trombone

Don Weller with Stan Tracey TrioDon Weller - tenor saxophoneStan Tracey - pianoAndrew Cleyndert - bassClark Tracey - drums

Two of the greatest names in British jazz perform standards and their own compositions in a small-band setting.

Henry Lowther’s Still WatersHenry Lowther - trumpet & flugelhornJulian Arguelles - tenor saxophonePete Saberton - pianoMark Hodgson - bassPaul Clarvis - drums

Friday 28th evening 19.00 to midnightafternoon 12.00 to 17.30

Kenny Wheeler EnsembleKenny Wheeler - trumpet & flugelhorn Mark Nightingale - tromboneNorma Winstone - voice Gwilym Simcock - pianoStan Sulzman - tenor saxophone Phil Robson - guitarNigel Hitchcock - alto saxophone Chris Laurence - bassJulian Arguelles - baritone saxophone Martin France - drumsIan Hamer - trumpet Adrian Fry - conductorHenry Lowther - trumpet

In the late 1960s Kenny wrote the ‘Windmill Tilter’ suite which he recorded with the John Dankworth Orchestra. With a few other notable exceptions such as the ECM release ‘Music for Large and Small Ensembles’, his compositions have in recent years been primarily for small bands. But now nearly forty years on from his seminal treatment of the Don Quixote story, Appleby Jazz presents his latest work for large ensemble.

John Donaldson / Mark Edwards TrioJohn Donaldson - piano, keyboards Troy Miller - drumsMark Edwards - piano, keyboards

This performance is a development from last year’s highly successful piano duo set by Mark and John and features music specially arranged for this unusual trio.

Peter King / Alan Skidmore QuintetPeter King - alto saxophoneAlan Skidmore - tenor saxophoneSteve Melling - pianoMike Janisch - bassMartin Drew - drums

‘Salute to Elvin’ featuring renditions of Jones’ most famous recordings.

17.00 Bryan Spring TrioBryan Spring - drumsMark Edwards - pianoAndrew Cleyndert - bass

St Michael’s Church

Saturday 29th evening 19.00 to midnightafternoon 11.00 to 18.00

Three TenorsMornington Lockett - tenor saxophone Mark Edwards - pianoArt Themen - tenor saxophone Andrew Cleyndert - bassDon Weller - tenor saxophone Spike Wells - drums

Dave NewtonSolo piano set from one of Britain’s finest exponents of the instrument.

Norma Winstone SextetNorma Winstone - voice Gwilym Simcock - pianoTim Garland - saxophones Chris Laurence - bassBen Davis - cello Martin France - drums

Norma’s new ensemble performs Gwilym’s arrangements of the music of Steve Swallow.

Alan Barnes QuartetAlan Barnes - saxophonesJohn Donaldson - pianoAndrew Cleyndert - bassSpike Wells - drums

Alex Schlippenbach TrioAlex von Schlippenbach - pianoEvan Parker - saxophonesPaul Lovens - drums

Virtuoso contempo-rary pianist performs stunning improvisa-tions with his like-minded long-term pan-European associates.

Don Weller QuartetDon Weller - tenor saxophoneDave Newton - pianoAndrew Cleyndert - bassDave Barry - drums

Performing new arrangements written for this performance.

Aki Takase & Rudi MahallAki Takase - pianoRudi Mahall - bass clarinet

Takase, a resident of Berlin since 1987, performs contemporary improvisations with Mahal, her associate of ten years.

Stan Tracey Big BandPeter King - alto saxophone Mark Armstrong - trumpetNigel Hitchcock - alto saxophone Mark Nightingale - tromboneMornington Lockett - tenor saxophone Adrian Fry - tromboneSimon Allen - tenor saxophone Andy Wood - tenor & bass tromboneAlan Barnes - baritone saxophone Stan Tracey - pianoNathan Bray - trumpet Andy Cleyndert - bassHenry Lowther - trumpet Clark Tracey - drumsGuy Barker - trumpet

The evening features the world premiere performance of ‘Chrysalis’, commissioned by Friends of Appleby Jazz. The suite is a joint composition by Stan and his son Clark, and expands upon ideas first explored in their earlier small-band work ‘Continental Shift’. Now in his eightieth year, Stan’s creativity and enthusiasm are undiminished as he continues to build upon a most distinguished career spanning five decades.

13.30 Tracey / Spring TrioStan Tracey - pianoAndy Cleyndert - bassBryan Spring - drums

17.00 Themen / NewtonArt Themen - tenor saxophoneDave Newton - piano

St Michael’s Church

Sunday 30th evening 17.30 to 10.00afternoon 11.00 to 17.00

Reem KelaniReem Kelani - vocalIdris Rahman - woodwindsSami Bishai - violinZoe Rahman - pianoOli Hayhurst - bassPatrick Illingworth - drumsFariborz Kiani - percussion

Themen / Donaldson / Somogyi / SirkisArt Themen - tenor saxophoneJohn Donaldson - pianoArnie Somogyi - bassAsaf Sirkis - drums

Clark Tracey QuintetClark Tracey - drumsSimon Allen - tenor saxophoneMark Armstrong - trumpetZoe Rahman - pianoPeter Billington - bass

Steve Melling UndectetSteve Melling - piano Martin Shaw - trumpetPeter King - alto saxophone Andy Wood - tromboneNigel Hitchcock - alto saxophone Dave Powell - tubaAlan Skidmore - tenor saxophone Arnie Somogyi - bassAlan Barnes - baritone saxophone Stephen Keogh - drumsGwilym Simcock - horn

Following on from his highly successful 2003 commission for this ensemble, Appleby Jazz have engaged Steve to write further material specially for this year’s Festival.

Benjamin Herman / Guy Barker / Stan Tracey QuintetBenjamin Herman - alto saxophoneGuy Barker - trumpetStan Tracey - pianoAndy Cleyndert - bassClark Tracey - drums

Herman is one of Holland’s most productive, ground-breaking and versatile jazz musicians who in 2005 recorded and toured with Paul Weller. This collaboration with Barker and the Stan Tracey Trio promises to be a spectacular performance.

Gwilym Simcock QuintetGwilym Simcock - pianoStan Sulzman - tenor saxophoneChris Laurence - bassMartin France - drums

“As a pianist alone, Gwilym Simcock would have deserved all the hype, but this performance confirms that he doesn’t see his composer’s identity as his second string.”John Fordham, Guardian, 1st March 2006

Three AltosPeter King - alto saxophoneAlan Barnes - alto saxophoneBenjamin Herman - alto saxophoneDave Newton - pianoArnie Somogyi - bassDave Barry - drums

The Festival ends with the potential for a three-alto roar-up, but there is always the possibility of Alan choosing another member of his saxophone menagerie ...

Each outstanding musi-cians in their own right, this ensemble is very much

a collective project.

The band will be playing original material from their latest album ‘The Mighty Sas’, which was released in January this year on Clark’s own label TenToTen Records.

Reem and her band will be performing music from their newly-released album ‘Sprinting Gazelle’, which has received much acclaim from press and audiences alike.

Sunday 30th

Evan Parker’s FreezoneEvan Parker - tenor & soprano saxophone EPRudi Mahall - bass clarinet RMPaul Rutherford - trombone PRPhil Wachmann - violin PWAlex von Schippenbach - piano ASAki Takase - piano ATPaul Lovens - drums PL

Europe’s finest improvising musicians assemble for an afternoon of performances in ensembles of various sizes. Evan’s own playing style is distinguished by his creative use of circular breathing and false fingering. He generates broad textures of sound punctuated not only by furious bursts, screeches, bleats, honks, but also elegantly spiralling lines. The programme will be loosely based around the following timings and groupings:

13.00 - 14.00 EP / PW / AS trio, PR solo, AK / RM / PL trio

14.15 - 15.15 PW / RM duo, AT solo, EP / PR / AS / PL quartet

15.30 - 16.30 AT / EP / PL trio, AS solo, PW / PR / RM trio

16.45 - 18.00 EP / PR duo, RM solo, PW / PL duo, AS / AT duo

St Michael’s ChurchIndividual Event Ticket Prices

Multiple Event Ticket PricesInternational Music Festival Weekend Ticket £45Jazz Festival Weekend Ticket £65Jazz Festival Weekend Ticket with Reserved Seating £80

and for Friends of Appleby Jazz only:

Friends Jazz Festival Weekend Ticket with Reserved Seating £70Friends All-Event Ticket with Reserved Seating £100

CampingOn-site camping with toilets, water supply and limited shower facilities is available for the Jazz Festival weekend to ticket-holders only for a charge of £5 per night, per pitch (for a tent, caravan or van).

Booking FormIf no loose-leaf booking form is found with this programme, one may be downloaded from the Appleby Jazz website www.applebyjazz.com

Ticket SalesTickets will not issued until 29th May onwards. Cheque payment is preferred and Credit Card bookings will only be taken after 10th July. Box Office postal address: Appleby Jazz Society, St Michael’s Church, Bongate, Appleby, Cumbria, CA16 6UR Box Office telephone: 07817 118750. Admin Office telephone: 01768 351052.

Booking Information

Friday 21st evening £12 Friday 28th afternoon £10Saturday 22nd afternoon £8 evening £13 evening £12 Saturday 29th afternoon £13Sunday 23rd afternoon £12 evening £15 evening £10 Sunday 30th afternoon £13Thursday 27th evening £10 evening £10

Note: Reserved Seating entitles the ticket holder to an individually named reserved seat in the marquee only for the duration of the Jazz Festival.

Appleby-in-Westmorland is an old and beautiful English market town built around a Norman castle and bounded on all sides by hills. It lies twenty miles east of the Lake District on the Settle to Carlisle Railway. Famed for its horse fair which has taken place each June since 1751, it was once the county town of Westmorland and sits on the river Eden, a salmon river that loops the town. Appleby has been inhabited for over a millenium and rule was transferred from Scotland to England in 1092, but in spite of its seemingly secure location, the town continued to suffer Scottish border raids and was all but destroyed in 1388. The ancient church of St. Michael - one of the Festival venues, is off the old A66 road opposite the Royal Oak public house, and the Jazz Festival marquee site is behind this, between the church and the river.

Marquee piano supplied and tuned by Phil Taylor, NottinghamChurch piano suppled by Omega Music, Brampton

P A System suppled by Dave Bellwood, Leeds

Graphic design by Adrian FryArtwork by Phil Morsman

Appleby-in-Westmorland Town Council