So if you’re in Manchester and you’ve more than a passing interest in jazz you’re probably aware that the 2009 Manchester Jazz Festival is up and running and there’s some great stuff to go and listen to all week..
It all kicked off last Friday with the official festival launch party at The Deaf Institute, once again organised by Sam Andreae at Freedom Principle. It doesn’t seem a year since it was us playing there on the festival opening night, but this year’s party promised to be exciting with some top local bands in the form of Southbound, the Laurence McNaughton Quintet and headliners the Moss Project. I won’t go into a review here as there’s other, better sites to go to for that but suffice to say it was a great evening!
I couldn’t make it down to the Mark Lockheart Group or Marley Chingus gigs last night as I ended up finishing work at midnight, 5 hours later than scheduled… But I did manage to make it to the Bridgewater Hall this afternoon to catch If Destroyed Still True from Leeds, who were also great, and I’m just off to the Green Room to see Matt Owens’ Ten project for jazz quintet and wind quintet featuring Souza Winds, an amazing wind quintet who were in my year at college. Its probably too late to recommend you get down there too, but check out the rest of the festival programme here and support your local jazz festival!
Have a fantastic week!
Posted by on 26/07/2009 at 18:57 in b&p friends, misc.
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