Barry Green Quartet

18 October at Crookes Social Club
8.00-10.45 pm, doors open 7.20 pm

Barry Green: piano
Maddy Coombs: tenor saxophone
Dave Green: bass
Aitzi Cofre Real: vocals

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Barry Green, a wonderfully inventive pianist with a fluent, melodic style, whose previous New York Trio gig at the Crucible Playhouse was a great success, returns to Sheffield with a new band. This quartet features legendary bassist Dave Green who, in a career spanning over six decades, has performed and recorded with numerous groups in all styles of jazz. Completing the line-up are two young rising-stars; saxophonist Maddy Coombs and vocalist Aitzi Cofre Real – both graduates of the Guildhall School of Music who are building reputations on the thriving London jazz scene and beyond.

Barry Green’s collaborations with leading US jazz musicians: Bobby Watson, Charles McPherson, Richie Cole and Jean Toussaint are testament to the high esteem in which he is held by them. Barry also recorded two trio albums in Brooklyn with other US stars ; ‘Great News’ with Chris Cheek and Gerald Cleaver and ‘Almost There’ with Drew Gress and Tom Rainey with whom he toured as his New York Trio. He has also recorded and performed with top UK musicians, including Stan Sulzmann Bobby Wellins, Anita Wardell, Ian Shaw and Henry Lowther and in 2014 Barry recorded a duo album ‘Turn Left at Monday’ with Dave Green. http://www.moletone.com/

“The pianist can effortlessly sustain a graceful Bill Evans-like lyrical swing, but also massages the ideas of the others” – The Guardian: ★ ★ ★ ★ review of ‘Almost There’
“His is music for close listening – the closer you get, the more you hear in it.”…– John Fordham, The Guardian
“His work can be both intricate and assertive, and is constantly inventive.”…– Pete Martin, Jazz UK

Dave Green, the bassist who grew up next door to Charlie Watts and toured with his quintet to USA, Brazil and Japan, is a British jazz legend who has worked with everyone from Humphrey Lyttelton, with whom he spent eighteen years, Scott Hamilton’s Quartet for over fifteen years and Stan Tracy. He is the only survivor of 1960’s British musicians who played with the great black pioneers of the music — Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins.
“No musician can have covered more of the British jazz scene than bassist Dave Green” – Dave Gelly, The Observer

Maddy Coombs is a London-based saxophonist, originally from Northampton. After graduating from Guildhall School of Music she is now regularly performing around London with her own project and with various artists/projects, some of which have included Olivia Dean, Tomorrow’s Warriors and Nayana AB. Her sound draws inspiration from saxophonists including Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane and those she has worked with on the London jazz scene.

Aitzi Cofre Real moved to London in 2018 to study Jazz voice at the Guildhall School and has worked on her craft as an improvising vocalist, studying under Brigitte Beraha, Clare Wheeler, Nikki Iles, and Tina May. Aitzi embraces wordless singing and is deeply inspired by the likes or Norma Winstone as well as her love of singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Shirley Horn.
“Aitzi is one of those vocalists that stops you in your tracks” – Brigitte Beraha

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Ticket Prices

Full – £17
Over 60, disabled, unemployed – £15
Student with NUS card – £10
15 – 17 year olds – £5
Under 15s – Free

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