Ireland's leading piano trio led by pianist Phil Ware will be joined by the great saxophonist Bobby Wellins and Trumpet player Miguel Gorodi on Saturday the 6th of June at JJ Smyths. Featuring:
Bobby Wellins - Saxophone
Miguel Gorodi - Trumpet
Phil Ware - Piano
Dave Redmond - Bass
Kevin Brady - Drums
Saturday 6th of June
JJ Smyths Jazz & Blues Club
12 Aungier street
JJ's Dublin
Admission; €15
Doors: 8.30pm
Music: 9:00pm
www.jjsmyths.com
BOBBY WELLINS - SAXOPHONE
Bobby Wellins was born Robert Coull Wellins in Glasgow on 24th January 1936. His father, of Russian and Polish extraction, was a saxophonist and clarinet player; his mother a singer. Together they had appeared in the Sammy Miller Show Band and later performed as a duo.During the war Bobby was evacuated to stay with relatives at Ferryden, Montrose on Scotland’s east coast a locality which still holds a place in Bobby’s affections....
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Ireland's leading piano trio led by pianist Phil Ware will be joined by the great saxophonist Bobby Wellins and Trumpet player Miguel Gorodi on Saturday the 6th of June at JJ Smyths. Featuring:
Bobby Wellins - Saxophone
Miguel Gorodi - Trumpet
Phil Ware - Piano
Dave Redmond - Bass
Kevin Brady - Drums
Saturday 6th of June
JJ Smyths Jazz & Blues Club
12 Aungier street
JJ's Dublin
Admission; €15
Doors: 8.30pm
Music: 9:00pm
www.jjsmyths.com
BOBBY WELLINS - SAXOPHONE
Bobby Wellins was born Robert Coull Wellins in Glasgow on 24th January 1936. His father, of Russian and Polish extraction, was a saxophonist and clarinet player; his mother a singer. Together they had appeared in the Sammy Miller Show Band and later performed as a duo.During the war Bobby was evacuated to stay with relatives at Ferryden, Montrose on Scotland’s east coast a locality which still holds a place in Bobby’s affections.
Bobby’s father started him on lessons on alto saxophone at 12 years of age, teaching him not only music notation and saxophone technique but introducing him to harmony, teaching him chord progressions at the piano. Bobby then moved south, taking a three year course at Chichester College of Further Education studying keyboard harmony. He then spent a spell at the RAF School of Music in Uxbridge, studying clarinet.
On leaving the RAF, Bobby entered the world of the Palais bands, including spells with Malcolm Mitchell and Vic Lewis. His tenure with Lewis included a trip on the liners to New York where Bobby, emerging one afternoon from his hotel recognised a passing Lester Young. Bobby picked up enough courage to approach his idol and spent the next two hours in a bar introducing his fellow band members to the great man.
Bobby’s recording career started in 1956 when he joined the legendary Buddy Featherstonhaugh’s piano-less quintet, the line-up of which featured Kenny Wheeler on trumpet. Bobby was by now playing tenor saxophone, the instrument to which he has devoted himself to the present day.
In the early 1960’s Bobby was recruited by Tony Crombie for his latest band, in the ranks of which Bobby began a long association with the great British pianist Stan Tracey.
Along with Bobby and Stan, drummer Laurie Morgan was a member of a loose co-operative of musicians and poets, including Michael Horowitz, who presented jazz and poetry concerts under the title of New Departures. In a bedsit with Laurie Morgan and using an old tape recorder, Bobby began work on his famous Culloden Moor Suite which culminated in its performance by the New Departures Quartet and a 14 piece orchestra. That quartet recorded an album of the same name in 1964.
This was followed in 1965 by the Stan Tracey Quartet’s recording of an suite of pieces inspired by Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. In a 1998 poll by Jazz UK magazine, readers chose this record as their all-time favourite British jazz album.
It is testament to the musical creativity of Bobby and Stan and the strength of the latter’s compositions that despite the thousands of records made in the intervening 33 years, this record was chosen.
MIGUEL GORODI - TRUMPET
Miguel was born in Spain (1990) and spent his early years following his parents around the world as they took various music-teaching posts. He moved from Spain to Saudi Arabia, to Thailand, and finally to Somerset in the southwest of England, where he began 6th from after being awarded a music scholarship at Wells Cathedral School.
Miguel moved to London to study jazz at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2008. After graduating in 2012, he was awarded a fellowship at Guildhall, an opportunity that allowed him to stay at the college an extra 2 years to focus on his studies and composition whilst continuing to work professionally.
Miguel now regularly performs in London and around the rest of the UK, and has made trips to Ireland, Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain and Norway in recent years to perform in jazz festivals. He co-runs the Miguel Gorodi / Sam Braysher quintet which features British jazz legend Pete Hurt. The band focuses on the more linear side of jazz, taking inspiration from Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh. He also performs as part of the Miguel Gorodi / David Ingamells Duo – an unorthodox line up of trumpet and drums, which explores a more abstract approach to the jazz repertories, especially Thelonious Monk compositions. He also regularly features with ‘The Dixie Ticklers’ – a band that takes a contemporary approach to traditional jazz repertories and music form New-Orleans, and also features intermittently with award winning jazz singer Ian Shaw (whom Miguel recorded with at Abbey Road studios in 2010).
THE PHIL WARE TRIO
"An impressive demonstration of the straight-ahead bop piano lineage." The Irish Times
Described by The Irish Times as a textbook example of the ongoing vitality of the tradition, Phil Ware's trio has set a new benchmark for the piano trio in Ireland.
Born in England but a Dubliner since 2000, Ware's contribution to the Irish jazz scene has been generous to a fault, his tasteful and always supportive playing a leitmotif of many leading groups.As with so many pianists, he has a special affinity for singers, but his penchant for melody is best appreciated when he performs with stalwarts bassist Dave Redmond and drummer Kevin Brady and their hallmark deep groove.
Like the great piano trios that have preceded them, this is a genuinely democratic discourse between the three participating musicians, with each of the musical elements in a delicately poised balance between collective responsibility and individual expression. First among these equals is Ware, swinging hard with the instrument's full potential, from its gentle intimacy to its orchestral sweep, captured beneath his hands.Stride for stride, a piano trio from Ireland worthy of the genre's illustrious history.
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