Sunday 1 September

7pm doors, 7.30pm start

The Adam Glasser Quartet

'A celebration of South African jazz'

The South African harmonica virtuoso, Adam Glasser, makes his Milestones debut, as part of a UK tour, celebrating the rich tradition of ‘township jazz’, a vibrant music of originality and colour. Inspired by Toots Thielemans and SA jazz greats like Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela, this is accessible and exciting jazz from a different perspective featuring an all-star band: Ant Law (guitar), Ewan Hastie (double bass) and Corrie Dick (drums). Not to be missed!

Visit Adam Glasser's website here,watch YouTube footage of Adam Glasser here and listen to Adam Glasser here and here.

“…has brought a truly unique voice and idiom to the constantly evolving language of jazz… a challenge to equal for sheer scope of virtuosity, musicality and surprise”,
All About Jazz

"....lucid harmonica…”,“…
Glasgow Herald

“Ant Law is one of the UK’s most distinctive guitarists…”,
The Jazz Mann

Terrific and highly accomplished”,
The Jazz Breakfast

Admission £14 / £7 (U25) on the door or book online here



 

*PLEASE NOTE*: details of concerts and musicians appearing are correct at the time of writing although changes are sometimes necessary. Please feel free to check with us before attending.

 

 

 

 

 


Somebody who decides to play jazz for a living knows he will struggle for the rest of his life, unless he opts for predictable and soothing compromise. Honest jazz involves public exploration. It takes guts to make mistakes in public, and mistakes are inherent. If there are no mistakes, it's a mistake. In Keith Jarrett's solo improvisations you can hear him hesitate, turn in circles for a while, struggle to find the next idea. Bird used to start a phrase two or three times before figuring out how to continue it. The heart and soul of improvisation is turning mistakes into discovery. On the spot. Now. No second draft. It can take a toll night after night in front of an audience that just might be considering you shallow.

From 'Close Enough For Jazz', Mike Zwerin (1983)

 

Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravished! Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all's done.

From 'Much Ado About Nothing' (Act II, Scene iii), William Shakespeare (1600)

 

Onstage, he storms inwardly, glaring at his audience, wincing at his trumpet, stabbing and tugging at his ear. Often his solos degenerate into a curse blown again and again through his horn in four soft beats. But Miles can break hearts. Without attempting the strident showmanship of most trumpeters, he still creates a mood of terror suppressed - a lurking and highly exciting impression that he may some day blow his brains out playing.

Barry Farrell, writing in Time Magazine (February 28 1964)

 

Late in his career, drummer Earl Palmer appeared in a music video with the band Cracker on the song ‘I Hate My Generation’. According to Cracker leader David Lowery, when Palmer was asked if he would be able to play along with the songs, he gave Lowery a look and said, 'I invented this shit’.