APPLEBY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2004 PROGRAMME

PROGRAMME 2005

APPLEBY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2005
JULY 28 - 31
APPLEBY, CUMBRIA

FRIDAY 29th
THE MARQUEE 12.00 - 5.30

AMBULANCE
An ambulance summoned to last year’s festival took over an hour to arrive but time is not something bassist Arnie Somogy’s band Ambulance have any trouble with, due to the musical pedigree of its young musicians. Saxophonist Paul Booth was at 16 winner of The Most Promising
Jazz Player of the Year , at 18 he won the prestigious Clifford Brown/Stan Getz fellowship in Miami and at 19 he graduated with honours from The Royal Academy of Music. Tim Lapthorn is a highly gifted young jazz pianist making his mark on the British scene and his bluesy, flowing, lyrical sound sets him apart from many of his contemporaries. Dave Smith

STAN SULZMANN QRT
Saxophonist Stan Sulzmann could be called the gentle giant of British jazz - a term that applies to his playing even more than to his physique. His talents have been sought by a host of discerning musicians, including Gil Evans, Mike Gibbs, Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland and Michael Brecker. Constantly in demand as a guest soloist, he has appeared with bands across Europe, including the Hilversum Radio Orchestra, NDR Big Band (alongside Chet Baker), Hanover Radio Symphony Orchestra and the New York Composers Orchestra. So far he has only appeared at Appleby in bands led by others. This year he leads his own quartet with Spike Wells on drums, Gwilym Simcock on piano and John Parricelli on guitar.

DON WELLER/DICK PEARCE QUINTET
“Tremendously talented - I called home to a couple of friends of mine about him” is what Oscar Peterson is reported to have said on hearing trumpeter Dick Pearce. But, despite such accolades, Dick Pearce - like saxophonist Don Weller - has never received the sort of recognition he deserves. This quintet last played at Appleby in 1994. It was an early Sunday morning slot and Dick realised the evening before that he had an 11am gig 300 miles away in Appleby the next day and no transport, but somehow thankfully we managed to get him here to play a set with Don that has remained for me one of the highlights of 16 years of Appleby jazz festivals. With Dave Newton on piano, Dave Barry on Drums and Arnie Somogyi on bass there is every reason to believe that we are in for another memorable occasion.

TIM GARLAND, GWILYM SIMCOCK & ASAF SIRKIS
Tim Garland put this trio together to play alongside the Northern Simfonia on a recording of his new composition "Music For Lighthouses" which has just been released. Besides being one of the best composers about at the moment Tim is also a virtuoso reed player . On piano is Gwilym Simcock a fluent and highly inventive player and one of the finest of the latest crop of young pianists. Completing the trio is drummer and percussionist Asaf Sirkis. Hopefully they will be including some of Tim's recent compositions in their Appleby programme.

ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH 5.30 - 6.30

BRYAN SPRING & TONY LEVIN
Bryan Spring is the most technically gifted and committed drummer this country has ever produced. Playing the jazz drum kit as a front line instrument has caused many a fan to express a wish to hear him in the context of a solo performance. Tony Levin is the other giant of British jazz drumming, not seen enough in this country having chosen to work largely on the European free scene, he is often overlooked in Britain which is a shame as is a musician with a breadth that goes beyond categorisation. This set will be the first time these two musicians have sat down on their drum stools to make music together. I wouldn't miss it for the world.

FRIDAY 29TH JULY - EVENING SESSION

THE MARQUEE 7.0 - 12.00

DAVE NEWTON & BRYAN KELLOCK DUO
Unlike saxophonists, piano players rarely get the chance to work together. The creative possibilities of 4 hands on two pianos are boundless and an air of excited gladiatorial anticipation is usually generated as the brave participants take to their piano stools. This is the first of 3 piano duets featured this year and it has a distinctly Scottish flavour.

GERD DUDEK/KENNY WHEELER QUINTET
I had never heard of saxophonist Gerd Dudek until Evan Parker gave me a CD entitled "Smatter" featuring Gerd Dudek playing with that prestigious rhythm section eaturing drummer Tony Levin, bassist Chris Laurence and guitarist John Parricelli. Listening to it made me realise how great a barrier the English Channel is and that, just as European audiences rarely get to hear Stan Tracey, Don Weller, Art Themen or many of the other great British musicians, we rarely get to hear their European counterparts. From the first note you are aware that you are listening to a musician with the ability to sculpt beautiful sounds with effortless authority and control. Another musician with an extremely authoritative and individual voice on his instrument is trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, who is not on the CD but whose tunes feature strongly on it and who is also a long-time associate of Gerd's from the days when they both worked in the legendary Globe Unity Orchestra.

PETER KING OCTET
The great British alto saxophonist Peter King has played at Appleby every year since it began. Two years ago with funds from the Friends of Appleby and the Arts Council Northwest we commissioned him to write the first half of a suite for Octet and this year the same funding has been found to complete the project with the aim of premiering the whole work at Appleby this year and touring it afterwards. Peter's musical interests are wide. He has written music for a String Quartet in 1996 which was also commissioned and premiered by Appleby Jazz and has been working on an Opera which was recently performed in New York and favourably reviewed in the Times. For this Octet performance his outstanding regular quartet featuring Steve Melling on piano, Stephen Keogh on drums and Jeremy Brown on bass are augmented by Alan Barnes and Iain Dixon on reeds, Guy Barker on trumpet and Andy Wood on trombone.

SATURDAY 30th JULY - AFTERNOON SESSION

THE MARQUEE 11.00 - 6.0pm

BOBBY WELLINS with the Mark Edwards Trio
Browsing the web looking for quotes to steal for these notes I came across Bobby saying "I am not a virtuoso on the saxophone" and my thoughts were that he doesn't need to be because he has that rare and natural gift of being able to create meaningful and communicative music from a simple and straightforward approach by making every note count. He is joined by the trio he recorded for his recent CD "Fun" with Andrew Cleyndert on bass, Spike Wells on drums and Mark Edwards on piano.

BRYAN KELLOCK TRIO
The Scottish trio featuring Brian Kellock on piano, John Rae on drums and Kenny Ellis on bass played a wild and anarchic set at last years festival and got a standing ovation. So we have brought them back again for this year. Bryan Kellock's playing goes from strength to strength and he is beginning to gain some of the international acclaim he has long deserved.

MARK EDWARDS & JOHN DONALDSON DUO
When it comes to writing these programme notes I always struggle over what to say - piling on superlatives becomes meaningless, yet not to use any damns all with faint praise. Finding words that describe accurately the music produced by a particular musician is beyond my abilities as a
writer. It should suffice to say that these two pianists would not be appearing at Appleby year in and year out if they weren't world class creative musicians with their own individual voices - giving performances it gives me great pleasure to hear.

ALAN BARNES & STEVE WATERMAN Play Horace Silver
I unwittingly happened to mention to Alan Barnes that I was looking for a real swinger to fill this spot in the afternoon, " I've got one" was the predictable reply, and when he told me that the line up was himself, Steve Waterman on trumpet, Dave Green on bass and Steve Brown on drums and that they were going to play Horace Silver tunes I had no choice but to book it.

THE EVAN PARKER SEXTET
The format of this set is two trios of saxophone, bass and drums. One featuring Evan Parker, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin; the other Paul Dunmall, John Edwards and Tony Marsh. All six of these top-line musicians have spent many years learning to listen and react with their instruments to the musical environment they find themselves in without preconceptions. Together they fill the air with an incredibly rich tapestry of sound for your ears to absorb and your musical imagination to play with. Don't worry about what it all means just sit back, close your eyes and enjoy.

ST. MICHAELS CHURCH

12.0 - 2.0pm
STAN TRACEY, KENNY WHEELER & EVAN PARKER
What these 3 giants of British jazz have in common - besides their great abilities on their respective instruments - is their supernatural ability to listen and hear the possibilities in the music as it is being created, reacting with freedom and willingness, unfettered by ego or preconceptions as they allow the music to make itself. Both Evan and Kenny have recently recorded duo CD's with Stan Tracey and they will be pairing off to perform duets with him in this concert as well as coming together for the first time ever to play in a trio context.

2.30 - 4.30pm
THE BRYAN SPRING TRIO.
This drummer-led trio has played Appleby every year since the festival began and the music is every bit as alive and vital now as it was then. Through all those years there has never been a CD recording of this trio available but that has been rectified with the recent release of "The Spirit of Spring" on Trio Records. The essence of this band is live performance and the CD accurately captures the large dynamic range of Bryan's playing and gives it the right balance with Andrew Cleyndert's bass and Mark Edward's piano to recreate what it actually sounds like to hear this trio live. It also catches all three players on absolutely top form and it already has my vote for best jazz CD of 2005.

SATURDAY 30th JULY - EVENING SESSION

THE MARQUEE 7.00 - 12.00pm

ART THEMEN OCTET PLAYS MUSIC BY MIKE GIBBS
Mike Gibbs has a huge international reputation as a composer. He was Composer-ln-Residence at Berklee College of Music in the USA from 1974 to 1984 and over the years he has composed and arranged music for films, television, albums, ballet, jazz groups, symphony rchestras and is equally conversant with modern, traditional, jazz and classical styles. The music he is bringing to Appleby is a suite commissioned by tenor saxophonist Art Themen who has brought together an octet of British luminaries including Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, John Marshall on drums, Steve Melling on piano, Jeremy Brown on Bass, Andy Wood on trombone and Mike Gibbs will be there
to oversee and double-up on trombone.

STAN TRACEY & STEVE MELLING DUO
What makes this piano duo work is their contrasting approaches to piano playing. What they have
in common is the ability to commit one hundred percent to the music.

THE DON WELLER BIG BAND
This band's first performance at Appleby 1995 is now legendary. All compositions are by Don and are full of great melodies, catchy rhythms and humour. The all-star line up is back with Peter King, Alan Barnes, Art Themen, Iain Dixon and Martin Speake making up the reed section. Andy Wood, Adrian Fry and Sarah Williams on the trombones. Henry Lowther, Dick Pearce, Steve Waterman and Tony Fisher on the trumpets. All driven along by Don's usual dynamic rhythm section of Dave Newton, Dave Barry and Andrew Cleyndert. Proof that Big Band music is alive and kicking.

SUNDAY 31st JULY - AFTERNOON SESSION

THE MARQUEE 11.00 -5.0pm

NORMA WINSTONE, BOBBY WELLINS
& THE STAN TRACEY TRIO.
Stan Tracey, Bobby Wellins and Norma Winstone are becoming cult figures with the young generation since Giles Peterson has been producing his sampler CD's of early British Jazz. Strange as it may seem over all these years these three have never actually worked together in this format. What a great way to ease into the festivals final day.

MARTIN SPEAKE'S CHARLIE PARKER PROJECT
I often come away from listening to Martin Speake's playing with a feeling that though I don't quite understand what he's doing musically, I've been lucky to experience music with a unique and special quality. Martin is definitely pursuing his own path through the vast plains of what is loosely called jazz. His recent reappraisal of the music of Charlie Parker has initiated this project for which he is joined by Mike Outram on guitar, Simon Thorpe on bass and Dave Wickins on drums.

ALAN BARNES & NORMA WINSTONE
Alan Barnes and Norma Winstone are both leaders in their own particular fields, but they have never worked together before. Alan is a prolific composer as well as one of the most in demand saxophonists in the UK and Norma is widely regarded as Britain's foremost jazz vocalist. She has over the years worked with all the major artists, recently touring the United States with Fred Hersch. This collaboration with Alan Barnes was the brain child of “Appleby Friend” Jim Grieg who has funded this commission involving settings of text by Norma and other pieces of contemporary poetry set to Alan's compositions. The band is an 8-piece ensemble made up of reed players Stan Sulzmann, Iain Dixon , Art Themen and Alan himself on reeds, backed by John Donaldson, Andrew Cleyndert and Spike Wells.

SUNDAY 31st JULY - EVENING SESSION

THE MARQUEE 5.30 -9.30pm

GORDON BECK , TONY LEVIN & DAVE GREEN
Pianist Gordon Beck's brilliant appearance at Appleby two years ago has been issued on Art Of Life Records under the title "Not the Last Waltz". This year he forms a trio with drummer Tony Levin with whom he worked in the 70's in a now legendary band called "Gyroscope" and with now almost legendary bassist Dave Green.

PETER KING, DON WELLER & GUY BARKER
with the STAN TRACEY TRIO.
This is a showcase for Andrew Cleyndert's Trio label as both Don and Guy Barker have CD releases with the Stan Tracey Trio in the pipeline. Peter King's recording with them called "The last Time I saw You" - which has a live track from last year's Appleby festival on it - won a Best Album of the Year Award. Each of them will perform separately with what could easily be described as one of the best trios in existence today Stan on piano, Clark Tracey on drums and Andrew Cleyndert on bass.

STAN TRACEY'S HEXAD.
Stan has never performed in this format at Appleby in all the 16 years he has appeared, although he has a whole pad of compositions that he performed regularly in the 80's and 90'S with his band Hexad. The frontline for Hexad at Appleby this year will be saxophonists Peter King and Don Weller and trumpeter Guy Barker.

THEMEN , WELLER AND BARNES
For those who have to leave early on the Sunday evening because of the demands of the working week, my advice is to take the Monday off, work will always be there but the chances to enjoy this all star band are all too rare, and I can guarantee that the experience will keep you smiling all week. The 3 saxophonists are joined by Dave Newton on piano, Arnie Somogyi on bass, and Dave Barry on drums.

ST. MICHAELS CHURCH
SUNDAY 31st
1.0pm - 6.0pm

EVAN PARKER’S FREEZONE

The Freezone is five hour section of the festival devoted to free improvisation. For anyone not familiar with this type of music this is the place to start listening, it doesn’t get any better than this. The music is intense and demands attention but is richly rewarding for those who open up to it. Listening to musicians of this calibre in the natural acoustic ambience of this venue makes for some very special musical experiences This is now an annual event hosted by the worlds top exponent in free music saxophonist Evan Parker. This year he will be joined by:
Paul Dunmall - saxes and bagpipes
Gerd Dudek - saxes
Kenny Wheeler - trumpet and flugelhorn
Paul Rogers and John Edwards- double basses
Tony Levin and Tony Marsh - drums and percussion
Phil Wachsmann - violin

FREEZONE PROGRAMME
1.00 - 2.00
Paul Dunmall/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Tony Marsh Qrt
Phil Wachsmann/Gerd Dudek Duo
Kenny Wheeler/Paul Rogers/Tony Levin Duo
2.15 - 3.15
Evan Parker/Paul Rogers Duo
Gerd Dudek/John Edwards/Tony Marsh Trio
Paul Dunmal/Phil Wachsmann/Tony Levin Trio
3.30- 4.30
Paul Dunmal/Paul Rogers Duo
Gerd Dudek/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Tony Levin Trio
Phil Wachsmann/Tony Marsh
4.45 - 6.0
Evan Parker/Gerd Dudek/Paul Dunmal/Tony Levin/Tony Marsh Qnt.
Phil Wachsmann/Paul Rogers/John Edwards Trio
Timings are approximate


			PROGRAMME 2005 APPLEBY JAZZ FESTIVAL 2005 JULY 28 - 31 APPLEBY, CUMBRIA FRIDAY 29th THE MARQUEE 12.00 - 5.30 AMBULANCE An ambulance summoned to last year’s festival took over an hour to arrive but time is not something bassist Arnie Somogy’s band Ambulance have any trouble with, due to the musical pedigree of its young musicians. Saxophonist Paul Booth was at 16 winner of The Most Promising Jazz Player of the Year , at 18 he won the prestigious Clifford Brown/Stan Getz fellowship in Miami and at 19 he graduated with honours from The Royal Academy of Music. Tim Lapthorn is a highly gifted young jazz pianist making his mark on the British scene and his bluesy, flowing, lyrical sound sets him apart from many of his contemporaries. Dave Smith STAN SULZMANN QRT Saxophonist Stan Sulzmann could be called the gentle giant of British jazz - a term that applies to his playing even more than to his physique. His talents have been sought by a host of discerning musicians, including Gil Evans, Mike Gibbs, Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland and Michael Brecker. Constantly in demand as a guest soloist, he has appeared with bands across Europe, including the Hilversum Radio Orchestra, NDR Big Band (alongside Chet Baker), Hanover Radio Symphony Orchestra and the New York Composers Orchestra. So far he has only appeared at Appleby in bands led by others. This year he leads his own quartet with Spike Wells on drums, Gwilym Simcock on piano and John Parricelli on guitar. DON WELLER/DICK PEARCE QUINTET “Tremendously talented - I called home to a couple of friends of mine about him” is what Oscar Peterson is reported to have said on hearing trumpeter Dick Pearce. But, despite such accolades, Dick Pearce - like saxophonist Don Weller - has never received the sort of recognition he deserves. This quintet last played at Appleby in 1994. It was an early Sunday morning slot and Dick realised the evening before that he had an 11am gig 300 miles away in Appleby the next day and no transport, but somehow thankfully we managed to get him here to play a set with Don that has remained for me one of the highlights of 16 years of Appleby jazz festivals. With Dave Newton on piano, Dave Barry on Drums and Arnie Somogyi on bass there is every reason to believe that we are in for another memorable occasion. TIM GARLAND, GWILYM SIMCOCK & ASAF SIRKIS Tim Garland put this trio together to play alongside the Northern Simfonia on a recording of his new composition "Music For Lighthouses" which has just been released. Besides being one of the best composers about at the moment Tim is also a virtuoso reed player . On piano is Gwilym Simcock a fluent and highly inventive player and one of the finest of the latest crop of young pianists. Completing the trio is drummer and percussionist Asaf Sirkis. Hopefully they will be including some of Tim's recent compositions in their Appleby programme. ST. MICHAEL’S CHURCH 5.30 - 6.30 BRYAN SPRING & TONY LEVIN Bryan Spring is the most technically gifted and committed drummer this country has ever produced. Playing the jazz drum kit as a front line instrument has caused many a fan to express a wish to hear him in the context of a solo performance. Tony Levin is the other giant of British jazz drumming, not seen enough in this country having chosen to work largely on the European free scene, he is often overlooked in Britain which is a shame as is a musician with a breadth that goes beyond categorisation. This set will be the first time these two musicians have sat down on their drum stools to make music together. I wouldn't miss it for the world. FRIDAY 29TH JULY - EVENING SESSION THE MARQUEE 7.0 - 12.00 DAVE NEWTON & BRYAN KELLOCK DUO Unlike saxophonists, piano players rarely get the chance to work together. The creative possibilities of 4 hands on two pianos are boundless and an air of excited gladiatorial anticipation is usually generated as the brave participants take to their piano stools. This is the first of 3 piano duets featured this year and it has a distinctly Scottish flavour. GERD DUDEK/KENNY WHEELER QUINTET I had never heard of saxophonist Gerd Dudek until Evan Parker gave me a CD entitled "Smatter" featuring Gerd Dudek playing with that prestigious rhythm section eaturing drummer Tony Levin, bassist Chris Laurence and guitarist John Parricelli. Listening to it made me realise how great a barrier the English Channel is and that, just as European audiences rarely get to hear Stan Tracey, Don Weller, Art Themen or many of the other great British musicians, we rarely get to hear their European counterparts. From the first note you are aware that you are listening to a musician with the ability to sculpt beautiful sounds with effortless authority and control. Another musician with an extremely authoritative and individual voice on his instrument is trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, who is not on the CD but whose tunes feature strongly on it and who is also a long-time associate of Gerd's from the days when they both worked in the legendary Globe Unity Orchestra. PETER KING OCTET The great British alto saxophonist Peter King has played at Appleby every year since it began. Two years ago with funds from the Friends of Appleby and the Arts Council Northwest we commissioned him to write the first half of a suite for Octet and this year the same funding has been found to complete the project with the aim of premiering the whole work at Appleby this year and touring it afterwards. Peter's musical interests are wide. He has written music for a String Quartet in 1996 which was also commissioned and premiered by Appleby Jazz and has been working on an Opera which was recently performed in New York and favourably reviewed in the Times. For this Octet performance his outstanding regular quartet featuring Steve Melling on piano, Stephen Keogh on drums and Jeremy Brown on bass are augmented by Alan Barnes and Iain Dixon on reeds, Guy Barker on trumpet and Andy Wood on trombone. SATURDAY 30th JULY - AFTERNOON SESSION THE MARQUEE 11.00 - 6.0pm BOBBY WELLINS with the Mark Edwards Trio Browsing the web looking for quotes to steal for these notes I came across Bobby saying "I am not a virtuoso on the saxophone" and my thoughts were that he doesn't need to be because he has that rare and natural gift of being able to create meaningful and communicative music from a simple and straightforward approach by making every note count. He is joined by the trio he recorded for his recent CD "Fun" with Andrew Cleyndert on bass, Spike Wells on drums and Mark Edwards on piano. BRYAN KELLOCK TRIO The Scottish trio featuring Brian Kellock on piano, John Rae on drums and Kenny Ellis on bass played a wild and anarchic set at last years festival and got a standing ovation. So we have brought them back again for this year. Bryan Kellock's playing goes from strength to strength and he is beginning to gain some of the international acclaim he has long deserved. MARK EDWARDS & JOHN DONALDSON DUO When it comes to writing these programme notes I always struggle over what to say - piling on superlatives becomes meaningless, yet not to use any damns all with faint praise. Finding words that describe accurately the music produced by a particular musician is beyond my abilities as a writer. It should suffice to say that these two pianists would not be appearing at Appleby year in and year out if they weren't world class creative musicians with their own individual voices - giving performances it gives me great pleasure to hear. ALAN BARNES & STEVE WATERMAN Play Horace Silver I unwittingly happened to mention to Alan Barnes that I was looking for a real swinger to fill this spot in the afternoon, " I've got one" was the predictable reply, and when he told me that the line up was himself, Steve Waterman on trumpet, Dave Green on bass and Steve Brown on drums and that they were going to play Horace Silver tunes I had no choice but to book it. THE EVAN PARKER SEXTET The format of this set is two trios of saxophone, bass and drums. One featuring Evan Parker, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin; the other Paul Dunmall, John Edwards and Tony Marsh. All six of these top-line musicians have spent many years learning to listen and react with their instruments to the musical environment they find themselves in without preconceptions. Together they fill the air with an incredibly rich tapestry of sound for your ears to absorb and your musical imagination to play with. Don't worry about what it all means just sit back, close your eyes and enjoy. ST. MICHAELS CHURCH 12.0 - 2.0pm STAN TRACEY, KENNY WHEELER & EVAN PARKER What these 3 giants of British jazz have in common - besides their great abilities on their respective instruments - is their supernatural ability to listen and hear the possibilities in the music as it is being created, reacting with freedom and willingness, unfettered by ego or preconceptions as they allow the music to make itself. Both Evan and Kenny have recently recorded duo CD's with Stan Tracey and they will be pairing off to perform duets with him in this concert as well as coming together for the first time ever to play in a trio context. 2.30 - 4.30pm THE BRYAN SPRING TRIO. This drummer-led trio has played Appleby every year since the festival began and the music is every bit as alive and vital now as it was then. Through all those years there has never been a CD recording of this trio available but that has been rectified with the recent release of "The Spirit of Spring" on Trio Records. The essence of this band is live performance and the CD accurately captures the large dynamic range of Bryan's playing and gives it the right balance with Andrew Cleyndert's bass and Mark Edward's piano to recreate what it actually sounds like to hear this trio live. It also catches all three players on absolutely top form and it already has my vote for best jazz CD of 2005. SATURDAY 30th JULY - EVENING SESSION THE MARQUEE 7.00 - 12.00pm ART THEMEN OCTET PLAYS MUSIC BY MIKE GIBBS Mike Gibbs has a huge international reputation as a composer. He was Composer-ln-Residence at Berklee College of Music in the USA from 1974 to 1984 and over the years he has composed and arranged music for films, television, albums, ballet, jazz groups, symphony rchestras and is equally conversant with modern, traditional, jazz and classical styles. The music he is bringing to Appleby is a suite commissioned by tenor saxophonist Art Themen who has brought together an octet of British luminaries including Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, John Marshall on drums, Steve Melling on piano, Jeremy Brown on Bass, Andy Wood on trombone and Mike Gibbs will be there to oversee and double-up on trombone. STAN TRACEY & STEVE MELLING DUO What makes this piano duo work is their contrasting approaches to piano playing. What they have in common is the ability to commit one hundred percent to the music. THE DON WELLER BIG BAND This band's first performance at Appleby 1995 is now legendary. All compositions are by Don and are full of great melodies, catchy rhythms and humour. The all-star line up is back with Peter King, Alan Barnes, Art Themen, Iain Dixon and Martin Speake making up the reed section. Andy Wood, Adrian Fry and Sarah Williams on the trombones. Henry Lowther, Dick Pearce, Steve Waterman and Tony Fisher on the trumpets. All driven along by Don's usual dynamic rhythm section of Dave Newton, Dave Barry and Andrew Cleyndert. Proof that Big Band music is alive and kicking. SUNDAY 31st JULY - AFTERNOON SESSION THE MARQUEE 11.00 -5.0pm NORMA WINSTONE, BOBBY WELLINS & THE STAN TRACEY TRIO. Stan Tracey, Bobby Wellins and Norma Winstone are becoming cult figures with the young generation since Giles Peterson has been producing his sampler CD's of early British Jazz. Strange as it may seem over all these years these three have never actually worked together in this format. What a great way to ease into the festivals final day. MARTIN SPEAKE'S CHARLIE PARKER PROJECT I often come away from listening to Martin Speake's playing with a feeling that though I don't quite understand what he's doing musically, I've been lucky to experience music with a unique and special quality. Martin is definitely pursuing his own path through the vast plains of what is loosely called jazz. His recent reappraisal of the music of Charlie Parker has initiated this project for which he is joined by Mike Outram on guitar, Simon Thorpe on bass and Dave Wickins on drums. ALAN BARNES & NORMA WINSTONE Alan Barnes and Norma Winstone are both leaders in their own particular fields, but they have never worked together before. Alan is a prolific composer as well as one of the most in demand saxophonists in the UK and Norma is widely regarded as Britain's foremost jazz vocalist. She has over the years worked with all the major artists, recently touring the United States with Fred Hersch. This collaboration with Alan Barnes was the brain child of “Appleby Friend” Jim Grieg who has funded this commission involving settings of text by Norma and other pieces of contemporary poetry set to Alan's compositions. The band is an 8-piece ensemble made up of reed players Stan Sulzmann, Iain Dixon , Art Themen and Alan himself on reeds, backed by John Donaldson, Andrew Cleyndert and Spike Wells. SUNDAY 31st JULY - EVENING SESSION THE MARQUEE 5.30 -9.30pm GORDON BECK , TONY LEVIN & DAVE GREEN Pianist Gordon Beck's brilliant appearance at Appleby two years ago has been issued on Art Of Life Records under the title "Not the Last Waltz". This year he forms a trio with drummer Tony Levin with whom he worked in the 70's in a now legendary band called "Gyroscope" and with now almost legendary bassist Dave Green. PETER KING, DON WELLER & GUY BARKER with the STAN TRACEY TRIO. This is a showcase for Andrew Cleyndert's Trio label as both Don and Guy Barker have CD releases with the Stan Tracey Trio in the pipeline. Peter King's recording with them called "The last Time I saw You" - which has a live track from last year's Appleby festival on it - won a Best Album of the Year Award. Each of them will perform separately with what could easily be described as one of the best trios in existence today Stan on piano, Clark Tracey on drums and Andrew Cleyndert on bass. STAN TRACEY'S HEXAD. Stan has never performed in this format at Appleby in all the 16 years he has appeared, although he has a whole pad of compositions that he performed regularly in the 80's and 90'S with his band Hexad. The frontline for Hexad at Appleby this year will be saxophonists Peter King and Don Weller and trumpeter Guy Barker. THEMEN , WELLER AND BARNES For those who have to leave early on the Sunday evening because of the demands of the working week, my advice is to take the Monday off, work will always be there but the chances to enjoy this all star band are all too rare, and I can guarantee that the experience will keep you smiling all week. The 3 saxophonists are joined by Dave Newton on piano, Arnie Somogyi on bass, and Dave Barry on drums. ST. MICHAELS CHURCH SUNDAY 31st 1.0pm - 6.0pm EVAN PARKER’S FREEZONE The Freezone is five hour section of the festival devoted to free improvisation. For anyone not familiar with this type of music this is the place to start listening, it doesn’t get any better than this. The music is intense and demands attention but is richly rewarding for those who open up to it. Listening to musicians of this calibre in the natural acoustic ambience of this venue makes for some very special musical experiences This is now an annual event hosted by the worlds top exponent in free music saxophonist Evan Parker. This year he will be joined by: Paul Dunmall - saxes and bagpipes Gerd Dudek - saxes Kenny Wheeler - trumpet and flugelhorn Paul Rogers and John Edwards- double basses Tony Levin and Tony Marsh - drums and percussion Phil Wachsmann - violin FREEZONE PROGRAMME 1.00 - 2.00 Paul Dunmall/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Tony Marsh Qrt Phil Wachsmann/Gerd Dudek Duo Kenny Wheeler/Paul Rogers/Tony Levin Duo 2.15 - 3.15 Evan Parker/Paul Rogers Duo Gerd Dudek/John Edwards/Tony Marsh Trio Paul Dunmal/Phil Wachsmann/Tony Levin Trio 3.30- 4.30 Paul Dunmal/Paul Rogers Duo Gerd Dudek/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Tony Levin Trio Phil Wachsmann/Tony Marsh 4.45 - 6.0 Evan Parker/Gerd Dudek/Paul Dunmal/Tony Levin/Tony Marsh Qnt. Phil Wachsmann/Paul Rogers/John Edwards Trio Timings are approximate
	FESTIVAL DANCE NIGHT OMAR PUENTE & CUBANIA MABULU

	AMBULANCE STAN SULZMANN QRT DON WELLER & DICK PEARCE QUINTET TIM GARLAND TRIO BRYAN SPRING & TONY LEVIN DUO DAVE NEWTON & BRYAN KELLOCK DUO GERD DUDEK & KENNY WHEELER QUINTET PETER KING OCTET BOBBY WELLINS QUARTET BRYAN KELLOCK TRIO MARK EDWARDS & JOHN DONALDSON DUO ALAN BARNES & STEVE WATERMAN STAN TRACEY, KENNY WHEELER & EVAN PARKER THE BRYAN SPRING TRIO. ART THEMEN OCTET STAN TRACEY & STEVE MELLING DUO THE DON WELLER BIG BAND NORMA WINSTONE, BOBBY WELLINS & THE STAN TRACEY TRIO. MARTIN SPEAKE'S CHARLIE PARKER PROJECT THE CLARK TRACEY TRIO ALAN BARNES & NORMA WINSTONE PETER KING, DON WELLER & GUY BARKER with the STAN TRACEY TRIO. STAN TRACEY'S HEXAD. GORDON BECK , TONY LEVIN & DAVE GREEN THEMEN , WELLER AND BARNES EVAN PARKER'S FREEZONE *PHOTOS Page 1* *PHOTOS Page 2*