The Flame + Cunningham + J.A.M. String Collective Tickets

Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with Jazz North East and The Lit and Phil presents…

The Flame
Tara Cunningham
J.A.M. String Collective 

The Literary and Philosophical Society (The Loftus Room)
Saturday 5th October 2024
Doors: 7.00pm (Music Starts 7.20pm)
Full Price: £12.00
Concessions: £10.00 (MU / NUS / OAP / Benefits)
Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult.

7.20pm - 8.00pm
J.A.M. String Collective
Annalise Lam (Violin) / Julia Dos Reis (Viola) / Miranda Lewis-Brown (Cello)

8.20pm - 8.50pm
Tara Cunningham
Tara Cunningham (Solo Guitar)

9.10pm - 10.00pm
The Flame
Robert Mitchell (Piano) / Olie Brice (Double Bass) / Mark Sanders (Drums)

 
Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music

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The Literary and Philosophical Society
The Literary and Philosophical Society, 23 Westgate Road, NE1 1SE
0191 232 0192 / library@litandphil.org.uk
www.litandphil.org.uk


The Literary and Philosophical Society

Age Restrictions: All ages welcome with under 18’s accompanied by an adult.

Accessibility: The Loftus Room at The Lit and Phil is partly accessible. There is a lift at the venue entrance for wheelchair users to access the building and performance space, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building. 

The festival has permissions for visiting wheelchair users to access toilets located on the ground floor in Sleeperz Hotel which is just a few doors down (16 ft) to the right of the Lit and Phil as you exit the building. 

Accessible toilets are also available at 5 Quarter Cafe Bar to the left as you exit the building. 

The Private Members Library is not a wheelchair accessible space and is preceded by a small number of stairs. 

Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Central Station which is located less than 300 ft from the venue (approximately 2 minutes walk).

There is limited street parking, the closest car park is at Central Station
(Charges may apply).


Artist Biographies 

J.A.M. STRING COLLECTIVE

Annalise Lam (Violin)
Julia Dos Reis (Viola)
Miranda Lewis-Brown (Cello)

J.A.M. is a London based all-female improvising string trio, weaving songlike melodies into open group improvisations, creating spontaneous filmic textures, injected with a solid dose of groove and the Blues. They perform as a trio, as well as with singers and instrumentalists, forming their collective, placing improvising strings at the forefront. 

In May 2023 they released their debut EP joined by legendary saxophonist Steve Williamson (The Steve Williamson Experience), and emerging drum talent Zoe Pascal (Zenel), supported by Help Musicians. This followed with an 11-date UK tour including a sold-out EP launch gig at Toulouse Lautrec, in association with Tomorrow's Warriors and Women in Jazz. 

In November 2023 they were awarded the Peter Whittingham Jazz Developmental award, which will support them in writing new material for their first full length album in collaboration with Jonas Gwangwa Composition Initiative Awardee, composer Oleta Haffner. 

"pushing at the boundaries of jazz... delivering walking lines, heavy riffs and rattles and taps, are thoroughly contemporary.... much more than a warm up act" - Financial Times

“J.A.M. String Collective [give] us a really strong and unique performance with a wide variety of textures and grooves as well as a meaningful narrative in their improvisations. It was very moving to hear them play.” - Zoe Rahman, MOBO awardee jazz pianist

“It was a pleasure to hear J.A.M. String Collective. The trio’s innovative nature came through as they perfectly balanced classical string composition with jazz and improvisation.” - Daniel Casimir, Multi-award winning bassist

"Hopopono" (GoGo Penguin) LIVE from Lightship 95
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cdV1a3W0kI

www.jamstringcollective.bandcamp.com


TARA CUNNINGHAM

Tara Cunningham (Solo Guitar)

Tara Cunningham is a guitarist, composer, collaborator and improviser from Bath, UK. 
Current live + recorded projects include; 90s acid-jazz pioneers Red Snapper, improvised experimental duo with bassist Caius Williams, and alt-rock three piece COOL QUIET.

Her solo work, drawing on a range of influences from Derek Bailey to CAN to Erik Satie, focusses on embracing and improvising with the negative space, as well as the positive within compositional structures, and pushing the textural boundaries of her instrument. 

Her work as a composer for film includes 'a loop, of exchanges, until we vomit' with art film maker Luca Baioni, Strange Like It Sounds in collaboration with Switzerland-based Nick Walter, as well as Pascal Bergamin's 2023 feature film Portraits of Dangerous Women.

Solo Guitar sets regularly feature within the programme for Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music and we’re delighted that Tara Cunningham will be joining us this year.  

www.tara-cunningham.com


THE FLAME

Olie Brice (Bass)
Mark Sanders (Drums)
Robert Mitchell (Piano)

These are urgent, intense, improvised flights. A sound of complete commitment to the spirit of now. Mark, Olie and Robert have a vast array of approaches born out of their collective and individual experiences and contributions over several decades. This show will feature music, new poetry, the acoustic, the electronic, the collective and the individual perspectives from a trio in rapid evolution.

This is their debut appearance at the festival - and is in support of their second album following fantastic reviews for their first. 

'Three heavyweights of British creative music come together on a satisfying live session at the adventurous London venue, Cafe OTO. Given their vast collective experience, which includes work with Evan Parker, Courtney Pine and Alexander Hawkins among others, as well as leadership of their own groups, it comes as no surprise that the result is impressive.' – Kevin Le Gendre (Jazzwise)

www.577records.bandcamp.com/album/towards-the-flame-vol-2