Our recent recommendations for The Bristol Fringe
A unique experimental exhumation of the outlandish jazz manouche of Jacques Montagne. This fresh quartet - ft. Adrian Utley (Portishead), Alex Bishop (on Django’s beloved steel-string Maccaferri guitar), Riaan Vosloo (double bass) and Ross Hughes (clarinets) - will astound with a sound somewhere between Tchavolo Schmitt, Roland Kirk and Link Wray.
Jazz Manouche - Electric Django Reinhardt - Experimental Improv
Free entry! Celestial cinema from multidisciplinary artist collective Snowapple: ‘A Moonless Night’ is a surrealist cabaret that follows the moon’s fall to earth, merging animation, poetry and dance in a dreamlike, shapeshifting odyssey.
A short film from music collective, Snowapple
Superlative hard-bop ft. Ronnie Scott’s veteran in-house drummer Spike Wells totally reinvigorated in a trio spanning three generations. And hey, they can really wail - sailing through a repertoire of Monk, Ellington, Lee Morgan and Stone-Lonergan’s fresh compositions. Spellbinding stuff from Bristol’s House of Jazz (aka the Fringe).
Riley Stone-Lonergan, Spike Wells, Eddie Myer
Rare deep listening treat for Blue Note heads in celebration of one of jazz’s great tenors, Joe Henderson. A high quality playback session of his fourth hard bop firecracker In’n’Out leads into a thrilling live re-interpretation of the disc by the Fringe in the Round Allstars. Get those feet tapping!
Bristol's only circular jazz and improvisation night!