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Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival announces 2018 programme
Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival has just announced a truly packed programme for 2018. Among many other things the lineup includes film commissions, a group celebrating 50 years of Electric Ladyland as well as a host of both established and rising talent.
The festival takes place from March 15 to 18 at various venues including, Colston Hall, The Folk House, Bambalan and The Forge. Bristol’s own jazz super group Get the Blessing will open the annual event who have recently been delving into Bristol’s film archives at Create Bristol, discovering over a 100 years of film footage of their home city shot by its residents.
After success in previous years, the festival will continue to explore the cornucopia of jazz influenced film and TV soundtracks with Cult Fiction Live. Under the baton of William Goodchild, a specially recruited thirty-piece orchestra of Bristol’s finest jazz and classical musicians will fill Colston Hall’s stage to perform small screen classics from The Professionals to Parkinson, The Two Ronnies to Tomorrow’s World.
To mark 50 years since the release of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, an all-star 16-piece lineup featuring Iain Ballamy, Yazz Ahmed and Laura Jurd will be performing the entire album in sequence. The special arrangements will be reworked from Gil Evan’s take on Hendrix’s classic.
Other highlights include Dame Evelyn Glennie returning to Colston Hall after five years, Incognito will be shaking the dance floor at the O2 Academy with a special gig, ninety year old saxophonist Lee Konitz who featured on Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool will bring his own quartet.
As the Festival swings into its sixth year, it offers up a feast of jazz and blues that spans the music’s century long history with performers at the top of their game.
Find the full programme and times at www.bristoljazzandbluesfest.com
Read more: Review: Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival 2017
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