Silvershine Jazz Club, Bearwood

Billy Weir takes a night away from his normal working band, NEST, to pay tribute to some of his heroes. Expect a great night of high energy swing with music by the likes of: Lee Morgan, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and many more! Your band for the night is:

Dan Searjeant - Alto Saxophone
Robbie Fearon - Tenor Saxophone
Ben Lee - Guitar
David Ferris - Piano
Tom Baxter - Double Bass
Billy Weir - Drums

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Trevor Lines Vibeout - 27th June
feat Arabella Sprot (sax)

Trevor Lines is one of the top regional Double Bass players and always finds there is a huge local demand for his services. He’s played for us many times both with the Blue Notes and with many of the guest acts that have graced the Corks Club stage.

This time he brings his own band to the Silvershine Jazz Club, which he's calling Trevor Lines’ Vibeout. Unusually, it is a band with a distinct female bias and features Arabella Sprot (right) on saxophone along with Stella Roberts on piano, Lydia Glanville on drums and, giving the band it’s name, George Kirkham on vibes and bongos.

Arabella Sprot is a bit of a rising star on the national Jazz scene at present, and is always worth an outing in any line-up, whilst all the musicians apart from Arabella are part of the Project Cubano, Birmingham's favourite Cuban music enthusiasts. You may want to get your toes tapping in advance.

You can find out more about Arabella at http://arabellasprotgroup.com/

Drummer Lydia Glanville has her own site at http://www.lydiaglanville.com/

SILVERSHINE SPECIAL
Celebrating the Music of Andy Hamilton - 11th July

Due to the success of this event in March and due to the fact that there is still a lot of great music to get through, we will be running it again during the Birmingham International Jazz Festival. The event will feature the music of Andy Hamilton including as many of his Caribbean grooves as we can get through, performed by Blue Notes past and present alongside many of the other musicians that used to play with Andy.

We’re starting the music early at 8.30pm and if it’s half as good as the last one it will be a night to remember.

MUSICIANS CONFIRMED SO FAR:

Vocals:

Vic Evans
Sophie Hamilton Foad
Fred Webb

Saxophone:

Dutch Lewis
Alvin Davis
Luke Shingler

Piano/Trumpet

Andy Peate

Piano:

Tim Amann

Bass:

Ray Brown
Fitzroy Coward

Guitars:

Ralf DeCambre
Paul Foad

Drums:

Johnny Hoo
Aiden Amann
Keith York

posted an article on their blog all about the March event; it’s well worth a look!

David Lloyd Henry & the Flat 5 Band - 18th July

David Lloyd Henry (AKA Gabby) is a Jamaican Guitarist with a unique style who’s worked with some of the big names of popular music, including Jimmy Cliff, Rita Marley, Wyclef Jean, and the Isley Brothers.

The core band will feature Wayne Mathews bass, Wayne Scott and Carl Richard on drums, Paul Riley keys and Donna Sterling on vocals. You can always expect an array of great guests when Gabby brings his posse to the Corks and he already has three other vocalists, Jacob, Rebecca, Danieal all lined up!

The video below is from a previous vist to Corks and it features Peter Lewis, a young sax player who was presented with a saxophone by his church at an Andy Hamilton gig at the Corks just a few years ago.

The Soul Providers
(Hits from the ’60s Soul Greats)
- 25th July - in aid of Interface Uganda -

The band features 3 Horns, bass guitar, drums, rhythm guitar, keyboards plus a male and a female vocalist. Musicians are from Birmingham and Black Country and four play in the Out of the Blue big band. the repertoire is classic Atlantic, Stax and other soul numbers.

We've been advised to clear the dance floor area!

Proceeds will go to Interface Uganda... ..this is a plastic reconstructive surgery charity which plays an important role in getting people back into work and into society in Uganda. For more information visit their website:

Update:

We’ve just had this message back from Jo James of The Soul Providers about how much money we raised for Interface Uganda

“Hi Richard

£400....which is brilliant...adding up all the door money, the raffle, donations, and calculating for gift aid.

Thanks for your support....I know it wasn't the usual type of music but all in all the evening seemed to go successfully.

Jo”

I think we can all agree that it was a successful and well attended evening and hopefully it did much to help raise the profile of Interface Uganda

Click here to download a flyer for this gig

- UPDATE -