It’s a Blue Notes Jam Night this Thursday. Bring your instrument if you'd like to join in. If not, just come along and listen to some sweet, sweet music.
 

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Ace guitarist John Smith returns to the Silvershine Club to bring us some more scintillating Jazz guitar. John is one of the very best Jazz guitarists in the West Midlands and have played with some of the best the region has to offer including our founder Andy Hamilton MBE and Silvershine favourites the Steve King Big Band.
 

The second set will be a Jam session which will feature John Smith with a gaggle of guest performers. There will also be an interval set from a couple of singer songwriters (Watch this space for more info).
 

An absolute must for all lovers & players of guitar based music.

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It’s a Blue Notes Jam Night this Thursday. Bring your instrument if you'd like to join in. If not, just come along and listen to some sweet, sweet music.
 

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Dr Steve's Jazz Surgery theme for April is ‘Music as Rhythm’. This time it‘s a two man show with Steve Tromans himself on piano and philosophical interludes teaming up with the excellent Miles Levin on drums.

 

The official blurb reads:

“The drums are a percussion instrument, the piano is a percussion instrument. For the 13 April Dr Steve's Jazz Surgery, I will be exploring notions of rhythm as the foundational basis of all music. Joining me in this musical philosophical journey will be the one and only Miles Levin.”

Always entertaing and always fascintating.

Come, listen and enjoy!

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This week we bring you the wonderful voice of singer, Shaine Dorsey, who will be performing for us at the Silvershine Jazz Club. Daughter of popular West Midlands based Jazz & Big Band Swing Singer, the late Warren Dorsey. She spent 20 years in Germany, where she worked with all the leading Radio orchestras and top session players, becoming a favourite of Lionel Hampton. Back in the UK Shaine has worked closely with Malcolm Gibbons and Andy Peate, both of whom will be performing in this gig, and she always went down well when she joined in on Andy Hamilton's afternoon gigs at the Drum and the Symphony Hall.
 

The full line-up is:
 

• Malcolm Gibbons - Guitar
   
• Andy Peate - Piano
   
• Ray Brown - Bass
   
• Louis Hamilton-Foad - Drums
   

Come, listen and enjoy!

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Drummer, Louis Hamilton-Foad and his “Impossible Conversations”, a band compirsing of some of the best young musicians around these parts, are returning to the Silvershine Jazz Club with an expanded line-up of six. They were great last time, they will be better this!
 

Impossibler Conversations are:
 

• Louis Hamilton-Foad - Drums
   
• Gabriel Amann - Trumpet
   
• Ben Lawrence - Guitar
   
• Sam Sharpe - Bass
   
• Gemma Fletcher - Flute
   
• Alex Smith - Keys/Piano

Come, listen and enjoy!

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Dutch Lewis and his panoply of clarinet, flute and saxophones of all shapes and sizes returns to the Silvershine Jazz Club to help the Blue Notes celebrate the music of our founder, the great Andy Hamilton MBE.

 

Dutch and Andy were making music together long before any of the current Blue Notes joined the band, and Dutch is very familiar with all Andy’s Caribbean inspired tunes as well as the Jazz ballads that Andy loved to play.

 

Joining Dutch at the front of the stage will be sax virtuoso and former ‘Tomorrow’s Warrior’ Andy Gayle, Kirk Ricketts on vocals and, on trumpet, Gabriel Amman (son of Tim who will be on keys). Fitzroy Coward, who played with Andy for many years, will be on bass alongside our boss, Paul Foad, on guitar and Andy Hamilton’s Grandson, Louis Hamilton-Foad on drums.

 

You can be sure there will be more guests on the night, including some of the Jam Night guests who have graced our stage over the past year.

 

This will be a very special night!

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Ace guitarist Malcolm Gibbons returns to the Silvershine Club to bring us some more scintillating Jazz guitar. Malcolm is one of the very best Jazz guitarists in the West Midlands and has played with some of the best the region has to offer including our founder Andy Hamilton MBE and Silvershine favourites the Steve King Big Band.

 

Completing a top quality quartet are Trevor Lines on double bass, Liam Halloran on keys and Hamilton family prodigy, Louis Hamilton Foad, on drums

 

 

The line up is:

• Malcolm Gibbons guitar
• Liam Halloran keys
• Trevor Lines double bass
• Louis Hamilton-Foad drums
   

Love Jazz Guitar & you’ll love this!

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Tonight’s Gig is Cancelled due to the Weather, Sorry

 

On his Facebook Steve Tromans wrote:

“Wrote 4 new tunes today for the next Dr Steve's Jazz Surgery at Silvershine Jazz Club, Bearwood 9 March. It'll be something no one's seen me do in extended concert form since the very early days of Fizzle Birmingham when I put together a night of Ornette Coleman rearrangements with myself on melodica, Mike Green on double bass and Mike Adlington on trumpet. On 9 March it'll be Benedict Muirhead on double bass and Tymek Jozwiak on drums presenting completely new music for your musical philosophical enjoyment.”

The official blurb reads:

 

Dr Steve's Jazz Surgery will feature Tromans away from his usual place at the piano and focusing on his work on the melodica, alongside the double bassist Benedict Muirhead & the drummer Tymoteusz Jozwiak. Tromans has composed an evening of new music specially for the occasion, drawing influence from John Zorn's Masada, J. S. Bach's organ works, Augustus Pablo's Jamaican dub, and Ornette Coleman's The Empty Foxhole project.

 

The philosophical themes explored thru discussion and music will revolve around issues of authenticity in art and life, and how music provides a means of moving beyond the boundaries that divide us unnecessarily in all that we do as fellow inhabitants on the third planet from the star we call the sun.

 

The line up is:

• Steve Tromans melodica and philosophical discussions
• Benedict Muirhead double bass
• Tymoteusz Jozwiak drums
   

Expect something a bit different
but ever so entertaining!

Tonight’s Gig is Cancelled due to the Weather, Sorry

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We are delighted to welcome the “Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Duke Ellington Orchestra” to the Silvershine Jazz Club. It's been a long time since we›ve had a big band perform at the Silvershine, so we're really excited about this one, and looking forward to a great night!

 

It’s gonna be a good one!

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