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.
 

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.There will be plenty of great Jazz and guest musicians to entertain you.
 

Enjoy!

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This coming Thursday, 11th April, sees the first in a three-month series of NEW DUOS for the Dr Steve Tromans’ Jazz Surgery sessions at Silvershine Jazz Club, Bearwood. For the April session Docter Steve is joined by the incredible guitarist and composer Brian Neil. If you've not been along to any of the Jazz Surgery gigs yet, why not come down and check it out? 8.30pm start, all welcome!
 

Enjoy!

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This week we have some wonderful Jazz music brought to you by Cormack Loane on sax and Andy Peate on trumpet plus a cracking little rhythm section.
 

Cormac Loane learnt his trade as a jazz musician as a schoolboy in the North-East in the 70’s, often gigging alongside bass player Gordon Sumner, who later changed his name to Sting! A life in Jazz and education brought him to Birmingham where he set up the Birmingham Schools Jazz Ensemble. Tonight he will be indulging his passion for small group jazz playing joined by Andy Peate in the front line.
 

Andy is a familiar face on the West Midlands Jazz scene who has been playing alongside Andy Hamilton and The Blue Notes since the early days.
 

COME, LISTEN and ENJOY!

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For this special night the Blue Notes will be remembering and playing the music of our founder, the great Andy Hamilton MBE. They will be playing the music Andy loved to play, including as many of his own “Caribbean grooves” as we can fit in.
as we can fit in.
 

The Blue Note line up will feature a young and exciting front row of Gabriel Amann on trumpet and Archie Tulk on sax, and, of course, you never know who else might turn up.
 

COME, LISTEN and ENJOY!

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Award winning Coventry based vocalist Sheila Waterfield will be teaming up with The Blue Notes for a one off gig this Thursday.
 

Irish, Folk and Jazz provided the early influences on which her musical career has been grounded. She previously played the Silvershine Club in the wake of her highly rated 2015 album release 'Reverie'. Since then she has written and recorded her own music, culminating in the 2022 release ‘Every Sunrise’. Her recordings feature many musicians familiar to Silvershine clientèle including Bryan Corbett.
 

“A beautifully warm, expressive voice”
Ron Bailey, Jazz Live

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For the 14th March Dr Steve’s Jazz Surgery, Tromans will be paying homage to the music and philosophy of the genius composer and pianist Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982). Monk was one of the pioneers of the bebop movement in jazz in the mid 20th century and his compositions and instrumental stylings from that time are arguably even more modernist than those of his bebop contemporaries, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
 

This homage to Monk will be more than a tribute band. There will be no cover versions of his classic material. Instead, an experiment will be made to reignite the creative force of difference that drove his experiments in jazz. “To follow, to really follow, is not to follow”, wrote Gary Peters (Philosophy of Improvisation, 2009), and Nietzsche’s Zarathuatra had a similar idea when he banished his disciples with an admonishment for looking to him for all the answers and not thinking their own thoughts.
 

But what would a homage to Thelonious Monk sound like, removed of the baggage of imitation? What can three musicians find in improvisation in 2024 that will express the EVENT of Monk without replicating a mere repetition-without-difference? If Thelonious Sphere Monk were alive today, how would he approach the making of music?
 

Joining Dr Steve in the exploration of these themes will be the exceptional talents of the saxophonist Lee Griffiths and the drummer Miles Levin.
 

Certainly not one to miss!

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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.

 

Love Jazz Guitar & you’ll love this!

 

p.s.   If you were expecting the Blue Notes, don’t be dissapointed. Malcolm Gibbons is awesome!

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