Thursday 25 Jan 2007 on stage 8pm
Bonington Theatre
Tickets £10 concs £8 students/children
£5
Featuring: Jay Phelps (trumpet) Nathaniel Facey (alto) Kit Downes (piano) Neil Charles (bass) Shane Forbes (drums)
Five jazz stars of the future - four of them recent graduates from Tomorrow's Warriors (the organisation founded in 1992 by original Jazz Warriors double bassist Gary Crosby to nurture and develop talented young jazz musicians) - are now stepping forward on their own terms and with their own compositions. Performing with astonishing musical maturity, confidence and a cohesiveness derived from many years of playing together, Empirical is dedicated to maintaining the roots of traditional modern jazz but with a definite finger on the pulse of the contemporary world.
Empirical have been shortlisted for the Peter Whittingham
Award The Peter Whittingham Jazz Award of £4k is for a
project in cutting edge jazz, awarded annually to an individual
young jazz musician or group showing talent and innovation in
this field.
a brand new young, hip and bold five-piece, featuring four former
Tomorrow's Warriors stars
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