All styles and levels welcome – vocals and instrumentals – it’s all about the vibe. We are back at Northlight on Potternewton Lane. The jazz Leeds trio will be there to support all performers. Phil Green will be your genial MC.
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Raquel Alvaro has appeared for us on the Chapel Allerton Festival Main Stage as part of the Brasukas and as part of the Anna Chandler-King Nonet concert. Tenor sax player Rose Perry is no stranger to Seven Arts at Chapel Allerton either having performed with the Tom Sharp jazz orchestra in several memorable concerts at Seven Arts. they’ll be accompanied by Will Powell on guitar Steve Crocker bass and Brendan Bache on percussion.
6pm-7.15pm
A ‘Rhythm and Grooves’ Chapel Allerton based organ jazz trio playing their own take on tunes from Booker T & The MG’s, Kenny Burrell, Ramsey Lewis and Little Walter to The Doors, Steely Dan, Blue Boy and Stevie Wonder… along with original instrumentals.
Seven Arts Courtyard (in the sun! or in the bar if wet..).
John Scully is a trumpet player and jazz vocalist from Leeds, who plays in the classic style of Armstrong and Eldridge. Frequently heard with the Big Easy swing band , Jon enjoys jazz and orchestral music.
At Rush Hour Jazz he’ll play some of his favourite tunes with the Jazz Leeds trio. Chill out with a drink or coffee after work for an hour’s jazz in Seven Bar.
Music starts 6pm finishes 7.15pm
PAYF collection.
It’s July, so it must mean the return of B.D Lenz trio and for their only Yorkshire gig during their UK tour. Every year they raise the roof with a fantastic afternoon concert for us at Jazzleeds- a concert not to be missed!
B.D. Lenz is a guitarist extraordinaire based out of the New Jersey/New York area. His ensemble summons the sophisticated sounds of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Duke Ellington. B.D has played guitar since his early teens and has studied with such masters as Mike Stern, Vic Juris, and Charlie Banacos along the way..
Come and join us at Community Connections Leeds celebrating one year of bringing people together.
We are a Non-Profit (proceeds going to Kirkstall Valley Development Trust) family friendly gathering open to everyone and children of all ages. A place where like minded people can come together to connect.
We create a free flowing and relaxed space to raise the vibration as a community, to spread and promote inner peace, joy, fun, relaxation and self expression.
Sailor and Lula are two lovers that fate seems intent on keeping apart. In this case, fate is Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune, a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. After Sailor is released from prison, he and Lula set off on a road trip to California, all the time aware that they are being hunted by Marietta and the violent and dangerous men she's hired to find them.
This screening will be proceeded by David Lynch short film.
When Henry discovers that his estranged girlfriend, Mary X, has given birth to a bizarrely deformed baby, he wants to do the right thing by her. They marry, but after a tumultuous and brief time living together, Mary leaves Henry who then cares for the ill baby himself. A bizarre sequence of events and dreams follow, including a woman who appears dancing in Henry's radiator.
Years in the making, Eraserhead is a true labour of love, a long-lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and surreal beauty.
This screening will be proceeded by David Lynch short film.
Saxophonist Fred Madison starts receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife in their home and is tortured by the idea that his wife is having an affair. After being suddenly convicted of her murder, he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic leading a different life. “We’ve met before, haven’t we?”
The screening of Lost Highway on Thursday 7th August will have an extended introduction from Simeon Walker, discussing the music of Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, and the importance of music in Lynch's films.
Alongside web series and many other short form works, David Lynch created over 60 shorts during his career and this collection of six cover some of his best surreal earlier films, exploring his boundless creativity and keen eye for experimentation and fascination with the strange, dark side of our natures.
• Getting Sick (4mins)
• The Alphabet (4mins)
• The Grandmother (33mins)
• The Amputee, Version 1 (5mins)
• The Amputee, Version 2 (4mins)
• Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1min)