Greg Abate Quartet at Jazzleeds Festival at The Wardrobe

The Saturday afternoon of Jazz Leeds Festival has three contrasting bands - swinging US be bop saxman Greg Abate with his quartet, Newcastle garage rock, minimalism and free improv trio Archipelago and the exciting, high-energy young big band the Chapel FM Jazz Collective.
Doors 12.30pm Music 1-5.30pm Wardrobe
1pm Chapel FM Collective Big Band
The Chapel FM Jazz Collective is an exciting, high-energy big band. But not a typical big band jazz group though—they play a wide range of music from across the jazz spectrum including original compositions with a healthy focus on the joy of improvisation. Musical direction from Dave Evans. ...

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The Saturday afternoon of Jazz Leeds Festival has three contrasting bands - swinging US be bop saxman Greg Abate with his quartet, Newcastle garage rock, minimalism and free improv trio Archipelago and the exciting, high-energy young big band the Chapel FM Jazz Collective.
Doors 12.30pm Music 1-5.30pm Wardrobe
1pm Chapel FM Collective Big Band
The Chapel FM Jazz Collective is an exciting, high-energy big band. But not a typical big band jazz group though—they play a wide range of music from across the jazz spectrum including original compositions with a healthy focus on the joy of improvisation. Musical direction from Dave Evans.
2.30 Archipelago
Faye MacCalman - clarinet, tenor saxophone, John Pope - electric bass, Christian Alderson -drums
Faye MacCalman fronts a sax-bass-drums trio drawing on garage rock, minimalism and free improvisation: riffs, silence, noise and grooves create a collage of hard-edged blocks of sound that evolve over the performance.
4.00 Greg Abate with Martin Longhawn Trio
Martin Longhawn piano Adrian Knowles bass and Tim Carter drums
Greg Abate is a US jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and international jazz recording artist. Greg played lead alto for the Ray Charles Orchestra and tenor sax with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra. “One of the bop masters, seamlessly dropping in quotes from other tunes, as ideas pour through him – and out of his horn”
Featuring live painting by Gina Southgate

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