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Dave Jones 'FunkAffinity’ with bassist Dave Jones leading this super funky line up featuring some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians including Mike Outram, Chris Eldred, Sophie Alloway and Tom Ridout. This concert with explore Dave's’ arrangements of classic jazz funk, latin, jazz fusion and original music.Expect a dynamic performance steeped in the blues and soul with spacious grooves, blistering highs and improvising of the highest level with tunes from Airto Morriera, Herbie Hancock, Steve Wonder, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius and one or two originals penned by Dave himself.
Dave's bass playing in recent years has included his own group Dave Jones Nonet, Hejira - a Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Scott’s Soul and Jazz Orchestra, Pete Cater Big Band, Way Out West Jazz Collective, Stefanos Tsourelis Trio, Tom Seals, Brandon Allen, Jeremy Sassoon and Julian Costello. He has played with some of the finest jazz musicians in the UK such as Pete Long, Jacqui Dankworth, Frank Griffith and John Etheridge and with visiting American artists such as Howard Levy. He has played alongside drummers Steve Gadd and Keith Carlock and he is active in jazz education teaching regularly at Richmond Jazz School and International Summer Schools.
Dave’s groups draw upon some of the finest jazz players in the UK and this super group includes Mike Outram on guitar who is widely regarded as one of the most versatile and creative jazz guitarists and teachers in the UK. He combines in the rhythm section with Chris Eldred who with Dave also plays in Hejira plus the wonderful Sophie Alloway on drums whose sensitivity on drums is equally matched by her power and groove. Tom Ridout on saxes completes the line up for this special gig.
Collectively this wonderful group of musicians represent some of the finest and most versatile musicians on the scene.
"… bassist Dave Jones, the long-unsung titan of Pastorius-style fretless bass .." Jazzwise Feb ‘24
“.. Just when you think you know where he’s going, there is a change of texture or tempo, you do find yourself in an unexpected place and …. it’s beautiful!! .. “ London Jazz News
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Garibaldi Hotel, NN1 3DX Northampton, United Kingdom, 21 Bailiff Street, Northampton, NN1 3, United Kingdom,Northampton, Northamptonshire
