THE FAMILY BAND
Comprising four long-term collaborators and friends (thus the ‘family’ tag), the band takes as its
starting point the freewheeling music of those musicians who, back in the 1960s, were at the
forefront of the free jazz revolution, but whose opening up of jazz’s constraints is now recognised
as not a break from the past but an integral part of the music’s development. So the Family Band
doesn’t recreate the work of Ornette Coleman and others, but shares its powerful and
freewheeling momentum – moments of fierce intensity, introspection and the blues all combining
into an emotionally complex and often cathartic whole.
ABBIE FINN TRIO
Northern drummer and composer Abbie Finn presents her brand-new trio album ‘Stotties for
Three’. This northern powerhouse has been described as ‘Exceptional British Jazz’ by JazzFM
and have been kicking up a storm across the UK. Abbie was dubbed ‘The one to watch’by
Jazzwise magazine and has performed across the UK at the Manchester Jazz Festival, Newcastle
Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music, Jazz at the Lescar Sheffield, Jazz in the Round at the
Cockpit and many more. Expect contemporary jazz by this chordless trio ‘full of original melody
and rhythmic vitality, underscored with positive youthful energy’ – Eddie Myer, Jazzwise.
Venue
Jesmond
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1JY
UK