Jazz breaking news: Jan Garbarek, Bourne / Davis / Kane And Elvis Costello For Belfast
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Next month’s Belfast Festival at Queen’s has jazz-and-beyond highlights that include improv heavyweight piano trio Bourne/Davis/Kane whose debut album Lost Something was critically acclaimed on its release in 2008 (appearing at Black Box on 15 October).
Also for Belfast is Portuguese composer and bassist Carlos Bica Azul with Jim Black (of Alasnoaxis) and guitarist Frank Möbus of the group Der Rote Bereich (Black Box, 20 Oct). The great Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the famed early music vocal quartet Hilliard Ensemble, who released the bestselling Gregorian chant influenced album Officium in the 1990s (St Thomas church, 21 Oct) are also to appear, while wildly successful Tuareg band Tinariwen (Mandela Hall, 25 Oct) and the French Orchestre National de Jazz (Elmwood Hall, 26-27 Oct) playing music from their acclaimed Around Robert Wyatt album, are also billed.
New wave and punk singer/songwriter Elvis Costello (Waterfront Hall, 28 Oct) whose jazz work includes 1999 album The Sweetest Punch with Bill Frisell, Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland, and The River In Reverse with the great New Orleansian Allen Toussaint is also a major highlight. The broadly-based arts festival within which the jazz programming sits runs from 14-30 October.
– Stephen Graham
For more go to www.belfastfestival.com