Andrew McCormack Trio featuring Denys Baptiste

Andrew McCormack Trio featuring Denys Baptiste

Guest Artists

Date and time
12 Oct 2023 (6:30pm - 9:00pm)
Location

Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

£15
£10 over 60s, under 18s

6.30pm support
7.45pm main show
9pm end

Booking Information

Wheelchair users are entitled to concessionary priced tickets with a complimentary companion seat.

Guide dogs are welcome at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire venues. If you wish to bring a guide dog or wheelchair, please let the Events Office know by calling 0121 331 5909.

Andrew McCormack Trio sitting on steps

Andrew McCormack piano
Joe Downard bass
Rod Youngs drums
Denys Baptiste tenor sax

Andrew McCormack
Exceptional pianist/composer and long-term Kyle Eastwood Band member Andrew McCormack has built a diverse international career with many appearances at major festivals and concert halls all over the globe.

As a leader, his debut album Telescope in 2005 received universal acclaim and earned him a BBC jazz award for rising star the following year, with the pianist later returning to the trio format with a series of critically acclaimed albums including Live In London in 2012 and First Light in 2014. The release of his most recent trio album, Terra Firma, has already been well received, with Jazz FM's Dinner Jazz show naming Fragile their track of the week, with over 150,000 streams in the first month a lone.

Andrew has managed to consistently demonstrate a compelling setting for his musical ideas, a platform for virtuosic improvisation and a constant revivifying and adaptive embodiment of the
jazz tradition.

Denys Baptiste
MOBO and Mercury award - winning UK saxophonist Denys Baptiste has a colossal talent - based on a powerful technique and an ability to improvise fluently and effortlessly across a wide range of musical styles.

Running time approx. two hours and 30 minutes.

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