The Coronet Theatre Jazz Festival: Charlie Parker Project

7:30pm

The Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra presents an evening celebrating and exploring the work of Charlie Parker. A showcase of improvisation and instrumental talent in tribute to one of the great transforming figures of twentieth-century music, and the history of jazz. The 13-piece ensemble presents new arrangements and re-inventions of Parker’s music casting a thrilling light on the origins of the music while making their mark on it.

Charlie Parker was one of the great transforming figures of twentieth-century music, and the history of jazz is inconceivable without him. Like Armstrong, Beethoven, or Schoenberg, Parker was one of those ultra-rare originals in which a tradition’s past, present, and future merge. The ensemble explores his music from a contemporary composition and collective playing perspective. Featuring new arrangements and re-inventions of Parker’s music created especially for this line-up by Hans Koller, Trinity Laban’s Head of Jazz, written during the lockdowns of 2020, the centenary year of Parker’s birth. This performance will showcase the improvisational and instrumental talent and prowess of Trinity Laban’s current students side by side their tutors and band leaders Morgan Wallace, Hans Koller, and Byron Wallen.

Line-up:

Talfan Jenkins, Gabriel Maric, Matty Lambert, Morgan Wallace – saxophones

Josh Short, Alex Polack, Byron Wallen – trumpets

Matt Seddon, Olivia Hughes, Marty Gionis – trombones

Hans Koller – piano

Menelik Mulugeta Claffey – double bass

Cassius Cobbson – drums

OTHER SET available on 15 JUN

Each band costs £15. Book three or more events and get 10% off.

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