Joe Northwood – Impressions: A Celebration of Coltrane (Rescheduled)

We are very pleased to have been able to reschedule this event which should have taken place at the end of March, but which had to be cancelled due to the Covid flare up at the time.

Saxophonist Joe Northwood is becoming one of the Cardiff jazz scene’s major voices, and besides playing also promotes gigs and jam sessions at Tiny Rebel. Having graduated from the Royal Welsh College Joe furthered his studies by attending some of the USA led summer schools in Italy, where he received tuition from some of the world’s greatest such as Walter Smith iii, Ben Wendel and David Binney.

Impressions: A Coltrane Celebration is Joe’s new project motivated by his love for the music of saxophonist John Coltrane. Joe’s first ever jazz purchase was ‘Coltrane’s Sound’. An astonishing album with Coltrane’s definitive rendition of ‘Body and Soul’ and ‘standards’ such as Equinox and Central Park West, this recording has always inspired Joe and helped shape his sound throughout his career, and it seemed about time to honour the formidable legacy of this saxophone behemoth.

Tom Berge is a jazz pianist and music teacher based in Bath, with a 1st Class Honours (BA) in Jazz Piano (Leeds College of Music) and an MA in Composition for Film and TV (Bristol University). He plays regularly with his own trio across the UK and has tutored at the Yamaha Jazz School in Falmouth and at the Dordogne Jazz Summer School.

Chris Jones is one of Bristol’s busiest bassists who plays in bands such as We Are Leif, Orphic and Andy Hague Quintet.

Drummer Paolo Adamo grew up in a tiny village in the southern Italian region of Molise. He attended the Thelonious Monk Jazz Academy of Campobasso for nine years, and for six years participated in Jazz Puzzle, an annual seminar in Belgium where he played with musicians from all over Europe, and which helped inform his decision at age 19 to relocate to Bristol to pursue a career in music.