Gigs normally take place at:
East Hastings Sea Angling Association
The Stade, Hastings, TN34 3JF
Doors open 7.45 for 8.30 start.
Tuesday 4th November
PETE ROTH TRIO featuring BILL BRUFORD
Pete Roth: Guitar
Mike Pratt: Bass
Bill Bruford: Drums
On January 1 2009, legendary rock drummer Bill Bruford announced his retirement from live performance. This was after a glittering career which involved being a founder member of Yes, an intermittent member of King Crimson from 1972 to 1997, a brief time with Genesis, leader of his own band Bruford in the late 70s and founder of another band, Earhworks, which had two incarnations between 1986 and 2008.
After retiring he gained a PhD in Music and wrote two books. In 2016 he was named by Rolling Stone magazine as the 16th greatest drummer of all time. The following year he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
Then in 2022, he remembers passing someone else’s kit and feeling “violently keen to start all over again”. He joined the Pete Roth Trio, a jazz group led by guitarist Pete Roth who had been his drum technician 20 years earlier.
This will be a major opportunity to hear a legend all over again.
Tuesday 2nd December
FABIAN WILLMAN TRIO with JEFF BALLARD AND ARNE HUBER
Fabian Willman: Saxophone
Jeff Ballard: Drums
Arne Huber: Bass
Another internationally renowned drummer will appear this month with a trio led by Berlin-based saxophonist Fabian Willman. At the age of 25, Californian Jeff Ballard began an educational journey no college could match. He went on the road for eight months annually from 1988 to 1990 with Ray Charles, perfecting his time feels and tempos from playing with Charles nightly on the bandstand for three years.
He then moved to New York, where he collaborated with more legends such as Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and Joshua Redman. For the last 20 years he has been a member of the Brad Mehldau Trio, as well as running his own groups The Jeff Ballard Trio and Jeff Ballard Fairgrounds.
Playing with German bassist Arne Huber, Willman says his trio’s music celebrates melody, not abstraction, dispenses with extravagance and concentrates on musical common ground. “I wanted to keep the songs as simple as possible and create a state in which the band doesn’t have to think about the music but can let it happen.”
Let it happen indeed.