Jazz Sundays

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Jazz Sundays in Le Bar
We are pleased to announce the next in our series of jazz evenings in conjunction with the neighbouring Royal Academy of Music on Marylebone Road.

This residency provides a regular platform for the Royal Academy of Music’s finest students, alumni and professors.

Performance dates are as follows:

Sunday 4th April 2010
Sunday 2nd May 2010

The performances will start at 8pm and will consist of two 45 minute sessions, ending at 10pm.

Tickets: £10 per person which includes a glass of Aperitif Maison on arrival.

You are welcome to dine in the restaurant before the show, choosing from the a la carte menu or the Prix Fixe Menu at £17.50 for three courses (6-7pm).

Places are limited and must be booked in advance. For reservations please call on 020 7935 4007.

Sunday 4th April 2010
James Forster
James Forster is currently studying for a master's degree in jazz guitar at The Royal Academy of Music. He is about to commence his final year where he will be studying with Phil Robson and John Parricelli. He is an experienced musician, having played all over the UK and Europe with various ensembles. Highlights have included playing at the Glastonbury festival and last years' Bordeaux wine festival.

Initially turned onto playing the guitar at the age of fifteen by the music of Eric Clapton, James was soon being influenced by jazz guitarists such as Mike Walker and Jim Hall, as well as the music of Chet Baker and Keith Jarrett. His varying musical tastes mean that he is just as at home playing the blues of Muddy Waters as engaging in the gentle interplay of this duo setting with partner Fulvio Buccafusco. http://www.myspace.com/jamesforsterguitar

Fulvio Buccafusco
Born in Palermo, Italy, Fulvio’s undoubted talent was inspired by the music of his two older brothers, a guitarist and pianist. Teaching himself piano, electric bass and jazz standards, at fourteen he began attending courses and workshops that led him to play in clubs and festivals around his home in Sicily. After several years he fell in love with the double bass and moved to Copenhagen via Rome, to study with the famous bass player Niels Henning Oersted Pedersen.

After a year he returned to Italy to and formed the band Madrugada and recorded "Face a Face". In 2001 he moved to Groningen in the Netherlands to study at the North Netherlands Conservatoire, and in 2005 completed his Bachelor of Music before moving to London where he is attending a Master of Art in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music.

During 2006, the record label Spasc(h) published his first cd "Zagara e Sale" obtaining excellent reviews in the Italian jazz media. Having performed with numerous respected musicians from around the world, including; Conrad Herwig, Brian Lynch, Ralph Peterson, David Berkman and Craig Handy, Fulvio is now an integral part of Nicola’s performing band as well as continuing his own compositions and solo/quartet projects.

Sunday 2nd May 2010
Jack Davies - Trumpet
Having completed his classical training at the Royal Northern College of Music, Jack is currently studying jazz trumpet at post-graduate level at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Jack studies jazz trumpet with Gerard Presencer, Nick Smart and Pete Churchill. At the RNCM, he was a regular member of the RNCM Big Band with who he played with such figures as Norma Winstone, Colin Towns, and Chris Potter.

In his second year at the RNCM he won the college's solo brass competition, the Goronwy Evans Brass Prize, and in his third year was awarded with the Terence Greaves Prize for Big Band Composition (for his work with The Sound of the North Big Band). In 2008 Jack also led The Sound of the North Big Band to the final of the MBF's Peter Whittingham Award for Innovation in Jazz Music. Jack was recently awarded the Principal's Prize for Improvisation in a competition judged by Sir John Dankworth.

Thomas Taylor - Piano
Tom is a Jazz/Classical pianist currently based in London. He gigs with various ensembles including Southbound, The Sound of the North Big Band, The Big Little Band, and the Booth Street West Jazz Sextet. He is in the first year of postgraduate studies at Trinity College of Music, where he studies Jazz with Simon Purcell, Nick Wheldon, Julian Siegel, Martn Speake and Liam Noble. Previous to this Tom completed his classical training at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Paul Janes.

Through the RNCM Big Band Tom had the opportunity to perform with Gerard Presencer, Tim Garland, Alex Wilson, Colin Towns, Pete Long, Jacqui Dankworth, Tina May, Digby Fairweather, Dennis Rollins, Mark Nightingale, Stan Sulzman, Victor Mendoza, Huw Warren, Chris Potter, Norma Winstone and John Dankworth. Tom has won the Bruntwood Improvisation Prize in two consecutive years and as part of The Sound of the North Big Band was shortlisted for the Peter Whittingham Award for Innovation in Jazz Music. As well as this Tom won the Alfred Clay Scholarship for Pianoforte in his final year at the RNCM.

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