John Law's Re-Creations
wall2wall Jazz Festival
Date/Time
- Friday 30th August 2019
- 7pm
Venue
- Melville Centre: Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny NP7 5UD
Website
Tickets
- £16.00
- £14.00 Friends of BMJ
- Book online or tickets on the door
Festival Quick Links
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Monday 26th August
- John-paul Gard Trio: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Tuesday 27th August
- Lady Nade Duo: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Wednesday 28th August
- Jazz for Little’uns: 12 noon – Melville Centre
- The Sicknote Steve Bluegrass Trio: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Thursday 29th August
- Youth big band workshop: Full day – Melville Centre
- Festival Dinner featuring Ian Shaw: 7pm for 7.30pm – The Angel Hotel
Friday 30th August
- Youth big band workshop: Full day – Melville Centre
- John Law’s Re-Creations: 7pm – Melville Theatre
- Jazz in the Bar with Debs Hancock and Dave Hobbs: 8.15pm – Melville Centre
- Nick Kacal’s Guerillasound Quartet: 9.15pm – Melville Theatre
Saturday 31st August
- Youth big band workshop: Morning – Melville Centre
- Dennis Rollins and his Youth Workshop Band: 12.15pm – Melville Theatre
- Film – Born to be Blue: 2.15pm – Melville Theatre
- The Goodyear Bop Septet: 4.45pm – Melville Theatre
- CHUBE featuring Dennis Rollins: 7pm – Melville Theatre
- Sarah Gillespie Sextet: 9.15pm – Melville Theatre
Throughout the day, enjoy jazz vinyls in the bar during theatre intervals with Nick Steel – The Windup Merchant
Sunday 1st September
- Gospel singing workshop: 12noon – Dance Blast, Melville Centre
- Tango jazz workshop: 12noon – Melville Centre
- Tango Jazz: 2pm – Melville Theatre
- Renewal Choir: 4.15pm – Melville Theatre
- Jazz improvisation workshop: 7pm – Melville Centre
- Claire Victoria Duo: 8pm – Jazz Lounge, Kings Head
Our ‘Jazz Through the Ages’ exhibition will be displayed Saturday the 31st August and Sunday 1st September at the Melville Centre
- John Law: piano
- Josh Schofield: saxophones
- James Agg: double bass
- Billy Weir: drums
John Law has played at fifty plus festivals worldwide and recorded over thirty albums.
Since his early beginnings as a classical child prodigy, then training as a classical concert pianist – and later changing over to jazz, contemporary composition and creative music in 1983 – John Law has gained the reputation as being one of Europe’s leading jazz pianist/composers.
Started in 2016, his Re-Creations project began as a fun project, with the aim of playing lots of different tunes from different genres. It very quickly developed, as the arrangements became more complex and interesting.
As well as jazz classics (like Monk, Miles Davis and Gershwin), the Quartet’s repertoire includes tunes from pop/rock/indie (e.g. Pink Floyd, Beatles, The Jam, Stevie Wonder, Bon Iver, Michael Jackson, Radiohead).
Gradually, classical pieces started appearing in the repertoire, such as Re-Creations’ version of Kyrie from Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Satie’s Gymnopédie.
Saxophonist Josh Schofield is one of the UK’s rising jazz talents. He’s studying for a Masters degree in jazz at the Amsterdam Conservatory, having graduated from the Birmingham Conservatory. In the Midlands, he played alongside bassist Dave Holland and others and was a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and the Birmingham Jazz Orchestra. With the Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra he appeared with singer Clare Teal and American trumpeter Bobby Shew.
Bassist James Agg plays in Dom Franks’s Strayhorn, whose début album has been played on BBC 3 and other UK radio stations. He’s also a member of the band Tipitina, with whom he’s appeared several times at Ronnie Scott’s. The Tadlib Collective Quintet, led by flautist Tadek Reid, includes him among its number as a strong bass presence and as a composer of contemporary material. His versatility extends to playing guitar, keyboards, percussion, trombone, trumpet and ukulele. He’s also been an arranger and backing singer.
Drummer Billy Weir was born in Cheltenham and played in the Gloucestershire Youth Jazz Orchestra. After graduating from the South West Music School and the National Youth Jazz Collective, he joined the Birmingham Conservatory jazz course, on which he was taught by Mark Turner, John Taylor, Clark Tracey and Jeff Ballard among others. In 2014 he won the Tony Levin Drum Prize in the category Most Swinging Drummer. He’s also a member of the Bristol-based Funk band The LBJBs. He has also performed at the UK National Drum Fair alongside saxophonist Jean Toussaint and bassist Arnie Somogyi.