Jazz in the Jewellery Quarter.

Birmingham Jazz present a tribute to the legendary Cannonball Adderley at the Red Lion, Warstone Street, on Friday 18th July in the form of the Chris Gumbley Quintet.

This new band is dedicated to re-creating the wonderful sound of the great Cannonball Adderley Quintet famous from the late 1950s and the 1960s in the USA. For this gig the Quintet will perform the songs spa nning the period 1955 – 1967, incorporating not only well-trodden classics like Work Song and Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, but also real gems like Del Sasser (Sam Jones), Jeannine (Duke Pearson), Jubilation (Junior Mance) and Cannonball’s own Teaneck. Bobby Timmons’ fabulous Gospel-tinged originals This Here and Dat Dere also feature with breakneck versions of I’ll Remember April and Nat Adderley’s Spectacular raising the temperature even further. Joe Zawinul’s hauntingly poetic Yvette, from the 1967 album Why Am I Treated So Bad, provides a more thoughtful and moving interlude.

The heads have been faithfully transcribed and reproduced, with solo sections providing a more flexible backdrop for individual creativity. Comprising Chris ‘Gumball’ Gumbley – alto sax; Neil Yates – trumpet/flugelhorn; Matt Ratcliffe – piano; Tom Hill – double bass and Carl Hemmingsley – drums, this is a band put together with pedigree, prowess and musical imagination in mind.

Admission is £8/members £5. www.birminghamjazz.co.uk