Jazz Preview: Larkin's favourites and inventor of funk at Hull jazz fest
Apart from jazz in the Marina Boatshed by the Asere Cuban All Stars, the City of Hull Youth Jazz Orchestra and Mad Dog and the SophistiCats tomorrow and Sunday, there will be displays by parachute and helicopter teams to welcome the mini-fleet after its 35,000 mile journey. The programme continues tonight in Hull Truck Theatre's studio with a celebration of the jazz which was closest to the heart of Philip Larkin. There will be music and a discussion to launch a new compilation of his favourite sounds.
Later in the evening at the same venue, the New Orleans clarinettist Evan Christopher presents Django a la Creole, a fusion of gypsy swing with the style of early jazz masters such as Sidney Bechet. Larkin would have loved it.
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Hide AdTrumpeter Abram Wilson draws on his African-American roots tomorrow evening in a quartet completed by pianist Peter Edwards, drummer Graham Godfrey and bassist Karl-Rasheed Abel. This precedes the Pee Wee Ellis Jazz Assembly, led by the saxophonist credited with inventing funk. Ellis worked with the likes of George Benson, Hank Crawford and Van Morrison.
As the yachts arrive home, this smacks of a voyage of discovery for jazz fans.