Will Howard (UK) - Tenor Saxophone
Declan Forde (UK) - Piano
James Banner (UK) - Bass
Jordan Dinsdale (UK) - Drums

 The Zig Zag is proud to announce a brand new and fresh Sunday concert series that showcases a community of jazz artists responsible for bringing about an explosion of energy and life into the Berlin jazz scene. The series will feature some of the most in demand, highly skilled and exciting young jazz talents in the scene today. These young masters have taken the jazz scene by surprise by packing in the clubs and bringing back to life a love and passion for hard swinging music. Performances are completely acoustic with little to no amplification. Subtle interaction, melodic focus and soulful virtuosity is at play here. If you’re interested in listening to some of the finest swinging sounds of jazz this is not an event to miss out on. 

This all British band of expats are joined by UK based tenor saxophonist Will Howard to play some Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and other well knows early Jazz classics. 

You will recognize the rhythm section from swing dance evenings and concerts around Berlin. Each member has a deep love for the tradition as well as being fresh and exciting artists and improvisers in their own right. 

William Howard
William Howard plays the Tenor Saxophone. He was born in County Durham in the North of England and is based in Leeds. In the last ten years he has made a name for himself in the UK as one of the most versatile young improvisers around. He graduated from Leeds College of Music in 2010 and was awarded the Dave Cooper Memorial Prize for saxophone, The Sam Hood Rosebowl for Jazz performance and The LCM Principle's Scholarship. He is now a part time lecturer at Leeds College of Music. 

"Howard’s timing, sound, everything about him marks him out as a generous talent. Abundant technique, yet subservient to the sound he was pursuing. Howard must be heard" – Bebop Spoken Here.

Declan Forde
Declan Forde is a pianist originally from Glasgow, Scotland, and based in Berlin since 2014. He is mainly active playing freely improvised music and traditional / Early Jazz. Forde has performed with Greg Cohen, John Hollenbeck, Tobias Delius, Max Andrzejewski, Cansu Tanrikulu, Rudi Mahal, Jan Roder, Michael Griener, James Banner and Fabiana Striffler.
Since 2016 Forde has been playing in the project 'Unknown Ellington' and exploring the less played repertoire from the Ellington / Strayhorn songbook with bassist Greg Cohen (Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Woody Allen, etc.). The duo performed at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival in 2017 and continues to perform frequently in Berlin.
Forde is a member of James Banners USINE, which released the album "USINE" on Jazzhaus Records in 2018. The group also toured Germany and Britain in February / March 2019.
Beyond the world of jazz and improvised music, Forde has performed, toured and recorded for over ten years with the Scottish singer and artist Rachel Sermanni.

James Banner
James Banner was born in Dudley, England and is now based in Berlin and the UK, working around Europe as a musician, composer and educator. His main project James Banner’s USINE has been described as “revelling in both avant-garde and swing”, “unobvious and unpredictable” as well as “intense and dramatic… gentle and beautiful… full of drama”, and has received support from both the Berlin State and Initiative Musik. As a composer he received the prestigious Elsa Neumann Stipendium in 2018 from the Berlin University of the Arts/HfM Hanns Eisler, supporting the ambitious project Voices of Berlin, interviewing residents of Berlin and reflecting their stories through music for improvising choir and ensemble. James has been featured in portraits by Der Tagesspiegel and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and was recently selected to be a part of Making Music’s Adopt A Composer scheme, composing the collaborative piece Concertino For Concert Band with premiere performances in late 2019 and a BBC Radio 3 broadcast in 2020. James is a Lecturer at Leeds College of Music, composer in residence for Make The Paint Dance, and workshop leader for Jazzlines at Symphony Hall Birmingham, and active as a co-leader and sideman in projects in the jazz and improvised music scenes of Berlin, also regularly being selected to take part in collaborative projects further afield such as Fish and Chips at Leipziger Jazztage 2018 and Jazz Alloy at the Vortex, London.

,,A unique and surprising voice on his instrument … A gifted young composer …” - Greg Cohen

Jordan Dinsdale
As a young British drummer based in Berlin, Jordan has studied and played with some of the greatest names in Jazz including Jimmy Cobb, Chris Cheek, Jimmy Wormworth, Mike Kanan and Yasushi Nakamura.  Studying at Leeds college of Music on a scholarship (2010-2017), he graduated with a first class honours and was awarded the CBE Peter Roberts Memorial prize for achieving the highest marked recital performance. 
In January 2017, Jordan returned to New York to study with some of the masters including Jimmy Cobb, Johnathan Blake, Ari Hoenig and Eric McPherson.

 http://www.declanfordemusic.com/

Location:
Zig Zag Jazz Club GmbH
Hauptstr. 89, 12159 Berlin

Beginn 21:00 Uhr( Einlass 20:00 Uhr) 
Eintritt frei – Beitrag erwünscht

Sitzplatzreservierung

EINTRITT
Einer der Gründe, die den Zig Zag Jazzclub so einzigartig machen, ist, dass er der erste und einzige Jazzclub der Welt ist, dem es gelingt nur durch freiwilligem Eintritt/Crowdfunding Events von Weltklasse zu finanzieren. Und wie machen wir das? Ganz einfach. Während der Konzertpause geben wir bekannt, dass wir Geld einsammeln werden. Bei den meisten Konzerten (außer Jam Sessions) informieren wir unsere Kunden, dass ein Beitrag von ungefähr 15 Euro es uns erlaubt die Musiker gerecht zu bezahlen. Manche geben dabei mehr und andere weniger... und das ist auch in Ordnung. Wir haben auf diese Weise schon Hunderte Konzerte organisiert.