Mezz #14: Jayne Parker and Evan Parker
Saturday 4th June 7.30pm-late

Mezz #14 brings together film-maker Jayne Parker and free improvising saxophonist Evan Parker for the first time. Introducing her films: Blues in B-flat (featuring cellist Anton Lukoszevieze), Cold Jazz (featuring saxophonist Kathy Stobart) and Catalogue of Birds: Book 3 (featuring pianist Katharina Wolpe), Jayne Parker will talk about how music helps her to think about film structurally, posing the questions: how can I reflect the form and rigour of the music? How can film embody music? Does what I see change what I hear? This will be followed by a solo performance by Evan Parker, a legendary pioneer in the field of improvised music. With a lexicon of techniques he has devised over forty years from circular breathing to cross fingering, the sounds that resonate from the body of the saxophone seem to have shape, his intense performances oscillating from the harsh and raw to a swirling, fluttering web of contrapuntal tones. “In Evan Parker’s music” writes Stuart Broomer “thought and breath are continuous, each the instrument and measure of the other”.

£10 Tickets from SVA or on the door 01453 751400

Stroud Jazz Sessions with Craig Crofton

Thursday 9th June 8.30pm
SVA 4 John Street,Stroud GL5 2HA

Craig Crofton is an outstanding sax player (Freight, Float Your Boat), protege of Marcus Printemp of Blue Note Records, and has played with jazz greats John Fattis, Pee Wee Ellis, and Delfayo Marsalis!

£4 (£3 musicians) on the door

CJB's Funk Club. Parrrt One: Groovallegiance
Saturday 11th June 9pm-2am

From soul harmony group to funk overlords, the Parliafunkadelicment Thang, guided by the Holy Trinity of P-Funk (Clinton, Worrell & Bootsy), along with James Brown and Sly Stone, laid down the foundations of contemporary dance music. Professor CJB presents a chronological session of P-Funk vinyl (Pure, un-cut). 60s Psychedelic funk, Free Your Mind… and Your Ass will Follow & Maggot Brain, gives way to hard and heavy funk up to the 21st century including the pivotal 1975 Mothership Connection. Esoteric tracks and rare 12s with classic dance hits including Parliament's Up for the Down Stroke, Tear the Roof Off the Sucker, Flash Light; Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop, Hardcore Jollies, One Nation Under a Groove, Freak of the Week; Zapp's More Bounce to The Ounce; Clinton's Atomic Dog and more from Bootsy's Rubber Band, The Horny Horns, Parlet, The Brides of Dr Funkenstein, The P-Funk All Stars and all the U.S. Funk Mob. Go Wiggle!
£5 Tickets from SVA

Keith Allen presents: Mik Artistik Ego Trip

Saturday 18th June 9pm

Mik Artistik is already onto his fourth studio album and although, at 53, he not the springiest of chickens, he's hatched from an alternative cabaret scene with a mix of punk, poetry and panache that would put many younger, less worldly wise artistes to shame. His stage persona ranges from amiable host to a wild-eyed lunatic, leaping into the audience to humour and scare. Hosted by Keith Allen as only he knows how and supported by his band the mighty Pencilcase.

£8.50 advanced. £10 on the door

Soundclash

Friday 24th June 9pm

Step inside the sonic collider and witness long-cherished musical divisions put asunder! Trampled underfoot! Left torn and frayed! Hosted by crash-happy DJs Pavoid (Mockers) and Rbot (Resound) - plus a selection of hand-picked guests.
£3 on the door

Disco Sucks

Saturday 25th June 10pm-3am

Who needs Glastonbury when you've got a ton of disco records and a sound system the size of a small bungalow? Not us. Full Disco Sucks DJ line-up, Black Box soundsystem plus you don't have to queue for nine hours to pay twenty pounds for a plastic pot full of lukewarm corporate lager and some vegan noodles that taste of feet.

£5 Tickets on the door

Eyebrow

Thursday 30th June 8.30pm

Paul Wigens: Drums, has been a member of Blurt, Grand Drive, The Blue Aeroplanes and Cousteau. Pete Judge: trumpeter with Get The Blessing (BBC Jazz Award winners 2008), Three-Cane Whale and Organelles. Kathy Hinde: visuals and environments that are responsive to live situations. Her collaborations include work with Joanna MacGregor, Maja Ratkje, Hild-Sofie, Joby Burgess.

£3.50 advanced. £5 on the door

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