Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra
Thu 4 Mar 8pm
Butterworth Hall £15.50 (£13.50), £17.50 (£15.50)
Jerry Dammers, founder of Coventry’s The Specials and 2 Tone Records, writer of Ghost Town and Free Nelson Mandela, started his 19 piece orchestra as a “tribute band” to space jazz maverick Sun Ra.
Dammers has now expanded the repertoire, from Cedric “Im” Brookes’ spiritual reggae, to Alice Coltrane’s eastern mysticism… from Tommy McCook’s deep jazzy ska, to Martin Denny’s dark exotica… and even to one or two versions of Dammers’ own songs.
Some of the country’s best jazz musicians perform, with occasional vocalists, inside Dammers’ rhythmic setting, which draws on funk, reggae, rock, and recent styles such as hip hop, jungle or dubstep. The orchestra has received rave reviews from both jazz and rock/pop critics, in Dammers’ words, “aimed at everyone”. It is vivid, visual and theatrical.
BBC Online interview with Jerry Dammers
“Triumphant, glorious, exhilarating.” Uncut
“Now this is really Special” The Observer
| Thu 4 Mar | Butterworth Hall | 8:00pm |
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With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .
4 Comments
Can't wait!
The man is an inspiration to all of us....
EB
Erin Bardwell at 2:34pm on Mon 22nd Feb 2010
there are very few people with something worth saying that are alive.jerry dammers is one of those people .
david darroux at 6:39pm on Mon 1st Mar 2010
you can only be ground breaking by pushing it to the edge. dammers is doing just that! in a small town in sweden we thank you !
mats vigstrom at 7:00pm on Mon 1st Mar 2010
The Jerry Dammers concert was fantastic! He has taken the music of 2-Tone to another level. Things have moved on and progressed and I thank him for sharing it all with us! But there is still a trademark style and sound in there somewhere unique to Dammers.
Erin Bardwell at 12:59pm on Sat 6th Mar 2010