Jan Kopinski and Steve Iliffe providing a live accompaniment to the 1922 film classic Nosferatu is an apt Hallowe'en choice for Leeds Jazz at the Seven Arts Centre tonight.
Director F W Murnau's interpretation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, complete with Transylvanian horrors and torment is regarded as an early masterpiece.
Saxophonist Kopinski and keyboard player Iliffe – the core of funk band Pinski Zoo – complement th
e silent movie with their improvisations.
The result, says a Leeds Jazz spokesman, is the perfect antidote to trick-or-treating although visitors are recommended to bring their own garlic!
All this will be repeated tomorrow night in a pumpkin-lit evening at The Shed in Hovingham village hall where promoter Simon Thackray takes justifiable pride in presenting the unusual to his loyal band of supporters.
Those with fond memories of the West Coast jazz played in the Fifties by the likes of Shorty Rogers and Howard Rumsey should enjoy the Compact Little Big Band reviving the strains of thatera at Howden's Shire Hall tomorrow night.
In a year which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Stephane Grappelli, with whom he worked for five years, guitarist John Etheridge brings his Sweet Chorus tribute to the legendary violinist to Coopers Jazz Club in Leeds on Thursday.
Christian Garrick will recall Grappelli's eloquence on violin in a group completed by Dave Kelbie on guitar and Andy Crowdy on bass. A nostalgic evening with Hot Club overtones makes an enticing prospect.
The full article contains 251 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
