Puzzle Hall Inn

Chess Night
2026-07-27 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-07-20 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-07-13 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-07-06 20:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-29 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/London)
All welcome for this casual but serious evening of chess.

The Memphis Cruisers
2026-07-26 16:00 - 19:00
The Memphis Cruisers are a hard working rockabilly band hailing from the wild west of Yorkshire (otherwise known as Bradford).Covering a range of rockabilly songs from the likes of Gene Vincent and Elvis Presley, to The Stray Cats, Matchbox and Imelda May. With their witty banter,”feel good” vibes and rollicking energy no toes will remain untapped.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063581288428#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2R1F0DihVI
“They know how to create a fantastic atmosphere and had people shaking their hips and tapping their feet” Yorkshire Live
“A top-class rockabilly band!” – The York Press

Les Gillon & The Agents Of Karma
2026-07-25 21:00 - 23:00
Les Gillon & The Agents of Karma is a 5 piece acoustic line-up that features acoustic guitar, cello, piano, violin and hand percussion. Les Gillon is a Calderdale based singer, songwriter and guitarist who is best known as frontman of the alt-rock band Fez, but who throughout his long career has explored a whole range of musical territories, including experimental collaborations with dance and performance practitioners and longstanding work with folk trio Ghost School and improvisation collective Fire Tower 4.
This line-up takes his music into a very different context, by bringing together a group of great musicians from the worlds of jazz, classical and folk music. The result is a unique sound, sometimes intimate, sometimes cinematic, that defies categorisation and underpins the lyrical intensity of the songs.
The band’s debut album The Underground Session is available on all platforms and a new 4 song EP is available from 1st May.
Les Gillon: guitar and vocals
Julia Farrants: cello
Jen Trott: violin and vocals
Dave Nelson: piano and vocals
Andrew Duncan: percussion
Videos: Live in the studio
Facebook page
Bandcamp Page
“They absolutely blew everyone away with their incredible performance, top quality musicianship, innovative musical expressions and powerful songwriting.” Mobius Loop

“…draw from a melting pot of classic genres, coalescing into sounds and styles that are both familiar and authentic. Their infectious and often haunting melodies are performed with world class musicianship and feeling resulting in a truly visceral listening experience. Make a point of seeing them!” Tony Rigg, Music Industry Consultant and Producer

Warm Parts + Getner
2026-07-24 20:00 - 22:00
Combining Krautrock, Shoegaze and electonica into a psychedelish rush, Warm Parts are a Calderdale based band with a fast growing reputation. Gaining renown for their powerful live performances Warm Parts will have you grooving and swooning in equal measures.
“Fearsomely-awesome. A mesmeric total aural assaults on the senses” – International Times
“a kaleidoscope of krautrock escapism that blends the purposeful momentum of a good old-fashioned motorik anthem with the minimal, melodic wooziness of Slowdive” – Dirty Sunbeams
https://www.facebook.com/warmparts/
https://warmpartsband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@WarmParts

Manchester’s Getner are a young rock band who combine a love of the rebel rousing bravado of Irish folk and 70’s punk with a playful glam stomp. Fast gaining a reputation for their live shows in their adopted home city this is their first visit to the valley.
“Modernised vintage rock n roll tones with shaking, rattling and rolling reverence. One of the most promising Manchester bands on the scene” – A & R Factory
‘High energy punk with a raging groove’ – Gigshack
https://www.facebook.com/Getnermcr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ce0fyPms4U

French Fridays
2026-07-24 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-07-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-07-10 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-07-03 17:30 - 18:30, 2026-06-26 17:30 - 18:30
An informal group to practice your conversational French – Everyone welcome!

Jazz Night with Archipelago
2026-07-23 20:00 - 23:00
Archipelago formed in Newcastle/Gateshead in 2016 and consists of:
Faye MacCalman (Composer, Saxophone, Clarinet, Synth, Vocals)
John Pope (Bass, Effects)
Christian Alderson (Drums, Percussion)

Archipelago’s uncompromising ability to fit into one genre is a raw, fully charged musical experience. Their last album ‘Echoes To The Sky’ received 4 **** on its release and has been described as “original, evocative
and at times, haunting music” by Kevin Le Gendre on BBC Radio 3.
Supported by “BBC Introducing” and selected as “a highlight” from Latitude Festival for Tom Robinson’s BBC6 Music show, they were described as a “truly remarkable unit” by NARC Magazine.
Faye MacCalman takes influence from artists ranging from Joni Mitchell to Don Cherry to PJ Harvey, creating shimmering waves of sound that change rapidly from one song to the next, as Archipelago move between instruments and electronic effects that create illusions of several musicians, before peeling back to their raw trio form.

Gobbledegook
2026-07-21 20:00 - 22:00
A new monthly spoken word evening hosted by Welsh poet Rob Edwards at the Puzzle Hall Community Pub.
Poetry. Comedy. Storytelling. Bardic ramblings. Beautiful madness.
10 minute performance slots.
All voices welcome — first timers and seasoned performers alike.
The first ever Gobbledegook lands on Tuesday 21st July, 8 — 10 pm, and continues every 3rd Tuesday of the month.Come along and help start something special.

Adeline Hotel and Cameron Knowler
2026-07-19 16:00 - 18:00
Adeline Hotel (USA)Pitchfork-endorsed alt indie folk / country from New York in a Neil Young / Jim O’Rourke vein as seen with Brigid Mae Power and William Tylerhttps://adelinehotel.bandcamp.com/
Cameron Knowler (USA) Instrumental fingerpicked acoustic guitar from Arizona offering postmodern perspectives on American traditional music https://cameronknowler.bandcamp.com/

FREE ENTRY with donations for acts gratefully accepted
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“What I’m going through is hard to describe,” Dan Knishkowy sings near the end of his kaleidoscopic new album, Watch the Sunflowers. Recording as Adeline Hotel, the songwriter, guitarist, and Ruination Record Co. label head has made an art of complicated feelings, whether zooming in so closely that he can describe each individual thread or panning out until the view becomes psychedelic and strange. At a prolific pace, he has accompanied these observations with music that’s just as creatively restless. On one record, he is a solo guitarist improvising in a quiet room; on the next, he’s a piano balladeer backed by strings. He may front a rock band that draws inspiration from Neil Young at his most ragged and Richard Thompson at his most stately; on another, he may blend into the autumnal hush of a complex jazz group.
The expertly written, masterfully delivered Watch the Sunflowers is the most colorful music of Knishkowy’s career. This, of course, is a direct response to what came before it. These seven imagistic songs arrive after 2024’s breakthrough Whodunnit, a record whose stark portraits of codependency and isolation were delivered as raw and nakedly as Knishkowy ever allowed himself. If those songs seemed to burst forward on the immediacy of their feelings, this time, he compares his approach to a Richard Linklater film. This process encouraged him to live inside the stories and notice how the passing of time changed the atmosphere, whether that meant embellishing the compositions with lush, expansive arrangements or sanding them down to impressionistic loops.
Produced with Nate Mendelsohn and bandmate Winston Cook-Wilson, the music arrives in a lineage of rock bands pushing their sounds to the brink. I think of the rock-bottom alien transmissions on Wilco’s A Ghost Is Born or the downer anthems of Big Star’s Third: albums where traditional rock bands presented their most fragile material in rooms where everything seemed to be falling apart. The recording process proceeded in two distinct phases. First was a traditional session in 2022 with regular collaborators Andrew Stocker on bass, Sean Mullins on drums, and Cook-Wilson on keys. After sitting on the material and letting the songs shapeshift in his mind, Knishkowy revisited them in early 2025 with Mendelsohn and Cook-Wilson, whom Knishkowy also enlisted to provide the sweeping string arrangements.
In response, Knishkowy found himself revising the lyrics and updating the music to suit his evolving perspective. Sometimes, as in the hypnotic “Just Like You,” the distance allowed him to reimagine once again what Adeline Hotel could sound like. By the time they arrived at the album version, Mendelsohn was creating warped layers of processed effects; Cook-Wilson tapped out rhythms on a drum machine; Jackie West provided comforting vocal harmonies that drift through the knotty arrangement like falling leaves; Knishkowy built a loop from electric guitar that became the backbone of the track. Other times, as with the epic title track, he looked back at lyrics he had written nearly a decade earlier and reconvened with his younger self.
Where this process might lead some songwriters to seek resolution, it only encouraged Knishkowy to ask more questions. In fact, there has never been more searching on an Adeline Hotel record. Am I dreaming? Am I living? Did I grieve enough? Where will I begin? By now, we are accustomed to turning to Knishkowy’s lyrics for stability amid prolonged stretches of turbulence. But on Watch the Sunflowers, he seems less interested in summoning wisdom than simply enduring. Plenty of images across the record bring this feeling to life—the “holy visions” in “Dreaming,” his “eyes open wide while swimming” in “Swimming,” the struggle to find stability in creative fields that recurs like a creeping anxiety. Across the songs, Knishkowy quotes sources ranging from Maggie Nelson’s Bluets (“Wondering if there was good kinds of hustlers”) to Cass McCombs (“I’m nobody’s puppy, nobody’s dog.”), all in the spirit of buttressing a narrator in suspended freefall.
As is often the case with Adeline Hotel, the vision is fully realized with the enrapturing sound of the music: another distinct entry in a discography that is growing more complex and textured with each new entry. Knishkowy has situated this record in part of an interconnected, time-jumping trilogy that includes the climactic Whodunnit and a more resolved record to follow. This in-between state puts these songs—vivid but ghostly, slow-forming yet urgent in their emotional character—in a strange place. And yet, few songwriters seem so poised to narrate from this bleary vantage. “Light illuminates the dust between our lives, some things take a little while,” he sings in the opening “Dreaming,” as if narrating his own creative process. “I was free again if only for a moment.” On Watch the Sunflowers, a moment is all it takes to see things clearly. — Sam Sodomsky
Adeline Hotel recently released, Watch The Sunflowers, This follows last year’s Whodunnit (which received acclaim from Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, The Fader) and the instrumental records Hot Fruit, and previously Good Timing. He has opened for folks like Marlon Williams, Naima Back, Brigid Mae Power, and William Tyler.
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An acclaimed educator, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist, Cameron Knowler specializes in the art of the conceptual record, putting forth instrumental works that Folk Radio UK has referred to as “Western sound-painting.” His craft follows in the theoretical footsteps of instrumentalist and songwriter Norman Blake and expands upon that territorial folk convention: Knowler brandishes a post-modern perspective on American traditional music that nods to both his formal theory training and his roots in the American West.

Featuring contributions from Jordan Tice (of Hawktail), Jay Bellerose, Harrison Whitford, Rayna Gellert, Dylan Day, Mark Goldenberg, Rich Hinman and Robert Bowlin, CRK, a self-titled affair, finds Cameron Knowler at an exciting crossroads between American tradition and forward looking guitar soli – toeing the line between personal regionalism and the universality of landscape memory. CRK draws on the history and geography of Knowler’s birthplace of Yuma, Arizona- a border town known for its lettuce production and defunct territorial prison. In line with the regional ethos of the composer Frantz Casseus and the minimalism of Bruce Langhorne, this instrumental guitar record launches into a world of desert sun, propane tanks, dark jail cells, and the verdant Colorado. Knowler ferries listeners across a sensitively crafted world with deft, understated playing, pushing the current of instrumental acoustic music forward through lush original compositions, while keeping an eye on tradition with his singular arrangements of old time fiddle tunes. With what many describe as the closest thing to the right hand of Norman Blake, Knowler’s delivery also nods to the work of creative outsiders Terry Allen and David Rawlings.
With this work, Knowler sonically illuminates untold stories of the Sonoran, lending a voice to the pictorial canon made famous by Dorothea Lange and western films such as “3:10 to Yuma.” There is a sense of interiority to the record as well, Knowler says, noting that he “grew up isolated, unschooled in a desert with very little contact with children my own age.” He only returned to his hometown recently to revisit places held in memory, and CRK stands as a direct result of unpacking those landscapes coded with personal darkness. By creating an outward-facing work of art, Knowler strives to “make sandcastles out of grief” and emblazon the diorama of his youth.
With CRK, the world receives a sound poem, a memory palace that stands as a document of both personal grief and acceptance of the many dimensions of a place. We hear the sweeping landscapes of the Sonoran desert, and the darkness housed therein, even in The Sunniest Place on Earth.
“Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the future of what the guitar can be. Everything you want from an instrumental guitar record is all here.”– Hayden Pedigo
“CRK! What a fantastic piece of hope medicine you released. Congratulations and great work! It’s fantastic and so inspiring.” — The Tallest Man on Earth
“Love the record. You’re doing something totally rooted in tradition but totally new.” — Matt Combs
“Cameron writes guitar music that sounds like it has always existed and was simply excavated from the fretboard. To me, that is the highest ideal of guitar tunecraft.” — Jordan Tice
“Such a beautiful record wholly yours and unlike anyone else.” — Joseph Terrell

Gilbert Piano Evening
2026-07-18 20:00 - 23:00
Soul, Jazz, Keys, a beautiful voice.
Music from 9 from Huddersfield’s finest singer and musician.

Calderdale Fantasy Orchestra
2026-07-12 18:00 - 20:00
The Calderdale Fantasy Orchestra is a community project based in the Calder Valley which brings together 50+ musicians, professional and amateur, to create a kaleidoscopic symphonic brigade.Their eclectic repertoire covers film soundtracks (Morricone, John Barry), rock and pop favourites (Leonard Cohen, Beatles, Bowie, Radiohead), and some more obscure treasures. Think psychedelic loveliness, rousing choral noise, and some choice costumes.
https://www.facebook.com/CalderdaleFantasyOrchestra/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwslkjLfsk
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1f19GolS8
https://www.fantasyorchestra.org/calderdale/

Lillith's Army + Rock Paper Sister
2026-07-11 21:00 - 23:00
Northampton’s Lilith’s Army’s mix lo-fi punk, metal and the grungy garage rock of L7 and Mudhoney into an intoxicating brew. Fronted by the raw yet harmonically rich vocals of Sylvie Studente and charging head first with powerful riffs and tight grooves they create a pummeling but invigorating sound.
https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/…
https://www.facebook.com/lilithsarmyOfficial/
https://www.youtube.com/@LilithsArmy
“Blending the best of lo-fi, punk, grunge and metal, Lilith’s Army are a three piece that has class throughout” – Deuce Music
“So heavy and raw, very authentic, lots of emotion and attitude, and just overall fun” – Punktuation
Huddersfield’s Rock Paper Sister are influenced by Guano Apes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Skunk Anansie and combine a classic rock sheen with a side order of funkiness and dramatic vocals. Expect huge riffs, creative bass lines, flamboyant drums and melodic vocals. With their energetic live performances and strong songwriting, Rock Paper Sister are quickly making a name for themselves in the local music scene and their recent appearances at Bands on the Square and the Longest Day Festival have garnered strong feedback.
“A dynamic female-fronted 4 piece delivering high-voltage rock.” – Kirklees Most Wanted
https://www.facebook.com/Rrock.Paper.Sister/
https://www.instagram.com/rock_paper_sister_music/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx4VUu8gW44

Steve Reich In The Afternoon
2026-07-11 14:00 - 19:00
Alex McCune gives us his one and only, annual DJ set, down at the Puzzle. For this year’s ‘Steve Reich In The Afternoon’ we’ll be celebrating Steve Reich’s 90th birthday, and beginning proceedings with 90 mins of Steve Reich, followed by more bangers from the world of minimalist and ambient music.

Cat's Cradle
2026-07-05 18:00 - 20:00
Cat’s Cradle are an acoustic 4-piece folk band playing inventive, intricately constructed original songs and tunes, by turns atmospheric, rhythmically driving and gentle. Using voice, mandolin, tenor banjo, piano, bodhran, whistle and cello, several traditions get woven in; from the very local to the UK to eastern Europe, prog and chamber music, all wetted down with a bit of northern rain. Cat’s Cradle are based in the lumpy South Pennines spanning the Lancashire-Yorkshire border.

Acoustic Singaround Session
2026-07-05 13:00 - 16:00
Join us at the Puzzle Hall Inn, the 1st Sunday of each month for an acoustic afternoon informal singaround. All persons of all ages and skill levels welcome.
Hosting, will be the incredible Dave Calvert.In his own words: “Everyone is welcome to come along and sing, play, join in or just listen, the beer is great, as is the atmosphere. Its a lovingly restored, community owned pub which is continuing it’s long history of music events.”
Entry is free, hope to see you there.

Caulbearers
2026-07-04 21:00 - 23:00
Based on the songs of producer and vocalist Damien Mahoney, Manchester band Caulbearers weave together elements of hip-hop, funk, dub, soul and jazz, with plenty of grit and discord in the mix. This is roots music from the rainy city, psychedelic soul with a poetic, social conscience that’ll make you dance and stroke your chin at the same time!
https://caulbearers.com/
https://caulbearers.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/caulbearers
https://youtu.be/1lt79wo0qOc
“This is infectious music, tastefully weaving in elements of surf pop, funk rock and world music.”~ Louder Than War.
“Impressive… what it might sound like were you to cross Bill Laswell and Massive Attack with Laura Marling and Mojave 3… stellar, believable and inspiring.”~ Big Takeover Magazine
“Funky and original…All music should be this progressive”~ Jammerzine

Electric Isles + Menko
2026-07-03 20:00 - 22:00
ELECTRIC ISLES are an electronic alternative band built around captivating female vocals, dreamy guitar and melodic keys with an electronic drums backbone. They create an energetically funky yet blissed-out psychedelic sound that’ll get you moving. Think Little Dragon meets Bicep via Maribou State.
movie.https://www.instagram.com/electricislesmusic/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Fag97C6N3hqer7loeniwF

Todmorden based multi-instrumentalist Katrina Awaramenko creates compelling folktronica as MENKO. Influenced by ambient electronica, folk and her experiences as a music therapist her music combines ethereal vocals, frantic beats and glitchy electronica into a driving dreampop whole.
https://menko.bandcamp.com/
“Captivating dreampop” – Sloman music

Folk Night with Tritor
2026-07-02 20:00 - 23:00
The First Thursday of each month, the Puzzle Hall is home to LORE. These regular sessions usually feature a booked folk act, doing two sets; floor spots for songs or tunes from the audience; and sometimes a few songs from a compere. They are free to attend, but donations for the booked performers are welcomed.
This month we welcome – TRITOR
Tritor, a medieval trancey groovy dreamy-weamy medievally droney tapestry. With a vocal, bagpipe, hurdy gurdy, percussion sound once likened to bathing in warm plums…
For those who may be unsure of the public transport situations, here are some useful details…
Trains: If you’re travelling towards Halifax / Bradford / Leeds, the last train leaves Sowerby Bridge at 00.05.If you’re travelling up the Calder Valley, and onwards to Manchester, the last train leaves Sowerby Bridge at 23.23.Please allow 15 minutes to walk from the pub to the station, and please check, on the day of travel,that the times have not changed, or that strike actions are being planned.
Bus: There’s a 579 bus to Halifax that leaves Station Road at 23.48, just a few minutes’ walk from the Pub, however, give yourself plenty of time, as it’s the last bus, it can be pretty sharp in setting off.

Instant World Music Orchestra
2026-06-28 16:00 - 18:00
As part of the Puzzle’s ‘Summer Sunday Afternoons’ season of music, held in our large beer garden, we’re really chuffed to be able to bring you yet another big band extravaganza. Following on from the highly successful gig with the Calderdale Big Band in May, we’ve managed to get hold of the Instant World Music Orchestra.
Led by musical polymath Richard Ormrod, the 18-strong Instant World Music Orchestra play fantastic groove-led music, and will take you on a whistle-stop musical tour of the globe. They’ll touch down in Jamaica, India, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa, Ethiopia, the Balkans, Japan, Trinidad, New York, and all points between to play the finest sounds around, and deliver them in their own inimitable way.
This celebratory outfit play music that appeals to everyone, from a wide age-group, to fans of all types of music.
Why not come on down, bring the family, this truly great band’s music is accessible to all – from the most critical of music fans right down to the ‘Littlies’ who will be totally fascinated by the rhythms, sounds, and instruments in front of them!
Free admission, collection towards the band taken.
Please be generous if you can.

Clothes Swap
2026-06-28 13:00 - 15:00
Sowerby Bridge clothes swap is a place to bring your good quality but no longer wanted/needed items to swap with other like minded souls! Bring up to six items, pay a £1 donation (cash please) that goes to various local charities and swap away!
Also, book swap!

Sowerby Bridge Town Festival
2026-06-27 16:00 - 23:00
Kinaara : 18.00
Kinaara, meaning water’s edge, weave together strands of Punjabi and Celtic folk, Indian classical elements and a side order of psychedelia into an intoxicating whole. The Leeds group feature haunting vocals, fluid electric guitar and jazz drums to create a sound which is at once hypnotically groovy yet dynamic and subtly adventurous.
‘…you can hear Punjabi sounds– but there’s also folk, rock and jazz. Sometimes all at once’. Local Sound Focus
“Sensuous and alluring they have something unique to offer” – Roots World
“Kinaara are a terrific trio with musically rich songs” – Eastern Eye
http://www.kinaara.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/kinaaraofficial/
https://kinaaraofficial.bandcamp.com/music

Kushty Rye : 19.30
Folk rock renegade Des Horsfall has had a few skirmishes with fame over the years having played stages with the likes of Steve Earle, Pete Townsend and Slim Chance. With his band Kushty Rye he carries the torch for the late Ronnie Lane creating with good friends their own brand of raucous and good natured rustic rock and roll fun.
“Poignant and anthemic with an authentic laid back 1970s feel” Folking
“soulful and heart warming music that’s skilfully-executed, melodious and wise” – Whisperinandhollerin
https://www.kuschtyrye.net/
https://www.facebook.com/deshorsfallskuschtyrye/

Mora & The Fabulous Wonderfuls : 21.00
Born backstage, and raised by a VOX AC30, MORA was always destined to be a performer who makes the ground shake. With her band The Fabulous Wonderfuls she brings a unique blend of righteous anger and soul-lifting songs to channel the pain and rage of this crushing existence into a communal connection. This is impassioned soul stirring folk rock at it’s best with a powerful front woman who’s a star in the making.
“This is protest music which tugs at the heartstrings rather than calling to arms, and it would take a hard soul indeed not to be moved by Mora’s plaintive voice” – Louder than war
“A bewitching blend of soulful vocals and lively stage presence that would ignite any room from the first note to the curtain call.” -Arenaline
https://morathefabulouswonderfuls.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/moraandthefabulouswonderfuls

https://www.youtube.com/@moraandthefabulouswonderfuls/videos

Amon Acid + Juku
2026-06-26 20:00 - 22:00
Amon Acid are a heavy psychedelic rock group from Leeds founded in 2018 by couple Sarantis and Briony Charvas. Deeply rooted in Space, Garage and Stoner rock their music is an exquisite trip blending occult, hypnotic, doom-infused grooves with subtle hints of traditional Greek rhythms and gothic ambience.
https://amonacid.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/amonacidband/
https://www.instagram.com/amonacidband/
“Amon Acid are a true psychedelic doom metal delight” – Doomed Nation
“They have a knack for merging diverse influences—from dub to psychedelia—into a seamless, exploratory journey” – It’s Psychedelic Baby
“Riffs as sharp as a razor blade” – Prog Rock Journal

Jazz Night with Adam Fairhall / Johnny Hunter
2026-06-25 20:00 - 23:00
Adam Fairhall / Johnny Hunte Play: Mary Lou Williams
Adam Fairhall, piano * Johnny Hunter snare drum
Fairhall and Hunter, stalwarts of Manchester’s creative music scene, have established a piano/drums duo to explore early jazz forms through a modern and up to date lens. The piano/drums format is perfectly suited to this, being a favoured format in both Harlem stride and free music. With an album of Winifred Atwell songs under their belts, (yep, that’s right!), they have now put together a programme of the music of Mary Lou Williams, a hugely influential figure who lived and played through the entire history of Jazz from Ragtime to Avant-garde. Her restless and inquisitive spirit is lovingly channelled by this duo.
Comments on their album:
“A wonderfully evocative and enjoyable tribute to a jazz master, by two highly reflective and creative musicians.” Andy Hamilton, THE WIRE
“A hall of mirrors where ragtime and free jazz mutually morph” Nick Hasted, JAZZWISE
“The joyous renditions of Williams’ material are clearly full of affection, even as the pair deconstruct, fragment and even totally abandon them. Ultimately, the merry confluence of jaunty swinging grooves and spirited digressions into the weeds enriches both.” John Sharpe, NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD
Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs, May 8th, 1910 – May 28th 1981 was a hugely influential American jazz pianist, arranger and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions, arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie.
