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RBC Big Band: Let it be Told

RBC Big Band: Let it be Told

RBC Musicians

Date and time
03 Feb 2025 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Location

Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

£8
£6 under 16s, over 60s

6.30pm support
7.15pm main show

Booking Information

Wheelchair users are entitled to concessionary priced tickets with a complimentary companion seat.

Assistance dogs are welcome at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire venues. If you wish to bring an assistance dog or wheelchair, please let the Events Office know by calling 0121 331 5909.

Saxophonist Julian Argüelles

RBC Jazz Orchestra: Let it Be Told

Let It Be Told is an album by saxophonist and composer Julian Argüelles (pictured) and includes arrangements of compositions by Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Johnny Dyani, Miriam Makeba as well as an atmospheric development of Abdullah Ibrahim's much loved composition The Wedding. Richard Williams writes: 'When the five musicians (Mongezi Feza, Dudu Pukwana, Johnny Mbizo Dyani, Chris McGregor, Louis Moholo-Moholo) of the Blue Notes left the apartheid state of South Africa to settle in Europe in 1964, finally establishing a home in London the following year, they brought with them a sound whose echoes are still evident after half a century. Like so much jazz through the ages, it expressed a profound yearning for freedom, but in this case articulated through the use of dance tunes, hymns and other music from the townships of their native land.”

Julian Argüelles was a founding member of Walsall Jazz Orchestra and joined Loose Tubes at the age of 20. Since then Julian has become an internationally-acclaimed and influential musician. His accolades include a Parliamentary Jazz Award nomination for his 2014 album Circularity and a place on the BASCA shortlist for his composition Hocus Pocus.

He has worked with a long list of international artists including Hermeto Pascoal, Dave Holland, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell.

Julian Argüelles was made Honorary Fellow of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2017.

Running time approx. two hours

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