The quartet is delighted to play the wonderful St Ives Jazz Club (the last jazz club before New York) for the first time with our 1959: The Golden Year of Jazz project.
Doors Open @ 6.30pm - No pre-booking seats
Music Starts @ 7.30pm
FREE ENTRY/PWYC
Neil Maya - Sax
Gav Martin - Piano
Kevin Sanders - Double Bass
Gary Evans - Drums
1959 was a golden year for jazz. Neil Maya’s Quartet takes us on a fascinating musical journey through a year featuring some of the greatest jazz tracks ever made.
This was the year when Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Art Blakely released landmark albums. It also saw the birth of bossa nova.
Maya shows how albums such as Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and Brubeck’s Time Out shaped the development of modern jazz and still resonate today. The idea of a performance focusing on the music of this seminal year was in part due to his interest in the music of Dave Brubeck. His love of 50s jazz naturally led to 1959 because it represented a turning point for different approaches to improvisation. It was, he says “the year that changed jazz”.
1959 was also on the cusp of other social and political changes. The explosion of these innovative jazz recordings provides a musical backdrop to struggles for de-segregation and civil rights in the United States, the Cuban missile crisis and the start of the Vietnam war.
