CoriTap Calendar ... check regularly for gigs and other events
Tuesday February 7 2012 9:00 pm
JAMES MORTON & friends
Funk, jazz, soul, gospel from firebrand saxophonist James Morton with a heavyweight line-up of immensely talented friends including Denny Ilett, guitar, and Dan Moore, keys.
Always superb - don't miss this!
Admission £3.
Sunday February 12 2012 4:00 pm
JOHN PEARCE & friends
Jazz standards and originals from extra-ordinarily gifted violinist John Pearce with a great line-up including Dave Newton, keys; Rob York, guitar, and Richard Laws on drums.
Admission £3.
Tuesday February 14 2012 9:00 pm
CONJUNTO GRINGO
8-piece salsa band playing tunes by Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Afro-Cuban All Stars plus some originals!
With Jonny Bruce and Andy Hague, trumpets; Ben Waghorn, sax; Nick Attwood, trombone; Jim Blomfield, piano; Thad Kelly, bass; Mark Whitlam, drums, and Lisa Cherian, congas, this'll be a night not to miss!
Admission £4.
Sunday February 19 2012 4:00 pm
'LADY SINGS THE BLUES'
Like your Sunday afternoon on the mellow side? Then come join us for a session of blues and jazz tunes spanning six decades from Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles through to Melody Gardot, Amy Winehouse and Caro Emerald.
Join Graham Nicholls (guitar); Charlie Rose (keys); Jon Short (double bass); Andy Hague (drums), and Caroline (Able Mable) Tarbuck on vocals. Nice!
Admission £3.
Monday February 20 2012 9:00 pm
BRISTOL UNI CORI BAND
A mix of musicians from BUJO and The Hornstars, which together make up the Bristol University Big Band Society. They'll be playing a diverse repertoire of grooving funk, upbeat swing, vocalist tracks and maybe even a new take on a few recent pop favourites too.
Something for everyone!
Tuesday February 21 2012 9:00 pm
SAFFRON MONKEY
The Monkey is expanding its empire in 2012, but still knows where to call home.
Richie Blake, bass; Cliff Moore, guitar; Danny Cox, drums, and Steve Hacking, saxes, return with a tweaked set, new tunes and a familiar red arabian headpiece. Expect intricate arrangements and deep lunging!
Admission £3.
Sunday February 26 2012 4:00 pm
CATHERINE SYKES
Catharine studied voice at the Leeds College of Music and since graduating has performed at top venues such as the 100 Club, the 606 Club, as well as travelling all over Europe with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra and Glenn Miller Memorial Orchestra. She has performed with bands such as The Glenn Miller Orchestra UK, the Nick Ross Orchestra and the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra. Her previous album ‘Signing In' was featured on Humphrey Lyttleton's ‘Best of Jazz' programme on Radio 2, and her recently released album ‘Something Wonderful' puts a fresh contemporary twist on much-loved jazz standards allowing her to make them her own.
Catharine will be joined by Scott Hammond, drums; Ruth Hammond, keys, and Will Harris, bass.
Admission £3.
Tuesday February 28 2012 9:00 pm
THE QUENTIN COLLINS/BRANDON ALLEN 4TET featuring James Gardiner-Bateman
As the first instalment of JayGeeBee Promotions residency gigs at the CoriTap, James Gardiner-Bateman brings Quentin Collins and Brandon Allen's powerhouse quartet to this amazing venue/ciderhouse as part of a nationwide Jazz Services funded tour to promote their debut album ‘What's It Gonna Be?'.
Quentin, trumpet, and Brandon, sax, are already established masters of their instruments and have the ‘chops' to prove it in the studio. Backing the leaders is one of the most sought after rhythm sections around - Ross Stanley on Hammond organ and drummer, Enzo Zirilli.
There's new ground to be broken with what each individual member brings to the table, and the sum of these parts is ‘What's It Gonna Be?' inspired by their passion for hard bop - notably 1950s and 60s Blue Note recordings - plus a soulful cover of Stevie Wonder's ‘Smile Please' featuring Natalie Williams on vocals.
In the first set the guys will be playing their original music from their new album, and James Gardiner-Bateman will feature in the second set when they'll play standards and arrangements.
Admission £5.
Sunday February 5 2012 4:00 pm
RICK PAYNE & THE BLUES COWBOYS
A well-established and highly reputable Bristol band with high energy Delta, Chicago and West Coast blues centred around the slide work of Rick Payne and the pyro-technic soloing of Cleve Berarey, they're widely celebrated for delivering a passionate and lively set.
"The band live up to their superb reputation" Venue.
Admission £3.
Tuesday January 31 2012 9:00 pm
THE BIG B
A quartet of Bristol's finest!
Jerry Crozier Cole, guitar; Jonny Henderson, keys; Ben Waghorn, sax; Mike Hoddinott, drums.
Always in huge demand, individually these guys have worked, played, toured, recorded with Phantom Limb, Kasabian, Portishead, Ilya, Goldfrapp, Pee Wee Ellis, Sir David Attenborough, Clare Teal, Michael Mondesir to name just a few.
This'll be a great night, don't miss it!
Admission £3.
Venue magazine ‘Choice': "A heavyweight 4tet of 5* musicianship with great jazz, rock and funk credentials. All players in this band - Jonny Henderson (keys), Jerry Crozier-Cole (guitar), Ben Waghorn (sax) and Mike Hoddinott (drums) - are well known and respected musicians, not least at the Coronation Tap. It's an embarassment of riches that can only promise firebrand music, whether they play hard grooving funk, deep blues or show-off fusion jazz."
Sunday January 29 2012 4:00 pm
CHRIS JAGGER'S ACOUSTIC ROOTS
Chris Jagger, guitar/vox, with Elliet Mackrell on fiddle and Dave Hatfield, double bass, playing Chris's originals plus rootsy tootsy hillbilly hollers!
Admission £3.
Tuesday January 24 2012 9:00 pm
LIZZIE DEANE
Lizzie, with her fantastically talented band (all having the legendary Pee Wee Ellis as their common connection), will be staying true to her soul/funk roots and entertaining you with some classic favourites along with some of her own recently penned material!
Accompanied by amazing musicians Dan Moore, keys; Daisy Palmer, drums; Jeff Spencer, guitar; Toby Wightman, guitar and James Morton, sax, this will be a truly original and funky affair!
Admission £4.
Monday January 23 2012 9:00 pm
BRISTOL UNI CORI BAND
Up and coming musicians handpicked from the massed ranks of Bristol University's big bands, they play a wide range of tunes with lively enthusiasm.
Sunday January 22 2012 4:00 pm
DAVIS LINDLEY MULLAN
Andy Davis (Stackridge/The Korgis/The 3 Caballeros) presents his huge catalogue of superb songs in an acoustic setting.
Andy, guitar/vox, is aided by the prodigious talents of fellow Stackridge member Clare Lindley (The Scottish Firebrand!), violin/vox, and maestro Brian Mullan, cello/vox.
With new interpretations of familiar songs, brand new material, and some of those rip roaring instrumentals that Stackridge are famous for. There will even be the odd ukulele! Sumptuous melodies, heartfelt lyrics, and excellent musicianship.
Admission £3.
Tuesday January 17 2012 9:00 pm
NATHAN MERCADO
Piano-based soul with an old school vibe.
With Daisy Palmer on drums; Toby Whiteman, guitar; James Morton, sax, and Nathan's emotive, powerful vocals - don't miss this!
Admission £4.
Venue magazine "Choice"!
Sunday January 15 2012 4:00 pm
CINDY STRATTON
A welcome return for one of the West Country's top singer-songwriters.
Accompanying Cindy will be awesome fiddle-player Ali Nourse with the versatile percussion skills of Henry Shaftoe, and the amazing bass of Marius Frank, and we'll hear material from her recently released third album 'Portraits of Life and Love' amongst other songs from her repertoire.
"Cindy has written some of the most powerful songs of her career ... has matured into a brilliant songwriter'. (Venue magazine).
An afternoon not to be missed.
Admission £3.
Tuesday January 10 2012 9:00 pm
DADA SHANGO
An eclectic mix of rootsy and contemporary acoustic music, Dada Shango is the new project from ‘Mean Blue Monsters' Chris D'Avoine and Jack Carver.
With songs from such diverse sources as Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Led Zeppelin, Muddy Waters, The Doors, Richard Thompson and Jethro Tull, as well as some atmospheric original material, Dada Shango deliver a heady cocktail of blues, folk and cross-cultural guitar noodlings, with African and Arabian-style backbeats. With extensive use of tunings and improvisations on both 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, against driving and hypnotic Djembe and Darbouka rhythms, Dada Shango take you on a bewildering musical journey from Arabian desert to American Everglade, from African plains to English hills, from ancient Persia and Mesopotamia to contemporary urban angst.
Admission £3.
Sunday January 8 2012 4:00 pm
JAMES MORTON
Doesn't get more funky than this! Sensational saxophonist James Morton accompanied by a line-up of his hugely talented friends.
Admission £3.
Thursday January 5 2012 9:00 pm
DENNY ILETT & FRIENDS play LED ZEPPELIN
CoriTap regulars Denny Ilett, guitar; Daisy Palmer, drums, and Andy Crowdy, guitar/keys, join forces with two legends of the Oxford music scene - Jerry Soffe, bass, and Ady Davey, vocals - to form a veritable "supergroup" to pay homage to the mighty Zeppelin.
No funny wigs, no silly costumes - just five great musicians acknowledging their collective love of one of rock history's greatest bands!
Admission £3.
Tuesday January 3 2012 9:00 pm
THE PETERS
Formed by organist Steve Pringle and bassist Peter Randall to reproduce the music of the greatest funk band of all time, The Meters, as authentically as possible.
The Peters consists of some of the most established young musicians in London:
Steve Pringle, Trinity College of Music, has played with Motown legends The Drifters and The Four Tops on their recent European tour. Pete Randall, Trinity, has recently played with soul singer Michael Kiwanuka, supported Adele and Laura Marling on their recent European tours, and appeared on Jools Holland. Lewis Wright, one of London's most up and coming young drummers, is also well-known for playing vibraphone with MOBO award-winning Empirical. Ben Barritt, guitarist, Guildhall, a successful session musician and singer/songwriter. And Bristol's James Gardiner-Bateman, saxophonist, Royal Academy of Music, now firmly established on the London scene.
Admission £5.
Tuesday December 20 2011 9:00 pm
IAN MATTHEWS
Almost Xmas - and what a sensational present we have for you!!!
Heavy beats and soulful treats from Ian, drums; Dan Brown, bass; Ruth Hammond, keys; Denny Ilett, guitar; Gary Alesbrook, trumpet/flugelhorn; Andy Kinsman, sax, and vocals from special guest Bobby Anderson.
All these musicians are hugely popular so our advice is get here early, it'll be first come/first served.
Please note there'll be a ‘hat' going round for the ‘TEENAGE CANCER TRUST' which we'd love to fill to the brim by the end of the night!
Admission £5
Venue magazine 'Choice': "Back from touring with his band Kasabian, drummer Ian Matthews has pulled together a funk'n'groove combo that is rock solid: Gary Alesbrook (trumpet), Denny Ilett (guitar), Andy Kinsman (sax), Ruth Hammond (keys) and Dan Brown (bass) are a definite A-Team, and then you add guest vocalist Bobby Anderson (The 45s, Fourtune Drive). The result will be a complete party, especially when you factor in the Exhibition cider ... get in there early or you won't get in there at all."
Sunday December 18 2011 4:00 pm
THE PUSHY DOCTORS
Recently created, launched here at The Cori, and we're in need of more medication! Don't miss this appointment with the doctors who'll administer it as only they know how!
Andy Sheppard, sax; Tony Orrell, drums; Dan Moore, keys.
Admission £5
Venue magazine 'Choice': "One of the reasons why Bristol is a great place for music is that there are bands like this almost exclusively available in accessible and friendly venues like the Coritap (three years finalists in the country's top music pub awards). Andy Sheppard (sax), Dan Moore (keyboards) and Tony Orrell have used a set of seemingly cheesy tunes ('Baby Love', 'Je T'Aime ...', 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart') to gel their diverse talents into a definite and unique sound, serious in its musicality, ironic in its wit and delicious in the execution. Playing at the Coritap is playing at home for them and you're guaranteed to see them at their best."
Tuesday December 13 2011 9:00 pm
MOTOWN TRIBUTE NIGHT
With the sensational Celestine on vox joined by Laurent John, Sam Price; Reginald Chambers, drums; Anders Olinder, keys; Richard O'Brien, bass; Joe Price, guitar, we're in for an evening of classic dance-floor fillers from artists such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Jackson 5, Temptations and more.
Admission £3