Arts Fest 2010
Symphony Hall
Birmingham
Start time 6pm
Free Entry

Steve Tromans - piano/composer
Julie Boden - narration/poet
Vanessa Oakes - dramaturg

A second public outing for the Arts Council-funded collaboration between Tromans and THSH poet-in-residence, Julie Boden. The Piano Room fuses music and poetry inspired by Symphony Hall's piano room (the store room for the venue's concert grand pianos and more). Read more about The Piano Room at THSH's webpage for the project: The Piano Room.

Shakespeare & Co Bookstore
37 rue de la Bűcherie
75005 Paris
Start time tbc
Entry tbc

Steve Tromans - piano/arranger

Solo piano deconstructions of Bebop jazz classics. An evening of music dedicated to two concurrent, interposed phenomena of mid-20th Century North American hipster culture.

In a specially programmed evening of contemporary jazz, pianist and composer Steve Tromans revisits classic jazz tunes of the 1940s and 1950s, giving a unique 21st-Century sensibility to such bop classics as Scrapple from the Apple, Night in Tunisia, Dexterity, Straight No Chaser and April in Paris. This is the music that filled the air around the Beat writers as they honed their craft. They breathed in deeply of these ‘holy sounds’, and when they exhaled, they released a series of books and poems that changed the course of 20th-Century literature. Tromans’ programme provides a chance to re-sound these glorious echoes into the new millenium.

Birmingham Jazz
Symphony Hall
Birmingham
Start time 5.30pm
Free Entry

Steve Tromans - piano and direction
Miles Levin - drums
Chris Mapp - bass
Aaron Diaz - trumpet

“M u s i c k o s m o s is my song to the stars.” - Steve Tromans

The Steve Tromans band presents four exciting pieces celebrating the extraordinary positive power of music-making (‘musicking’) in uniting past, present and future in a musical ‘moment’.

Tromans has been jointly-commissioned by Birmingham Jazz and THSH (Birmingham's Town Hall & Symphony Hall) to write a new concert-length work for his Debop Band. It is part of THSH's Sounds of Space weekend (click for full info).

Teignmouth Jazz Festival
Carlton Theatre
The Den
Teignmouth
Start time 1pm
Entry TBC

Following in the footsteps of Keith Tippett (2008) and Gwilym Simcock (2009), Steve Tromans is the 2010 choice for the contemporary solo piano concert at the Teignmouth Jazz Festival. Tromans will be performing compositions from his Jewel in the Lotus collection, alongside improvisations realised on the day.

Stratford Jazz
Shakespeare No. 1
Shakespeare St
Stratford-upon-Avon
Start time 8pm
Entry TBC

Steve Tromans - piano and direction
Miles Levin - drums
Aaron Diaz - trumpet
Jonathan Mayer - sitar

Rekindling an old collaboration, Steve Tromans is to invite Jonathan Mayer to join the Debop Band for this extra special one-off performance at Stratford-upon-Avon's intimate jazz venue. Tromans and Mayer worked together in John Mayer's Indo Jazz Fusions in the late-1990s, as well as in Hindustani, a quintet featuring several compositions by Tromans. This concert promises to be a memorable one for the Debop Band, and for Stratford Jazz.

Stratford Jazz
Shakespeare No. 1
Shakespeare St
Stratford-upon-Avon
Start time 8pm
Entry TBC

Steve Tromans - piano and direction
Miles Levin - drums
Chris Mapp - bass
Aaron Diaz - trumpet

“M u s i c k o s m o s is my song to the stars.” - Steve Tromans

The Steve Tromans Debop Band presents four exciting pieces celebrating the extraordinary positive power of music-making (‘musicking’) in uniting past, present and future in a musical ‘moment’. Second performance for my 2010 Birmingham Jazz and THSH (Birmingham's Town Hall & Symphony Hall) commissioned work.