“Terrarium” – Jazz 8.30pm
Jo Stout has performed all over the UK in venues as diverse as London’s O2 Arena, The NEC, The Albert Hall, The Vortex, The Spice of Life, The Blues Kitchen…and Butlins!
Since moving back to Hastings he has firmly re established his local musical connections having played with Liane Carroll, Roger Carey, Rob Leake, Terry Pack, Paul Whitten, Stuart Jackaman and of course local jazz hero Barnaby Davies’ Big Band.
Most recently he played at Brighton Jazz Festival with his own group ‘Terrarium‘; a 6 piece band playing Jo’s own composition’s on a ‘world jazz’ theme.
Tom Millar is a London-based pianist, composer and bandleader, playing with Jo Stout’s “Terrarium”, the Andrew Linham Jazz Orchestra, the Matt Sulzmann/Tom Millar quartet, and Way Out West jazz collective as well as with his own projects, from solo to nonet.
His music has been heard on BBC Radio 3 and Jazz FM, and he has performed all over the UK and Ireland, as well as in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Holland, Dubai, Qatar, and the USA.
“Millar’s writing is part of a lineage of polished modernism whose building blocks are to be found in the holy trinity of Herbie, Chick and Bill Evans, but whose additional masonry has pleasing echoes of their scions, namely Pat Metheny and Brian Blade. At its highpoint the performance reaches a poetic, pastoral grace.” Kevin Le Gendre
Terry Pack is a bassist and composer who started playing aged 14 in 1972. In 1976, he joined the progressive rock band The Enid, with whom he recorded two studio albums: Aerie Faerie Nonsense (1977), Touch Me (1978) and a live double album recorded at Hammersmith Odeon (1979) before leaving the band later that year to begin working as a freelance session musician in London.
Since then he has recorded with musicians as varied as Bonnie Tyler, Graham Bonnet, Brian May, Steve Hackett, Jan Akkerman, Ray Fenwick, Cozy Powell, Clem Cattini, Zak Starkey, Don Airey, Samantha Fox, Joss Stone, Liane Carroll, Claire Martin, Mike Hext, Gary Burton and Bobby Wellins. He has performed live with musicians from all over the world, including David Liebman, Josephine Davies, Robbie Robson, Gareth Lockrane, Gareth Williams, Sebastian De Krom, Asaf Sirkis, Gilad Atzmon, John Etheridge, Jim Mullen, Mark Bassey, Clark Tracy, Enzo Zirilli, Greg Abate, Gene Calderazzo, Richard Bailey, Derek Nash, Alan Barnes, Martin Shaw, Andy Panayi, Don Weller and Alan Skidmore, US bluesmen Phil Guy, Louisiana Red and Johnny Mars, Gambian master percussionist Musa Mboob and bansuri virtuoso Deepak Ram.