Liam Noble’s Long Game, 4th March 2022.

Liam Noble – piano and keyboards.Tom Herbert – bass.Will Glaser – drums. Most evenings, if you turn up at a jazz club you can expect a band that will play a mixture of swinging standards and ballads, with a well-judged mix of chorus and solo turns. But sometimes a band will adopt a very different…

Pigfoot, 31 January 2020

Pic by Pete Woodman   Chris Batchelor, trumpet Liam Noble, piano/keyboards James Allsopp, baritone sax and bass clarinet Paul Clarvis, drums You needn’t attend many jazz gigs before you’ll hear someone anxious to restore the music to its ‘true’ place. The line runs something like this: ‘The importance of innovation and the quality of the…

Julian Siegel Quartet, 25 January 2019

Julian Siegel – tenor and soprano saxes, bass clarinet, compositions Liam Noble – piano Oli Hayhurst – double bass Gene Calderazzo – drums   This was a sensational performance, marked by unrelenting creativity and commitment—propulsive in ways that make ‘upbeat’ seem a little wan; full of surprises and shifting patterns; and with so much wonderful…

Malija, 7th October 2016

None of the players who comprise this outstanding trio is a stranger to Wakefield Jazz, but this wasn’t ‘familiar faces in a slightly altered context.’ It was an intriguing prospect: three master musicians playing original numbers, but without the support of a drummer. The absence of a drummer in small-group jazz is still relatively rare;…