Results for "Mike Collins"

Mike Collins

Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival 2019

by Mike Collins
September 5, 2019

Ambleside Days Contemporary Jazz Festival Ambleside, UK August 29-September 1, 2019 'Music that requires a different kind of listening' were the words Derek Hook used, to describe the essence of the Ambleside Days Festival programme at the start of the third edition of this small but top quality festival.

Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival 2019

by Mike Collins
March 29, 2019

Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival Bristol, UK March 22-24, 2019 Pee Wee Ellis is an alternative spelling of 'funk' for many people, but on the last night of Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival, we got a reminder of his roots deep in jazz. In the full to capacity St. George's ...

Tampere Jazz Happening 2018

by Mike Collins
November 9, 2018

Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland November 1-4, 2018 In Finland, as winter begins and the clocks change, the city of Tampere, a couple hours north of Helsinki, hosts its International Jazz Happening over a long weekend. The world comes to Tampere, and Finnish jazz gets to showcase its place and connections ...

And Suddenly, Evening

By Mike Collins

Label: Suitepieces Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: On The Lake; Grieg Is Here; Everything I Love; Blackberry Winter; Flat Six; Oleo De Mujer Con Sombrero; ReProm; Ruby My Dear.

Mike Collins: And Suddenly, Evening

by Bruce Lindsay
February 5, 2015

Based in the Georgian splendour of the west of England town of Bath, pianist Mike Collins writes and plays music characterized by a melodic sensibility that seems to match his home town's air of respectability. Of course, the respectable surface of this Georgian town can readily hide an undercurrent of romance and powerful emotions--as Jane Austen ...