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Jayne Cortez

Contains 16 performances.

Ornette Coleman's widow.

  • Jayne Cortez, Jackie Kay, Akimbo, Munirah, Lioness Chant

    Jayne Cortez, Jackie Kay, Akimbo, Munirah, Lioness Chant

    25 March 1986 at 
    Africa Centre (London - Westminster) (2)
  • Jayne Cortez with The Trevor Watts Quartet

    Jayne Cortez with The Trevor Watts Quartet

    27 March 1986 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • The 3rd Jazz-Poetry Festival: Jazz 'n' Women

    The 3rd Jazz-Poetry Festival: Jazz 'n' Women

    25 January 1990 at 
    Tabernacle (7)
    The first of three performances over consecutive nights. Gail Thompson
  • Everywhere Drums Tour (launch night) - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour (launch night) - Jayne Cortez

    27 September 1990 at 
    Yaa Asantewaa Centre (2)
  • Everywhere Drums Tour (a Talking Loud event)

    Everywhere Drums Tour (a Talking Loud event)

    30 September 1990 at 
    Dingwalls (1)
    Talking Loud & Saying Something became a famous Sunday afternoon Jazz  club event run by Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge. This was a packed day of performances both day in London and infamous Camden Dingwalls then hotfoot over to Belfast for an evening performance.
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    30 September 1990 at 
    Old Museum Arts Centre (Belfast) (1)
    When performed in London she was supported by other performers, but the the venues outside London, like Belfast, we believe from the information on the flyer and budget constraints that her performance tour was a solo event reading. The second of ten performances.
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    01 October 1990 at 
    Edgehill Library (Liverpool) (2)
    This was the solo leg of her tour and took place in Liverpool’s Edgehill Library.
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    03 October 1990 at 
    Shepherds Bush Library (1)
    This date is billed as ‘Jayne Cortez on Jayne Cortez’ and features her reading from her work and discussing it. So a little less performance-orientated than the tour’s other dates.
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    06 October 1990 at 
    Lilian Baylis Theatre (2)
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    07 October 1990 at 
    Inkworks Project (Bristol) (2)
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    08 October 1990 at 
    Pegasus Theatre (Oxford) (7)
    Solo reading performance
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez

    09 October 1990 at 
    Norwich Arts Centre (6)
  • Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez (final performance)

    Everywhere Drums Tour - Jayne Cortez (final performance)

    11 October 1990 at 
    Camden United Theatre (1)
    Final event featuring The Bukky Leo Quartet – including the excellent jazz pianist Jonathan Gee.
  • Jayne Cortez, The Jazz Griots (feat Tunde Jegede, Keith Waithe & Gary Crosby), Gail Thompson

    Jayne Cortez, The Jazz Griots (feat Tunde Jegede, Keith Waithe & Gary Crosby), Gail Thompson

    08 March 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters, Lemn Sissay, Brother Niyi

    Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jayne Cortez & The Firespitters, Lemn Sissay, Brother Niyi

    28 February 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere

    Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere

    21 March 1997 at 
    Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)
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