Tuesday 5th October 2.00pm - c.3.30pm

St Andrew’s Church, Ashburton

Matthew Barley and Julian Joseph

credit Nick White

Last year's venture into jazz proved to be not only great fun, but highly successful. This year sees two legendary artists, Julian Joseph and Matthew Barley who have come along very different musical routes to find themselves in a similar place: where there’s a passion to explore all kinds of music, and openness to the unexpected delights of collaborations.
In the first half of the concert, Barley plays solo Bach, and Joseph presents a short set of jazz standards, both of them thereby showing their musical roots. In the second half, through the medium of Joseph’s compositions and other jazz works, these two musicians come together, showing their amazing improvisational skills, for a unique musical journey.
Both Barley and Joseph are experienced presenters (Joseph through his BBC Radio 3 series, Jazz Legends, Barley through BBC2 TV’s Classical Star), and introduce all the items in the programme, also talking about how they met and came to be working together, as well as discussing the relevance of such collaborations, and their musical context.

Please note that this is a full length concert with a short interval.