Gordon Vernick is director of the GSU Faculty Jazztet which performs regularly in Atlanta and has appeared at the Atlanta Jazz Festival, the High Museum Jazz Series, the International Association for Jazz Education Conference and many other venues in the southeast.

He has performed with such world-renown jazz artists as Kenny Werner, Clare Fischer, John Hart, Kevin Hays, Conrad Herwig, Marc Copland, Randy Brecker, Paul McCandless, and many others.

His podcasts, Jazz Insights, are available on I-Tunes and all 225 of them will soon be available on his new website: jazzinsights.org (not working yet)

It would be great to have a get together but what should we do? What music and where? Please let us know if you have a great idea.

Rich orchestration rubs shoulders with Middle-Eastern harmonies, Afro-Jazz and and even Heavy Metal, defying stylistic categorisation!

This is a highly energised and focussed unit with more than a hint of 'Loose Tubes', so they should have some resonance with our own community bands.

Line-up: Kyran Mathews, Jeff Guntren, Emily Burkhardt all on saxes, woodwinds / Nick Walters & Graham Smith - trumpets / Ellie Smith - trombone / Rich McVeigh - bass trombone / Andrew Stamatakis-Brown on piano / Paul Baxter - bass / Johnny Hunter - drums.  £12 and £10 (Northern Line supported)