In January 2023 jazz-house artist Berlioz came to the repmusic studio to record three jazz musicians improvising over his beats.

Five tracks resulted from the sessions which were released as the ‘Jazz Is For Ordinary People’ EP. Robin featured on piano and Rhodes and helped to craft the harmony and licks of the tunes.

There has been an incredible global response to the music, which has now had over 10 million streams in just a few months since the first single was released.

Click here to hear the music.

January ’24 update: Berlioz tours the USA

March / April ’24: Robin will be joining Berlioz on his UK and EU tour.

We’ve been loving deep-diving into Chet Baker again for these shows featuring Robin and trumpeter James Brady, working together to bring the music of Chet Baker back to life.

The Westerham Jazz Club show went down exceptionally well in March, check out our social networks and our YouTube channel for some video from the night dropping next week.

The next show is at Saffron Hall in their Foyer Jazz series, where we’re focussing on the kind of drummer-less line-up adopted by Chet in Europe, with Robin on vocals, James on trumpet, Louis Thorne on guitar, and Joel Humann on Bass.

Robin Sings Chet at Saffron Hall (Saffron Walden nr Cambridge) on Friday 14th April.

Click here for more info on our Chet programme.

Kicking off the Spring season of jazz at Gonville Hotel in Cambridge and continuing the ‘repmusic presents’ series at the venue, on Thurs 9^th March Sam Miles (tenor saxophone) and Vij Prakash (trombone) will perform their own take of one of John Coltrane’s most seminal albums: ‘Blue Train’.

At this dinner jazz event, guests can enjoy a two-course meal before settling in to enjoy these two top jazz musicians explore this 1958 classic, as well as playing brand new original music written for this project. A ticket only option is also available.

Dinner and jazz: 18:30 (two-course meal + concert £45)
Jazz concert only: 19:30 (£15)

Featuring some of the city’s top jazz musicians who perform regularly at London’s jazz clubs and around the country, this collaboration is sure to be a great night of jazz, mixing well-known jazz classics with brand new material.

John Coltrane is one of the most famous jazz musicians in history, becoming an absolute master of the saxophone and changing the landscape of jazz with his 1959 Giant Steps album. The year before releasing that album, his more chilled out Blue Train album is an absolute masterpiece of cool bluesy jazz, recorded during his residency at Five Spot with the Thelonious Monk quartet, as hard bop was reaching its peak and the artists starting to move to a more modal approach to jazz.

Mixing Coltrane’s originals where he uses the blues and other standards as bases to create his own pieces, and alongside the standard I’m Old Fashioned, Blue Train (alongside Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue) is one of the most famous jazz albums of all time and certainly one of the most listenable regardless of your preferred style of jazz. The album featured John Coltrane alongside other jazz masters Lee Morgan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones.

repmusic presents ‘Sam & Vij Play Blue Train’, will feature:
Sax – Sam Miles
Trombone – Vij Prakash
Guitar – Phil Stevenson
Bass – Sandy Suchodolski
Drums – Josh Blackmore

Click here to email to book tickets or request further information, including a menu for the event.

repmusic presents live jazz at the Gonville Hotel, every Friday evening between 7-9pm, for more information see www.repmusic.co.uk

At this year’s Cambridge Jazz Festival Robin is performing his brand new album line-up and concept for the very first time. In a development of his existing jazz trio, he is adding electric guitar and cello to make rep4+.

Robin won the ‘Best Documentary Feature’ award at the 2022 King’s Cross Film Awards for his jazz and blues USA road-trip documentary ‘Back To The Source’ Making this film changed the way Robin sees making music and has led to not only a new line-up, but also a collection of original songs inspired by his trip.

At this dinner jazz event, Robin will perform some of his existing funky groove renditions of popular standards such as ‘In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning’, alongside material from his upcoming new album. Adding cello and electric guitar to a band is a unique mix, however each instrument compliments the new songs beautifully, which include songs about New Orleans, Muscle Shoals, and Clarksdale MS, but also about better understanding what it means to be English and reflecting on England as a country.

Guests can enjoy a 2 course meal before the performance, or come simply for the concert.

Weds 23^rd Nov 2022, 18:30 – 21:30
Gonville Hotel, Cambridge, CB1 1LY
Tickets: Concert only – £15 / inc. 2 course meal £40

Main booking link.
Facebook event link for info and comments / chat.

Some video links:

City Beneath The Sea – Robin and rep4 perform Harry Connick jr’s ‘City Beneath The Sea’
In The Wee Small Hours – Robin performing with the Dexter Allen Band at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, USA
Full ‘Back To The Source’ documentary – The full ‘Back To The Source’ jazz / blues motorbike road trip documentary on YouTube.

We’re delighted to have won the ‘Best Documentary Feature’ award at the 2022 King’s Cross Film Awards and Film Festival, for our jazz blues road-trip documentary ‘Back To The Source.

After winning the ‘Best Feature’ monthly award in Dec 2021, the film was then included in the King’s Cross Film Festival in Aug 2022 and was given the annual ‘Best Documentary Feature’ award at an awards ceremony held at the legendary The Water Rats on Gray’s Inn Road in London last week.

For more information about the film including a link to watch the film on YouTube, click here.

We are delighted to have received official recognition for our jazz/blues road-trip documentary ‘Back To The Source’ from several film awards organisations.

Including:
– Best Music Documentary – Parai Musical International Awards (PMIAs) – Dec 2021
– Best Feature Film – Kings Cross Film Awards – Dec 2021 – To include a screening at the famed The Water Rats venue in London as part of their film festival and annual awards ceremony this August
– Official Selection – New Creators Film Awards – Dec 2021

AND HERE’S THE BIG NEWS – THE TIME HAS COME – OUR FILM GOES LIVE THIS SUNDAY!!!

Click here for more information on the film, which goes public on Sunday 13th March 2022!

Click here for the film’s Facebook Page where you can post your thoughts about the film: Back To The Source – music road trip documentary

repmusic in collaboration with Cambridge Modern Jazz Club is delighted to present:

Sam Miles Quintet Performs Stan Getz
Thursday March 31st 2022

Gonville Hotel, Cambridge – 6:30pm
Tickets including two course meal – £40
Ticket only – £15

Tenor saxophonist and Royal Academy Of Music jazz graduate, Sam Miles, delves into the music and life of tenor sax giant Stan Getz at this dinner and jazz event, hosted by Gonville Hotel, in collaboration with repmusic and Cambridge Modern Jazz Club.

The performance follows Sam’s passion for the music of saxophone legend Stan Getz, one of the main proponents of West Coast Jazz and hugely involved in the spreading of Bossa Nova to the USA and the rest of the world in the 1960s.

This performance will include tunes from classic albums such as Stan Getz With The Oscar Peterson Trio and Stan Getz Live At Storyville, as well as some of his classic West Coast and Bossa Nova material.

Featuring
Sam Miles – Tenor saxophone
Tim Boniface – Piano
Louis Thorne – Guitar
Sandy Suchodolski – Acoustic bass
Josh Blackmore – Drums

£40 two courses and concert / £15 concert only

Click here for a YouTube video of Sam playing ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’.

To book please email sales@gonvillehotel.co.uk

This UK film premiere screening and music event is a joint repmusic-Cambridge Modern Jazz promotion.

‘Back To The Source’ is a multi-award winning music road-trip documentary film by Robin Phillips, retracing the path of jazz and blues in America, from Chicago to New Orleans on a Harley Davidson to connect with the soul of his art form.

The 58min documentary follows Robin’s trip and music experiences and includes interviews with people encountered along the way, including:
– St Louis blues club owner John May,
– Clarksdale tourist chief Bubba O’Keefe,
– ‘The Swampers’ bass player David Hood,
– Mississippi blues man Dexter Allen,
– Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Chief Engineer from 1970s Steve Melton, and,
– New Orleans saxophonist James Martin.

The Gonville Hotel is offering a dinner ticket which will be served during the documentary screening.The screening will then be followed by a one-set performance by Robin’s New Orleans-flavoured speakeasy swing quartet Pinstripe Rèduit, including original music inspired by the trip featured in the film.

The film won ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Best Feature Film’ at the Kings Cross Film Awards in December 2021, won the PARAI Musical International Award 2021, and was an ‘Official Selection’ in the Best Documentary category at the New Creators Film Awards (Dec 2021).

This is the first public screening in the UK following the World premiere at the Clarksdale Film Festival in Mississippi.

For more info:
www.thejazzpresenter.com
www.facebook.com/backtothesourcefilm
www.pinstripswing.co.uk
or email via the contact page

Cambridge Modern Jazz event page

Tickets including two course meal – £40 Ticket only – £15
Room (B&B) special offer that evening for event attendees – £160

Book by email: sales@gonvillehotel.co.uk or phone Gonville Hotel on 01223 366611