Programme

  • Safehouse Lewes – Open Session

    Sunday 16th August 2026
    1pm-4.30pm
    The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
    £3 

  • Safehouse Brighton – Open Session

    2nd September 2026
    7pm
    £4 / £3 members

     

  • John Edwards, Alex Ward and Mike Genarro

    Saturday September 5th 2026
    2-5pm
    £9 / £6 members + concs
    The Rose Hill

    Note –  Matinee gig!

    John Edwards / double bass
    Mike Gennaro / drums, percussion
    Alex Ward / clarinet & guitar

    “The wordless, direct rhetoric of this conversation, as unbound as it is coherent, also bears witness to a lightning-like grasp and extraordinary intimacy.” – Martin Schray, Free Jazz Blog

    John Edwards

    John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. �Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke, Jonny Greenwood and countless others.

    “I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz.” – Richard Williams, The Blue Moment

    Alex Ward

    Alex Ward’s diverse musical activities since the early ’90s have straddled the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary composition and avant rock, and have seen him work with such significant musical figures as Derek Bailey, Duck Baker, Lol Coxhill, Eugene Chadbourne, Simon H. Fell, Thurston Moore, Joe Morris, Steve Noble, Evan Parker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Pat Thomas and Weasel Walter, amongst a host of others.

    “…guitarist Alex Ward [is] a compulsively creative polymath… a reliably unpredictable axe-hero for collaborators of all backgrounds.” – Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times Review

    Mike Gennaro

    Drummer Mike Gennaro burst into improvised music circles in 1999 with the release Port Huron Picnic (Spool), a disc with lauded Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Then still in his early twenties, Gennaro also made two appearances at the Toronto Jazz Festival, duetting with trailblazing saxophonist John Butcher.

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    The Wildcard Quartet

     

  • Safehouse Lewes – Open Session

    Sunday 20th September 2026
    1pm-4.30pm
    The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
    £3 

  • Safehouse Brighton – Open Session

    7th October 2026
    7pm
    £4 / £3 members

     

  • Yoko Miura, Viv Corringham, Lawrence Casserley, Gus Garside, James Parsons

    Thursday October 8th 2026
    7pm
    £9 / £6 members + concs
    The Rose Hill

    Japanese pianist Yoko Miura as part of her European tour 2026 will improvise in two trios: with Viv Corringham and Lawrence Casserley, and with Gus Garside and James Parsons.

    Yoko Miura is a pianist currently living in Fukuoka, Japan. Born in Tokyo, she started studying classical piano from the age of 5 and later became interested in jazz and improvised music. She says of her musical approach: “I am trying to make a kind of different universes interweaving and exchanging with different process, values and ways, with people, not only the musicians but also painters and dancers”

    Viv Corringham is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (Louise Gray, The Wire). She makes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. Her practice explores relations between voice, place and walking, responding with sung improvisations to both natural and urban soundscapes.

    Lawrence Casserley has performed live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways for more than fifty years. Since 1995 he has worked with many leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. He also uses voice, percussion, home-made instruments and found objects as separate sound sources or inputs for his self-designed Signal Processing Instrument.

    Gus Garside is a double bass player focusing these days on improvised and contemporary music.He has played with many notable musicians including Yoko Miura, Laura Cole, Anton and Johnny Hunter, Marcello Magliocchi, Marcio Mattos, Lol Coxhill, John Russell and Sylvia Hallett (with whom he was a member of the string trio Arc for 37 years until the passing of their beloved cellist Danny Kingshill).

    James Parsons plays the drums in various improvising groups: Bolide, In Threads, Fault Thrower, God’s Teeth and lots of others.

    Wildcard Quartet

  • Safehouse Lewes – Open Session

    Sunday 11th October 2026
    1pm-4.30pm
    The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
    £3 

  • Safehouse Brighton – Open Session

    4th November 2026
    7pm
    £4 / £3 members

     

  • Safehouse Lewes – Open Session

    Sunday 15th November 2026
    1pm-4.30pm
    The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
    £3 

     

  • Safehouse Brighton – Open Session

    2nd December 2026
    7pm
    £4 / £3 members

     

  • Safehouse Lewes – Open Session

    Sunday 20th December 2026
    1pm-4.30pm
    The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
    £3