Laura Jurd + The Adam Stokes Trio

The Southwest’s finest improvisors pay tribute to the giants of Jazz. Join us for the second instalment of our spring series as award winning Trumpet player Laura Jurd joins The Adam Stokes Trio to celebrate the music of the great swing-era songwriters Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

Laura Jurd Trumpet
Adam Stokes Guitar
Chris Jones Bass
Matt Brown Drums

Composer-performer Laura Jurd’s unique voice as an improvising trumpet player is at the heart of everything she creates. Her music celebrates and innovates the rich traditions of jazz and folk music, digging into something primal and earthy, whilst taking twists and turns that prove Laura to be one of the UK’s most distinctive composer-performers in contemporary music.

“Jurd seems unconcerned by transient fashions or enrolment in any kind of scene, and pursues a private muse that draws on jazz, folk traditions from Europe and the Middle East, and the harmonic language of Stravinsky – yet her work is always spiritedly accessible, and often suggests wordless songs” John Fordham, The Guardian.