Martin Kern and The Adam Stokes Trio: A Tribute to Sonny Rollins

Bristol’s finest improvisors pay tribute to the giants of Jazz.

Martin Kern Saxophone
Adam Stokes Guitar
Chris Jones Bass
Matt Stockham Brown Drums

Join us for the third and final concert of our spring series as Martin Kern joins The Adam Stokes Trio in paying tribute to iconic Saxophonist and Composer Sonny Rollins. The band will perform Sonny’s landmark record ‘The Bridge’ alongside other classic Sonny Rollins compositions.

Martin Kern is a highly inventive and melodic saxophonist. Martin studied in Paris at the Cèntre d´Information Musicale and at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern before moving to New York and later Berlin where he recorded his first two records ‘Visions’ and ‘Now is the music’. Martin has a rich Jazz vocabulary, deep broad sound and relaxed time feel reflecting that of Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Stitt.

Adam Stokes is an up-and-coming guitarist blending Jim Hall Style melodic development with Thelonious Monk’s angular dissonances, he is known on the Bristol scene as the host of the Stag and Hounds Jam Session where he has played with the who’s who of Bristol Jazz.

Chris Jones (Orfic, Weareleif, Nurdle) is a first-call bassist who has played across the UK from Theatre Pits to Pizza Express Soho, his blending of contemporary rhythmic ideas and guttural blues draws comparisons to the likes of Larry Grenadier and Charlie Haden.

Matt Stockham Brown (6161, ex-Run Logan Run, Sefrial, Modulusiii, Orfic) is a busy touring drummer who has performed with the likes of Gregory Porter, Pee Wee Ellis and Andy Sheppard, his band Run Logan Run won the 2018 Montreux Jazz Festival Talent Awards and he was featured in Rhythm Magazine’s ‘10 British Newcomers’ article.