James Banner is a double bass player and composer based in Berlin and the UK.
NEWS:
September 2018: Selected to work with Two Rivers Concert Band for Adopt a Composer 2018 (Making Music, Sound and Music, PRS Foundation, BBC Radio 3)
June 2018: Recording soundtrack for Liebesfilm
April/May 2018: Interviews underway for Voices of Berlin!
March 2018: Album to be released in October 2018 by JazzHausMusik
Feb 2018: CURATION OF NEW SERIES “PRACTICALLY MARRIED” AT DONAU115
Jan 2018: New choral project Voices of Berlin supported by Berlin UdK/Hanns Eisler
Concerts
20.9. – Tanrikulu’s A Priori – Side-Ways Series @ Café Dujardin, Berlin
21.9. – Practically Married #8: A Family Affair – Donau115, Berlin
12.10. – Rachel Sermanni – Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin
13.10. – Birgitta Flick Quartet – Saxstall, Pohrsdorf
14.10. – Birgitta Flick Quartet – Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche, Berlin
18.10. – Leipziger Jazztage ‘Fish and Chips’ [with Anna Lena Schnabel, Florian Weber + James Maddren] – die naTo, Leipzig
24.10. – Declan Forde Trio [Swing Dance] – Rotbart, Berlin
26.10. – Practically Married #9 featuring João Lopes Pereira – Donau115, Berlin
27.10. – Practically Married featuring João Lopes Pereira [duo concert with Joel Hunter – Viola] – Atelier 3/4, Berlin
28.10. – The Good Old Good Ones [Swing Dancing] – Alte Rote Löwe Rein, Berlin
4.11. – Tilo Weber Four Fauns – A Trane, Berlin
5.11.-7.11. – Tsalikov/Alunni/Banner – Athens, Greece
8.11.-11.11. – The Dizzy Birds – Thessaloniki, Greece
15.11. – Practically Married #10 – Donau115, Berlin
18.11. – Matt Anderson Quintet – Sela Bar, Leeds
23.11. – Tilo Weber Four Fauns – Klangbrücke, Aachen
6.12. – James Banner Trio [w/Elias Stemeseder + Max Andrzejewski] – Bröhan Museum, Berlin [2pm]
7.12. – Practically Married #11 – Donau115, Berlin
Feb – March 2019 James Banner’s USINE Album Release Tour
14.2. – C. Bechstein Zentrum, Hamburg
22.2. – Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham [UK]
24./25.2. TBC
26.2. – LOFT, Köln
27.2. TBC
28.2. – Orania Hotel, Berlin
2.3. – Saxstall, Pohrsdorf
