UPCOMING EVENTS
Our upcoming events are listed below. For our past events, click here.
Playing The Changes – the film April 2024
A documentary film about Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s years in South Africa is now showing at Film Festivals around the world, see below for April dates and locations.
The film charts the couple’s transformational impact on the South African contemporary music scene as they set up the first jazz degree course in the country at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. A multicultural band calling themselves The Jazzanians grew out of the course in spite of the restrictions on racial mixing imposed by apartheid.
See the Film page for promotional videos, trailers and stills.
| Festival | Dates | Website |
| l’Europe autour de l’Europe Film Festival – Paris (World premiere) | April 8th | www.evropafilmakt.com |
| RiverRun Film Festival – North Carolina (American premiere) | April 22nd + 23rd | riverrunfilm.com |
| Beyond Hollywood International Film Festival – Los Angeles | April 27th at 11am | www.bhiff.org/2024-program |
Wednesday, April 3 – Saturday April 6 – Book readings
Darius & Catherine present readings and discussion of their book Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road to an international conference of jazz scholars.
Part of the Graz Jazz Encounters Conference
Saturday, 20 April Swindon Jazz & Soul Festival
Christ Church, Cricklade Street, David Knight Jazz Stage – music starts 14.00
The fourth Swindon Jazz & Soul Festival will be held at Christ Church in Old Town and its grounds.
Tuesday, 23 April – Saturday, 27 April, Bern
Darius Brubeck with his brothers Chris (bass & trombone), Dan (drums) and British saxophonist Dave O’Higgins, at Bern’s International Jazz Festival. More details and full programme
Shows at 7.30 and 9.30 nightly
Marian’s Jazz Room,
Hotel Innere Enge
Engestrasse 54
CH-3012 Bern
Schweiz
Dave Brubeck Collection Launches Digital Archive on International Jazz Day
This announcement is made on 30th April, on UNESCO’s International Jazz Day.
Today, one of the world’s premier jazz archives, The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library (Wilton, CT), announced the launch of its enhanced and interactive digital archive, making the 22,000+ item collection catalog easily searchable and browsable online for the first time to everyone worldwide. This new digital archive also includes more than a thousand digitized photos, recordings, scores, and documents.
Explore The Brubeck Collection Here
Saturday, May 11: Jazz Cafe POSK
Jazz Cafe POSK, located in the basement of the Polish Social & Cultural Association, POSK, in Hammersmith, West London.
Tel. 0208 741 1940
More information www.jascafeposk.org Buy tickets via Evenbrite
Saturday, June 1, Jazz Entraigues Festival
Entraigues Sur la Sorgue, 84320, France
35 Place du 8 mai 1945
Gala evening with The Darius Brubeck Quartet, staring 9pm. More information and tickets
Film showing, June 6
The High Country Jazz Festival will show Playing the Changes, the film, on the opening night of its jazz festival at the Appalachian Theatre, Boone.
More information from their website, https://www.apptheatre.org/events-and-tickets/playing-the-changes
Sunday, July 7 – Saturday July 13: Classical Tahoe
Brubeck Jazz Summit with Chris and Dan Brubeck and guest artists
Roxy Coss & Lucas Pino
North Lake Tahoe
More information from classicaltahoe.org
Monday, August 12 Les Musicales de Cormeilles
The Darius Brubeck Quartet play at Les Musicales the Cormeilles-en-Pays-d’Auge.
8.30pm, Théâtre de Cormeilles, 7 place du Théâtre, 27260 Cormeilles, France.
Playing The Changes – the film, September 2024
The Darius Brubeck Quartet will appear ‘live’ in conjunction with this showing of a documentary film about Catherine and Darius Brubeck’s years in South Africa which is now showing at Film Festivals around the world. The film charts the couple’s transformational impact on the South African contemporary music scene as they set up the first jazz degree course in the country at the University of Kwazulu-Natal.
See the Film page for promotional videos, trailers and stills.
| Festival | Date | Website |
| Music Film Festival – Tilburg (NL) | September 7th | https://www.musicfilm.nl/ |