Christ-Stephane Boizi Septet
Sat, 14 November 2026
Sat, 14 November 2026
8:00PM
Hull Truck Theatre, 50 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LB
Tickets £15 (£6 students and under 26s) Tickets
Jazz Festival Offer: Book tickets for all three shows at Hull Truck in a single transaction and pay £30 (effectively giving you this event free!)
Zoe Rahman Trio: Fri 13 Nov, 8pm
Trombonist, composer, bandleader, and a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, Christ-Stéphane Boizi is already making his mark on the London jazz scene, but his reputation is set to soar with the news that he has signed to Mark Kavuma’s Banger Factory Records label, with his debut LP scheduled for release later in the year.
Boizi’s sound is steeped in the hard bop tradition – carrying influences of the legacy of by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, and Jackie McLean. With his own compositions he creates his own a sonic exploration bringing the music of the Black Church together with that hard bop Jazz tradition.
This performance is part of Tomorrow’s Warriors’ Warriors Rise initiative, which sees the acclaimed jazz talent development organisation support three emerging Warriors’ artists, including Mali, across a seven-date run of UK gigs, providing tour planning and marketing mentoring.
Warriors Rise is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner initiative supported by PPL.
Over the last 35 years, Tomorrow’s Warriors has played a vital role within its community and the wider music industry and has been credited with literally changing the face of UK jazz.
Free access to Tomorrow’s Warriors artistic programme has proved crucial in nurturing the nascent talent and early careers of so many of the most exciting UK artists currently tearing up the international jazz scene , including Mercury Prize 2023 recipients and BRIT Awards Best Group 2025 winners EZRA Collective, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA,
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