TRIBUTARIES - Monk and Beyond

Elliot Warburton - Piano
Coren Sithers - Sax
Sabina Turvey - Bass
Liz Exell - Drums

Doors Open 7pm
Performance Starts at 7.30pm

Tributaries is a band formed by the drummer Liz Excell and three exceptionally talented graduates from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where Liz is a lecturer in Drums, Percussion and Improvisation. The band will be performing tunes from the Thelonious Monk album 'Straight No Chaser' and their own compositions. Pianist Elliot Warburton has an extraordinary ability to interpret Monk's music and is the catalyst to the quartet's performance.

Straight No Chaser was the first album Liz studied with her first jazz teacher, Graham Fox. Graham was playing with Stan Sulzmann, Ross Stanley and others when he sadly passed in 2011 aged 33. Liz's next teacher, Dave Wickins, also loved Monk so much he named his son after the drummer.

Tributaries also meanders off on to original material, inspired by Monk, Bill Frisell's Valentine, Colorlist and beyond.

So Tributaries is a tribute to Monk and our musical ancestors and precedents and to the musical tradition of passing music on to new generations.

Tickets are also available at TREBLEROCK Guitar Shop, 52 The Mall in Clifton Village.


LIZ EXCELL first came to the attention of jazz audiences as a member of Nerija, a Jazz FM and Parliamentary Jazz Award winning band with members including Nubya Garcia, Cassie Kinoshi and Sheila Maurice Grey performing on BBC radio and TV. Liz was immersed in music from her early years, taking piano lessons aged 4, choir at 7, drums from 11 and tuned percussion at 14. Whilst studying jazz at Trinity Laban, Liz was immersed in the music of Ellington, Coltrane, Mingus, early styles and free improv. Liz was a member of London Sound Painting Orchestra and established Old Hat Jazz Band, an early style swing band. After graduating, Liz toured the UK, Europe and USA with Old Hat and the award-winning band Nerija. At that time, Jazz Herstory was Liz's monthly showcase of women band leaders at Poplar Union, funded by Arts Council England, where she commissioned people to create new work and created video and audio recordings of the gigs. Liz moved to Cardiff in 2019 and Paula Gardiner invited her to join staff at RWCMD after seeing Liz on Laura Jurd's 'Stepping Back and Jumping In' tour. More recently, Liz established Sallix in 2021, with funding from PRSf women make music fund. Sallix is now developing the use of morse code to create rhythmic frameworks for improvising musicians, collaborating with BBC young jazz musician on the year, Ursula Harrison. Liz has also played and toured with Huw Warren, Geoff Eales, Dick Hamer, Gethin Liddington, Bex Nash, Ewan Bleach and Emma-Jean Thackray.


FRINGE JAZZ, Wednesdays at 7PM at The BRISTOL MUSIC CLUB, 76 St Paul's Road, Clifton. Bristol BS8 1LP

Fringe Jazz at The Bristol Music Club is run in association with TREBLEROCK Guitar Shop