Trio Tarana is led by percussionist / composer Ravish Momin who currently resides in New York City. He was born in India, and spent his childhood in Mumbai, & Bahrain. Since he had also absorbed diverse influences growing up, he was not prepared to discard them, for one specific musical idiom.

Therefore, the creation of Trio Tarana, in 2003, was a natural culmination of all of those diverse influences. "Tarana" itself refers to a song-style in North Indian Classical Music, where nonsense syllables or mnemonic drum sounds are used to spontaneously create a fluid chant or composition. In keeping with their namesake, the trio primarily utilizes Indian and East-Asian rhythms as the foundation for a new creative musical experience; they also employ compositions that seamlessly blend written material with spontaneous group interaction.

Of their debut CD, AllAboutJazz.com had said: “It is fair to say that Tarana is without precedent in the world of improvised music. A true synthesis of North African, South and East Asian motifs with classical organization and the immediacy of free improvisation has probably not existed prior to “Climbing the Banyan Tree.”

Corbett is an articulated transmitter of melodic virtuosity, which he carries for long distances without sacrificing his quest for timbral purity, explicated through post-Davis plasticity and more idiosyncratic configurations where multiphonics and gentle exhalations get a little space under the spotlight. Stephens' bodily sound is adequately harmonious, filling the record with constructive relationships based upon a fundamental immediacy which brings the listener to instantly metabolize its byproducts; both by plucking and through short fragments of arco work, the bassist manages to create a small, protective world of his own - yet open to all visitors. Tony Marsh’s delicately articulate touch is a definite plus, his extraordinary inventiveness not diminished by the total control that his technique exercises on an otherwise intense necessity of tripping outside the canons of jaz

Born in London, 1971, Gail has been a trombonist since the age of 9 and has been playing on the international Jazz and Improvised Music scene since the early 1990s. She performs solo and with many international improvisers. She has played all styles of music, live and in the studio. As well as a trombonist, Gail works as a qualified Music Therapist and is professor in Group Improvisation skills on the Music Therapy MA course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Gail is a member of Executive Committee of the British Musicians Union. Simon Picard will accompany her on tenor saxophone.

Henry Grimes is a legendary bass player from the Albert Ayler band. He was an A-list jazz musician in the 1950s and '60s. He played with everyone including the swing master Benny Goodman.

For about a decade, Henry Grimes was one of the most in-demand bassists on the jazz scene. Beginning in 1957, he worked extensively in the groups of baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins. While continuing to associate with more mainstream players, in 1961 Grimes performed on pianist Cecil Taylor’s recording session for the Impulse label (issued as Gil Evans: Into the Hot) and worked with clarinetist Perry Robinson. In 1963 he renewed his relationship with Sonny Rollins, joining a group that also included trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Billy Higgins, both formerly with saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s quartet. This moved Grimes more into the realm of the experimental and as the sixties progressed, he played with the influential avant-garde tenor saxophonists Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, and Pharoah Sanders, as well as with Cherry and Taylor. He also participated on numerous important recording sessions for the ESP and Impulse labels. At the height of his activity and without warning, he left New York for the west coast and the final documented appearance of Grimes seems to have been in April 1969 in San Francisco as part of saxophonist Archie Shepp's ensemble which performed at the Both/And club. Following that, he dropped off the jazz radar screen. Until very recently, the curious death notice in Cadence closed the book on a great creative musician.

In 2002 he celebrated a great come back.

He did a talk at the University and then held a concert at Xposed Club the next day.

Jazz fans are invited to hear The Imaginary String Trio play on Friday 19 October at Pittville Studios. The strings will be provide by violinist Philip Wachsmann, Dominic Lash on contra bass and Bruno Guastalla on the cello.

The Imaginary String Trio play spontaneously improvised acoustic music that can turn on a dime from delicately beautiful structures to gritty, aggressive textures. The players' experience ranges from modern composition, to jazz, French chanson and beyond. All of these inform the music they make together, but most important is their interaction in the moment.

Philipp Wachsmann has played with many of the world’s top improvising musicians including the great Derek Bailey and Paul Rutherford, Alexander von Schlilppenbach, Barry Guy, Evan Parker and Eddie Prevost.

Music fans were in for a treat when Guillemots singer Fyfe Dangerfield played at the University of Gloucestershire with his exciting new band, The Gannets on Friday 5 October.

Fyfe is an English musician and songwriter, best known as the founder member of the Brit Award nominated band, The Guillemots. He played at the first BBC Electric Proms when the band performed seven tracks with a full orchestra and has performed at Wembley Area as a supporting act for Snow Patrol as well as performing live with political song writer, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.

The Gannets, which includes members Steve Noble, Alex Ward and former University of Gloucestershire student Chris Cundy, are an experimental band that emerged as part of London’s improvised music circuit. They started playing gigs at the legendary north London film and music club, ‘The Klinker’ in 2004. Prior to this, Chris established a space for experimental music in Cheltenham called The Birdsnest, set up in a small children's theatre in the town with the idea of promoting unusual music performances that often incorporated theatre props and homemade films or slideshows. This gave The Gannets a real chance to establish themselves as a band.

Trash Money, which performed at the Xposed Club 21 Sep 2007, is an up and coming band, formed by Joe Wilson, course leader of the popular music degree and former member of the band Sneaker Pimps.

Trash Money was formed in 1999, with their first single You Lied Satan was named single of the week by NME. Their first album, Trash Money was released in 2006 and is an eclectic range of rock, electro, punk and disco tracks with a nostalgic twist. Fans of the band include Lauren Laverne, The Mighty Boosh and Alan McGee.

Joe was joined by Chris Tate and David Westlake who also played with Sneaker Pimps, along with Mary Dolittle Slade and Cary Creed.