Guildhall Jazz Festival: Dark Days: Neil Charles, Mark Sanders and Cleveland Watkiss
- 8pm - 9.15pm
About this event:
- Category:
- Guildhall Jazz Festival | Jazz
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Date, time and location:
- , 8pm - 9.15pm in Milton Court Concert Hall
Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival: Dark Days: Neil Charles, Mark Sanders and Cleveland Watkiss
Guildhall Jazz Festival x EFG London Jazz Festival: Dark Days: Neil Charles, Mark Sanders and Cleveland Watkiss
Dark Days is a new work by bassist and composer Neil Charles. It responds to the uncompromising clarity and poetic force of James Baldwin’s reflections on psychic survival, resistance and the emotional toll of racial injustice.
Scored for acoustic jazz quartet, the piece features some of the UK’s most revered improvisers — Neil Charles on bass, Mark Sanders on drums, and Cleveland Watkiss on voice.
Part of the School’s annual Jazz Festival, presented in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival, celebrating the creativity and originality of the Guildhall Jazz community.
Event ends approx. 9.15pm
Free, no tickets required
Performers
Neil Charles bass
Mark Sanders drums
Cleveland Watkiss voice
This event is part of the 2026 Guildhall Jazz Festival in partnership with EFG London Jazz Festival - four days of electrifying jazz at Milton Court.
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Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
