Lift Your Feet

A jazz concert featuring Harry Rook, titled Lift Your Feet, at Holding Patterns in Leeds, a venue that hosts concerts and shows across the city.

Lift Your Feet is a jazz concert featuring Harry Rook, staged in Leeds. Jazz developed in African American communities in New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century, drawing on blues, ragtime and brass band music, and is defined by improvisation over a swinging rhythmic pulse. The night places Harry Rook within that tradition.

The concert takes place at Holding Patterns, a Leeds venue that hosts concerts and shows, and suits listeners who want jazz performed live in the city. Jazz rewards close listening, as players trade solos and reshape familiar melodies in real time, so the live setting suits the form.