Music and Art Exhibition
During the month of November - there will be an art exhibition throughout the public areas of the Gonville Hotel as part of the Cambridge Jazz Festival 2025.
We are inviting a limited number of guests to a drinks reception to celebrate the art exhibition on Thursday 6th November at 6pm. Musa and Robin will be present to introduce the collection and talk briefly about their artistic processes.
Please get in touch if you would like to request an invite to this special event.
Oil Painting Artist: Musa Hamwala
The exhibition will be free to view throughout Gonville Hotel, during the month of November, as part of the Cambridge Jazz Festival 2025.
Also as part of the festival and at Gonville Hotel, Robin Phillips will perform ‘Harry, New Orleans, and Me’ on Thursday 20th November. This dinner jazz event merges Robin’s original music, as interpreted in the art exhibition, with his Harry Connick jr programme, and also including other relevant New Orleans stories and songs, as the city connects these artists and projects.
Listen and Immerse
Musa had already created many pieces of art inspired by jazz music and jazz musicians, which is how the creative pair first met, and Robin’s originals album became a powerful source of inspiration for this project taken on by Musa.
The songs themselves tackle subjects such as the cities of Clarksdale Mississippi and New Orleans, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sam Phillips (Founder of Sun Studio, Memphis), a book called South Of Haunted Dreams, the International Jazz Scene, and returning to England after this life-changing trip. However, Musa was given free reign to interpret the songs any way he chose.
Drawing on his background in technology, Musa has also taken the project further by using generative AI to bring some of these paintings to life, aiming to capture the improvisation and energy at the heart of jazz.