The first running of Further into Jazz takes place at Jazzeys on September 12 with the Neil Burns trio featuring Steve Davis.

Further into Jazz is set to shine the spotlight on a music under-exposed locally through the lens and ideas of a new jazz generation.

The idea is to sow the seeds for a new jazz community, including musicians, gig-goers and fans, to grow in the Enniskillen area via the magnetic appeal of a regular high-quality jazz nights.

On the first night, Neil Burns (piano), Peter Doherty (bass), and Steve Davis (drums) will perform at Jazzeys on an intimate scale and in stylish surroundings.

Neil Burns is a composer, songwriter, producer, and pianist who currently divides his time between Derry, Donegal and his native Down.

He has a startlingly eclectic back catalogue that bridges (offbeat) pop, folk, jazz, classical, psychedelia, ambient, experimental and electronica; high, low and middle-brow, yet usually sounds like himself.

In 2011 he received an award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for the album project Traces and in 2013 received a commission from the Culture Company to write a site specific soundscape piece for Derry/Londonderry’s year as UK City of Culture in 2013.

He has had work performed by Atsushi Tamura, in the UK and Japan, Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea (of The Fidelio Trio) and Paul Roe (Concorde). He has been the musical director of the acclaimed Inishowen Gospel Choir since 2010, and appears alongside bassist Peter Doherty in the band of jazz singer Victoria Geelan.

Steve Davis is best known for his work with improvising piano trio Bourne/Davis/Kane. A collaboration between the trio and saxophonist Paul Dunmall is to be released on Babel Records later this year.

Bourne/Davis/Kane premiered composer Piers Hellawell’s ‘Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst’ at the Brilliant Corners festival in March, the Belfast premiere coming in a year when the piece, the score of which has just been published, forms part of the first PRS for Music Foundation New Music Biennial. Davis, who was born in Bangor, County Down, also leads the improv band Human, and earlier this year he also recorded in New York with pianist Kris Davis and trumpeter Ralph Alessi.

Davis was also the recipient of a prestigious Arts Council of Northern Ireland award in 2014.

Further into Jazz begins with a pre-gig meet-the-artists taster session workshop from 5pm, hosted by local music shop KB Music, Queen Street.

Jazz students of all levels are welcome.

Entry to the gig, kicking off at 7.30pm, and pre-gig masterclass are both free of charge.