FRIDAY 5th March 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6 adv. / £7 on the door
-JAZZ IS THE TEACHER, FUNK IS THE PREACHER-
A NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL, SPIRITUAL AND ELECTRONIC JAZZ
Veteran avant garde vocalists Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols start off with an improvised vocal set.
Rocket Number Nine brothers Ben and Tom Paige provide us with an intense, emotional sonic assault.
Vibration Black Finger is a deep spiritual jazz collective fronted by Campag Velocet/ 7 Hurtz Lascelles Lascelle.
Vibration Black Finger
Lascelle Gordon, or as he is widely known, Lascelle Lascelles, started his career at a very young age, playing records for his mates at their house parties back in the late 1980’s. With an eclectic record collection and sense of humour, his notoriety led him to meet Barry Sharpe, another record collector. He in turn introduced Lascelle to Rene Galston, who ran a night at the Wag Club called Blackmarket.
Rene invited Lascelle and Barry to DJ there every Friday and it soon became the most popular and elitist club in London, which was frequented by budding stars including Boy George, Sade, Grace Jones, Neneh Cherry, Jonathon Ross and Jerry Dammers to name a few. In the 80’s, Lascelle was one of the biggest DJs in London; his eccentric taste in music influenced many a musician and record collector as told to him in later years by such stars of today. Lascelle would find an unknown favourite tune, play it to his audience and turn it into a classic. The funk tune ‘I Believe In Miracles’ by The Jackson Sisters, is one such record that we would not hear regularly
today if it were not for Lascelle and his record box.
In 2004, he started experimenting with avant garde jazz music which he has been a life long fan of!
Through contacts and mutual friends, he formed the collective ‘Flight’. This combined the talents of the renowned avant garde jazz vo-calist Maggie Nicols; Diana Gutkind, who played keyboards with Blur; Matt Skylab, who has played with William Orbit and has his own band ‘Skylab’; and Ken Kambyashi, talented bass player and programmer. They had many great improvised sessions, of which several are recorded, but sadly Ken passed away in 2006 and the band felt he was too important a member to carry on without him.
Lascelle decided to continue making avant garde music and is open to experimenting musically with many musicians.
His most recent collective is called ‘Vibration Black Finger’.
In this project, Lascelle has continued to collaborate with several talented and esteemed musicians:
Andy Knight, who plays trumpet in this band, started his career playing in ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. He has also worked with Ken Hyder, ZEV, Real Time, Jerry Dammers, Maggie Nicols, Ben Cowen and more.
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