TUESDAY 9th March 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £10 adv / £12 on the door
£18 for a 2 day pass
JOE MCPHEE
Born in Miami in 1939, Joe McPhee was playing the trumpet by the time he was eight years old. From the late 1960's onward, he worked a variety of instruments (all kinds of saxophones, clarinets, trombone, piano). Influenced by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman (pivotal figure in his beginnings as a musician), Joe McPhee is one of the most relevant free and transgressive spirits in reshaping the forms and vocabularies of jazz, and of other creative areas that he helped become adjacent to it. Working early on with some of the most forward thinking musicians of his generation, people with like-minded aesthetical and spiritual concerns, towards the vibrant and the unknown, not only did he play with the cream of the crop of the most clairvoyant European and
American jazz, but he also collaborated with the vanguard of electronic music in the 1970's, as is the case with Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Band, a pioneer of continuous music. McPhee's curriculum contains more than half a century's worth of albums, several under his own name released by the HatHut label, which was initially conceived with the exact purpose of releasing his music. He worked with an endless cast of seminal artists over the last four decades, and is today, as much as he was in the past, a major reference as to what new grounds jazz music is treading.
Website : http://www.joemcphee.com
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Joe Mcphee’s website :
http://www.joemcphee.com/?page=5
CHRIS CORSANO
Having collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore or Björk, Chris Corsano has developed a percussive language of extraordinary amplitude and infinite resources. He is capable of generating narrative out of permanent ecstasy, leading the eternal cry of sax players and blowers of the 60's to its logical consequence - a supreme continuous howl, marveling us with the resonances and with all the plastic/acoustic possibilities of the skin on his kit. Capable of interacting in the most disparate creative and vocabular settings (he's got a wide interest in many musical forms), he never ceases to be profoundly affirmative and imposing of his language, and being an absolute and charismatic virtuoso, he simultaneously is one of the most noble and generous improvisers of the few last decades.
Website : http://www.cor-sano.com
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, John Wall, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, and many others.
Paul Dunmall has been called “one of the most accomplished reedists on the planet” (Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly) and he is certainly one of the most fluent and powerful saxophonists playing in Britain today. Over his forty year career he has played with Alice Coltrane, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Keith Tippett, and Evan Parker amongst many others. Recently he has amazed audiences world wide with his performances in The Profound Sound Trio, with free jazz legends Andrew Cyrille and Henry Grimes.
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