WEDNESDAY 10th 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
CHRIS CORSANO
Having collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore or Bj örk, 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
“Evan Parker may be the most formidable saxophonist since John Coltrane. He plays Trane's instruments, tenor and soprano, and lists Coltrane as one of his principal influences (he grew up in England, son of a BOAC pilot-enabling him to make frequent trips to New York as a teenager to hear Trane, Dolphy, and other heroes). On some of his tenor excursions (particularly here on his work with the John Wolf Brennan HeXtet) his tone sounds a great deal like Coltrane's, and his phrasing recalls some of the last words from the master: the twilight pyrotechnics of Interstellar Space and Expression. “– All About Jazz
“Evan Parker has practically single handedly redefined the language of the saxophone. A profound influence on several generations of musicians, his impact on modern saxophone technique is staggering.” – Tzadik
efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mparker.html
Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill (born 19 September 1932, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England) is a free improvising saxophonist and raconteur. He plays the soprano or sopranino saxophone.
Coxhill has collaborated with other musicians including Kevin Ayers, Steve Miller (of Caravan), Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher (of Mott the Hoople), Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, The Dedication Orchestra, Django Bates, The Damned, Hugh Metcalfe, Derek Bailey and performance art group Welfare State.
Coxhill was compere and occasional performer at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, and a raconteur as well as a musician; indeed it was following a performance at Bracknell that he recorded the monologue Murder in the Air.
Lol Coxhill has also worked occasionally in television and films with a part in Sally Potter's London story, Ken Campbell and Nigel Evans' The madness museum and Derek Jarman's Caravaggio.
http://www.lolcoxhill.com/
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