SATURDAY 2nd August 2008
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6
Duck Baker, Steve Beresford and Lol Coxhill – Solos, Duos & Trios
These three veterans of the free improvisation scene have known each other for over thirty years but this will be the first time all three have played together.
Duck Baker
One of the most highly regarded fingerstyle guitarists of his generation, Duck Baker is unique in that his repertoire spans the entire history of the music from ragtime through swing to modern masters like Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols and free improvisation. Although best known in the folk/acoustic world, Baker's involvement with modern styles dates back to the 1970’s when he gigged regularly with the likes of Eugene Chadborne and John Zorn. More recent associations have included bassist Mark Dresser, trombonist Roswell Rudd and multi-reed specialist Michael Moore. Baker’s record of Herbie Nichols compositions, “Spinning Song”, was produced by Zorn and made various “Top Ten” lists in 1997, including those compiled by Derek Bailey and Henry Kaiser.
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford has played a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, euphonium, bass guitar and a wide variety of toy instruments, such as the toy piano. He is probably best known for free improvisation, but has also written music for film and television and has been involved with a number of pop music groups.
From early on in his career he was playing a wide variety of music, playing the Hammond organ in a soul music covers band, featuring on Trevor Wishart’s early work Journey Into Space (1973) and free improvising. In 1974, Beresford moved to London, where he played in Derek Bailey’s Company events and in the groups Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack, and the Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. He was also a member with Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno of the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and Han Bennink. He has also worked with a number of popular musicians, including The Slits, Frank Chickens, Ted Milton and The Flying Lizards.
Lol Coxhill
Between 1947 and 1949 the teenage Lol Coxhill organised club sessions comprising live contemporary jazz plus recordings of modern jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Lennie Tristano, Miles Davis and Stan Kenton. This led to a lifetime dedicated to jazz, playing with a vast range of musicians including Sonny G and the G Men, Joe Harriott, Tubby Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Martha & the Vandellas, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Mose Allison, Otis Spann, Champion Jack Dupree, Lowell Fulson, Alexis Korne, Kevin Ayers, David Bedford, Mike Oldfield , Trevor Watts 'Moire Music', The Spontaneous Music Ensemble, AMM, Melody Four (with Steve Beresfordand Tony Coe), Adam Bohman and many more
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.
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