Saturday 13 September 2008, 8pm
KAN MIKAMI
Kan Mikami Japan’s legendary surrealist folk singer will be performing his unique Japanese Blues. Mikami has been a singular figure in the Japanese underground since the early seventies. We are very excited to have Mikami playing three consecutive dates at Café Oto as part of our residency programme. Grab this rare chance to see him in the UK.
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, 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.