This great trio featuring one of London's greatest drummers alongside two of the most exciting young players to emerge in recent years returns to OTO after a ripping set here in January with Terry Day and Sebastien Coste.

"Veteran free jazz drummer Marsh leads this improv trio that also feature excellently imaginative clarinettist/saxophonist Hutchings - better known as one third of dub-jazzers Z-U - plus London-based French double bassist Viltard." - Time Out

TONY MARSH (Percussion)

Tony Marsh is a regular player on the London improvising scene. According to The Guardian's Richard Williams Marsh has a: "marvelous ability to erase the boundary between time and no-time" and "an exquisite feeling for percussive texture".

Tony regularly plays with Evan Parker, John Edwards, Paul Dunmall, Nick Stevens, The London Improvisers Orchestra and many others. Tony also played with Peter Brotzmann and Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith at café OTO in 2010.

Tony Marsh website

SHABAKA HUTCHINGS (Clarinet/Sax)

Shabaka Hutchings plays tenor sax,bass clarinet, clarinet. Described by the BBC as "one of the most eclectic and musically adventurous instrumentalists on the London jazz scene", Hutchings grew up in Barbados and studied clarinet at the Guildhall School of Music. One of the capitals busiest saxophonists he straddles both the avant garde and jazz orthodoxy leading the trio ZED-U and performing with Jazz Warriors, The London Improvisors Orchestra, The Heights, Louis Moholo, Charlie Hadens Liberation Orchestra, Jack DeJohnette All Stars, as well as Speech Debelle, Gary Crosbys Nu Troop and Red Snapper.

In September 2010 Hutchings was confirmed as a 'BBC New Generation Artist'.

'Shabaka is a veritable cauldron of creativity ... an emerging Brit-jazz star if ever there was one' Jazzwise

'A jazz all-rounder … equally at home delivering a highlight moment on Guy Barker's Big Band Britannia as he is with the decidedly left-field London Improvisers Orchestra' Financial Times

'A towering figure both physically and musically' Time Out

Shabaka Hutchings' BBC New Generation artist profile
Financial Times review of Hutchings/Edwards/Sanders @ The Vortex
Shabaka Hutchings on Myspace



GUILLAUME VILTARD (Double Bass)

Guillaume Viltard is a London based double bass player. He plays in Treehouse - a traditional free chamber music for cello, trumpet and double-bass with Ute Kanngiesser and Jamie Coleman. He has also played with Eddie Prevost, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Kan Mikami, Alex Neilson, Heddy Boubaker, London Improvisers Orchestra and many more…

Guillaume Viltard website
Treehouse on Myspace
Unturned Stone on Myspace