Forthcoming jazz events

[Bryn]

Anyone here know or know of this trio: https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/n...chtime-concert ?

I am tempted but will be attending The Mask of Orpheus the night before, will be getting back home ofter midnight and would have to get the 09:32 bus on Friday morning to make the lunchtime event. It's free and looks interesting.

[Serial_Apologist]

Anyone here know or know of this trio: https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/n...chtime-concert ?

I am tempted but will be attending The Mask of Orpheus the night before, will be getting back home ofter midnight and would have to get the 09:32 bus on Friday morning to make the lunchtime event. It's free and looks interesting.

Yes, I know Dee quite well from her own band Entropi as well as her associations with the Lume Collective. I intend to be at this one. I don't know either Shirley or Charlotte. I'm wondering if Shirley is any relation to Nick Smart, a trumpet player and head of the jazz dept at RAM, who's writing or has written a book about Kenny Wheeler. Probably see you there Bryn.

[Bryn]

Yes, I know Dee quite well from her own band Entropi as well as her associations with the Lume Collective. I intend to be at this one. I don't know either Shirley or Charlotte. I'm wondering if Shirley is any relation to Nick Smart, a trumpet player and head of the jazz dept at RAM, who's writing or has written a book about Kenny Wheeler. Probably see you there Bryn.

Well, I have now booked a place, so will indeed probably see you there, though I might be somewhat bleary-eyed.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, I have now booked a place, so will indeed probably see you there, though I might be somewhat bleary-eyed.

Me too.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well I would have been at Cadogan Hall to see one of my favourite musicians, Chris Biscoe, lead his quartet with Kate Williams on piano. That was after I checked the TfL site and noted an "excellent service" on SE Trains - which it still states - only for it to be announced that the 11.18, which would have just got me to Sloane Sq in time, had been cancelled, sorry & all that.

As mentioned by me the other day, this is becoming the Corbyn promise to re-nationalise validating norm. People might say, why didn't you get an earlier train? Well, as the years dwindle I for one am more and more aware of time not to be wasted and making the most of every moment, which doesn't mean hanging around places when people in charge have told me I needn't.

Never mind, there's always COTW, which is a good 'un this week: Mary Lou Williams.

[Serial_Apologist]

On today in the bar area at the Festival Hall at 1 o'clock (rock): Glasshopper - two young newcomers, plus Corrie Dick, Laura Jurd's drummer. The LJF page blurb only offers a few seconds of dreaminess of a sort that gets tagged whimsical hereabouts: while this link from a recent Pizza Express gig features an entire number, I'm told via the grapevine that the band also does more grungy stuff. I'm not a fan of Mr Corrie's drumming, but this could be interesting, who knows? Its a freebie - and this time, as the weather looks worth risking, I won't be dependent on unreliable train timetables:

http://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/glasshopper-featuring-ed-begley

Ed BEGLEY, note, not Ed Bentley, the funky Hammond organ player.

Then tomorrow, the last day of the festival, we have "female improvisers" under the heading Bitches Brew, who I expect to be performing enjoyably pretentious beard-scratching type music on the Barbican Free Stage at 2pm, followed at 6pm by Emma Smith, one of the occasional presenters on J to Z who is also a bass player, we learn, doing stuff with a climate change theme. So, must make sure to pack sister sledges as well as a thong at thunrise.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I should have mentioned this before:

https://hcmf.co.uk/event/29-evan-parker-75/

... it takes a very special event to get me to venture in Bates Motel in the tail-end of November*, but this is a very special event.

* the sort of place where you have to go outside to get warm.

[Serial_Apologist]

Steve Williamson Trio at The Vortex tonight, assuming I can get in. The link has him performing some interesting stuff with bass and a couple of classical strings, which sounds part serial in idiom, part minimalist: Steve Coleman meets Anthony Braxton?? Steve is always interesting, even when he takes aesthetic risks - I can hear people say, what would they be? to which I can only answer, you know when you listen. He's a good player, the best of the original Jazz Warriors bunch that came up in the mid-80s. Tonight he has Hamish Moore on bass and Zoe Pascal on drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC1syZ6Kro

[Bryn]

Steve Williamson Trio at The Vortex tonight, assuming I can get in. The link has him performing some interesting stuff with bass and a couple of classical strings, which sounds part serial in idiom, part minimalist: Steve Coleman meets Anthony Braxton?? Steve is always interesting, even when he takes aesthetic risks - I can hear people say, what would they be? to which I can only answer, you know when you listen. He's a good player, the best of the original Jazz Warriors bunch that came up in the mid-80s. Tonight he has Hamish Moore on bass and Zoe Pascal on drums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC1syZ6Kro

What, with AMM/Formanex at Cafe OTO? Not jazz but decidedly the event of choice for me, especially with John White joining them for the second set.

[Serial_Apologist]

What, with AMM/Formanex at Cafe OTO? Not jazz but decidedly the event of choice for me, especially with John White joining them for the second set.

I know - infuriating when such events clash.

Edit: trust me to get the wrong night - it's tomorrow.

[Serial_Apologist]

January offers at least ten not-to-be-missed gigs in London, of which I will mention the following:

Next Monday (6th) the fine young bass player Olie Brice, much associated with cutting-edge jazz, leads a cross-generational quintet at The Vortex consisting of Alex Bonney on trumpet, George Crowley and Chris Biscoe on tenor and alto saxes respectively, and the great American drummer and longtime associate of Dave Liebman, Jeff Williams. Jeff, who divides his time equally between London and his home town of fellow New Yorkers, pulls no punches in his playing in deference to any British snowflake younger generation of musicians here, and I am greatly looking forward to attending this.

Olie re-appears there on Tuesday 14th with the Canadian-born ofttimes John Surman associate John Warren's Nonet, featuring such approaching middle agers as trumpeter Steve Fishwick, saxophonist James Allsopp, pianist Alcyona Mick and guitarist Mick Costley-White.

The Cafe Posk (Polish community centre) in Chiswick hosts the Pete Hurt Big Band on Saturday 11th in celebration of Pete's 70th birthday, and for a mere £12 you can experience what Ian Thumwood has rightly described as one of the finest big bands in this country performing materials from his 2018 release A New Start. Pete is back there again on the 17th with The Gunslingers, alongside vocalist Nette Robinson, her hubby Tony Woods, Chris Biscoe and Mr Hurt himself on saxes, Nick Mills trombone, Kate Williams at the piano, Dave Jones on bass and Gary Willcox, drums. Always welcoming and just down the road from the old 'Ammersmiff Pallis.

Dave Jones has his own Nonet at the Bull's Head alongside some of the above, that excellent pianist John Turville, and Madeleine Jones on vocals, who might be related to Dave for all I know. There can't be that many Joneses keeping up with jazz in Barnes, after all!

Funky trombonist Annie Whitehead brings her regular line-up of Steve Lodder, Jennifer Maidman and the great hairy one-time Gerry Rafferty backing man and Trevor Watts Amalgam propellant Liam Genockey to bourgeois Leytonstone's East Side Jazz Club on the 21st; and we can see the Art Themen All Stars at the Oval Tavern in famous tourist hot spot Croydon for nowt at lunchtime on Tuesday 28th - the hostess passes the beer mug round in the interval.

Finally, that great veteran tenor saxophonist and flautist one-time associate of John Dankworth, Ray Russell and Danny Thompson, Tony Roberts, turns 82 today . He is now northernly based, in Newk Castle (), and remains as active as ever on his local scene.

[Bryn]

RE #11, though, perhaps, not easily categorizable as 'jazz'. let's not overlook https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/kan...ilbury-wright/ I will certainly be attending.

[Serial_Apologist]

RE #11, though, perhaps, not easily categorizable as 'jazz'. let's not overlook https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/kan...ilbury-wright/ I will certainly be attending.

I'm always grateful for the music links Cafe Oto provides as tasters for the sort of thing on offer.

[Bryn]

RE #11, though, perhaps, not easily categorizable as 'jazz'. let's not overlook https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/kan...ilbury-wright/ I will certainly be attending.

Unfortunately, it transpires that John Tilbury has had to pull out, due to temporary indisposure. I have therefore sought and obtained a refund.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Farbeit from me to indulge in self promotion, but it seems that S-A has overlooked one significant gig this week. If boardees are not busy on Wednesday this might appeal to those of more catholic tastes: https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/wha...on-legacy-band