Friday 28 | 7.00pm | £16.50
Marc Ribot Trio
A rare opportunity to see the Marc Ribot trio with a classic line-up comprising legendary bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Chad Taylor.
Marc Ribot’s experimental trio draws on the improvising telepathy developed in performance working as Spiritual Unity to reach new heights and depths of free/punk/jazz.
Ribot was a prodigious talent from his teens when he played guitar in various garage bands whilst studying under his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus.
Moving to New York City in 1978, Ribot was a member of the soul/punk Realtones and John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. He also worked as a side musician with Brother Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chuck Berry, and many others.
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Saturday 29 | 8.30pm | £12
The Joy of Making Music
The final leg of Leo Records International Tour
Carolyn Hume & Katja Cruz
Pianist Carolyn Hume forged her own style of playing the piano and more than once her CDs have been named the best CD of the year by “Independent on Sunday, UK”.
Katja Cruz (voice) is a multiple talent working in different idioms from Latin to improvised music. Presenting their new CD “Light and Shade”, together the duo spontaneously create the most beautiful, mesmerising, haunting melodies.
Alexey Kruglov, Jaak Sooaar & Paul May
Alexey Kruglov (saxophones), Jaak Sooaar (el. guitar) and Paul May (drums) present their new CD ‘Karate’.
Sooaar himself is a real find – a guitarist as capable of wit as aggression and yet with an amazing, open-minded approach to rhythm.
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Sunday 30 | 8.30pm | £12
The Thirteenth Assembly
Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Tomas Fujiwara
Forged from a shared history of collaborations ranging from intimate duos to Anthony Braxton’s various ensembles, The Thirteenth Assembly features four distinguished musician/composers working together as equals to create distinctively eclectic, yet cohesive music.
Drawing on years of familiarity, as well as its members’ diverse backgrounds in genres including classical, folk, rock, jazz and the avant-garde, this collective ensemble has performed across the United States and Europe since 2007, and released its debut recording (un)sentimental (Important Records) in 2009.
The group’s follow-up CD, Station Direct, will be released by Important Records in the summer of 2011.
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Monday 31 | 8.30pm | £10
Led Bib
Relentlessly dodging definition, Led Bib are both a maverick jazz band and an unlikely rock quintet. Taking their name from a protective garment used on patients during dental treatment, this Walthamstow based five-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention, with incendiary results.
Led Bib appeal to all fans of good music – it’s the reason that drum ‘n’ bass heads, jazz aficionados and folk and pop fans are dotted across their audiences. They have drawn references from across the musical spectrum from Captain Beefheart and John Zorn to Pink Floyd.
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Tuesday 1 | 8.30pm | £10
Led Bib
Relentlessly dodging definition, Led Bib are both a maverick jazz band and an unlikely rock quintet. Taking their name from a protective garment used on patients during dental treatment, this Walthamstow based five-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention, with incendiary results.
Led Bib appeal to all fans of good music – it’s the reason that drum ‘n’ bass heads, jazz aficionados and folk and pop fans are dotted across their audiences. They have drawn references from across the musical spectrum from Captain Beefheart and John Zorn to Pink Floyd.
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Wednesday 2 | 8.30pm | £6 adv / £8 door
Chik Budo
Chik Budo are a London five-piece who marry the jazz experimentalism of John Zorn and the energy of post-punk luminaries such as Fugazi, twisted through contemporary electronic dance music, 8-bit electro, French house and early 80′s No-Wave.
The result is a hugely accessible and enjoyable blast of 21st Century electro- jazz punk.
Plus support from
Satelliti
An experimental duo recognising no rules or structures. Just two musicians talking to each other in notes.
“… live free jazz drums with bizarre pulsating synthesised drones and spacetime-tearing distorted fender rhodes. Like a psychedelic journey through the blood vessels of an intoxicated predator” (Vessels).
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Saturday 5 | 8.30pm | £12
John Etheridge’s Blue Spirits Trio
The unassumingly virtuosic guitarist John Etheridge explores the classic Blue Note guitar ‘n’ Hammond sound with with Pete Whittaker (organ) and Enzo Zirelli (drums).
John is capable of playing anything from straightahead jazz, through blues and what used to be called ‘progressive’ rock, to Frank Zappa material. Blue Spirits allows him to relax into a relatively informal groove, playing soul-jazz type material and the odd standard with his trademark fluency.
