From London’s Vortex Jazz Club:
Saturday 9 | 9.30pm
Gutbucket
Brooklyn-based Quartet Gutbucket pushes composer-driven, art-rock-tainted chamber jazz into new terrain, proclaiming gleeful subversion, a signature biting edge, a cunning sense of humor and appreciation for the loud and theatrical.Wednesday 13 | 8.30pm
Mostly Other People Do The Killing
Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Peter Evans (trumpet), Jon Irabagon (alto sax), Moppa Elliott (bass) and Kevin Shea (drums) – is a quartet founded on the idea that jazz should be fun, engaging and thoroughly contemporary.Thursday 14 | 8.30pm
Mostly Other People Do The Killing
As Wednesday 13.Sunday 17 | 8.30pm
Mopomoso
Presenting the best in improvised musicCharlie Collins / John Jasnoch duo
Following a 30 year association which, individually and collectively, has taken in Clock DVA, country & western, Company Week and the Sonny Simmons Quartet, Jasnoch and Collins have focused on the 12-string guitar and a basic drum set for their duo. Sheffield’s finest!Alexander Hawkins
Nominated a ‘Musician of the Year’ in All About Jazz New York for 2010, and as the #1 keyboardist, and #5 pianist of the year by Spain’s ‘El Intruso’, pianist Alex Hawkins is a remarkable musician deservedly making waves. Here he plays a rare solo set giving him complete freedom to showcase his considerable abilities. A real treat!Luc Houtkamp / John Russell duo
As a composer and saxophonist, Luc’s musical goal is to establish a continuum between improvisation and composition in which the difference between the two dissolves.
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