Coming to London’s Vortex Jazz Club:
SUN 17 • 20.30 • £8
MOPOMOSO
Regular free improvisation night – now in its 22nd year – Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series promoting improvised music.
Guillermo Torres (flugel horn, trumpet) / Marcio Mattos (cello) / Adrian Northover (sax).
This trio has an open-ended and generous approach towards improvisation, using extended techniques and preparations to fully exploit the available sound world.
Reciprocal Uncles: Gianni Mimmo (sax) / Gianni Lenoci (piano).
Contemporary instant compositions from this great Italian duo. Mimmo’s continually morphing melodies and timbral changes matching the elegantly intense piano of Lenoci: a rare chance to hear them in the UK.
Mark Sanders (drums) / Alison Blunt (violin) / Elaine Mitchener (vocals) / John Russell (guitar)
Intimate and expansive music from four fine musicians.
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TUE 19 • 20.30 • £12
EDDIE PRÉVOST / JASON YARDE / OLI HAYHURST + CHIRS CORSANO / PAUL DUNMALL
A night of percussion-led experimentation. Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prévost has spent a career devoted to the outer reaches of the music. In the forty-odd years he’s been musically active he has been a key member of the free improvisation group AMM as well as a band leader in his own right, leading units dedicated to mining a musical seam closer to free jazz than free improvisation as such. And tonight he leads this magnificent trio with Jason Yarde and Oli Hayhurst.
Chris Corsano / Paul Dunmall: these outstanding musicians return to London for a rare duo performance. Paul Dunmall has been called “one of the most accomplished reedists on the planet” (Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly) and he is certainly one of the most fluent and powerful saxophonists playing in Britain today. Chris Corsano is a restlessly inventive percussionist with quick hands and a constantly expanding vocabulary of extended techniques.
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WED 20 • 20.30 • £10 • MD
ACHIM KAUFMANN / OLIE BRICE / ROGER TURNER
Achim Kaufmann, one of Europe’s finest pianists has worked with Han Bennink, Okkyung Lee, and Peter Brotzmann, among many others. Tonight he presents his new trio together with two of London’s finest improvisers, Olie Brice and Roger Turner.
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RENÉE BAKER + VERYON WESTON + BURNING WOOD
A night of new and improvised music at the Vortex, featuring Chicago-based Renée Baker.
Renée is Principal Violist of the internationally renowned Chicago Sinfonietta and has held principal positions with many orchestras including the Illinois Chamber Symphony, Fox River Valley Symphony, Key West Symphony, and plays regularly with many other highly acclaimed ensembles.
Burning Wood is an exciting new music ensemble that brings together the talents of some of the most experienced string improvisers from the UK. Burning Wood’s repertoire ranges from conducted and conceptual new compositions through to totally free improvisation. Burning Wood are Alison Blunt (violin), Benedict Taylor (viola) and David Leahy (double bass).
Baker will be performing three sets. In her first set she will be performing solo; her second set will be with pianist Veryan Weston; for her third set Baker will be joining string-centric improvising ensemble Burning Wood.
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FRI 22 • 20.30 • £10
HIBERNATE + HOME NORMAL presents: BLACK ELK + TOBIAS HELLKVIST + MOON ATE THE DARK + OLAN MILL
A night of electronic and contemporary classical music melding experimental sounds with live visuals.
Tobias Hellkvist‘s music features guitar and computer-based soundscapes with dreamy, meditative textures. Black Elk is the quartet of Ian Hawgood, Tim Martin, Danny Norbury and Clem Leek, who mix acoustic & electronic sounds to haunting effect. Moon Ate the Dark make a soundtrack to longing, memory and displacement and inject fresh life into the solo piano sub-genre. Olan Mill’s work holds a sublime measure between the realms of modern neo-classical composition and ambience. Thrillingly evocative.
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SUN 24 • 16.00 • £7 • MD
BABEL LABEL’S VIEW FROM THE TOWER
Led by Dan Messore with a stellar band featuring Rory Simmons (trumpet), BBC New Generation Artist Trish Clowes, Chaos Collective pianist Elliot Galvin and others, this regular monthly event has won plaudits for showcasing the best of British jazz composition of recent years, by the likes of Iain Ballamy, Huw Warren, Keith Tippett and beyond.
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SUN 24 • 20.30 • £9 • MD
HUMAN
Launching their new album on Babel records, Human is the new quartet put together by Irish born drummer Stephen Davis. One of our finest drummers, Davis has long been a sideman for artists like Evan Parker, Django Bates and Marc Ribot. This new project sees him team up with a top-class line-up of Alex Bonney, Dylan Bates and Alexander Hawkins.
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