Red Snapper Unveil New Album Material At Kings Place
- Thursday, October 8, 2009
Electro-acoustic trio Red Snapper performed a lively set to a vociferously supportive audience at Kings Place in London last night.
Electro-acoustic trio Red Snapper performed a lively set to a vociferously supportive audience at Kings Place in London last night.
Getty Images, which last year bought the Redferns Music Picture Library, is mounting a photography exhibition from Friday titled The Spirit of Jazz in association with Ronnie Scott’s 50th Anniversary, curated by singer and pianist Jamie Cullum.
Next week sees the opening of this year’s Belfast Festival at Queen’s which runs from Friday 16 October until the last day of the month.
National poetry day is celebrated this Thursday and to coincide with this and the fiftieth year of the crusading publisher New Departures, poet Michael Horovitz presents his Jazz Poetry SuperJam at the 100 Club on London’s Oxford Street.
One of the most innovative and influential pianists to play on the uneasy faultline between free jazz and improv is to appear next week in a rare solo performance at the Lakeside Arts Centre in Nottingham on Thursday 8 October.
The first anniversary of this monthly improv summit held earlier this week at Cafe Oto in Dalston featured six sets by six different acts culminating with a free-improv duet performance by pianist Matthew Bourne and alto saxophonist Christophe de Bezenac.
Outhouse, the Loop Collective group led by drummer Dave Smith and saxophonist Robin Fincker, return next week with their Outhouse Ruhabi project that includes five West African Wolof drummers.
With a low “om”, and an explanation that he had come to celebrate the beauty of life and “the promise of tomorrow”, it was clear last night at Ronnie Scott’s in London that singer José James and his band were on a quest.
Good news for jazz fans south of the river comes with the opening this week of Jazz at the White Lion, a new jazz club launching on Friday, 2 October, at the White Lion pub, 232 Streatham High Road, London SW16.
Club shows by cult free jazz drummer Steve Reid have now been confirmed just as a rare session from the 1970s is set to come back into circulation.