Jazz breaking news: Just Not Cricket Festival Of Improvised Music Confirmed For Berlin
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tom Arthurs, Steve Beresford, Tony Bevan, Matthew Bourne, Gail Brand and Lol Coxhill are just some of the musicians taking part in Just Not Cricket, a three-day festival of British improvised music to be held in Berlin.
Taking place between 6 and 8 October other leading musicians involved include Rhodri Davies, John Edwards, Shabaka Hutchings, Dominic Lash, Phil Minton, Eddie Prévost, Orphy Robinson, Mark Sanders, Alex Ward and Trevor Watts.
The line-up for the fest involves many different band formations of the musicians above to take place at the festival venue .HBC – the former Hungarian Cultural Centre – on Karl Liebknecht Strasse. JNC brings together four generations of musicians, and takes up the baton of the Total Music Meetings which have been drastically affected by public funding cuts. The festival draws on the work and innovation of the 1960s and 70s generations of improv musicians and their younger “Echtzeitmusik” counterparts.
Just Not Cricket is also to be filmed for a documentary by Berlin film maker Antoine Prum, known for his earlier Sunny’s Time Now documentary about free jazz drummer Sunny Murray. Prum also plans to shoot next year in the Vortex, Café Oto and Boat-Ting clubs in London, as well as at the Shed in north Yorkshire for the film. Stewart Lee, a long time supporter of the UK improv scene and a programmer of the Freehouse strand at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, is also conducting interviews and doing the voiceover for the documentary. JNC has been curated by saxophonist Tony Bevan, in collaboration with Helma Schleif, a long-time coordinator of the Total Music Meetings, and Prum. – Stephen Graham
For more go to www.justnotcricket.net