Jazz breaking news: Phronesis to record fifth album live at Cockpit Theatre at EFG London Jazz Festival
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Greetings groovers you’ve woken up to UNESCO International Jazz Day – so make it happen where you are – and don’t forget the Ode To The Human Spirit gig tonight at the SGI-UK South London National Centre, Brixton with a multitude of UK jazz stars – including singers Lianne Carroll and Randolph Matthews, trumpeters Noel Langley, Yazz Ahmed and Sean Corby, saxophonists Julian Siegel, Martin Speake, Tony Kofi and Jason Yarde among many, many others – all lining up to mark the occasion.
Breaking news on Jazz Day finds fast rising and indeed, international, stars Phronesis announcing they will be recording their fifth album live at the Cockpit Theatre, this November as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Led by Danish-born, UK resident bassist Jasper Høiby (pictured), alongside stellar English pianist Ivo Neame and fiery Swedish drummer Anton Eger the band have been busy touring across Australia, Europe, US and Canada in the last year as they continue their upward trajectory as one of the hottest and increasingly in-demand bands on the global jazz scene.
The new album will be recorded over two nights – Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November – and will be released on the busy Edition records label in the spring of 2014. The recording follows 2012’s Walking Dark – which saw the band perform several times ‘in the dark’ at the LJF and Brecon jazz festivals to great acclaim, while their searing live set from 2010, Alive, topped both Jazzwise and Mojo magazine’s Jazz Album Of The Year in the end of year polls. Tickets are on sale now for these two performances that are sure to be some of the most hotly anticipated gigs of this year’s festival and are held as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival in association with The Cockpit and Jazz In The Round.
– Mike Flynn
– Photo by Tim Dickeson
For more info go to thecockpit.org.uk