Jazz breaking news: Soweto Kinch takes the Legend of Mike Smith to Rich Mix
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
MOBO Award winning and Mercury Prize nominated altoist/MC Soweto Kinch returns to London for his final show of 2013, presented by Jazz FM Live at Rich Mix, London on Friday 13 December.
A charismatic live performer, masterful alto saxophonist and dynamic MC, Kinch will be performing tracks from his expansive double album, The Legend of Mike Smith, which tells the story of an aspiring rapper possessed by each of the seven sins as he struggles to make his way in the music industry.
The sprawling project has been staged as a fully-fledged theatre production at both London’s Albany Theatre and Birmingham’s Repertory Theatre, as it features Kinch’s vivid cast of characters and choreography from hip hop dance pioneer, Jonzi D. For the Rich Mix show the music will be performed by Kinch on sax, rap plus laptop and effects alongside his core trio of bassist Karl Rasheed-Abel and drummer Graham Godfrey.
Weaving together cutting edge jazz with rap and richly-plotted drama, that extends African-American oral traditions, drawing on influences as divergent as Dante, J.S. Bach, Ornette Coleman and Madlib, Kinch singlehandedly mixes these elements with his own high energy vision of jazz, spoken word and rap.
– Mike Flynn
For more info go to www.richmix.org.uk