Jazz breaking news: World Service Project and ReDiViDeR gear up for Match and Fuse tour

They’ll then take the show across the country this weekend with a free entry gig at the Café Bar Contemporary in Nottingham on Saturday; to Leftbank in Bristol on Sunday; with a further date planned for Dublin in the summer. The ongoing Match and Fuse projects have seen WSP tour alongside their various peers from across Europe. For those who missed WSP’s previous couplings with Norway’s SynKoke and the Berlin based band Schulbus, accompanying dual band EPs for sale from each earlier tour will be available at the tour venues. At this weekend’s gigs there will also be a third EP split between WSP and ReDiViDeR available to purchase. WSP is led by pianist Dave Morecroft, joined by Tim Ower on saxophone, Raph Clarkson on trombone, Neil Blandford on drums and the young up-and-coming bassist Conor Chaplin who can also be found laying down equally funky lines in trumpeter Laura Jurd’s Quartet. After their pairing with breakout Irish band ReDiViDeR (below, right) WSP play a string of solo dates before they join Italian band Tribaco for a quick tour across the UK and then Italy.

– Chris Hyde-Harrison

For the London date click www.vortexjazz.co.uk, Nottingham www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/world-service-project-0 and Bristol www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/leftbank/sun-22-jan-match-amp-fuse-feat-wsp-amp-more-5393