LOOP Festival Showcases New Jazz Stars
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The LOOP collective’s first full weekend festival, to celebrate their first four years of making music, kicked into high gear on Friday night with a quartet of bands that displayed a huge variety of styles emerging from this group’s restless imagination. Trumpeter Robbie Robson’s Dog Soup perfectly updated Miles’ Bitches Brew-style freeform electro funk with subtle loops and washes of improv that suddenly switched into gnashing prog-jazz riffs. Having set the bar high with such lavish sonic evocations, pianist Ivo Neame won over the crowd with his sparky melodic compositions and some outstanding group interplay. Joined by vibes master Jim Hart (surely one of the UK’s finest young jazz musicians), bassist Jasper Hoiby and drummer James Maddren, the four piece showed just how far the new generation of players have matured.
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