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Thursday 29 July | 8.30pm | £8 | Book online

Parker / Edwards / Marsh

Saxophonist Evan Parker’s free improvisation residency featuring regular collaborators and mainstays of the London improvising scene, bassist John Edwards and drummer Tony Marsh. ‘...(Parker) has redefined the art of the possible on the saxophone’ (AllAboutJazz).

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August highlights

Friday 6

Trevor Watkis

Monday 9

Gwilym Simcock Trio

Sunday 15 – Tuesday 17

Fete Quaqua

Sunday 22

The Moss Project / Esben Tjalve's Red Kite

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Gig reviews by Chris Parker

Sojourner

Monday 19 July

'Soulful jazz for a new generation', played by 'a group ready to redefine the boundaries of any genre' was promised in Sojourner's programme note, and leader/pianist Jonathan Geyevu, like many of his young contemporaries, is certainly open-eared enough to incorporate a wide variety of rhythms and styles into his music.

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New CD reviews by Chris Parker

Spin Marvel The Reluctantly Politicised Mr James

The group sound on this, drummer Martin France's Spin Marvel's second album, is described by him as 'not locked into a conventional grid of pulse or beat, but mov[ing] away from this format and out into a different space'. The resultant music's most obvious stylistic reference point is the European free/ambient music perhaps most readily associated with Scandinavia and most famously manifest (in the UK, at least) in the music of one of France's old Loose Tubes bandmates, Iain Ballamy (in his Food mode).