A rare performance in the UK by a legendary trio whose origins are in London’s
earliest days of free jazz – the Little Theatre Club, the Musicians’ Co-operative and all that.
Paul Lytton now lives in Belgium and Barry Guy in Switzerland so the trio seldom plays here.
From a notice by the distinguished Italian authority Francesco Martinelli:
‘…so closely knit is their musical collective entity…the tremendous excitement that the trio can generate, based on the uncannily instantaneous ability of the players to react to one another’s gestures and all together to the situation they are playing in, creating a musical fabric which is at the same time steel solid yet pliable.’
This will be preceded by a discussion involving Patrik Landolt (of Intakt Records), Kevin Le Gendre (radio presenter, and compiler of Now’s The Time albums) and Tony Dudley-Evans (of Birmingham Jazzlines and Cheltenham Jazz Festival) about different ways of hearing European improvised music. (7 p.m. Vortex Downstairs)