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November 2006
gig reviews

Oren Marshall - Charming Transport Band
John Law Trio
Andy Sheppard - 200 Saxophones - the opening of Gillett Square
Convergence Quartet
Robert Mitchell and Omar Puente
Ian Shaw
Mike Westbrook Village Band Project
Christine Tobin
Billy Jenkins
Huw Warren and Peter Herbert, Led Bib
Anker, Craig,Cleaver & Curios
Nikki Yeoh
Dog Soup
Sex Mob
Taeko Kunishima

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November 2006 gig reviews by Chris Parker

Andy Sheppard - 200 Saxophones

The Opening of Gillett Square

Friday 10

Two hundred saxophones, some ranged along the balconies overlooking Gillett Square, others in the area itself, provided a spectacular and oddly moving opening for the London Jazz Festival.

Andy Sheppard, Tony Kofi, Orphy Robinson and James Morton were the chief begetters, but the supporting cast (including our own Oliver Weindling – Vortex director) played their parts to perfection, creating a solid wall of saxophonic sound from which the piece's pleasingly strident theme and occasional solos emerged.

Memories of Urban Sax on the South Bank in the 1980s were prompted in the older witnesses, and the Square can consider itself well and truly christened.

 

 

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