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November 2007
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The Necks
Porpoise Corpus
The Chris Lowe Quintet
Evan Parker, Barry Guy
 Paul Lytton, Peter Evans
Ian Shaw
Radioplay
Fraud
Hih
Zoe Rahman Trio
Robert Mitchell
 and Corey Mwamba
Billy Jenkins and
 Steve Morrison

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November gig reviews by Chris Parker

Robert Mitchell and Corey Mwamba

Wednesday 28 November

Duo improvisations can provide some of the most thrillingly spontaneous and imaginative music that can be experienced live (think of Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier, or Bill Bruford and Michiel Borstlap), and Robert Mitchell and Corey Mwamba, playing piano and vibes respectively (Wednesday, 28), began their performance with an exhilarating example of the form, picking up musical cues from each other with all the fleetness and agility of Olympic relay runners.

Mitchell, as Mwamba never tires of saying, is indeed one of the UK's finest pianists, and whether he's improvising freely or restlessly embroidering either his own or Mwamba's material, or exploring all the possibilities of the odd jazz classic, he exudes virtuosity, his ideas coming at him so thick and fast that he seems barely to have time to express them all.

His and Mwamba's duo gigs thus become a pleasingly tumultuous, headlong rush of musical creativity, their almost telepathic togetherness breathtaking, their overall sound a mellifluous chiming delicacy that hardens into percussive power where appropriate. The only disappointment? There were just a dozen people in the audience to experience this superb music.

 

 

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