Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Matt Anderson – Tenor saxophone
Liam Noble – Piano
Oren Marshall – Tuba
About
This new project takes as its starting point the music of Thelonious Monk, Bill Frisell and Paul Motian, exploring the intersection of these artists’ idiosyncratic styles and their take on American musical forms like jazz, blues and country/folk, and featuring three of London’s most engaging improvisers in the unusual combination of tenor saxophone, piano and tuba.
Born in the North Yorkshire Moors, the son of a music teacher, saxophonist and Dankworth Prize-winning composer Matt Anderson has lived in London since 2015. His fourth album Live at Leeds Jazz Festival was released in 2024 on his own Hidden Threads Records label, with Jazzwise awarding four stars and commenting, “Unlike some of his contemporaries, Anderson is very comfortable mining the rich seam of jazz that was developed in the UK through the 1970’s and 80’s by artists like Bobby Wellins, rooted in the language of swinging post-bop but with a distinctive British accent.” He has also performed with artists/bands such as Gregory Hutchinson, the Gareth Lockrane Big Band, The Magic Lantern and Ivo Neame.
Oren Marshall began his musical career as a tuba player playing with trad jazz bands in South London pubs in the early 80’s and has since worked with a diverse array of musicians and ensembles such as rock band Radiohead, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra, poet Moondog and Brazilian Maestro Hermeto Pascoal. He was a founding member of Sons of Kemet and regularly worked with the London-based big band, Loose Tubes and its various off-shoot projects, including Chris Bachelor’s Pigfoot which also features Liam Noble.
After studying music at Oxford University and the postgraduate course at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Liam became the regular pianist with Stan Sulzmann on John Taylor’s recommendation. He went on to work in the bands of Anita Wardell, Harry Beckett, Tim Whitehead and John Stevens as well as recording and touring with cult minimalist composer Moondog. During this period, he also performed with John Taylor (as part of Stan Sulzmann’s two piano quintets), Kenny Wheeler and Lol Coxhill, and in the two decades since has been a key figure on the British jazz scene.