Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
About
Shabaka is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who came to prominence within the London scene playing bands Sons of Kemet, the Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors. At the start of 2024, he announced a hiatus from the saxophone, and since then has been composing material for the various flutes he is engaged in studying. Collaboration and the idea of developmental change being central to artistic practice is the driving force behind Shabaka’s live sets, which are constantly evolving and striving to reflect an up-to-date account of a creative mind.
Pat Thomas born 1960 Oxford began playing Piano at the age of eight. He studied Classical music and reggae was an early interest. Thomas was inspired to take up Jazz after seeing legendary pianist Oscar Peterson on television at 16, by 1979 Thomas was performing seriously as an improviser has played with Mike Cooper Geoff Hawkins Lol Coxhill, Tony Oxley, Steve Beresford, Alex Ward, Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Joe Gallivan, John Butcher, Okkyung Lee, Bill Dixon, Roy Campbell, Marshall Allen, Moor Mother, Matana Roberts and Wadada Leo Smith. Current activities include Solo Piano, Black Top with Orphy Robinson, Scatter with Phil Minton, Roger Turner, Dave Tucker, Shifa with Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders. Bleyschool with Tony Orrell, Dom Lash, Ahmed with Seymour Wright Joel Grip and Antonin Gerbal a duo with Steve Noble a trio with William Parker and Hamid Drake and Duo with Tyshawn Sorey, and Duo with Mariam Rezai. Received Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers in 2014.Recieved in 2022 Robert D Bielecki Foundation unrestricted Grant of $25,000 in Recognition of his incomparable artistry and contribution to improvised music.