Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 sets of music
Line-up:
Robert Mitchell – Piano
Olie Brice – Double bass
Johnny Hunter – Drum kit
About:
Robert Mitchell is an award-winning pianist/keys player, composer, curator, poet, and author. He released 16 albums of his own projects, four poetry books and played in 100+ projects as a sideman and performed in 40+ countries. Robert also leads TRUE THINK, Epiphany3 and Little Black Book. He is a professor at Guildhall School Of Music And Drama, Mentor/Task Force Member at Black Lives In Music, YMM teacher and Steinway Artist. Robert has won – BBC Jazz Awards (Innovation, as part of the F-ire Collective), Best Jazz Album (BBC DJ Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards), a Paul Hamlyn composition award and has been nominated for many including 2017 British Jazz Composer Award. He is artst-in-residence at Morley College (2024/5).
The Flame have released two highly acclaimed live albums on 577 Records (NYC).
Olie Brice is a double bassist, improviser and composer. Raised in London and Jerusalem, he now lives in Hastings.
Olie Brice leads a Quartet featuring Rachel Musson, Alexander Hawkins and Will Glaser, (their debut album “All It Was” will be released in 2025) and an improvising trio with Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders (“Immense Blue”, 2024). He has also led a trio, quintet and octet which can be heard on albums including “Fire Hills” and “Day After Day”.Brice performs with a wide range of creative improvising musicians, including legends of the music and his peers. Frequent collaborators include Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Rachel Musson, Tobias Delius, Cath Roberts and Luis Vicente. He has also appeared with the likes of Evan Parker, Tony Malaby, John Butcher, Trevor Watts, Ingrid Laubrock, Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost and Louis Moholo. He is part of several ongoing improvising ensembles including Somersaults (with Tobias Delius/Mark Sanders), a Trio with Ziv Taubenfeld & Kresten Osgood,and the Flame. Brice is also in demand as a bass player in creative Jazz bands led by many artists, including Dee Byrne’s Outlines and Nick Malcolm’s Out Front.
Johnny Hunter is a northern UK-based drummer/composer who comes from a background of both Avant-Garde and the more mainstream Jazz. His own “chordless” quartet, set up to explore the freedom and limitations of having no chordal instrument, have been recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3, and have performed in London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the Manchester Jazz Festival, Birmingham Jazzlines (Symphony Hall), Liverpool International Jazz Festival, among many others. He leads the piano trio Fragments, originally a workshop band formed to research and develop new approaches to improv and composing for improvisers. Outside of his own music, Johnny performs in many other groups including with Revival Room, a contemporary organ trio; Misha Gray’s Prehistoric Jazz Quintet, Liverpool-based group inspired by John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders; Cath Roberts’s Sloth Racket; The Spirit Farm, an Improv group with Adam Fairhall, Christophe de Bezenac, Corey Mwamba, Anton Hunter and Dave Kane; John Pope Quintet; Nat Birchall; Engine Room Favourites, AACM inspired Free Jazz; the Blind Monk Trio ; Swiss-UK collaboration MoonMot; Beck Hunters with Mick Beck and Anton Hunter; Skamel, a Ska/Jazz/Dub ensemble inspired by the French Reggae group Raspigaous.