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SUMMARY:Freedom festival
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Inaugural Freedom: The Art of Improvisation Festival\, Spanning the Clubwise modernist sensibilities of the Westside and the Improv–Central Eastside comes Warriors International’s Freedom: The Art of Improvisation Festival\, a ground breaking mid-summer two day festival held at Hackney’s Vortex combining workshops\, DJ sets and live music from midday. & Curated by Warriors International - Orphy Robinson & Cleveland Watkiss. The Freedom Festival builds upon the highly acclaimed once monthly Freedom loft Sessions – boundary pushing\, uplifting Improv jams and DJ sessions – From Ornette Coleman and Joe Harriott inspired freewheeling improvisations\, Harmelodic grooves cascade and sit alongside deep sonic explorations of frequencies through to a myriad of genre twisting manipulations of silence. The Art of Improvisation loft sessions began life at Hoxton’s famed Charlie Wrights club and are now at its new home at the Vortex. True to its original ethos\, The Freedom Festival brings a unique perspective to the world of ‘improv’ and unites a scintillating cross-generational\, cross cultural collective of inspirational musicians to perform in a variety of multi-dimensional musical settings.\n\n 27 SATURDAY WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCE TIMES\n\n9.30am-10.10am: “SONGERAMA” Vocal Improvisation Workshop with Cleveland Watkiss\n\n. “Songerama is an inclusive workshop for everyone\, even those with very little or no experience of the performing arts. This unique workshop is open to all ages & abilities. Families’ welcome.\n\n10.45 – 11.45am: Jazz Warriors workshop:  Led by Claude Deppa – Trumpet & Ray Carless - Sax.\n\n 12.00 – 6.30pm PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME \n\n2.00pm -1.15pm: AACM 50th ANNIVERSARY ‘Ancient to the future\, (AMPLIFIER) Great black music’ A Vinyl /Freeform Music & Spoken Word Opera Session:  Byron Wallen – Trumpet\, HKB Finn – Spoken Word/African Drums\, Paul Bradshaw – Decks.\n\n2.00pm -3.00pm: XENICIBIS FREEFORM ENSEMBLE: Phillip Achille – Harmonica\, Nubya Garcia -Sax’s\, Cath Roberts – Baritone Sax\, Sahra Gure – Voice\, Tori Handsley -Harp\, Zuri Jarrett Boswell – Piano\, Renell Shaw -Bass\, Beibei Wang -Perc.\n\n3.45pm -4.30pm: TONY KOFI’S SPHINX TRIO (Ornette Coleman Project) Tony Kofi – Alto Sax\, Andrew Robb – Bass\, Rod Youngs – Drums. Special Guest – Cleveland Watkiss.\n\n4.45pm – 6.30pm: FREEDOM: The Art of Improvisation loft jam session: Free Improv Jam Session. These open sessions will end each day of this first year of the festival.\n\nFROM 6.30PM THE FREEDOM FESTIVAL CONTINUES DOWNSTAIRS\n\n7.30pm – 11.00pm: ‘DUKE JOINT’ Swing Dub: DJ Sets.\n\n \n\n28 SUNDAY WORKSHOPS AND PERFORMANCE TIMES\n\n10.30am – 11.30am: “Improv Workshop” AN EXPLORATION OF IMPROVISATION TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP WITH STEVE BERESFORD\n\n12.00pm -1.15pm: FREEFORM IMPROV STRINGS JAM SESSION: led by Alison Blunt – Violin & Kate Shortt – Cello\, Paul Bradshaw – Decks.\n\n2.00pm -3.00pm: ROWLAND SUTHERLAND QUARTET: Rowland Sutherland Quartet feat Ansuman Biswas (Percussion)\, Guillaume Viltard (Double bass) and Special Guest Steve Beresford (Piano /Electronics)\n\n3.45pm – 4.30pm: BLACK TOP:  (Orphy Robinson – Vibes/ Perc /Keys. Pat Thomas – Piano / Electronics) with Special Guests – Cleveland Watkiss – Voice/Looping. Rachel Musson – Sax\, Roland Ramanan – Trumpet\, Otto Williams – Bass\, Mark Mondesir – Drums.\n\n4.45pm – 6.30pm: FREEDOM: The Art of Improvisation loft jam session: Free Improv Jam Session. These open sessions will end each day of this first year of the festival.\n\nMore information here https://www.freedom-festival.co.uk\n\n
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SUMMARY:Still Waters: Henry Lowther / Dave Green / Paul Clarvis / Pete Hurt / Barry Green
DESCRIPTION:A night of the finest music from those who were in the vanguard of the 1960s London jazz scene.\n\nHENRY LOWTHER\nDuring the sixties Henry was one of the first musicians on the British jazz scene to experiment with total free improvisation\, notably with Jack Bruce\, Lyn Dobson and John Hiseman. He played with the original and seminal Mike Westbrook band (which included Mike Osborne and John Surman)\, and also with John Dankworth\, including playing on the now legendary and rare Kenny Wheeler album "Windmill Tilter". In the sixties Henry also worked on the rock scene with Manfred Mann and John Mayall\, and also with Keef Hartley\, with whom he appeared at the famous Woodstock festival in 1969.Over the last thirty years Henry's work on the British jazz scene reads like a "Who's Who". He has played regularly with\, amongst many others\, Gordon Beck\, Michael Garrick\, Graham Collier\, Mike Gibbs\, Pete King\, Loose Tubes\, John Surman\, John Taylor\, Stan Tracey and Kenny Wheeler.\n\nDAVE GREEN\nBorn in London in 1942\, he started on tea-chest bass in local skiffle groups before buying his first double bass at fifteen. Local gigs followed\, often with neighbour Charlie Watts and trumpeter Brian Jones.Turning professional in 1963 he worked with Keith Ingham and with multi instrumentalist Pete Shade. He joined the Don Rendell Quintet in the December\, and remained with until 1969\, by which time it had become the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet. In 1964 he worked with Benny Goodman on TV. In 1965 he joined Humphrey Lyttelton\, remaining with the band for eighteen years\, but managing to combine the work with playing with Stan Tracey\, and accompanying many visiting American jazzmen.\n\nPAUL CLARVIS\nEnglish drummer and percussionist who has played with many different bands and is involved with all musical genres\, working with musicians ranging from Leonard Bernstein\, Harrison Birtwistle and John Dankworth to Randy Crawford. Paul has recorded albums with Gordon Beck\, Bryan Ferry\, John Williams\, Sam Rivers\, Moondog\, John Adams\, Mark-Anthony Turnage\, Marc Ribot\, John Zorn\, Michel Legrand\, Elton John\, Richard Thompson\, The Orb\, Henry Lowther and John Harle\, along with Mose Allison\, Randy Brecker and Ravi Shankar. He has been the featured percussionist / drummer for most of the London Orchestras and is in great demand on film and recording sessions as a specialist hand drummer.\n\nPETE HURT\nPete Hurt has quietly been part of the London jazz scene for almost four decades and has developed one of the most uniquely distinguishable sounds and styles. Apart from his great saxophone playing he has also been recognised for his compositional and arranging skills. Pete's unique musical contribution is featured on Chris Biscoe's new album Profiles Of Mingus.\n\nBARRY GREEN\n"The pianist can effortlessly sustain a graceful Bill Evans-like lyrical swing\, but also massages the ideas of the others. His contemporary references give him a broad sweep\, and he has much to do with this set's freedom from bop-standard rigidities..... wraps a light tracery around Speake against ringing cymbal and thumping keynotes on Jitterbug Waltz\, and then plays a pungent solo..."John Fordham\,The Guardian
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/still-waters-henry-lowther-dave-green-paul-clarvis-pete-hurt-barry-green-2/
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