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SUMMARY:Christian Muthspiel with Franck Tortiller\, Steve Swallow\, Mathieu Michel + Jeff Herr
DESCRIPTION:Two nights of Christian Muthspiel with Franck Tortiller\, Steve Swallow and Mathieu Michel.\n\nSeaven Teares - A Tribute to John Dowland\n\nChristian Muthspiel – trombone\, piano\, e-piano\, compositions\n\nMatthieu Michel – trumpet\, flugelhorn\n\nFranck Tortiller – vibraphone\n\nSteve Swallow – bass\n\nRecent CD: „Seaven Teares“\, ACT 9551-2\n\n"elegantly shifting palette of instrumental colours“\n\n"charming and surprising” (THE GUARDIAN)\n\n"an absorbing listen“ (THE OBSERVER)\n\n(JAZZWISE)\n\n"variety of mood“ (THE TELEGRAPH)\n\n-------------\n\nAs long as I can remember\, I have always been fascinated by the music of the Renaissance\, with its polyphonic interweaving of voices that seemingly float on forever\, unimpeded by bar lines. Now\, 450 years after the birth of John Dowland\, I have embarked with my fellow musicians on yet another journey to explore the ways into which the “Sound of Elisabethan England”\, with its sketchy and enigmatic notation\, can be translated into today‘s language of jazz. Interestingly\, when you compare the stylistics of the modern era with those of the Renaissance\, you can see the importance that improvisation has held in the music of Dowland and his contemporaries.\n\nAll of the compositions in this recording are based on Dowland‘s “Lachrimae\, or Seaven Teares” instrumental cycle\, in which seven different types of figurative tears are rendered polyphonically by five violas da gamba and a lute. The metamorphoses I propose stay close to the thematic content of the originals and use the special quality of Dowland’s lines and the resulting harmonies as fundamental structural elements to be rethought\, modified and reinterpreted in a new context. In this way\, seeds from Dowland’s masterpieces from the turn of the 16th to the 17th century have grown into new works that lie somewhere in the creative field between chamber music and jazz and serve as frameworks for interaction and improvisation within our quartet.\n\n(Christian Muthspiel\, translation by Karin Kaminker)\n\n(Please note that there was an error in the article in Jazzwise\, calling Christian a guitarist. That in fact is his brother Wolfgang!)\n\n \n\n------------------\n\nSupport is from Jeff Herr Corporation\n\nThe well-travelled\, Luxembourg drummer’s own band comes to UK for the first time…presenting music from their new album ‘Layer Cake’ released in March 2015.\n\nThe new album from the Jeff Herr Corporation\, created around the Luxembourg drummer\, displays dexterity and solid rhythms from the very first notes. The trio’s fluid power is drawn from their firm rhythmic foundations\, tightly arranged and well-structured tracks\, and vibrant improvisations\, all encompassed within the group’s basic drive of the groove.\n\nWith Maxime Bender on saxophone and Laurent Payfert on double bass\, this powerhouse trio offers up eleven new compositions by band members\, along with a surprising cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”.\n\n"….drummer Jeff Herr\, the powerful motor of a trio that comes in a straight line from Sonny Rollins"  Jazz News\, France\n\nBiography\n\nSince 2001\, Jeff Herr has been performing with many different bands\, projects and musicians including Pascal Schumacher\, Marc Demuth\, Greg Lamy\, Ernie Hammes\, Johannes Müller\, Maxime Bender\, Carlo Nardozza\, Pascal Mohy\, Jef Neve\, Christophe Devisscher or Joachim Badenhorst. In 2003\, Herr formed the Jeff Herr Corporation\, with musicians that he had met during his studies in Maastricht: Carlo Nardozza (trumpet)\, Joonas Lorenz (Fender Rhodes & synthesizers) and Tom Van Acker (bass). The band released their first album ‘Modern Times’ on Waltzing-Parke Records (WPR) in 2005. A second album\, “Conspiracy”\, followed in 2007. Since then\, the band has been performing widely in Luxembourg\, the Benelux\, France\, Germany\, Romania\, Greece\, Vietnam and Russia. Since 2012\, the Jeff Herr Corporation consists of Jeff Herr (drums)\, Maxime Bender (saxophone) and Laurent Payfert (double bass). Their album “Layer Cake” (distributed and licensed by IGLOO Records/SOWAREX Edition) was released in Europe November 2014 and UK March 2015.\n\nIn 2005\, Jeff Herr joined the Soul/R’n’B band “Funky P” and is also currently playing with renowned blues guitarist Remo Cavallini\, regularly with Austrian singer Shlomit Butbul\, singer-songwriter Lata Gouveia\, Indian sitar master Pandit Deobrat Mishra and Luxemburg-based Icelandic singer Thorunn. Recently\, Herr has been chosen to represent Luxembourg in the “Criss Cross Europe” project a jazz exchange between Belgium\, France\, Slovakia and Luxembourg.\n\nSupported by MusicLX
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/christian-muthspiel-with-frank-tortiller-steve-swallow-mathieu-michel/
LOCATION:11 Gillett Square\, London\, N16 8AZ
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SUMMARY:Black Top (Orphy Robinson\, Pat Thomas) meets Magic Science Quartet featuring Marshall Allen\, Henry Grimes - Special Vortex benefit late night show. JUST ANNOUNCED!
DESCRIPTION:Black Top is one of the most dynamic and exciting of groups. Their regular collaborative gigs\, especially at Cafe Oto\, are legendary. Two albums are now out\, the first with Steve Williamson and new one with Evan Parker.\n\nMagic Science Quartet:\n\nHenry Grimes (bass)\, Marshall Allen (saxophone) \, Avreeayl Ra (drums)\, KA (piano)\n\nA further chance to hear is band at the Vortex added for this amazing quartet\, featuring Henry Grimes\, the legendary bassist and Marshall Allen\, the irrespressible nonagenarian leader of the Arkestra (which he joined in 1958). "WOW!!! I've never heard a group whose name is more appropriate! The instantaneous dialogue that master musicians Henry Grimes and Marshall Allen call home\, inhabiting each string\, metal and skin exchange as if palaces from some bygone age when musical royalty really mattered; the irrepressible KA punctuating on all cylinders and in all registers; Henry Grimes transforming foundational harmonies\, merging them with the microtonal melodic threads that only he can weave; Avreeayl Ra the magician liquid-dancing between groove and orchestration\, channeling space and timbre; and whoosh!! -- Marshall Allen's electronics unite frequency and mystery\, precision and folktale\, science and magic!" – Marc Medwin\n\nOf their performance on Tuesday at the Cafe Oto\, here is the review by Mike Hobart  in the Financial Times:\nThere was indeed a magical thread to this free jazz saga\, though the soundscapes conjured were as much science fiction as science fact. Multi-instrumentalist Marshall Allen\, currently leading the Sun Ra Arkestra he joined in 1958\, introduced the evening mimicking a call to prayer on the kora\, though he was soon conjuring otherworldly synthesised bleeps. And with other members of the quartet equally diverse\, the evening unfolded through a series of musical tableaux interrupted by occasional blasts of intense free jazz energy led by Allen’s searing alto sax.\nBoth sets presented two lengthy through-improvised pieces that mixed whistles and drones with the throb of mallets and supported mournful space-age sounds with pulsating off-kilter beats. At their best\, the quartet delivered strong moods\, rhythmic cohesion and surreal contrasts. Allen’s bop-gun blasts of wind synth came with echoing bass drum asides\, high-energy improv was driven by drummer Avreeayl Ra’s venomous cymbal play and lilting synth melodies were accompanied by rampaging concert grand and hints of Latin and funk.\n\nMost of it worked\, sometimes brilliantly. But in the lengthy first set opener\, the musicians whizzed from pillar to post as though finding their way. Thereafter\, though\, things settled\, and the first half was rounded off by a sequence of beatific duets led off by Allen’s somnolent thrums on kora.\n\nPianist Ka introduced the second half\, strolling through the audience banging her Siberian shaman drum. But\, cued by Allen\, she returned to the atonal clusters and harp-like shimmers that are her stock in trade. Indeed\, it was Allen who gave the evening much of its focus and it was his oblique interjections\, as well as the spangly outfits\, that added a touch of Sun Ra surrealism to the mix.\n\nThat this was something more than a stripped-down version of the Arkestra was down to the strength of character and purposeful playing of Henry Grimes\, whose bass lines seethed and surged with purpose while offering limitless possibilities. As something of a bonus\, his sometimes beseeching\, sometimes playful violin added alternative textures and tones.\n\nThe evening eventually petered out with an Allen noodle on Casio mini-synth. It took a smash of drums to cue applause\, which was sustained\, even at this late hour.\n\n\n
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/magic-science-quartet-featuring-marshall-allen-henry-grimes-special-late-night-show-just-announced-2/
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