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SUMMARY:JULIAN SIEGEL QUARTET
DESCRIPTION:A one-off early evening concert in our Downstairs venue by a quartet of super stars\, held together by the unique saxophonist Julian Siegel. With Liam Noble (piano)\, Oli Hayhurst (bass)\, Gene Calderazzo (drums).\n\nJULIAN SIEGEL is an in-demand saxophonist on the European Jazz scene who has\nworked with many of the top figures in the music. He was awarded the 2007 BBC\nJazz Award for Best Instrumentalist. His current bands are the Julian Siegel Quartet\nfeaturing pianist Liam Noble\, bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer Gene Calderazzo\,\nthe band’s CD ‘Urban Theme Park’ received widespread critical acclaim winning the\n2011 London Jazz Award. Since 1996 Julian has co-led the influential band Partisans\nwith the award-winning guitarist Phil Robson\, the band played major Jazz Festivals in\nUSA and Canada in the Summer of 2014\, releasing their fifth album ‘Swamp’ on\nWhirlwind Records. The Julian Siegel Trio with US Improvising stars\, drummer\nJoey Baron and bassist Greg Cohen was formed as a result of a major commission\nfrom Cheltenham Jazz Festival in 2006. The Trio has toured the UK three times and\nreleased a double album ‘Live at the Vortex’ on Basho Records.\nJulian has played in large ensembles led by Andrew Hill Anglo American Big Band\,\nKenny Wheeler\, Mike Gibbs 70th Birthday tour (alongside Bill Frisell\, Steve Swallow\nand Adam Nussbaum) the Hermeto Pascoal UK Big Band\, Steve Gray\, Django Bates’\n‘Delightful Precipice’\, John Taylor Big Band\, Jazz Jamaica\, Stan Sulzmann\, John\nDankworth\, Colin Towns with the NDR Big Band\, Allan Ganley\, Hans Koller New\nMemories Band with Steve Lacy\, BBC Big Band with Maceo Parker\, Jason Yarde’s\n‘Acoutastic Bombastic’ and Hal Willner’s ‘Amarcord’ with Carla Bley and Rita\nMarcotulli (concert review here)\nIn recent years Julian has featured as guest soloist with bands including Matt Roberts\nBig Band at the London Jazz Festival 2012 (featuring arrangements of the music of\nWayne Shorter) with The Pendulum Jazz Orchestra featuring the music of Kenny\nWheeler\, the Royal Academy of Music Junior Jazz Big Band at Ronnie Scotts\nClub and as artist in residence and guest soloist with big bands at the Darlington Jazz\nFestival 2013 and Limerick Jazz Festival 2014\nHe has played with Gary Husband’s ‘Drive’\, Django Bates’ Human Chain\,\nTindersticks\, Mulatu Astatke\, Simon Purcell’s ‘Red Circle’\, NYC performance\nartist/violinist Laurie Anderson and pianist/singer-songwriter Steve Nieve\, Kirk\nLightsey\, Norma Winstone\, Robert Mitchell\, Byron Wallen’s ‘Indigo’ and Jason\nPalmer’s Quartet featuring Jeff Ballard. He is a member of Oren Marshall’s ‘Charming\nTransport Band’ featuring musicians from Ghana and Nigeria.\nJulian can be heard playing in Trio with Diana Torto and John Taylor\, most\nrecently performing at the Bologna Jazz Festival 2014. He has also performed with\nvocalists Cleo Laine\, Diane Schuur\, Beverley Knight\, Lauren Kinsella\, Joe Lee\nWilson\, Liane Carroll\, Eddi Reader\, Charlene Spiteri\, Jacqueline Dankworth\, Juliet\nRoberts\, Keziah Jones\, Terri Walker\, Christine Tobin and punk rock legend Steve\nIgnorant (formerly of Crass).\nJulian has recently begun writing music for Big Band\, playing this music in the\nopening concert of the Guildhall Jazz festival 2014 as featured soloist with the\nGuildhall Jazz Band directed by Scott Stroman. His big band music has also been\nplayed by the Voice of the North Jazz Orchestra directed by John Warren\, and by\nNYJO\, who featured one of his pieces in the bands 2013 Gateshead International Jazz\nFestival concert at the Sage\, Gateshead.\n“A world class saxophonist” – Jazz UK.\n“Great imagination” Billy Hart\n”Interfacing between the worlds of straight-ahead\, free improv and dance grooves\,\nSiegel posits his sonic world with a coherence and strength of character that reflects\nthe lucidity of a man who knows exactly who he is. No matter what he plays.’ Kevin\nLe Gendre\, Echoes\n“Fast becoming a national treasure of the reeds” Jez Nelson Jazz on 3\, QEH London\nJazz Festival\n“Kept an awestruck audience on tenterhooks” JazzUK on the Julian Siegel Trio\,\nVortex\n“Approaches the depth and sensitivity of a Wayne Shorter or Stan Getz.” Straight No\nChaser 1997\n“That lissom\, free -wheeling saxophonist” John Fordham\, The Guardian\n“Siegel’s wailing\, swerving lines burst with character” John Fordham\, The Guardian\n“spontaneous sparkle” John Fordham\, The Guardian\n“the frequently lyrical and reflective saxophonist Julian Siegel ripped into a series of\nup-tempo harangues reminiscent of Kenny Garrett with the later Miles Davis bands”\nJohn Fordham\, The Guardian
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/julian-siegel-quartet-3/
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SUMMARY:Intakt Records Festival Day 10: Florian Egli Weird Beard // Steve Beresford & Julian Sartorius
DESCRIPTION:The tenth day of the Intakt Records Festival continues with another exciting double bill. Florian Egli Weird Beard\, folowed by Steve Beresford & Julian Sartorius\n\n\nFLORIAN EGLI WEIRD BEARD\nFlorian Egli: Saxophone\nDave Gisler: Guitar\nMartina Berther: E-Bass\nRico Baumann: Drums\n\n\n\nBugge Wesseltoft has explained why he is such a fan of the quartet Weird Beard\, led by Zurich saxophonist Florian Egli : “What I really love about Weird Beard is the band members’ musical ideas and inspirations merged into a very fresh and new sound. Hardcore and progrock-like guitar ideas\, “closetoprogrammed” and sequenced inspired drums mixed with eclectic “mountainechoed” saxophone and some real deep\, free\, inspired bass playing.”\n\nWeird Beard’s 2016 album “Everything Moves” is full of character\, and draws the listener in. Alongside lyrical episodes\, the band has a completely positive and knowing way of creating a deeply unsettled feel. As Florian Keller has written in the liner notes: “..the music of Weird Beard lives and breathes. It contemplates the wide vistas and the laconic calm of a northern European landscape\, with a Nordic melancholy hanging like a cloud over it. The listener can be lulled blissfully by warm melodies and sensuous phrases. By turns\, Weird Beard can be elegiac\, but also perky and upbeat. Sometimes there’s softness and fragility\, but then it will turn explosively loud\, and it has every possible shade in between.”\n\nSTEVE BERESFORD – JULIAN SARTORIUS\nSteve Beresford: Piano\nJulian Sartorius: Drums\n\n\n\nFor more than forty years\, Steve Beresford has remained one of the prominent figures in the landscape of improvisation in the UK. He has worked with Derek Bailey\, Evan Parker\, John Butcher\, John Zorn\, Han Bennink\, Christian Marclay\, and the legendary free improv band Alterations.\n\nWhen we invited Steve to participate in the Intakt Festival in London\, he replied\, “Sure\, thank you\, with pleasure.” However\, when we made our first programming suggestion\, his response was\, “No thanks\, what else is on on offer?” Thank goodness he did\, because what has emerged is a genuinely exciting first encounter. Steve Beresford will work with the young\, internationally successful Swiss drummer Julian Sartorius. Sartorius has played for a few years with the singer Sophie Hunger\, he is now with pianist Colin Vallon’s trio\, and that of Sylvie Courvoisier. He also has a collaboration with New York bassist Shahzad Ismaily. Sartorius’ solo album “Zatter”\, released in 2015\, opens up a fantastic world of sounds and rhythms – and also heads off into the world of the quiet\, the contemplative and the abstract.\n\nINTAKT FESTIVAL\n\nA festival celebrating one of the most imaginative record labels in Europe today. The artists on the label range from Barry Guy (who will be celebrating his 70th birthday in 2017)\, the best of NY Downtown\, such as Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson\, through the cream of European improvisation\, including Irene Schweizer and Alexander von Schlippenbach\, to the best of Swiss jazz\, such as Lucas Niggli\, Sarah Buechi and Andreas Schaerer.
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