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SUMMARY:London Jazz Orchestra - CANCELLED!!
DESCRIPTION:THIS IS CANCELLED FOR THIS MONTH.\nLondon's longest running jazz residency continues as the LJO opens its new season at the Vortex Jazz.\n\nThe LJO continues to set the standard in modern jazz\, with great ensemble playing\, cutting edge writing\, and exciting soloing from the finest players on the scene. Check out the band at these informal\, close-up and personal monthly gigs.\n\n \n\nREVIEWS\n\n...on the Saberton Album\, the band's new CD release on Babel Label:\n\n"This album is at its best when the London Jazz Orchestra unpick the majesty of Saberton’s written music. It was written for these players\, and theirs is the sound which Saberton held in his mind."....\n\n...in Kenny Wheeler's Windmill Tilter at Wavendon:\n\n"probably British jazz gig of the year"....\n\n"From the first notes\, the band presented a spine-tingling version of Windmill Tilter which even to those very familiar with this suite was hugely gratifying..."   \n\n...on the LJO's Gil Evans centenary performance of Miles Ahead:   "...This concert will affect how I listen to orchestral music for the rest of my life."\n\n 
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/london-jazz-orchestra-22/
LOCATION:11 Gillett Square\, London\, N16 8AZ
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SUMMARY:Keith and Julie Tippett with Theo May debut
DESCRIPTION:Keith Tippett is one of our greatest improvising pianists and composers. His work with Julie is magical and spiritual. A pleasure to have them return to the club. Tonight they invite Theo May\, a  phenomenal new talent on violin\, who has already performed with many other of our leading improvisers such as Mark Sanders and a student of composition of Mark-Anthony Turnage.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/JW2qdrPBikA\n\n------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\nKeith and Julie Tippett are among the most important European jazz musicians (improvisers\, composers\, arrangers) in the last 40 years. The extent of their work is vast both individually and as a couple; here is a short story around an epic journey.\n\nKeith Tippett has become the father figure of postmodern jazz piano in the UK. The only dispute in such a statement is the word ‘jazz’; used here to describe a music extending way beyond the bounds of music rooted in “the great American moment”. Keith Tippett has created and fashioned a form of spontaneous composition that finds its setting in totally unique solo piano studies via quartets\, sextets\, octets and large scale interactive jazz orchestras\, fusing compositional arrangements with detailed instant improvising (Centipede\, Ark\, the Georgian Ensemble and Tapestry Orchestra). The breadth of his activity trips the imagination into a massive canon of possibilities and resolutions. For example his work with Louis Moholo-Moholo and the other ‘Blue Notes’ musicians exiled from South Africa in the 1960’s\, plus his on-going commissions in contemporary music composition including the stunning ‘Linukea’ Piano Quintet\, his key role in the legendary decades-driven quartet\, Mujician with Paul Dunmall\, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin\, and finally\, at the heart of it all\, the essential core duo of Couple In Spirit with Julie Tippetts. The conclusion is starkly obvious\, we are faced with a phenomenon way\, way outside any kind of regular understanding of British ‘jazz’ and improvisation.\n\nA singer beyond song\, the great Julie Tippetts (the ‘s’ is a story for another day) is\, perhaps inevitably\, bound up in most of the above paragraph referring to her husband. Although she is a central catalyst in his work\, her importance is also as a poet and creator of a distinctly independent language within the song form\, a crucial factor in their collective story. In 1967 as Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger’s Trinity\, she scored a hit record with ‘This Wheel’s on Fire’. Within two years Julie by-passed popular music conventions\, painstakingly exploring her way into what would become a whole new vocabulary of soundscape. By the early 1970’s her presence in the pioneering quartet version of Ovary Lodge with Keith laid the foundations for improvisation as a unique form of instant composition. Today her voice remains a panoply of experimentation. The Western song form is not rejected yet neither are Keith and Julie Tippett confined by it. Julie has produced her own canon of recordings\, including ‘Ghosts of Gold’ and ‘Tales of Finin’\, collaborative works with computer wizard and multi-instrumentalist Martin Archer. ‘Tales’ was voted a Jazzwise magazine 2011 ‘Record of the Year’. Other collaborators at different times have included John Stevens\, Maggie Nicols\, Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt.\n\nAny attempt to summarise Keith and Julie Tippett on one side of paper leaves out more than it includes. Although hugely influential Keith Tippett is a mysterious figure. His in-depth interview in 2010 on the BBC Radio 3 Jazz Library series revealed the scope and brilliance of his vision. As the title ‘Supernova’ (his piano duet with Stan Tracey released in 2008) suggests\, this is music which literally explodes the possible. The fusion with Julie Tippetts is intensely personal yet totally crucial to their distinctly different kind of feast for the ears. To listen to the eloquence of 2011’s Octet recording ‘From Granite to Wind’ is to hear this Couple In Spirit siphoning the soul of their own Great Experiment.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWritten by Steve Day\, 2012: ‘Two Full Ears – Listening To Improvised Music’ (Soundworld); ‘Song of The Fly’ (Leo Records)\n\nTHEO MAY:\n\nTheo May has always had his own\, idiosyncratic approach to music-making.\nThis creative sensibility has been directly informed by independent discovery\,\nwith intuition at its core. Although his primary focus is composition\, playing the\nviolin has always been extremely important to him and it is this practical\napproach to musical creativity which continues to inform and nourish his own\nmusic making.\nFormal musical guidance came initially from the South West Music School\,\nand it was during this time that Theo first had the chance to work with Keith\nand Julie Tippetts\, musicians who have been deeply influential and supportive\nto him. In 2014 Theo began studying composition and violin at the Purcell\nSchool of Music\, and in 2016 began studying composition at the Royal\nCollege of Music with Mark-Anthony Turnage. In the next year a new\nrecording of improvised music with the Keith and Julie is planned\, as well as\nthe launch of his new suite for String quartet\, ‘Lost Paths’.\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/5qUPEihxb9o\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/keith-and-julie-tippetts-and-guests/
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SUMMARY:London Jazz Sessions curated by Hannes Riepler
DESCRIPTION:IT RETURNS!! Curated by guitarist Hannes Riepler\, the weekly London Jazz Jam session in the Vortex Downstairs Bar features his house band which varies to include some extra special guests. Followed by some of the best musicians in London.\n\nYou can see the exact line-up if you join the Facebook group here
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/london-jazz-sessions-curated-by-hannes-riepler/
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