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SUMMARY:Billy Marrows' Grande Família Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7:45 PM\, Music 8:30 PM - 2 set(s) of music\n \nLine-up:\nBilly Marrows – Acoustic Guitar\n\nMike Soper – Trumpet\n\nTom Ridout – Saxophones and Recorders\n\nGustavo Clayton Marucci – Bass Clarinet and Clarinet\n\n \nAbout\nThe most intimate version of Billy Marrows' acclaimed 12-piece chamber-jazz ensemble\, the Grande Família Quartet features an unusual line-up of some of London’s finest young jazz musicians.\n\n​Grande Família was formed in 2023 to record Billy’s debut album 'Penelope'\, a surprise for his mother Penny during her struggle with pancreatic cancer. Released in her memory in early 2024\, the album has raised over £5\,800 for World Child Cancer. Grande Família play Billy’s emotive\, melodically driven contemporary jazz compositions\, blending classical\, folk and Brazilian influences. This gig will also include brand new compositions and arrangements of some of Billy’s favourite pieces.\n\nThe 'Penelope' album launch at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho sold out over two months in advance and was released as a live album in March 2025\, celebrated with nine-date UK tour in spring 2025\, including a sold-out two-night return to Pizza Express. 'The Penelope Album Live'\, received 4-stars in both Jazzwise and All About Jazz\, who noted that it "magnifies the invention\, charm and compositional strength of the original".\n\nThe members of the Grande Família Quartet are highly creative\, versatile musicians who have worked with artists such as Mark Lockheart\, Chelsea Carmichael\, the Bryan Ferry Orchestra\, and Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.\n\n“A triumph...Marrows has created a spectacular new ensemble” Jazz Views\n\n“An exhilaratingly original sound\, at once intimate and expansive” ★★★★  Editor's Choice\, Jazzwise\n\n“Melodic and distinctive” ★★★★ All About Jazz\n\n"66 minutes of grace\, beauty\, and fire" Exposé (The Penelope Album Live review)\n\n"He offers something rare: a body of work that is both deeply personal and utterly universal...book early" London Mums Magazine (live review)\n\nPhoto credit: Marta Gornitzka\n \nhttps://youtu.be/w97mkAbE1L0\n\n \n\nhttps://youtu.be/LueG4q-plUc
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SUMMARY:Dalston Song Club w/ Lily Lyons & Angus Bayley
DESCRIPTION:Doors 10:30 PM\, Music 11:00 PM\n \nABOUT\n\n\n\nOur monthly late night series brings together some of the most prominent voices in contemporary songwriting\, hosted by Matthew Herd. This month brings together the brilliant folk-tinged Lily Lyons in a rare duo outing with pianist and writer Angus Bayley. \n \nLily Lyons\n \nLily Lyons is a singer songwriter from London. Lily searches for truth\, with her lyrics exploring simple things that are easily forgotten – not revolutionary\, but the everyday beauty and tragedy of relationships. Off the back of three successive sold-out shows at Servant Jazz Quarters\, Lily has announced her biggest headline show to date at the Omeara in London\, with her debut album (produced by Joel Pott) on the horizon. Lily spent most of 2024 on the road\, including performing at Glastonbury\, supporting Hailaker\, Tiny Ruins\, Dan Mangan\, Blanco White and Dan Smith of Bastille on tour.\n \n\n\n[embed]https://youtu.be/k7zk8E-YqM4?si=GUv5dxJyN6ZKZ_6X[/embed]\n\n \n\nAngus Bayley\n \n\n\nLondon based keyboardist Angus Bayley writes music that intelligently breaks musical rules all over\, earning a place at the frontier of hard-hitting ultra-produced groove music in modern jazz. Originally from Yorkshire\, Bayley moved to London to study engineering and developed his musical craft slipping out of lectures to have lessons with London Jazz pianists like Kit Downes and Richard Fairhurst.\n\nLast year Angus released Everything's Dangerous\, his debut solo work - a foray into the open possibility space hinted at by the explorations of Wayne Krantz\, Troyka and Strobes\, and an area he could see for years that had untapped potential. Helping him explore it is producer Matt Calvert\, also responsible for synths and electronics\, bringing the high adrenaline saturated soundworld he’s become known for through Strobes and Three Trapped Tigers.\n\n \n\nEverything's Dangerous de Angus Bayley\n\n\n\n
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