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SUMMARY:Ackerley/Musson/Wallace/Sanders Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Doors 6:30 PM\, Music 7:30 PM - 1 set(s) of music\n \nLine-up:\nJessica Ackerley - Guitar\n\nRachel Musson - Tenor Saxophone\n\nEli Wallace - Piano\n\nMark Sanders - Drums\n \nAbout\n\nLongtime collaborators Jessica Ackerley (guitar) and Eli Wallace (piano) will team up with UK improvising pioneers Rachel Musson (sax) and Mark Sanders (drums). Marking their second time playing in London and at Vortex\, Ackerley and Wallace are ecstatic to explore new\, spontaneous musical territory with Musson and Sanders\, a cross-Atlantic meeting that draws upon the singular output of each musician and the collective improvised vernacular they share.\n \nA UK-based saxophonist\, improviser and composer UK\, Rachel Musson has spent over a decade immersed in improvised music\, and is now gradually introducing composed elements into her work\, drawing on text\, field recordings and processing sounds. Rachel is involved with a variety of improvisation projects\, featuring on several releases (577 Records\, Babel Label\, Two Rivers Records)\,performing with musicians such as Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders\, and a recent improvised collaboration with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Her recent album\, Ashes and Dust Earth and Sky\, blends compositions\, improvisations and field recordings\, and her solo performances have evolved to incorporate these sounds in a live setting. Rachel is a current (2024-2027) recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Composer award.\n\nJessica Ackerley is a Canadian guitarist\, improviser and composer based in Honolulu and New York City and has been described as "one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years" by Wire Magazine. Since 2017\, Ackerley has released 19 albums to much critical acclaim with features in Wire Magazine\, Pitchfork\, BBC Radio\, and Bandcamp. They have been commissioned by Adult Swim\, Mutual Mentorship\, and New Music USA as well as received funding from Canada Council for the Arts and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. As an active performer\, Ackerley has toured extensively throughout North America\, performing at noteworthy venues like The Met Breuer\, Roulette\, The Stone\, Something Else! Festival\, Coastal Jazz Festival\, and countless underground venues ranging from the basements of houses to record shops.\n\nEli Wallace\, pianist/improviser/composer\, resides in Brooklyn\, NY\, where he leads his own projects\, and collaborates with other like-minded artists. His work as a pianist displays a proclivity to free improvisation\, incorporating elaborate piano preparations that John Lewis (The Guardian) says is "...pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano." His compositions employ notational strategies to broaden how musicians produce sound and the ways in which they interact. Over the past decade\, he appeared on dozens of albums and performed at venues such as Roulette\, Brooklyn\, NY\, Experimental Sound Studio\, Chicago\, IL\, Bemis Center\, Omaha\, NE\, & Cave 12\, Geneva\, Switzerland.\n\nMark Sanders is a drummer/percussionist who has had a career taking in many musical styles and genres\, this history informs his now mainly free improvisation and free jazz based work. He has played with many renowned improvising musicians\, including Roscoe Mitchell\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Derek Bailey\, Evan Parker\, Elliott Sharp and Myra Melford. He is a member of many working groups including those with Nicole Mitchell\, John Butcher\, Paul Dunmall\, John Edwards and also Neil Charles' "Dark Days" with Cleveland Watkiss and Pat Thomas. Mark has played concerts and festivals around the world\, including South Africa\, Mozambique\, Japan\, Australia\, Russia\, USA\, Canada\, Turkey and Morocco. Teaching free improvisation\, he is Visiting Lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music\, was Lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire teaching his own improvisation module for seven years\, and has taught individual students at many Universities around the UK. Mark appears on over 200 CD and Vinyl releases\n \n\n\nLive Recordings de MAW\n \n\nImmense Blue de Olie Brice / Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders\n \n\nTATTERDEMALION de RACHEL MUSSON + MARK SANDERS + LIAM NOBLE\n \n\nA Maneuver Within de MAW
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/ackerleymussonwallacesanders-quartet/
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SUMMARY:Eddie Prévost\, Silvan Schmid\, Tom Wheatley
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7:45 PM\, Music 8:30 PM - 2 set(s) of music\n \nLine-up:\nSilvan Schmid - Trumpet\n\nTom Wheatley - Double Bass\n\nEddie Prévost - Drums\n\n \nAbout\nThe trio present a buoyant and elusive jazz\, driven by referential investigation and an unorthodox approach to the warp and phase of rhythm. Following a concentrated recording process at All Saints Church of High Laver\, ‘The Wandering One’ was released on Matchless Recordings in May 2024.\n\n \n\n[embed]https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18018076268687994/[/embed]
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