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SUMMARY:Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma Sextet
DESCRIPTION:Doors 6:45 PM\, Music 7:30 PM - 1 set(s) of music\n \nLine-up:\nAsha Parkinson - Alto Saxophone\n\nRebecka Edlund - Voice\n\nJack Williams - Piano\n\nSerdar Yılmaz - Qanun\n\nToby Yapp - Bass Guitar\n\nAlex Taylor - Drums\n\n \nAbout\nAsha Parkinson makes a rare London appearance with a cut down version of her Kalpadruma ensemble. This sextet line-up features saxophone\, qanun\, piano\, bass\, drums\, and voice. The group weaves together jazz\, Mediterranean\, Arabic\, and chamber music traditions\, creating a space where music crosses cultural boundaries and explores the universal search for love\, devotion\, and human connection.\n\nThe evening at Vortex features selections from Asha’s latest release\, Possession (Ubuntu Records 2024)\, alongside re-imaginings of Turkish folk melodies (turku)\, Sephardic songs\, and Arab Maqam. From urban trance to mystical devotion and obsessive love\, the programme reflects Asha’s ongoing mission to find authentic and vital meeting points between traditions.\n\nFounded in 2017\, Kalpadruma began as a 14-piece mini studio orchestra\, uniting a jazz quintet\, string quartet\, woodwinds\, voice\, and the distinctive sound of the qanun with Parkinson's inspired saxophone playing & compositional vision. The ensemble has since evolved into a flexible formation that highlights both individual creativity and collective dialogue. Kalpadruma\, meaning ‘tree of life’ in Indian-origin religions\, perfectly embodies Parkinson's approach: rooted in diverse traditions yet branching out in unexpected\, transformative ways.\n\nAsha has led the ensemble at prestigious venues including the London Jazz Festival\, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club\, Oxford’s Jacqueline Du Pre Music Building and the Union Chapel\, and collaborated with musicians from the South Asian Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians.\n\nReviews of Asha's Possession album:\n\n‘An intense\, reflective work with great emotional impact’ – Jazz In Family\n\n‘There is here a breath of life\, a rage to hold the world in its arms’ – Paris Move\n\n‘Genre-defying’ – Jazzwise\n\n‘Her sophisticated arrangements\, unpredictable melodies and inventive sax phrases are full of ideas and meticulous details’ – All About Jazz\n\n \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqMg6Vmy38A&list=RDWqMg6Vmy38A&start_radio=1
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/asha-parkinsons-kalpadruma-sextet-2/
LOCATION:11 Gillett Square\, London\, N16 8AZ
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SUMMARY:Smyth/Edwards/Sanders
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7:45 PM\, Music 8:30 PM - 2 set(s) of music\n \nLine-up:\nPaul G. Smyth - Piano\nJohn Edwards - Double bass\nMark Sanders - Drum kit\n\n \nAbout\nphoto credit: Dawid Laskowski\n\n“[Smyth/Edwards/Sanders] are the heart of life and creation as the lightning of Smyth’s hands up and down the Vortex piano’s keys breaks all musical chains. The piano is no longer a box: it is a world … The sheer audacity of it … An awesome threesome indeed with their roots far afield in Ireland\, Belize and Hounslow\, London\, making music of an awakened universe … sonic heaven” – Chris Searle\, The Morning Star\n\nAlmost three years to the day\, one of Ireland's improvising masters Paul G. Smyth returns with the incomparable pairing of John Edwards and Mark Sanders\, marking their 10th anniversary as a trio.\n\nDescribed by The New York City Jazz Record as "a revelation"\, pianist Paul G. Smyth has released critically acclaimed albums with Peter Brötzmann\, Evan Parker\, Chris Corsano\, John Wiese and John Russell on his Weekertoft label. He has performed across Europe with Charles Gayle\, Derek Bailey\, Keiji Haino\, Wadada Leo Smith and Okkyung Lee\, large-scale instrumental psych-rockers The Jimmy Cake and synth trio Boys of Summer\, leading The Free Jazz Collective to call him "one of the great contemporary pianists”.\n\nLondon-born bassist John Edwards\, active since the 1980s\, is one of Europe's most renowned players in creative free jazz\, collaborating regularly with legends including Peter Brötzmann\, Joe McPhee\, Evan Parker and Roscoe Mitchell.\n\nDrummer Mark Sanders brings a career spanning multiple genres to his free improvisation work\, having performed with Roscoe Mitchell\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Paul Dunmall\, Derek Bailey and Shabaka Hutchings across festivals worldwide. He appears on over 170 releases.\n\nSmyth/Edwards/Sanders is a reunion of old friends\, continually pushing the boundaries of their music together into deeper levels of interplay and dizzying heights of poetry and imagination.\n\n \n\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_MpPfskA4k[/embed]
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/smythedwardssanders/
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