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SUMMARY:Colin Webster / John Edwards / Andrew Lisle
DESCRIPTION:Doors 6:45 PM\, Music 7:30 PM - 1 set of music\n \nLine-up:\nColin Webster - Alto saxophone\nJohn Edwards - Double bass\nAndrew Lisle - Drum kit\n\n \nAbout:\nProlific sax and drums duo Colin Webster and Andrew Lisle are joined by world-renowned bassist John Edwards for an evening of ferocious and fearless improvised music.\n\nColin Webster and Andrew Lisle have worked together extensively for the last ten years since their debut album on Raw Tonk Records - Firehouse Tapes. Working with a range of collaborators including Dirk Serries\, Alex Ward and Stian Larsen they built a reputation on the European avant garde scene.\n\nIn 2021 they began working with one of the most pivotal figures in improvised music – John Edwards - on the Peck and Fleet quartet LP with Dirk Serries. Since then they have been frequent collaborators on many projects including Colin Webster's Large Ensemble. This evening's concert is a rare opportunity to see these musicians as a trio in full flight.\n\n \n\n[embed]https://rawtonkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/peck-and-fleet[/embed]
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SUMMARY:Alexander Hawkins Solo
DESCRIPTION:Doors 7:45 PM\, Music 8:30 PM - 2 set(s) of music\n \nLine-up:\nAlexander Hawkins - Piano\nAbout\nAlexander Hawkins is a composer\, pianist\, organist\, and bandleader who is ‘unlike anything else in modern creative music’\, described by Point of Departure as ‘an early 21st century pioneer…a musician with frightening resources’. Regarded as one of his generation's most innovative voices\, his writing has been said to represent ‘a fundamental reassertion of composition within improvised music’\, and his voice one of the ‘most vividly distinctive...in modern jazz’.\n\nThis is a first UK solo performance since the release of Song Unconditional (Intakt Records\, 2025)\, his third solo release\, following on from the acclaimed Iron Into Wind (Intakt Records\, 2019) and Song Singular (Babel\, 2014). Adam Shatz writes in the liner notes of 'marvels of compressed exploration...a vast\, sophisticated\, and deeply considered sound-world'.\n\nIn addition to his solo performances\, he also appears in groupings of all sizes\, from duos (with the likes of Nicole Mitchell\, Sofia Jernberg\, Tomeka Reid\, Angelika Niescier\, Evan Parker\, John Surman\, Han Bennink\, and Hamid Drake) upwards. His Ensemble music\, at the core of which often sits his long-standing trio featuring Neil Charles and Stephen Davis\, was said by The Guardian newspaper to sound 'like all the future jazz you might imagine without ever being able to conceive of the details’\, and Togetherness Music\, released by Intakt Records in January 2021\, has been called '[a] masterpiece that can stand next to the best works of Mitchell\, Braxton or Parker’.\n\nHawkins can be heard live and on record with vast array of contemporary leaders of all generations\, including the likes of Anthony Braxton\, Joe McPhee\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Marshall Allen\, Michael Formanek\, Rob Mazurek\, Chad Taylor\, Taylor Ho Bynum\, Harris Eisenstadt\, Nicole Mitchell\, Matana Roberts\, Esperanza Spalding\, Jonny Greenwood\, and Shabaka Hutchings. For close to fifteen years\, he was noted for his performances in the bands of the legendary South African drummer\, Louis Moholo-Moholo. He has also toured for more than a decade with Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke.\n\nHe has been widely commissioned\, by the likes of the BBC\, festivals such as the London and Berlin Jazz Festivals\, venues such as the Pierre Boulez Saal\, and contemporary music groups such as the Riot Ensemble. He was named 'Instrumentalist of the Year' in the 2016 Parliamentary Jazz Awards. In 2018\, he was elected a fellow of the Civitella Ranieri.\n\nConcert appearances take him to major club\, concert and festival stages worldwide.\n\n \n\n[embed]https://youtu.be/9FB4qrsYCJI[/embed]
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