Event

Title:: Old Place Echoes
When:: 13.09.2010 20.30
Where:: Vortex Jazz Club - London
Category:: Live Music (with DJs)

Description

Monday 13 | 8.30pm | £10 | Book online

Old Place Echoes

Ronnie Scott left a triple legacy, as a saxophonist, as a club owner and as a nurturer of jazz talent in the UK. Because his first club at 39 Gerard St was bursting at the seams he set up his larger club in Frith Street. Between 1965 and lease-end in 1967 Ronnie turned the 'Old Place' into an arena and meeting place for young musicians flocking to London from all over Britain and abroad, notably South Africa.

'Old Place Echoes' marks the first release on CD of archive recordings of Old Place alumni, Dudu Pukwana (alto), Bob Stuckey (Hammond), Phil Lee (guitar), John Marshall (drums), Terry Smith (guitar) and Martin Hart (drums).

Dudu is no longer with us but has left a lasting mark on the London scene. Tonight his spirit will be evoked by compatriot altoist Ntshuks Bonga. All of the remaining personel will be playing, some 40 years after the original recordings.

It is also some 35 years since the last Hammond organ, with solid woodwork to match church pews, rolled off the production lines. While the Hammond sound can now be imitated by electronics the size of a salami sandwich, this is a relatively rare oppourtunity to come face to face with the real thing.

Venue

Venue:: Vortex Jazz Club - Website
Street:: 11 Gillett Square
ZIP:: N16 8AZ
City:: London
State:: Dalston
Country:: UK

Description

The Vortex Jazz Club

The world-renowed jazz club in Dalston, North London

Established In North London for over 20 years, the club is a beacon for contemporary jazz in the capital.

With seven evening performances a week the Vortex programmes cutting-edge jazz alongside contemporary folk and world music.

While it places a strong emphasis on, and provides support for, young local talent, it also regularly features leading world-class artists, both from the UK and overseas – for example – from the UK, Stan Tracey, Tony Kofi, Evan Parker, Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine, Mercury Music Prize Nominated Polar Bear and Zoe Rahmann, John Taylor and Gwilym Simcock and award-winning saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock.

From abroad, the club has connections with New York downtown scene musicians such as Tim Berne and Claudia Quintet, as well as European groups such as [em], radio.string.quartet, Lotte Anker and Wolfgang Muthspiel.

There is something to appeal to all musical tastes: straightahead, big-band, contemporary, piano trio, vocal, free-improv, world-music, Gypsy/East European and folk-orientated...

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The Vortex Jazz Club is housed in the Dalston Culture House, a striking new landmark building designed by Hackney architects Hawkins Brown. Full programme details can be found on our website - see below.

Private hire for 10 to 100 people is available for parties, corporate functions, meetings, rehearsals and concerts during the daytime, evening or both by arrangement. Hire includes use of the PA system and fully licensed bar.

For a quote please 020 7254 4097, or email the address below.
Unit B9 - Bradbury Street - N16 Tel: 020 7254 4097
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Web: www.vortexjazz.co.uk