Event

Title:: Mopomoso - bringing you the best in free improvisation
When:: 19.09.2010 20.30
Where:: Vortex Jazz Club - London
Category:: Live Music (with DJs)

Description

Sunday 19 | 8.30pm | £8/5 | Book online

Mopomoso

Continuing their monthly series Mopomoso brings you the best in free improvisation.

Stefano Giust / Noel Taylor / Steve Beresford

A welcome visit from drummer Stefano Giust – a tireless organiser and promoter of improvised music in his native Italy and founder of the Setola di Maiale label.

A sensitive and creative improviser who also works as a composer for film and video he is joined by London based clarinetist Noel Taylor and and pianist Steve Beresford in this debut outing.

Lisa Ullen

‘New generation’ Swedish pianist Ullen came to the club with her quartet last year and we are pleased that she can return for this solo set. An intelligent and vibrant improvising musician with a firm background in jazz, this will be a rare chance to catch a player who is making waves on the Swedish and wider European stage.

Dave Solomon / Garry Todd

Drummer Dave Solomon and saxophonist Garry Todd were two of the leading ‘second wave’ free improvisers in the early seventies and this current duo has been a fixture for the last couple of years. Highly interactive and full of twists and turns this is music of both intellect and passion.

Pascal Marzan / John Russell

Guitarist Pascal Marzan is a leading light on the French improvisation scene and one of only a handful of musicians who use the nylon strung classical guitar in free improvisation.

John Russell has been working in a duo with Pascal for over five years – their last appearance being a succesful concert in Montmartre earlier this year. A CD has been recorded and is awaiting release later in the year.

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