Domenica scorsa si sono prodotti in una performance estemporanea volta a rendere sonanti le sculture metalliche di Eduard Habicher facenti parte dell'installazione Memory in Motion presso il Museion di Bolzano; nei giorni precedenti Robyn Schulkowsky e Joey Baron hanno visitato diverse sedi europee assieme a Otomo Yoshihide, proponendo questo loro nuovo trio come Lavish Joy. Su YT circolano alcuni brevi estratti dai vari concerti, quello di Lido di Savio (Ra) è integrale su Vimeo.

Dal Museion: "Last night we celebrated Eduard Habicher’s birthday with a special concert inside Memory in Motion: an evening where sculpture, sound, and space came together in real time. Yoshihide, Schulkowsky & Baron entered into an improvised dialogue with Habicher’s works, gently activating the exhibition as a living instrument. Forms, materials, and spatial tensions revealed unexpected sonic layers, letting the space itself resonate and evolve throughout the performance. The evening unfolded as a shared experience of listening and presence, where memory, movement, and perception were constantly in flux."

https://otomoyoshihide.com

In origine non era previsto, ma date le circostanze qualcosa del Westbrook Blake verrà citato all'interno del William Blake Remixed proposto questa sera al City Varieties Music Hall di Leeds (Regno Unito) da Matthew Bourne e Testament, e con loro Corinne Bailey Rae and Far Cry Acapella.

The visionary world of William Blake relives like never before in this electrifying live performance with rapper, beatboxer and playwright Testament and genre-defying pianist Matthew Bourne celebrating the enduring power of Blake’s work to provoke, inspire, and transform. William Blake Remixed blends spoken word, experimental music, and visuals to reimagine Blake’s radical poetry through the lens of hip-hop, jazz, and digital art. This unique collaboration explores themes of revolution, identity, and creative resistance, bridging 18th-century mysticism with 21st-century sound and vision.  

https://leedsheritagetheatres.com/william-blake-remixed-2026

Le toccanti parole pronunciate da Richard Williams in omaggio a Mike Westbrook durante il funerale della scorsa settimana a Exeter sono ora riportate per intero al suo blog The Blue Moment: "I wouldn’t want to slight any other musician, from any era, when I say that Mike’s place as the pre-eminent composer and bandleader of British jazz is hard to dispute. As is his role in enabling jazz made outside America to establish its right to an independent existence. Most important of all, everything he did was based on a recognition that when a jazz group is working properly, it becomes a model for a decent society: a vehicle for individual expression in full and unselfish collaboration with others. How lucky we were to have him."

E un omaggio a Westbrook lo offrirà questa sera Chris Biscoe, amico e collaboratore in innumerevoli progetti nel corso di lunghi decenni, nonché uno dei suoi più fidi interpreti. In concerto a Stratford upon Avon (Regno Unito) in quintetto con Alcyona Mick, Mike Outram, Dave Whitford e Gary Willcox: Music Is - Chris Biscoe plays Mike Westbrook.

https://thebluemoment.com/a-farewell-to-mike-westbrook https://www.facebook.com/ChrisBiscoe.Jazz
https://chrisbiscoe.bandcamp.com/music-is
https://rotherstreetarts.org/shows/may-jazz-club