Doppia occasione a Londra nel weekend - domani sera al Cafe Oto e poi domenica da pomeriggio a sera alla St. Mary's New Church - per unirsi alla London Improvisers Orchestra a festeggiare venticinque anni di attività, con concerti, incontri, laboratori di improvvisazione, conversazioni pubbliche e ospiti molto speciali... Buon anniversario!

Since 1998, the London Improvisers Orchestra has been dedicated to the arts of conducted improvisation, or ‘Conduction’, and free improvisation. The Orchestra was formed from the ashes of the 1997 touring group of American improviser Butch Morris, the pioneering inventor of Conduction. Since its birth, the group has had hundreds of members pass through its ranks, including Evan Parker, Pat Thomas, Byron Wallen, John Edwards, Lol Coxhill, Caroline Kraabel and Mark Sanders. To this day, the group is led by founding member Steve Beresford, an icon of the UK’s improvisation movement. The Orchestra currently performs monthly, featuring a rotating cast of the finest improvisers from the UK and beyond, never failing to deliver a unique experience.

https://linktr.ee/londonimprovisersorchestra

 

Doppio omaggio a Elton Dean e a Keith Tippett da parte del sestetto You Are Here guidato dal sassofonista Kevin Figes con la deliziosa riproposta di due classici brani dei Nostri: del primo Seven for Lee (era su Happy Daze del 1977, e costantemente nel suo repertorio dal vivo) e del secondo Green and Orange Night Park (da Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening e tema amatissimo in Septober Energy, entrambi del 1971). Li produce in forma di singolo in vinile l'etichetta londinese My Only Desire Records, specializzata nel recupero di rarità e inediti del jazz britannico tra gli anni Sessanta e Ottanta.

Saxophonist/composer Kevin Figes and his group You Are Here present this homage to two inspirational British jazz musicians - Keith Tippett and Elton Dean - with newly minted recordings of a classic track from each, pressed on a limited edition 7”. You Are Here grew out of a celebration of the life of the vital improvising pianist/composer Keith Tippett (1947-2020), with whom Kevin Figes recorded and performed with. Made up of the finest players on the Bristol jazz scene, the band includes irrepressible drummer Tony Orrell (Paul Dunmall), Nostalgia 77 bassist Riaan Vosloo and Get the Blessing trumpeter Pete Judge. This is the first 7” in My Only Desire Records’ Brit Jazz 45s series, which will see contemporary jazz acts record two ‘60s/’70s British jazz compositions apiece, presenting them afresh to new audiences.

http://www.myonlydesirerecords.com
https://myonlydesirerecords.bandcamp.com

 

Omaggio a Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) nel lavoro prodotto per il centenario della sua nascita dal quartetto ad hoc Minus X di Elliott Sharp con Brandon Lopez, Henry Kaiser e Scott Amendola. Il compositore greco, che era anche ingegnere e architetto, è da sempre una delle figure principali nel pantheon personale di Sharp: "Though weaned on Varese, Hendrix, Trane, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Sharrock, Albert Ayler, Stravinsky, Captain Beefheart, Stockhausen: the universe cracked open for me in 1968 on first hearing the music of Iannis Xenakis, a composer who had captured the glorious chaos of subatomic weather in a cloud chamber, found fibrillating grooves in burning charcoal, the majestic blues of the elliptical arc, and sonified the chaos imbuing the natural order of the universe. While most composers made music with notes, Xenakis transformed pure philosophies into sound. With his experiences as a mathematician and architect equally informing his musical approach, Xenakis manifested these connections in emotive and exciting compositions that made clear the mapping of independent processes to those in sound."

https://sharplopezkaiseramendola.bandcamp.com