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concert to celebrate the launch of new Matchless CDs
Cafe Oto — 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL tel: 020 7923 1231 or for information and directions go to www.cafeoto.uk
Sunday 24th January 2010 at 8 pm
Sebastian Lexer piano +
Harrison Smith solo tenor saxophone.
SUM (Ross Lambert ele. guitar, Seymour Wright alto saxophone and Eddie Prévost drums)
Sebastian Lexer piano +
Sebastian Lexer piano and computer will perform solo. This celebrates the release in autumn 2009 of his first solo CD 'Dazwischen'. This album is acquiring considerable critical acclaim e.g.
"Dazwischen is the perfect combination of the acoustic and electronic, the new and the old, the familiar and the challenging. It is for me easily the best album I have heard for quite some time. Its impact on me has been remarkable." Richard Pinnell —The Watchful Ear'
"The silky elegance one usually associates with the instrument is a result of careful engineering, so that one string sounds seemlessly after the previous one. On "Dazwischen", the whole mechanism is opened up to the forces of chance and chaos, picking up all kind of ethereal vibrations - a true ghost box." Derek Walmsley, The Wire
Harrison Smith tenor saxophone
Free Jazz Quartet 1986. During the eighties there flourished, albeit for a short while, a group who took a much more subtle and refined approach to free jazz than was the norm. This new release, entitled 'Memories for the Future' is of a recording made in concert at St. George's, Bristol in 1992. Harrison Smith, tenor saxophonist with the FJQ, will make a rare solo performance.
"Paul Rutherford is no longer with us, but the music here captures him, as well as saxophonist Harrison Smith, cellist Tony Moore and percussionist Eddie Prévost in one of their finest performances. ... Definitions are always problematic, and in this field the source of much antagonism and mis-hearing, but however one defines jazz, either as an established language or as a looser complex of varied procedures and gestures, it has certain recognisable characteristics: a distinct approach to ensemble; an element of ‘swing’; some relation to the blues. Anyone hearing FJQ for the first time will be immediately aware of these characteristics, even if they appear in unfamiliar form. It plays like a group, not like a chance encounter or like a conscripted ‘ensemble’; it swings in its thoughtful way, thanks largely to Prévost’s deep familiarity with the literature – not for nothing was he the ‘Art Blakey of Brixton’ – but also to Moore’s extraordinary time-feel and ability to occupy space or leave it thrillingly empty. It’s intriguing to hear a cello take the bass’s part. The sound draws attention to itself, human-pitched and – proportioned, proposing a new role for the low instrument other than harmonic anchor and time-keeper. When Rutherford played, the blues were never far away; he drew on them deeply, from beginning to end; Smith, too, though his narratives are very different, less bitingly confrontational, stories that have to be heard right through to the end." Brian Morton — sleeve note to 'Memories for the Future.'
SUM - Eddie Prévost drums. Ross Lambert electric guitar and Seymour Wright alto saxophone.
On 8th February 2009 SUM played a concert at the Cafe Oto which was recorded. This has been released as the double CD album 'invenio ergo sum.'
“What's going on here? AMM drummer Eddie Prevost deals up backbeats and grooves… (while) Lambert evokes a history of jazz guitar. … stylistic discontinuities, transforming hybrids ... specifics of idiom and style (are left) behind as a distant memory... (Prevost’s) workshop spirit remains, asserting a powerful presence … Wright and Lambert have now graduated with honours. …”
“But unlike postmodern hokum, this trio don't expect feeding off borrowed evergreens will hand them a sense of purpose – rather, these historical references float into view and are grabbed, then dropped like a canary down a mineshaft to see if they can breathe in the structural labyrinth surrounding them. During the first set, Wright heralds a change of gear with an out-of-body high note that bleats incessantly, shifting the improvisational ground fundamentally. The energy harvested by those earlier stylistic discontinuities endures, but is now focused internally: nuances of texture and transforming hybrids of instrumental timbre leave specifics of idiom and style behind as a distant memory.”
Philip Clark - The Wire
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