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Jazz pick of the week: Mar 16-22
In a jazz week dominated by saxophonists the lure of guitarist Tam de Villiers’ 4tet gig (pictured) at the Bebop (Friday 20) shines even brighter (though David Prez plays a mean tenor in that combo). Otherwise it’s almost a roll call of reed merchants on a daily basis, starting with Julien Alenda’s Empyreal Quartet (Fringe @ Mall, Wednesday 18) and Kevin Figes’ duo with pianist George Cooper at No 1 Harbourside the same night. Thursday (19) sees Nicholas Dover’s Fault Lines rearrange standards at the Future Inn, and Julien Alenda crops up again in Nadiah and the Light Fantastic (Golden Lion) with Nadiah Parry’s vocals in a set of Latin and swing songs. And then there’s the horn-heavy onslaught of Friday (20) …
Things start in the Colston Hall Foyer with Jake McMurchie joining Sophie Stockham (above) in her contemporary jazz project Sefrial followed by that Bebop Club gig and a later session with alto firebrand James Morton at No 1 Harbourside. There’s also Andrew Neil Hayes’ hip-hop sax meets Last Poets agit-project Schoolboy’s Death Trio at Golden Lion, for the less faint-hearted. And that’s all just Friday: on Saturday (21) you can catch Ruth Hammond and Ben Waghorn amongst the glittering line-up of the tuba-powered Brass Junkies at Canteen.
Gig pick: Tam de Villiers 4tet (Bebop Club, Friday 20)
Another hot young talent picked by Michael Janisch for his Whirlwind label, Franco-Scot guitarist Tam de Villiers debut CD Panacea bursts with restless compositional ideas turned into splendid interactive explorations by this long-established band.
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