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| Performances » F-IRE @ Kings Place - Autumn Season Opening Festival -
11 Sep '10 |
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Town/City: London, UK
Matinée:
F-IRE KIDS: Wot is Jazz? - 11.30am
An interactive introduction to jazz for 6-10 year olds. Hosted by Jennymay Logan of Basquiat Strings with the musicians of Clown Revisited, the mysteries of jazz are revealed in a fun and participatory atmosphere.
Clown Revisited - 12.45pm
This 5-piece of tuba, piano, cello, flute and percussion perform music with a strong visual element. The skillful players and the jazzy arrangements make for a colourful sound with a rich dynamic. Ramm's circus-inspired themes keep the players on their toes balancing written notes with improvised passages and switching frequently between styles and tempos.
Evening Shows:
Tom Arthurs Trio with Elysian String Qt
Arthurs.Høiby.Ritchie, which features Danish bassist Jasper Høiby (Phronesis, Mark Lockheart) and Scots drummer and percussionist Stuart Ritchie (Julian Arguelles, Colin Steele), have spent the last 5 or so years evolving their own personal take on the jazz and improvised music worlds, performing all over Europe in the process. Since their inception, this group of friends have worked together to slowly evolve their attitude to music focusing on subtlety, interaction, trust and freedom. Their debut album, Explications, was released to great acclaim in 2008 on the Not Applicable label.
The Elysian Quartet, founded in 1999 have always been focussed solely on 20th Century, experimental and contemporary music. No strangers to genre-busting collaborations they have been seen out and about with the likes of virtuoso beat-boxer Killa Kela, jazz pianist Keith Tippett, and experimental electronic composer Simon Fisher-Turner, as well as playing the music of composers such as George Crumb and Meredith Monk. They have also produced an EP of improvisations.
Kit Downes Trio
One of the most successful young pianists of the UK, Kit Downes joined by his two Royal Academy colleagues award winning bassist Calum Gourlay and rising drum star James Maddren the music displays a level of understanding and intelligence between players that can only come from working closely together for a number of years. The music uses melody and freedom, inspired from a range of sources ranging from Bela Bartok to Bill Frisell to Skip James, and endeavours both to celebrate the classic piano trio tradition as well as develop it.
Basquiat Strings
The inspiration for the Mercury Award winner band Basquiat Strings came from the raucous rhythmically driving traditional hungarian string groups of Transylvania, the luxuriously rich Brahms sextets, and the wild, at times unruly compositions and workshop arrangements of Charlie Mingus.
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