Tomorrow, Emulsion goes back to the Vortex Jazz Club where it all started in 2012… with a stellar line up (see below) … we’ll playing some new music I’ve written specially for the occasion, and a version of ‘I.F.’ from my latest album ‘Ninety Degrees Gravity’… Here we are playing it in Ireland last weekend:
I’ll also be playing an arrangement of a Marcel Dupre prelude with Ross Stanley – something we’ve been working on a little while…
The band are also playing some brilliant pieces by Nikki Iles, Hans Koller and Robert Mitchell…
The full line-up and programme is below… Hope to see you there!!! Tix here
Yours truly – saxophones, Louise McMonagle – cello, Lauren Weavers – oboe/cor anglais, Thea Spiers – violin, Nick Smart – trumpet, Max Welford – clarinets, Tim Giles – drums, Ross Stanley – piano/Hammond organ, Chris Montague – guitar, Catriona McDermid- bassoon, Misha Mullov-Abbado – bass
& special guest appearance from Nikki Iles – piano & accordion
Programme includes:
Awakening – Nikki Iles
Full line up
Happy Mountain – Hans Koller
Full line up
Elegy (for the Unknown Leader) – Robert Mitchell
bass, bassoon, cello, saxophone, violin, piano, oboe, drums
Free improvisations
Elastic Band – Trish Clowes
Full line up
Anamnesis – Josephine Stephenson
solo cello
Prelude III – Marcel Dupre, adapted by Ross Stanley/Trish Clowes
saxophone & piano
Book of the Underworld – Leo Geyer
solo bassoon
Sing Me Softly of the Blues – Carla Bley
Full line up