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| 0 | LONDON: Vortex |
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| P | Saturday 18th February, 2012 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Benoît Delbecq & Evan Parker
Brilliant and unconventional, award-winning French pianist Benoit Delbeq links influences from the freest improvisation to the ultra-sophisticated constructions of jazz and contemporary composition.
He prepares the piano with various materials such as carved wooden twigs and rubber wedges and improvises on short, overlapping vamps and patterns.
The result is a complex, spacious sound that hardly seems to be emanating from a single instrument.
A perfectly synchronised approach for his collaboration with British saxman Evan Parker's rapidly layering harmonics, contrapuntal weaves and circular breathing.
A British "national treasure," Parker is an undeniably pivotal figure in European free jazz and free improvisation.
Laurent Dehors & Matthew Bourne
This duo with French multi-clarinettist Laurent Dehors and British pianist Matthew Bourne is full of surprises – a permanent war on cliché, boredom and established formats.
Their new developments almost fall over each other – as the pieces become ever denser, faster and more audacious, the explorations of these two inspired iconoclasts don’t take the usual routes.
| 0 | 11 Gillett Square London N16 8AZ |
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| > | www.vortexjazz.co.uk |
| ! | 020 7254 4097 |
| ` | Standard venue times: Doors 8pm. Music starts 8.30pm - unless otherwise stated. |
