Arbenz X Neame /Hart / Pursglove: "Conversation"

Percy Pursglove: trumpet/flugelhorn, Ivo Neame: Fender / Keyboards, Jim Hart: vibraphone, percussion, Florian Arbenz: drums, percussion

Presented by: Jazz at The Oxford

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0	LONDON: The Parakeet
P	Monday 18th March, 2024
N	8:00pm

Event information

"Jazz is supposed to be the most unselfish of art forms. In jazz, you give yourself completely to make somebody else play their best. You try to do something to make them, inspire them to do something. So it is a matter of sacrifice." - Dizzy Gillespie

In this brand new European collaboration, acclaimed Swiss drummer Florian Arbenz joins the sensational British musicians Percy Pursglove on trumpet/flugelhorn, Ivo Neame on Keys and Jim Hart on vibraphone/percussion to launch the album 'Conversation'.

Florian collaborated with Pursglove and Jim Hart different contexts, but this is their first project together with Ivo Neame!

Arbenz’s choices for Conversation were selected for their unmistakably unique voices on their respective instruments. Arbenz himself says, “it doesn't happen so often that I immediately get captured by a musician by just hearing him/her on a record. And I think this is a big link for me to Jim, Ivo and Percy.”
An improvised exploration of the realm between jazz and improvised music, the quartet’s sophisticated and open-minded sound is equally comfortable in either world. Strikingly vast in texture and feeling, the ensemble shifts rapidly between tight, syncopated grooves, flurries of virtuosic trumpet playing, passages melancholic openness, and powerfully dense harmonies.
With a slew of awards and world-class collaborations under their belts, the ensemble’s collective international reputation cannot be understated.