Tag: sax

  • Baylis/Howard Duo – 10 March 2011

    Baylis/Howard Duo – 10 March 2011

    Born Manchester 1959 started plaYING in 70s inspired by Mike Osborne.Worked with Carmel in the 80s toured and recorded and lived in London playing with Phil Wachsmann, John Stevens,Roger Turner,Nick Stephens and many other free jazz and improvisors,toured for Arts Council w own Trio.Back in Manchester since 1993 worked w Simon Mulcaster inc a Jazz services…

  • Trio of Sheffield Musicians – 10 March 2011

    Trio of Sheffield Musicians – 10 March 2011

    Trio of Sheffield musicians put together especially to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Sheffield NUS.  Mick Beck (reeds & whistles), Seth Bennett (double bass) and Peter Fairclough (drums & percussion). Click here to download the performances

  • Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 10 February 2011

    Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 10 February 2011

    New trio featuring our very own Rodrigo Constanzo, along with Ray Evanoff, which you might remember from Atemnt, who released an amazing CD on NUS Records, and Iain Harrison. This is their CD launch tour/gig. The record is amazing. For more info: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://rayevanoff.wordpress.com   Click here to download the recordings

  • Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 9 February 2011

    Rodrigo Constanzo, Ray Evanoff, and Iain Harrison – 9 February 2011

    New trio featuring our very own Rodrigo Constanzo, along with Ray Evanoff, which you might remember from Atemnt, who released an amazing CD on NUS Records, and Iain Harrison. This is their CD launch tour/gig. The record is amazing. For more info: http://www.rodrigoconstanzo.com http://rayevanoff.wordpress.com   Click here to download the recordings

  • Wolf Scarers – 13 January 2011

    Wolf Scarers – 13 January 2011

    Wolf Scarers are Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, both playing tenor saxophones. They’ve known each other for years but have never played together until, after appearing on the same bill at Huddersfield’s Inclusive Improv last year, it occurred to Simon to suggest some duets. So they got together at Oldham Music Centre and scared the…

  • Parallax – 1 December 2010

    Parallax – 1 December 2010

    Parallax is one of those rare and lucky collaborations where there is a great sense of chemistry from the very beginning. Since forming the group in 2008 they have toured and recorded extensively in Europe, and present a selection of this material on their debut album Live in the UK. These musicians are musically so…

  • The Inclusion Principle – 11 November 2010

    The Inclusion Principle – 11 November 2010

    We decided to base the name on a theory of the research physicist Wolfgang Pauli. we found a correlation in that we both worked with a digital scalpel on fields of microsounds; a science which took both our instruments and processed field recordings a little closer to the chemistry of natural sounds, complete with harmonic…

  • Graculus – 14 October 2010

    Graculus – 14 October 2010

    Graculus is an improvising duo consisting of Richard Harding (acoustic & electric guitars) and Phil Hargreaves (saxophone & flute). Originally, the duo formed for a one-off show at Tate Liverpool in 2008, but the partnership blossomed over the next 2 ½ years. Phil is an experienced improvising musician, having worked with some of the UK’s…

  • Martin Archer – 13 October 2010

    Martin Archer – 13 October 2010

    Martin Archer – 
Sopranino, alto and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet, bass recorder, violectronics, keyboards, software instruments Since his move in the early 1990s from free jazz saxophonist to studio based electronics composer, Archer has produced a series of highly acclaimed CDs which combine electronics-based structures with written and improvised parts for brass, woodwind, strings and…

  • Mick Beck & Yvonna Magda – 12 May 2010

    Mick Beck & Yvonna Magda – 12 May 2010

    Mick Beck has been working since 1980 in jazz, free music and as a composer and club/ festival organiser. As a composer he looks for structures that can diversify and strengthen the impact of improvisation; as an improvisor his aim is to mix compelling rhythms, zaney melodies, changes of mood and flexibility in playing techniques…

  • Orfeo 5 – 12 March 2010

    Orfeo 5 – 12 March 2010

    Orfeo 5 are Shaun Blezard (electronics) and Keith Jafrate (saxophones). they use improvisation to find structure and vice versa, in music that is romantic and narrative and mysterious all at once, playing long pieces which evolve over time to create a sense of place and landscape, but which also incorporate strongly rhythmic passages. their style takes in influences from…

  • Apropos – 11 February 2010

    Apropos – 11 February 2010

    Apropos are Iain Harrison (saxophones) and Scott Mc Laughlin (computer), playing music that lives  somewhere between the composed/notated and the freely improvised. Scott Mc Laughlin is a composer (studies with PA Tremblay, Bryn Harrison, Christopher Fox and James Saunders) whose work focuses on the ambiguity of minimal surfaces involving inharmonic and repetitive materials. Iain Harrison…

  • Trio Forge / Sehnaoui / Toulemonde – 14 January 2010

    Trio Forge / Sehnaoui / Toulemonde – 14 January 2010

    Born in 1978 and living in France, Christine is from lebanese origins. It is with the discovering of improvised music in 1997 that Christine Sehnaoui decided to start her own autodidact study of sound experimentation on the alto saxophone. She creates a personal language on how to make electronic music on an acoustic instrument. Far…

  • Ingrid Laubrock – 17 November 2009

    Ingrid Laubrock – 17 November 2009

    German born saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock is teaming up once again with acclaimed UK pianist Liam Noble and one of New York’s finest drummers, Tom Rainey for an exciting brand of new improvised music. Sleepthief play with a wide spectrum of sound, rhythm, space and colour whilst maintaining a strong feeling for form. Those of you…

  • Gift of Life / Filario Farinoppo – 12 November 2009

    Gift of Life / Filario Farinoppo – 12 November 2009

    “Gift of Life” is a freely improvising duo consisting of Timothy McCormack on flutes & bassoons and Ray Evanoff on amplified cymbal & objects. They began playing together shortly after meeting at the Uni. Huddersfield in the fall of 2008, where they both are pursuing PhDs in music composition under the direction of Aaron Cassidy.…

  • Pesticide Organica – 14 May 2009

    Pesticide Organica – 14 May 2009

    Pesticide Organica is a self-supporting musical node. Producing music of the utmost contempt and repugnance, masked by a veneer of acceptable social norms. The ubiquitous force of Pesticide Organica permeates even the most one-dimensional of minds. http://www.myspace.com/pesticideorganica

  • Panter/Andreae Duo – 12 February 2009

    Panter/Andreae Duo – 12 February 2009

    Sam Andreae and Finlay Panter melt our faces with some exciting drum/sax improvisation.